This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2014

from Boyhood thread ...

begins to get nominated for awards

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/gotham-nominations-2014-awards-full-list-1201337272/

― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:07 AM (54 minutes ago)

It begins

THE DYING HISTORY OF DETRIUS (a full decade!):

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Very detrius thoughts: I haven't even seen it yet and I have absolutely no problem with Gothams leaving Foxcatcher off the list.

but it got an ensemble troika acting award. I am skeptical.

Haven't seen Birdman, Actress, Dear White People and a number of others yet, but my favorite films to date on that list are probably still Grand Budapest and Manakamana.

A film critic on my wall sez Birdman is All That Jazz.

Haven't seen Birdman either, but don't have major qualms with any of the other four nominees for feature. Under the Skin ftw tho.

xp I could live with that.

it's a Fellini hommage?

I shudder when I see Innaritu without a screenwriter

yay another detrius thread to hang out in my active bookmarks for years to come

I'm gonna bookmark detrius this year we'll see how long I can sustain interest

I've got them all double bookmarked.

Hey, I've actually seen one of these (Boyhood)! That never usually never happens until well into the following year.

This two-month-old review of Birdman has been causing shit over at the site in question ever since: http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2014/08/telluride-14-birdman.html

midway between a mid-life crisis Black Swan and the Noises Off version of Brazil

This is one of those movies that it's apparently impossible to make unkind comparisons with other movies and not still sound awesome to me.

it's Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman.

If they showed Karen Blixen walking up to a pride in thigh-high Naugahyde heels with "Wild Women Do" blaring on the soundtrack, I'd bite.

are there any where-to-stream-detrius lists yet?

The Nordic Council Film Prize will be given out tomorrow. The nominees are:

Nymphomaniac (Denmark)
Concrete Night (Finland)
Of Horses and Men (Iceland)
Blind (Norway)
Force Majeure (Sweden)

It's probably a fight between Nymphomaniac and Force Majeure, which is as it always is, only once has the prize not gone to Denmark or Sweden, but I'm kind of rooting for Blind. I'd be ok with the winner no matter what, though, it's probably the strongest field ever.

hypothetically they would've had to watch Nymphomaniac to give it a prize right?

Well, I'll be. The prize went to Of Horses and Men. Fun choice. Very good film. Very small as well, 80 min, basically pictures of stoic men on tiny horses, but it's fun all the way through.

International Documentary Association Nominations

BEST FEATURE AWARD

Citizenfour
Director: Laura Poitras
RADiUS-TWC, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films

Finding Vivian Maier
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Sundance Selects

Point and Shoot
Director: Marshall Curry
The Orchard

The Salt of the Earth
Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Sony Pictures Classics

Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Director: Nick Broomfield
HBO and SKY ATLANTIC

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/international-documentary-association-awards-announces-744750

My two faves this year at the moment are The Naked Room and Fifi Howls from Happiness.

British Indies

BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM

’71.
Calvary.
Mr. Turner.
Pride.
The Imitation Game.

ACTRESS

Alicia Vikander for Testament of Youth.
Cheng Pei Pei for Lilting.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw for Belle.
Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game.
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed for Catch Me Daddy.

ACTOR

Asa Butterfield for X+Y.
Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game.
Brendan Gleeson for Calvary.
Jack O’Connell for ’71.
Timothy Spall for Mr. Turner.

INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM

Blue Ruin.
Boyhood.
Fruitvale Station.
Ida.
The Badadook.

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-british-independent-film-awards-2014-nominations

European Film Awards

EUROPEAN FILM 2014

Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (Turist).

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida.

Andrei Zvyagintsev‘s Leviathan (Levifan).

Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut: Volume I & II.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s Winter Sleep (Kis uykusu).

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2014

Brendan Gleeson in Calvary.

Tom Hardy in Locke.

Alexey Serebryakov in Leviathan (Leviafan).

Stellan Skarsgård in Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut: Volume I & II.

Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner.

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2014

Marian Alvarez in Wounded (La herida).

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in Human Capital (Il capitale umano).

Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit).

Charlotte Gainsbourg in Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut: Volume I & II.

Agata Kulesza in Ida.

Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-european-film-awards-2014-nominations

One amazing thing: The show has an audience award, and naturally, there's a bit of overlap with the nominees for Best Film. Now, Ida being nominated for both does not surprise me - haven't seen it yet, but it seems popular and -ist. But Nymphomaniac being nominated for an audience award seems to say something very weird about European audiences...

Have only seen the Scandinavian nominees. Root for them or perhaps Ceylan.

euro audiences fucking love shia laboof

euro audiences love shia laboof fucking.

btw

The New York Film Critics Circle announced today they will vote for the 2015 awards on December 1. This year the Gala Awards dinner will be held on Monday, January 5, 2015 at the elegant Tao Downtown. Additions to the group are new members Scott Foundas of Variety, and Wesley Morris of Grantland.

so on those newbies, 1 - 1 = 0

NYFCC has lost a majority of the ones I trust tbh.

i didn't know, have they been bleeding members? (I'm assuming youre not referring to Armond.)

