This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2015

Last year was Boyhood. Is this year Diary of a Teenage Girl?

http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-leads-25th-ifp-gotham-independent-film-awards-nominations-20151022

HISTORY OF DETRIUS:

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Too soon?

always too soon

eager for the Laurie Anderson

did any movies even come out this year

I'm hoping Laurie's will be the film of the year, because as of right now, my favorite is No No Sleep.

Early European Film Academy wins: http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=300658

drumbeat starting for Brie Larson and the whelp in Room

Laurie Anderson for best actress please.

But, really, the way pundits are predicting that list has my eyes glazing over from all the ingenue blandness: Carey Mulligan, Brie Larson, Saoirse Ronan, Jennifer Lawrence, zzzzzzzzzzz.

only babes 30 and under need apply

Poor Charlotte Rampling.

anyway, I have an early Top Nine, heavy on Jan-May releases (apparently Mountains May Depart doesn't get a release til '16).

Amour Fou
Horse Money
Court
Güeros
Taxi
Magic Mike XXL
The Forbidden Room
Field Niggas
Stations of the Cross

here's a few of my best:

Appropriate Behavior
Girlhood
Timbuktu
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Results
In the Name of My Daughter
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Assassin
It Follows
Victoria
The New Girlfriend

Good timing! I'd added Gueros to my Letterboxd Watchlist way back when, forgot about it, and now I see that it was just released on DVD/streaming.

Only 2015 movies that I've seen so far that are worth a damn are Inside Out and It Follows, but as usual there's A LOT I haven't seen.

I had to return Güeros when the disc arrived with a crack.

So far, I like:

No No Sleep
Heart of a Dog
Maps to the Stars
Mad Max: Fury Road
Cemetery of Splendour
Anomalisa
Inside Out
Blackhat

I didn't count the Joe, as it's not being distributed in the US til March, and is probably not among my favorites of his.

Ah yes, it screened just one night only at Walker this fall.

Maps to the Stars and Inside Out made my runners-up list.

Baffled by the Maps to the Stars love

Were you baffled by Cosmopolis love too?

I don't love MTTS because there's no love in its heart.

or, rather, I like MTTS b/c there's no love in its heart

there's a Cronenberg where its heart ought to b.

I didn't much like Cosmopolis, but could understand why other people might like it, as an exercise in a certain kind of style. But MTTS just seemed so dated and unfunny, so tired and trivial - I mean, isn't a toothless, drab and cheap looking Hollywood satire the very last thing Cronenbergists would/should want from him?

Again, comedy emerging as the very most subjective of genres.

oh morbs is field -- good? tapestore is repping for it i think. nb i mean on twitter i don't mean like i am variety magazine & i'm writing 'george clooney is repped by tapestore'

yes, i thought it was a great slice of street portraiture. the director did q&a after and was an earnest young guy, in a good way.

I don't like Maps to the Stars (overall) because there's no pure hate in its heart.

Soldering at what you think would qualify.

Make that shuddering.

British Independent Film nominations: Lanthimos's The Lobster leads!

https://www.bifa.film/press/releases/nominations-release-2015

European Film Awards, to be presented in Berlin on December 12.

EUROPEAN FILM

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Roy Andersson.
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven.
Rams, Grímur Hákonarson.
The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos.
Victoria, Sebastian Schipper.
Youth, Paolo Sorrentino.

EUROPEAN COMEDY

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Roy Andersson.
The Bélier Family, Eric Lartigau.
The Brand New Testament, Jaco Van Dormael.

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY

A Syrian Love Story, Sean McAllister.
Amy, Asif Kapadia.
Dancing With Maria, Ivan Gergolet.
The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer.
Toto and His Sisters, Alexander Nanau.

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Roy Andersson, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster.
Nanni Moretti, My Mother.
Sebastian Schipper, Victoria.
Paolo Sorrentino, Youth.
Malgorzata Szumowska, Body.

EUROPEAN ACTRESS

Margherita Buy, My Mother.
Laia Costa, Victoria.
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years.
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina.
Rachel Weisz, Youth.

