what are your 3 favorite movies of 2010 so far?

Rough movie year so far IMO.... need help...

Too bad 35 Shots of Rum and Tetro don't count.

the human centipede
dogtooth
bad lieutenant

The Ghost Writer was pretty good.

the human centipede

you're kidding!?!

Dogtooth
The Headless Woman
Still Walking

exit through the gift shop
uh
i've missed a few things but it's been p weak

exit through the gift shop is the only 2010 I've seen.

bad lieutenant and headless woman are not 2010 films.

we always have this argument -- it depends on the whims of the studios.

(good) cinema is dying.

http://www.theauteurs.com/topics/135

wouldn't go that far

I don't think cinema is dying at all... last year was amazing.

lots of good films to be seen.

i mean, how many really great films should we expect in a year? or novels? i go to see less-than-great films because i enjoy them -- there's been too few of them this year. but i don't hope for more than a handle of classics.

it feels to me like, with each year, there are less and less great films.

and even those few great ones - arent as great as the old ones/classics,imo.

it feels to me like, with each year, there are less and less great films.

and even those few great ones - arent as great as the old ones/classics,imo.

― Zeno, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:06 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

i have to admit that i do think the 60s/70s were on some other shit, film-wise

but within my lifetime i would not say there are fewer great films with each passing year

"classic" status takes time to develop. i think there will be blood is the equal to a lot of "old classic" films, but it will be years before you can assess its stature properly.

70s were a great decade for film, it's true.

h. mayne have u seen the girl on the train - tht that was p good although its not "classic", also really liked every else quite a lot. cant really think of a 3rd that i was that hype 4 although really ive mb seen like eight or ten 2010 movies max & some of these are probably only 2010 in na

ghost writer
banksy movie

uh...

hard to say kinda cuz facebook erased all my favourite things when i wouldnt let it link me to a billion stupid pages. and i'll say festival movies don't count.

greenberg? un prophète?

definitely MOTHER when it opens here in a few weeks.

damn slox u liked exit thru the gift shop too? had totally written it off but guess i have 2 reconsider

the problems are that great cinema doesn't sell as it used to be, and it's getting harder to renovate the medium as time goes by.

in the 60's people like Bergman or Fellini were much more popular within a larger audience worldwide than any european "art" director working today.

xxxpost

Mother was great, but i think it came out in south korea last year

Mother was nice, esp. cause it's a reminder of the much greater Memories Of A murder

i really need to see memories of murder

the girl on the train hasn't come out here -- brings up another thing. indie/art-house distribution seems to be in bad trouble, more than usual.

id say the festival hits are pretty abstruse these days, yeah, an. i dunno where that's going to lead to, but try not to be sweeping about it.

bad lieutenant releases here next week iirc

so

and robin hood

I think I've only been to a movie theater five times this year, and one of those was Hot Tub Time Machine.

But I did love Mother, and loved even more St. Louis Blues:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483813/

Make that "Saint Louis Blues" for Google purposes...

definitely MOTHER when it opens here in a few weeks.

about fucking time! stoked for the Banksy flick and sorta stoked for Iron Man 2.

yup late may simon

at least 5 or 6 so far (including sfiff screenings) White Material, Terribly Happy, Soul Kitchen North Face and especially The Loved Ones, holy shit is that just about the best genre flick in the last few years. 85 minutes of uncut Aussie crack. Also kinda loved Shutter Island.

yup, Loved Ones is fucking *awesome.* I hope it gets a decent release.

I really liked Greenberg. Am having trouble remembering if I even saw anything else.

More top threes plees

Also this is not "the year in cinema" thread, so feel free to mention stupid action or comedy movies, pending that they're awesome, of course... I may have never seen Observe And Report if it hadn't been recommended in the 2009 thread, and same with Crank and Grandma's Boy in the 2006 one...

loved ones was aight, im not really seeing what everyone's freaking out about it tho

don't think i've seen a movie since last summer

unless you count whatever documentary about record stores Pitchfork was streaming the other week

Content, A Prophet, and The Anchorage

Sadly the only 2010 movie I've seen in theaters so far was Hot Tub Time Machine thanks to a shady bait-and-switch tactic by my wife's boss.

Dogtooth really is amazing, out at the moment in the UK but doesn't seem to have a proper US release planned (according to IMDB).