Well, maybe not everyone ... looks like 3biri and Uh1ich and K1awans are still in there. But so is R3x R33d.

And regardless of all else, you could certainly count on 4rmond to not blindly rubber stamp this year's predestined Oscar draws.

I'm semi-sensing a fair amount of resistance to the "predestined" so far, but this is the furthest removed i've been from it in years.

I always say that right about this time of the year. And then by one month from now it's all "what happened to that wide open race?"

All the biopic-type stuff seems received at the same upper level of "meh" so far, which leaves the fake-indie (Birdman) and the indie-indie (Boyhood)? What aura of inevitability do you see coalescing?

(i did get into Turing-Cumberbatch at MoMA for next week)

At this very minute, I do see a clear path opening up for Boyhood to lose to Selma.

We're not nec talking about the Osc*rs, you realize...

I haven't seen any "takes" on Selma yet -- does it matter if it's good? (I like I Will Follow, Ava DuVernay's last, but it was humble, and I don't know if this one can afford to be.)

check that, it was Middle of Nowhere I saw.

oh boy, Tim Roth and Tom Wilkinson play George Wallace and LBJ in Selma. Get-a ready fer some Brit thespian/good ol' boy scenery CHEWIN'!

Oh, yeah, I'ma guess the crix awards are probably gonna be pretty much a Boyhood lovefest.

Nick Davis and N@thaniel think Whiplash is assured of a Best Pic nod. Maybe. Def for Supporting Actor.

you're talking about OSCAR NODS in DETRIUS again...

Pretty vocal minority calling bullshit on Whiplash

I misread the title.

i always forget that tom wilkinson is british, he's a very convincing american

Every alternative to Boyhood has a pretty solid core of detractors (moreso than Boyhood, I mean). I don't think there will be a major rally on behalf of Wes Anderson this time around, but who knows. Still trying to guess which foreign actress no one has heard of LAFCA will select for their prize this year.

Agata Trzebuchowska.

uh god is boyhood gonna win a bunch of prizes?

as sure as Mason grows up

oh boy, Tim Roth and Tom Wilkinson play George Wallace and LBJ in Selma. Get-a ready fer some Brit thespian/good ol' boy scenery CHEWIN'!

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

oh hey 1997 was "Autumn Sweater"

The American Cinema Editors have announced the winners of their Eddie awards. The film categories:

Dramatic: Sandra Adair, Boyhood.
Comedy or Musical: Barney Pilling, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Animated: David Burrows and Chris McKay, The Lego Movie.
Documentary: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Citizenfour.

Mike D'Angelo's Skandies (top 20 everything) poll has begun:

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/

I sent a top 20 list to the FC readers' poll, but will be watching/revising at least til Oscars.

Scene winners are still some of my favorite detrius.

among not-great movies' scenes, i really liked the rolling car in the b.g. window in The Rover

(a shot rather than a scene, that is)

Great scenes are def easier to pick out from not-great movies.

Dan Sallitt (#1 and 8 are both pretty underappreciated tales of oppressed youth):

1. Bad Hair (Mariana Rondón)
2. The King of Escape (Alain Guiraudie)
3. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
4. Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Sam Fleischner)
5. The Monuments Men (George Clooney)
6. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
7. A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
8. Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini)
9. Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg)
10. The Rover (David Michôd)
11. Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
12. Elle s'en va (On My Way) (Emmanuelle Bercot)
13. Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley) (Alain Resnais)
14. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)

http://sallitt.blogspot.de/2015/02/2014-manhattan-one-week-run-premieres.html

5. The Monuments Men (George Clooney)

Admirably nutty pick.

No detrius would be complete without our lists, no?

Strangers by the Lake
The Immigrant
Norte, The End of History
Abuse of Weakness
Child's Pose
Mr. Turner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Love is Strange
The Wind Rises/The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Babadook
National Gallery
Borgman
Young & Beautiful
Test
Happy Christmas
Pride
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Boyhood
Inherent Vice
Manakamana
Noah

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/tag/best-of-2014-movies/

Immigrant just hit me as too derivative at the NYFF '13.

Test exceeded my gayxpectations, Love is Strange fell short, but both land well offlist for me.

awaiting Happy Christmas and Pride tho.

Hey, we shared a #1, that's always fun.

meet you at 21.

alfred, i saw precisely seven of those. most never came to my neck of the woods. others i was just too busy and had to pass on.

Here's my best old-and-new-to-me list. Find me on Letterboxd you get ten extra.

1.Él 1953
2.The Plea 1967
3.A Borrowed Life 1995
4.Miss Oyu 1951
5.The Breaking Point 1950
6.7th Heaven 1927
7.The Brute 1953
8.City of Pirates 1983
9.A Geisha 1953
10.The Sniper 1952
11.The Joyless Street 1925
12.Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968
13.Miami Blues 1990
14.Marianne and Juliane 1981
15.The Long Good Friday 1980
16.Profound Desires of the Gods 1968
17.Letter from Siberia 1957
18.Cousin Jules 1972
19.Little Lise 1930
20.The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress 1944
21.Whirlpool 1949
22.The Battle of San Pietro 1945
23.Red Hollywood 1996
24.Regeneration 1915
25.The Lighthouse Keepers 1929

Starting the end of year poll on Monday if all goes well. Will link here. Sorry Morbs.

nice!

gee, i wonder what will win

wait! Is it too late to vote? I didn't even see it.