EUROPEAN ACTOR

Michael Caine, Youth.
Tom Courtenay, 45 Years.
Colin Farrell, The Lobster.
Christian Friedel, 13 Minutes.
Vincent Lindon, The Measure of a Man.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-european-film-awards-2015-nominations

Europe sure loves The Lobster

more doc noms

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-cinema-eye-honors-2015-nominations-2

the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has voted to classify The Martian as a comedy for the Golden Globes.

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).

more doc noms

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-cinema-eye-honors-2015-nominations-2

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), 12. november 2015 07:03 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ugh, most nominations for rubbish Cartel Land. Overheard this young guy talking about it 'Best doc I've ever seen, probably, you're just right there while they're shooting!'

It's stupid political commentary, but also men with guns. It's the documentary version of Sicario and Zero Dark Thirty, and about as trustworthy.

fyi

http://www.indiewire.com/save-the-dates-heres-the-2015-awards-calendar

when is the NYFCC?

5 Golden Horse awards to The Assassin

trainwreck was the best movie this year

how many did you see?

The Assassin got Danish distribution, which is absolutely amazing, and a sign that cinema culture might be improving over here. But it won't open until June... Hope to see it over the winter at some festival somewhere.

I saw an Estonian film called Into the Crosswind last week. That's one of the most unique films I've seen this year. Check the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6q1OWCxxpQ

xp- these are the other ones i saw that i remember

ex machina
sicario
the overnight
imitation game
the interview
whiplash
nightcrawler
suffragette

at least 3 of those were '13, get yr accounting straight dawg

I saw "Gueros" last week. Some real flair to the direction esp for a first-timer. The narrative was a bit skeletal and flimsy though (i know its not that kind of movie) that left the movie end a bit flatly imo

Among the 11th hour cramming this weekend, I liked Iris, was OK with James White and Brooklyn, and barely tolerated Victoria (thanks mostly to the Nils Frahm). Next up, Maddin and Hou.

Is The Assassin coming out in the UK before the end of the year?

Are we doing an ILX poll btw? I like to get more of my accounting 'wrong'.

I found out, to my chagrin, the latest "Joe" is 2016 in the U.S. Is Lobster also?

Lobster distributor has "coming soon," on its site, so i'm guessing next year as it's not on any calendar i can find.

http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/releases.php?year=2015&country=USA

"That's the only well-reviewed film I haven't watched"

^completism, or the illusion of it

I'd be much more interested in hearing what you like that either a) god bad reviews or ii) got no attention at all. Watching everything with good reviews seems like a tremendous effort with diminishing returns.

Didn't say that all! Diary of a Teenage Girl was well-reviewed and I couldn't attend the screening last summer and looks like something I would've theoretically enjoyed. As usual most of the prestige films were OK to garbage, but interest in a director is a compelling enough reason to try anyway; otherwise, why would Morbius rally to Prestige Item #245 Bridge of Spies?

I'm more likely to have watched something that got little to no reviews (Appropriate Behavior, Amour Fou).

teenage girl basically did what dozens of french films have been doing for decades but for america. i thought it looked good, was funny, but lacked much depth. it didnt really search that far beneath its comic book panels. i am non-teenage however, and male, so that might have something to do with it. but ive watched breillat and piliat's teenage-girl-explores-sexuality movies and found more to them than this one. it is a debut too, in its defence.

ha – isn't A Real Young Girl set in the same time as Diary?

i love aline kominsky-crumb and i love phoebe gloeckner so i don't know why i haven't watched diary yet

i don't wanna fight, Sotosyn. Move to NY and we'll both see precisely the same films; it'll be Heaven with a big H. (i will skip Innaritu and pure awardsbait)

I quite liked the quasi-Bressonian number Stations of the Cross, and I thought only Paul Schrader concurred, but it was indeed well reviewed. Ex-Catholics may enjoy most.

http://www.filmmovement.com/libraries/index.asp?MerchandiseID=375

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stations_of_the_cross/

Two Cents from Reverse Shot... Now i'm looking fwd to Spotlight for the eating.

http://reverseshot.org/features/2171/two_cents_2015

Spotlight is a fine movie whose ridiculous award attention has rested in the hands of journalists and former journalists.

i like tracking the best older films i see for the first time all year (Letterboxd makes it easier), so here's 2015. 20/25 seen in theaters, hence I have increasingly made repertory a priority.