Actually, The Anchorage is considered 2009 as are Police, Adjective and Sweetgrass, so nm

I guess I haven't seen anything really good that was released in 2010

I just realized the only 2010 movie release I've seen this year is Kick-Ass. Haven't felt too inspired to go out.

Have You Heard from Johannesburg
Vincere
Persecution

(The Ghost Writer is the only good wide-release film I've seen)

loved ones was aight, im not really seeing what everyone's freaking out about it tho

well for starters i didn't see any missteps. luv that the main guy was literally saved by metal and how integral that was to the plotting. Everything fits together perfectly w/o feeling too fussed-over. Also any b-type movie where the direction is so assured and interested in the characters is A+. The counterpoint storyline at the real prom was so welcome and def would have been axed from an american release. also aces compositionally, like turning a volkswagon beetle into a towering cage and the sloooooww zoom in on psycho's face at the end. and everything was really succinct, so nerdy but film economy is one of my favorite things ever.

vincere is good too

glad to see you liked ghost dubz morbs

unless you count whatever documentary about record stores Pitchfork was streaming the other week

If PFM paid its fans you'd be a billionaire!

CURRENT "FILM" STREAMING ON P4K: THIS IS JIM JONES -- HARLEM USA.

Hitting fashion shows, chilling with Rick Rubin, scuffling backstage with police-- it's all a part of this documentary following the Harlem rapper, directed by Carly-Carol.

top 10 of '10.

Saw two good ones at Toronto's Hot Docs tonight: Strange Powers, the Stephen Merritt film, and (even better) American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (dated 2009 on IMDB; no idea if it's gotten any kind of release). Something that often bugs me at contentious films like the Finkelstein: people who've already made up their minds about whatever issue's at hand, leading to all sorts of knowing and derisive laughter whenever someone advocates for the other side (which tends to feed on itself as soon as the audience realizes they're largely of one viewpoint). Tonight's audience was overwhelmingly pro-Finkelstein. As someone who only had the dimmest awareness of Finkelstein going in--and who found Finkelstein reasonable, and Dershowitz reasonable, and pretty much everyone who spoke reasonable--all I could think was, "There's a lot here--why don't you just shut up, listen to what everybody says, and go away and think about all of this." I ran into someone I hadn't seen for almost 20 years afterwards. He thought the film looked terrible; I found it so interesting, I hadn't even thought about that.

I've only heard fleetingly of Strange Powers. How much is performance footage?

Not much with an audience--maybe 10 minutes--and another 10-15 minutes of them playing inside Merritt's apartment/studio. A couple of my favourites turned up, but most were missed: no "Sweet Lovin' Man," no "Famous," no "Please Stop Dancing," etc.

One of the best segments of Strange Powers is a fairly straightforward 10 minutes on the whole racist controversy. I'm sure it was all debated extensively on this board. I had just barely taken notice of Magnetic Fields at the time--all I would have had was 69 Love Songs, and not for very long--so I didn't pay much attention to the story, and only posted here infrequently anyway. Conceding that it's very easy for me to come on six years later and take sides, unless the filmmakers omitted some major component of the story, it's hard for me to understand how anyone could level such a charge, or give credence to such a charge once made. To Sasha-Frere Jones' credit, he admits he was wrong. I'm curious as to whether Jessica Hopper has ever recanted.

So how about those top 3's?

if i'm sticking w/ films that have distribution, i'll go:
gasland
last train home
the oath

(but there are about ten undistributed docs that i like just as much)

i think the only new fiction film i've seen all year is, um, youth in revolt?

what're the Docs TS?

I haven't really cared for any of the movies I've seen theatrically this year except for Bad Lieutenant, which was released last year.

hmm, off the top of my head...
kati with an i
familia
on the other side of life
extraordinary ordinary life of jose gonzalez
un dia menos
into eternity
it felt like a kiss (tho i guess this is 2009 for europe)
the tightrope

Invention of Dr. NakaMats is also fun

lookin into 'em

Nick Clegg looking like the most broken dude of all time.

oh, thought this said "favourite memories"

Weak year so far. Really weak. I suppose the best of what I've seen so far are The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Shutter Island, and Kick-Ass, all of which are pretty flawed. Looking forward to Bad Lieutenant tho.

haven't seen any mention so far of DOUBLE TAKE, which i enjoyed without finding totally successful

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/apr/04/pycho-double-take-alfred-hitchcock

That's opening here (NYC) soon.

if i had to pick three id probably go

mother
ghost writer
sweetgrass

biggest disappointment- please give (i had high hopes for this one)

im going to see exit through the gift shop this afternoon but im not expecting it to affect these choices

The Red Chapel
Haven't been seeing many movies this year.
The collection of rare Jim Henson commercials and shorts that the local screened was pretty great.