Morbs! Why don't you say goodbye to that little horseshit attitude, okay, because we're not taking that in the poll thread.

I haven't started it yet, Alfred. I'm aiming for Monday.

haha exactly Guk

Boyhood, the usual actors win BAFTAs

http://deadline.com/2015/02/bafta-award-winners-2015-baftas-winner-list-bafta-awards-1201368762/#

I haven't started it yet, Alfred. I'm aiming for Monday.

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 7 February 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great. I'm gonna watch Goodbye to Language at the weekend.

People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.

A+ title.

Jeffrey Wells absolutely aploplectic that BAFTA broke the string of Birdman victories. After that and his recent "Patricia Arquette will only get 'dumpy' mom roles" remarks, i'm half convinced a bot writes his blog, or should.

oh yeah, DGA went to Innaritu.

Am starting to think that you all might have a point, but again it's exciting to pretend that BP is once again "a race."

yeah – white

Don't bring your Grammys into this thread.

BP? what is this BP? take it away

beep

well now it's time for Last of the Unjust

appparently you and I are the only American fags who liked Pride, Sotosyn.

pride is better than theory of everything and imitation game and should have won more awards.

mais oui

Last of the Unjust a complicated watch whose initial seeming faults mostly turn into assets.

INDIE SPIRITS with mostly a xerox year. Still no idea why ppl are bowled over by Nightcrawler.

Best Feature: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole

Best Director: Richard Linklater (IFC Films)

Best Screenplay: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)

Best First Feature: Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)
Director: Dan Gilroy, Producers: Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak

Best First Screenplay: Justin Simien, Dear White People (Roadside Attractions/ Lionsgate)

John Cassavetes Award (For best feature made under $500,000): Land Ho! (Sony Pictures Classics)
Writers/Directors: Aaron Katz, Martha Stephens, Producers: Christina Jennings, Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy

Best Supporting Female: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood (IFC Films)

Best Supporting Male: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Female Lead: Julianne Moore, Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Male Lead: Michael Keaton, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Robert Altman Award: Inherent Vice (Warner Bros.)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, Casting Director: Cassandra Kulukundis, Ensemble Cast: Josh Brolin, Hong Chau, Martin Donovan, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Sasha Pieterse, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Serena Scott Thomas, Benicio del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Kenneth Williams

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Editing:Tom Cross, Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best International Film: Ida (Poland – Music Box Films)
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Best Documentary: CITIZENFOUR (RADiUS-TWC / HBO Documentary Films / Participant Media)
Director: Laura Poitras; Producers: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky

Special Distinction Award: Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classics)
Director/Producer: Bennett Miller, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik, Writers: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman, Actors: Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum

FC readers poll

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/film-comment-readers-poll-2014

Should probably have linked here earlier. In the midst of the ILX 2014 Film Poll rollout here: People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.

Just saw Imitation Game -- terrible film saved by an inherently interesting story and decent acting. Script is awful. Putting that tagline "Sometimes the individuals you least expect...[or whatever]" in the mouths of characters THREE different times is beyond the ordinary hacky biopic garbage. Way too little time spent actually trying to convey how Engima worked and/or how they solved it. Lots of unbelievable conceits (literally the first attack they have the ability to stop just happens to be on one of the codebreakers' own brother's ship) Director had obviously seen "The Fog Of War" and tried but failed to lend gravitas with similar math/carnage overlays.

I really like Amalric's The Blue Room, esp that blase-like-a-fox magistrate.

I did too. As an exercise in swank economy, The Blue Room is the kind of movie hard to screw up. It’s content to stay on the surface, registering as nothing more than an adaptation of Simenon. I saw only one howler: a cut from a closeup of Esther’s vagina to Julien’s daughter.

I'm too upset by any shot of a vagina to notice what follows.

i've seen many movies "like" that screwed up, if we're talking erotic thrillers. Louis Malle's Damage? Terrible.

(tho phaps that was sold on the sexy more than a Simenon adap wd be)

Oh I love Damage. It's genuinely weird.

"Damaghed peeeple are dahnjerou peeple. That's how we surbive."

Haha

A lovely, winsome Blythe Danner performance and Sam Elliot's sexy rumble are at the heart of I'll See You In My Dreams, a snappier than usual Hallmark Channel movie (and in the eighties James Garner would've starred).

Watched Spotlight: good, with a couple impressive moments. Not as effective as Zodiac cuz visually it's dead (Fincher would have at least shown Boston's insularity by showing how close the Globe building is to Michael Keaton's high school earlier and more gracefully).

oops -- wrong detrius