Shutter Island
Red Riding: 1974
The Crazies

Mother
The Crazies
Date Night

crossing my fingers that all of these disappear from my top 3 by the end of the year

actually might put exit through the gift shop at 3 even if i think banksy comes off like a dick

If I can include Sweetgrass and It Felt Like A Kiss, I will use those! I am seeing Double Take this afternoon...

Wasn't Shutter Island kind of...rubbish? =/

if someone held a gun to my head and forced me to name the best fiction film of 2010 that i'd seen, i'd be forced to respond YOUTH IN REVOLT

:/

indie/art-house distribution seems to be in bad trouble, more than usual.

yes, v much so. our saviors this year: crazy heart, girl with the dragon tattoo and hopefully babies

actually might put exit through the gift shop at 3 even if i think banksy comes off like a dick

― da croupier, Friday, May 7, 2010 1:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

you find?? i didn't at all. if anything, the movie's kinda set up so the joke's on him

my first thought is to agree with da croupier. you didnt think that the clowning of mr. brainwash at the end was a way to (at least incidentally) verify bansky's status as an authentic street artist? that obviously oversimplifies things but on some level thats what the film does.

i did like it by the way, although its probably not going to be in my top 3

Gift Shop is a minor pleasure, but Guetta is an enjoyable subject for a doc, sort of like Anton in DiG. And actually, Banksy coming off somewhat poorly actually gives the movie a bit of a villain -- a moralizing, superior artist compared to this guy who is a guileless force of nature, despite Guetta having no artistic point of view whatsoever.

i might have been influenced by the audience laughing along with banksy's "i don't tell friends to make their own art anymore" and "will never help someone make an art doc again," but I felt like the movie shifted gears to out Guetta as a charlatan because he's engaging in (admittedly vapid) high-priced art-terrorism shtick, which banksy and fiery seem to hate mostly because he didn't pay his dues - which is what they wind up reducing street art to. the only reason they aren't like "dude's bilking LA out of millions, AWESOME" is cuz they worry he's cheapening the market.

like, why didn't we have quotes from vapid art wanna-be's at banksy's show instead of shots of brangelina?

banksy did come close to admitting the irony with his "he didn't follows the rules...though i guess there aren't supposed to be any rules" but the movie seems to care a lot more that you see guetta as a worthless clown than that banksy now holds the commercial art world sacred (Assuming this movie isn't a hoax, which I doubt if only because of how lame it makes Banksy look).

you find?? i didn't at all. if anything, the movie's kinda set up so the joke's on him

― sir gaga (s1ocki), Friday, May 7, 2010 7:50 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^ yep

the movie is a joke on banksy directed by banksy?

if it's a joke on him the joke as the movie portrays it is "this is what you get for trying to be nice to losers"

im divided on whether it's meant to be, or how much it's meant to be, but the success of MBW does illuminate banksy's, kind of thing. being lazy coz i reviewed it and am kind of ~spent~ talking about it

don't think it's a minor pleasure, think it's really special

the only reason they aren't like "dude's bilking LA out of millions, AWESOME" is cuz they worry he's cheapening the market.

is pretty otm i think, but i'll add that he's not just cheapening their work in the literal sense (the part where the collector remarks about having a nice warhol hidden in a closet somewhere suggests banksy isnt too concerned about that or has some distance from it) but trivializing or calling into question the movement's artistic accomplishments.

this seems to apply more to fairey's work more than banksy's actually. like MBW took the logic fairey talks about of perceived importance becoming actual importance and used it to basically hype himself by putting his own picture everywhere. fairey also seemed a little more sore about MBW's success. was it he or banksy who said MBW was interesting from a sociological/anthropological sense?

by "calling into question the movement's artistic accomplishments" i mean mbw showed how easily capital could take over this style which was supposed to be totally anti-establishment and all that

btw i have like no knowledge about street art besides this movie and maybe what i read on wikipedia one day so maybe someone can tell me im completely wrong

yeah dogtooth is p. great; def one to search out
http://thepartingglass.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/dogtooth2.jpg

worst film I saw so far this year:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/life_during_wartime.jpg

That one wasn't that bad, but it's no Happiness.

I'm so bored, and yet I can't even find one movie I want to go see.

Four Lions!!!!!

Dogtooth I'm desperate to see, it will have to be a post-exams treat..

I recommended Dogtooth to a friend, now he's seen it he asked me to never recommend him a film again.

I'd love to see either of those but they aren't playing here.

Aww man you are in for such a treat with Four Lions.

yeah dt is pretty intense and a bit shocking in places

Casino Jack and the United States of Money at Hot Docs tonight. Well done, but...familiar. Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars over the end credits is a great punchline, and hard to get out of your mind once you've been subjected to it.

I saw a lot of the awesome movies already listed last year. This year's top 3 so far would be pretty sad. Probably

Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Wild Hunt
-------
The Ghost Writer

Casino Jack: Behind the Music

I'm pretty sure you're joking, unless that's the other Jack Abramoff film, the Kevin Spacey/George Hickenlooper one, which is indeed supposed to be very good. I checked IMDB, and they just list it as Casino Jack, no subtitle.

No, it was a reference to the clumsy documentary's ghastly aesthetics

As I mentioned upthread, that's what my friend said about American Radical. I'm starting to think I don't notice that stuff enough if a documentary sufficiently engages me--at least not as much as I do with a narrative film, no matter how engaging.

I'd be surprised if I disliked Casino Jack; I really like all the Gibney flicks I've seen (Enron, Taxi, Gonzo).

I think you'll like it fine, but may consider it Enron II. (The machinations of Abramoff were easier for me to understand than the labyrinth Enron dealings, though.)

tape store have you seen many of the ESPN 30 for 30 docs? the couple ive seen really impressed me

no, i kind of don't pay any attention to sports, but i hear they're good. and i like a lot of the directors, good workhorses. you're a fan, i'm guessing?

if you've got a pass to hd, you should see gasland, xpost

and if you liked gonzo you'll prob like casino jack xxpost

saw German film Everyone Else, pretty good annoying-lovers-dramedy, and the male lead has a beautiful ass (plus).

ass+

ass-positive

positively.

Anyone with a positive view of Please Give?

it was ok i thought... but not really memorable.

love that rebecca hall. she is definitely ass+

i skipped out on Everyone Else at our end-of-the-circuit fest here in SF, but re Germania i went pretty nuts for North Face, despite a few tired tropes. It's out this week on dvd for you ppl with theaterphobia.

I liked North Face. Wish the indoor stuff had not been so routine, even w/ the great mountaineering scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cRKgk4_4bQ

love that rebecca hall. she is definitely ass+

― sir gaga (s1ocki), Monday, May 10, 2010 2:47 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

oh word

alamar is so so great. saw it last year, but when it comes out here later this year it will definitely go near the top of my list.

This was surprisingly one of the dopest movies I've seen in a long ass time y'all:

http://30for30.espn.com/film/gurus-of-go.html

everyone else is really good (as mentioned by me itt, lol) but im a certain sucker for that languorously pretty euro shit

please give is really terrible

hey guys north face just landed on the ol' desk.

so you're saying it's worth a watch?

how old is the desk?

i built it on 9/11

North Face's tech stuff works best on a large screen, but apparently the disc is a superior one.

like, a superior cut?

slocki if you can handle some conventional bs romance stuff (that at least plays out -in places- with more restrain than i was expecting) its def worth it for the hardcore mountain action. Also really well photographed.

who here has seen The Oath yet? im guessing tape store? Usually have zero interest in political docs but this one seems a cut above.

Yeah, THE OATH made my top three, pretty incredible. Eric H didn't like it.

Super well-edited, with a menacing string score and some o_O great footage

I didn't dislike it. Just thought it was badly organized and not as illuminating as it could've been.

Anyone seen Daddy Long Legs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmbUNxIujYo

haaa morbs i just noticed you're "quoted" on the back of the north face box!

That's the second time ppl have told me about a box quote this week. I haven't seen either of them. At least I liked this one more than the other! Is this more than one word?

Pretty sure Mother is either the best film of 2009 or the best film of 2010.

it's not even one word! it's just:

***
- B— W—, Slant

Pretty sure Mother is either the best film of 2009 or the best film of 2010.

just saw a screener of this -- it's theoretically opening in knoxville sometime soon -- and yeah, it's really good. it's been a long time since any kind of suspense film has taken me by surprise so many times, but the plot twists aren't cheap at all, they're all part of telling the story. and i love how the closing scene really fully explains the mystery of the opening shot in the field.

ya.

mother rules pretty hard.

about to start transcribing an interview i did with bong in 09.

seeing it tonight

How is three stars considered a blurbable amount in any context?

^^^this

worth pointing out: the trailer for NORTH FACE had a quote from a publication called "the financial times"

I would kill to see *** films more often

but yes, that blurb from a no-name critic is wtf.

worth pointing out: the trailer for NORTH FACE had a quote from a publication called "the financial times"

― lol dope (Tape Store), Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:59 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

idgi

the ft is a p respected paper!

dunno which cric they quoted but if it's wtf, it's probably young l30 r0bs0n

haha tape store you dont read a lot of "mainstream media" do you

ermmmm no

How is three stars considered a blurbable amount in any context?

― rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

did find it a bit odd.. almost like putting a quote on the box that says "PRETTY GOOD!"

my favourite though is this quote, which was the featured quote in a press release for the new gondry film:

"Thorn in the Heart reads like an honest, considered portrait of a remarkable woman, but it’s not much more than an amuse-bouche for Gondry fans."
– SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

"funny!" - br. worbius, slant

I guess they debated whether to use "***" or "half a great movie"

"*** [and a] half... a great movie."

wait, I thought Tape Store was kidding

i hoped

"They quote someone from a publication called THE WALL STREET JOURNAL"

Mother was really great, but since I watched all of Bong Joon-Ho's films in a weeklong binge I may not have given it the space it deserves. It seemed to fall slightly short of the others.

My parents didn't like Mother.

But they really didn't like the one about the guy who jumps off a bridge and ends up on trash island communicating by rocks to an internet shut-in with a telescope.

Look, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL shouldn't be quoted either.

Has Joe Morgenstern ever gotten you excited about a film?

Anyway, MOTHER is good. A tiny bit sluggish in parts but mostly pretty gripping

actually, Joe Morgenstern is almost my only company in detesting this new Michael Douglas-chases-teenage-tail horror.

Don't know about Solitary Man, but you're pretty spot on with Perrier's Bounty.

yeah, and I haven't even seen most of those films it's derived from!

a copy of a copy of a copy.

so EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP and MOTHER have finally added some competition in the mix (but not nearly enough, jesus!)

also super stoked for WINTER'S BONE (Missouri represent!) and DADDY LONGLEGS

top 3 so far would be

Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Wild Hunt
and...Splice?! Probably going to be overtaken by Winter's Bone next week, if the reviews are any indication.

winter's bone and mother would make an interesting double bill.

bong's film was better but both are good.

Mother would def. be tops if I were counting it as '09

'10

what are your criteria for what year you count it as?

it is always a bit hard to say for me. i saw mother in 09 but it only opened here in 010 so i guess i'll count it as this year.

it gets so complicated and I'm not huge on end-of-year lists anyway, so I just go with whenever I saw it usually. if I were a prof. critic I'd probably do it like Mike D'Angelo, with a "pure" list and a "poll" (release-date appropriate) list.

wait Winter's Bone actually supposed to be good? Trailer made it look like a parody of Sundance-approved regional theater melodrama.

it's pretty... sundancey... but not bad. more neo-noir than melodrama.

updates?

greenberg
exit/gift shop
the ghost

I wouldn't recommend Life After Wartime if you haven't seen Happiness.. It was ok.

Daddy Longlegs (9/10)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (9/10)
Mother (7/10)
...
Youth in Revolt (5/10)
Inception (3/10)

So it's that good?

Yeah, I think it's fantastic. If I had just watched that trailer I'd be worried that DL would a) be quirky and/or b) contain the worst, soul-sucking aspects of mumblecore. But luckily neither of those things are true. It's just a fantastic, very handcrafted, occasionally very, very uncomfortable portrait of a fuck-up dad (played really well by R Bronstein). Floats around a lot, there's even some magic realism in it!

That being said, I'm not saying you'll dig it (did you like FROWNLAND?)

it was so chickenshit and boring how they tried to make cera's character in youth and revolt kind of redeemable. less daring than juno.

i kind of liked that shitty claymation??

Things are picking up a bit, finally, thanks to fest stuff - I enjoyed all these:

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Marwencol
We Are What We Are
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
The Revenant

The Kids Are All Right
Everlasting Moments
I Am Love

There's a movie called Frownland? I'm a pretty big Beefheart fan.

yeah, MARWENCOL is dope!

add:

Dogtooth
Wild Grass

going to see "i was born, but" in a theater was some serious 'bucket list' ish. haven't seen anything else.

well seeing how rong tape store is on Inception I guess I can invert the scores for teh top of his list?

Eccentricities of a blond hair girl
Content
Jan Villa

marwencol is great.

Forgot Psychohydrography, also awesome.

NY EXPORT: OPUS JAZZ
DADDY LONGLEGS
SCOTT PILGRIM

Please Give
Kick-Ass
Mother (maybe)

Not seen that many films that have really grabbed me so far this year.

carlos (12")
scott pilgrim
greenberg

Agree with Everlasting Moments pick (but was 2009 in UK). Dogtooth wasn't quite as barmy as I wanted it to be. I couldn't get anything out of The Headless Woman. One that people say you have to see twice WELL OK THEN.

Come the end of the year I think Shutter Islland might swim its way to near the top of my list. Maybe the memory of that film is better than the reality.

I couldn't get anything out of The Headless Woman. One that people say you have to see twice WELL OK THEN.

seriously. i put in the hours to watch her last one, the one set in the school kind of thing, twice, but was still basically ehh. so this one, no.

a serbian film
the human centipede
inception

I haven't seen The Human Centipede yet but I imagine the doctor looking like you.

it's a bit rubbish really, as is a serbian film

maybe Scott Pilgrim if there were no videogames and it was set in the late '50s

a serbian film

joke right?

maybe Scott Pilgrim if there were no videogames and it was set in the late '50s

haha -- Morbs, I love you.

it's a bit rubbish really, as is a serbian film

Oh, I'll do distributed docs, too, i'm bored:
1. GASLAND
2. EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
3. LAST TRAIN HOME

City Island
SATC2
third slot reserved for You Again

I haven't seen a damn thing this year.

So Mother is worth seeing then, even if I didn't really like The Host? It's only showing in London at the famous Curzon Renoir.

On that note, I also regrettably missed a q+a with Juliette Binoche today (aka The Most Beautiful Woman In The World) promoting Certified Copy.

Winter's Bone
Exit/Gift Shop
Scott Pilgrim

i thought headless woman was awesome, last one too

Probably only MacGruber.

I play catch-up for most of the year, so, invariably, some of the best films I see are not new; this year that would start with Encirclement, a documentary that goes back to 2008. Of the dozen or so 2010 releases I've seen, the top three so far would be 1) Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, 2) Get Low, and 3) Cyrus. The first two are about that most glamorous of all movie subjects, getting old. One is moody and precise and sad (and would probably deepen even more if I knew more about Faulkner than the couple of novels I read 30 years ago; the other has jokes about anal sex. Duvall, Spacek, Murray, and Bill Cobbs deserve as many awards as come their way.

Missing end-bracket, par for the course.

Saw The Illusionist (not the Ed Norton one) and it's gone straight to my top two.

is that the one that tati was involved w/?

o cool

he wrote it and the bellevue rendezvous guy turned it into a cartoon

get lol

goddamn old people love that shit

Scott Pilgrim
Kids Are All Right
How to Train Your Dragon

So Mother is worth seeing then, even if I didn't really like The Host?

aargh so want to see this: Memories of Murder is fantastic.

Would've gone to the Renoir yesterday but had to meet someone and aargh again.

The Oath would make my list. What a character.

I thought the Slant review got it all wrong too:

However, an hour into the doc, Poitras does uncover some truly fascinating ideas buried beneath her predictable portrait, but by then it's too little too late. It's as if the inflexible director, so bent on telling a particular tale, finally loosened up enough to discover a deeper beginning upon reaching the end. Instead of simply deploying ironic facts as bombshells (such as the FBI documents that show Jandal as a stool pigeon whose testimony against the brother-in-law tortured by the U.S. was garnered through non-coercive techniques), Poitras could have used cold realities as a jumping off point to penetrate the mind of a man whose face she merely presents in his own sculpted image.

That's exactly what Poitras did! And what are "cold realities"? Does one eat them with sandwiches?

The Kids Are All Right
Easy A
MacGruber

you liked The Kids Are Alright? I loved it too, even though the ending's annoyed me in retrospect.

it was super good and hilar

Enter The Void
Toy Story 3
Machete

man, that banksy movie sounded boring/stupid as fuck. i think i'm gonna have to check it out now!

ghostwriter
kids are alright
un prophete

havent seen as many movies this year as i usually do tho

Somehow I haven't caught any new films that I expect to look back on in future years. Saw a couple I thought were fun but flawed (most recently Scott Pilgrim/The Illusionist)...

This week's "big releases" at the local arthouse are Made in Dagenham and Back to the Future, so it doesn't look like I'll be changing my opinion until next week at least.

xp - forgot Un Prophete kind of counts as 2010, that was pretty good.

back to the future is pretty sweet, u should check it out

wouldve made my list if it wasnt released in 1986

greenberg
a single man (no other votes for this?!)
nowhere boy

LOATHED A Single Man -- kitsch.

:(

also, it's last year

What did you like about Nowhere Boy, piscesx?

also, it's last year

In America. I've given up on the peripatetic (pathetic) release schedules of "smaller" films. 35 Shots of Rheum never opened in South Florida but was released on DVD in March. A 2009 film everywhere else, but released this year. What kind of no-man's land is this? Am I supposed to keep this film off my top ten because it played in NYC and L.A. in a couple of theatres in 2009?

(not attacking you, Morbs -- just stating facts)

ghost writer
exit gift shop
looks like we're counting that korean one as 2010

Cheating, but..

Our Beloved Month of August (2008, but didn't play theatrically in NY until this year)
Eerie
Uncle Boonmee

i think you're supposed to revise your 2009 list xpost

but idk

just throwing out titles i haven't mentioned:

agrarian utopia
i'm still here
un dia menos

I liked Agrarian Utopia! I have copies of his other movies to see too!

And I will see Eerie on Monday.

yeah, i think AU is a bit too long, but the final third--in particular when that segment where the sound drops--is probably the best thing i've seen in the past year...

in particular when that segment, etc.

I love Agrarian Utopia. If it counts as '10, it's definitely on my list. The Stories From the North shorts are really great too.

obv THE SOCIAL NETWORK

WANT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODpvgedI73Y

That just got slapped w/ an NC-17 for some reason.

Everlasting Moments
The Oath
The Social Network

omg i love ryan gosling. he hasn't been in anything for 3 years!

Everything I've seen this year. Sadly not all that much.

PRO
nothing yet

pro
Crazies, The (Breck Eisner)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Kids Are All Right, The (Lisa Cholodenko)
Let Me In (Matt Reeves)
Machete (Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis)
Prophet, A (Jacques Audiard)
Red Riding: 1974 (Julian Jarrold)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Social Network, The (David Fincher)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

mixed
Good, the Bad, the Weird, The (Kim Jee-woon)
Howl (Rop Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
I'm Still Here (Casey Affleck)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
MacGruber (Jorma Taccone)
Miscreants Of Taliwood, The (George Gittoes)
Pink Taxi (Uli Gaulke)
Prodigal Sons (Kimberly Reed)
Red Riding: 1983 (Anand Tucker)
Stonewall Uprising (Kate Davis & David Heilbroner)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone)
Town, The (Ben Affleck)
Welcome (Philippe Lioret)
Wind Journeys, The (Ciro Guerra)
Winnebago Man (Ben Steinbauer)

con
2010 Academy-Award-Nominated Animated Short Films (Various)
2010 Academy-Award-Nominated Live-Action Short Films (Various)
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
American, The (Anton Corbijn)
Baluty Ghetto, The (Pavel Stingl)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Alex Gibney)
Centurion (Neil Marshall)
City Island (Raymond De Felitta)
Date Night (Shawn Levy)
District 13: Ultimatum (Patrick Alessandrin)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (Gerald Peary)
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (Michele Hozer & Peter Raymont)
Looking for Eric (Ken Loach)
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek)
Northless (Rigoberto Perezcano)
Oath, The (Laura Poitras)
Over the Hill Band, The (Geoffrey Enthoven)
Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell)
Twilight Saga, The: Eclipse (David Slade)

CON
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (Samuel Bayer)
Salt (Phillip Noyce)
Sex and the City 2 (Michael Patrick King)

huh, pink taxi played here? \O_O/

was at the local int'l film fest

also sorry but you're crazy if you think it's better than the oath ffs

modest aims vs. shallow insight, ymmv

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (Gerald Peary)

this is the most sadly uncinematic movie of all time

Enjoyed all the pro movies except Shutter Island, though I liked Eclipse more than Machete. Edward and Jacob's "Sez you" scenes were pretty golden, big step up from New Moon.

Frenchies All:

Gainsbourg: Vie Heroique
Carlos
Film Socialisme

xpost all the pro movies on that list I've seen, I mean. Not sure whether to see Let Me In since I haven't seen the original yet, not sure I wanna see A Prophet or the Social Network, and I've only seen the first Toy Story, kinda hate how they're all about how we should keep material goods from childhood sacred.

I mean I hear the new one climaxes with them in danger of being melted down. Melt them! THEY'RE OLD TOYS.

I was completely indifferent to A Prophet; may watch it again.

did you not see Red Riding 1980 Eric or forget to include it?

I skipped it. I always like to leave one gap open in any film series.

oh, wow, I hadn't even heard of the Red Riding Trilogy. Thanks, guys.

this is the most sadly uncinematic movie of all time

Seriously. And the ultimate "the choir's the only one listening to the sermon" doc. I verged on CON.

it's a really terrible movie.

I'm not sure it will get a US release from Oscilloscope in '10, but Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff is a contender.

Alfred, re diffuse release schedules -- I'd be happy to get rid of all the "year-end" navel-gazing entirely, but it's not gonna happen.

But yes, if you live in the stix make up your "top 10s" in the following July. :)

The Social Network
Four Lions
White Material

I'm sure that would change if I could remember what I've seen this year.

Resnais's Wild Grass on DVD on the 26th

meek's is great.

Infuriating old bag next to me was SNORING during it. I jumped in my seat the the first 3x just enough to wake her; then the 4th time I elbowed her. Then her party starts TALKING. And it wasn't even "What did I miss?" That's the NY Film Fest.

Sounds like the Film Forum.

different kind of annoying; from septuagenarians instead of condescending hipsters.

haven't seen meek's cutoff, am seeing dogtooth on wednesday, blue valentine, uncle boonmee and (hopefully) putty hill in a few weeks, other than that i don't know what else to expect for my top ten:

1. Daddy Longlegs
2. The Social Network [sorry morbs, it might drop when i watch it in a bad mood, but i had a blast the first time around!]
3. I'm Still Here
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. Kati With an I
6. NY Export: Opus Jazz
7. Gasland
8. On the Other Side of Life
9. The Father of My Children
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe

I still don't have a final three, but WINTER VACATION (HAN JIA) is definitely in there now. So good!

oh, i heard from a v reliable friend that the new Gallo is excellent. also Koehler gave it an A.

Catchup season. Wasn't crazy about Le Quattro Volte or Cell 211, but I'm looking forward to Confessions, Another Year, Uncle Boonmee and Monsters.

ok my top ten list above will not change (though i am debating whether or not to include NEVER LET ME GO, which made me cry because i am sappy)

also i'm obv discounting all films that might be programmed by the festival i work for

The American
Secret of Kells
Dogtooth, or Social Network

I still think Alice In Wonderland was pretty enjoyable, if only for the beautiful sets and costume design in 3D. It's mindless but pretty, and the CGI-est parts feel more "Look at this insanely designed imaginary place!" and less bombarding you with action, which is the main turn-off for CGI in movies these days. The 3D was silly in parts (primarily during the Victorian garden intro scenes) but done well enough to lend a kind of pulp/pop art feel to it. And HBC is a freaky modern miracle of digital transmogrifying.

This movie will always be extremely underrated, because people were ready to hate on it and Burton from day one.

I was not ready to hate on it or Burton. Tim burton has made at least one of my very favorite movies. (Guess which one.) And I absolutely love and MARVEL at Lewis Carroll. But I didn't like the movie. It missed the spirit of everything, both coming and going.

It even misused the 3D, like you said yourself.

I was not ready to hate on it or Burton. Tim burton has made at least one of my very favorite movies. (Guess which one.)

planet of the apes remake

No.

charlie and the chocolate factory

Kenan otm. Love Burton, was psyched for Alice...but it was completely soulless, and chose spectacle over story. It bummed me out completely.

BTW the movie I mean is Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Beetlejuice is great, too, though.

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Having a hard time even thinking of three movies I really liked this year. I guess I'd go with

Social Network
Solitary Man
I Am Love

None would crack any all-time list for me.