1.Edvard Munch 1974, Watkins

2.The Red and the White 1967, Jancsó

3.The Elusive Corporal 1962, Renoir

4.The Gold of Naples 1954, de Sica

5.Trial on the Road 1971, German

6.The Codes 1966, Has

7.The Noose 1958, Has

8.Crime Wave 1985, Paizs

9.Touki Bouki 1973, Mambéty

10.The Long Gray Line 1955, Ford

11.The Shepherd of the Hills 1941, Hathaway

12.Alice in the Cities 1974, Wenders

13.The Upturned Glass 1947, Huntington

14.Medea 1969, Pasolini

15.In the Palm of Your Hand 1951, Gavaldón

16.Wandering with the Moon 1945, Ekman

17.The Bed-Sitting Room 1969, Lester

18.Ride the Pink Horse 1947, Montgomery

19.Paris Belongs to Us 1961, Rivette

20.Downhill Racer 1969, Ritchie

21.If I Were King 1938, Lloyd

22.Life Is a Bed of Roses 198, Resnais

23.La Pointe-Courte 1955, Varda

24.Rio 100 Degrees 1955, Pereira dos Santos

25.The Haunting 1963, Wise

this Cobie Smulders was first-rate in Bujalski's Results: a smartly written and performed assertive woman. Might've earned some formal notice if comedy got more respect.

(no i never saw that sitcom or Avengers, whaddya think?)

Can I start the film poll in mid-January this year instead of waiting for Oscar time?

I've been watching everything I can get my hands on. Are we starting this soon?

PGA Award just went to The Big Short.

I've been watching everything I can get my hands on. Are we starting this soon?

― Cherish, Sunday, January 24, 2016 5:59 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, I've been sidetracked by some work but I should be starting it midweek.

Some older films will certainly make my 2015 ballot. The Gold of Naples, old Hou and Petzold.

FT Ballot:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2015-10-1/#comments

your ballot for what?

for the ilx 2015 poll :-)

well, The Gold of Naples can't count, don't be silly.

I assume you saw it at a De Sica retro that came to these shores as well. I don't see the problem - watch more old films than new so any ballots have to reflect new discoveries (and that film changed the received perception of De Sica for me, so important)

except the voting is for films of 2015, and you and I might be the only two people here who saw it in '15. I'd suggest you're being a willful contrarian butterfly chaser, but i'm not voting in any ilx thing so go crazy.

Also putting in Puppetmaster and an old Petzold film that I saw at a retro at an obscure-ish London cinema. I'll probably be the only one to put those in so JOIN ME

i may also put in some baseball players

I'm more into cricket.

Also putting in Puppetmaster and an old Petzold film that I saw at a retro at an obscure-ish London cinema. I'll probably be the only one to put those in so JOIN ME

I've seen other forums do this (a thread of individual lists). Maybe you could start it here. But it wouldn't have anything to do with Gukbe's consensus poll.

If the point of the ILX film poll is to represent the experience of ILXORs at the cinema last year (and if it isn't, it feels like a rather vainglorious exercise) then zyzzzz should be free to choose whatever the hell he likes

It's a shame you won't be voting Morbs. As much as I scoff at your demeanor towards everyone else's taste, I value yours. Plus I'd like to see Amour Fou get up there.

The rules are open so if xyzzz wants to vote for new discoveries, then go for it, but it'll probably be a lonely vote way down. If we can't hold to the US release schedule or even a UK/US combination one, then there's no real way to do it. An older film getting a single vote is probably better than a vote for a festival film that isn't released until the next year.

maybe xyzzz could just list em like i did about 15 posts back...

I'll do it, too. The ten best older films I saw for the first time in 2015, in no particular order:

Bad Education
The Tulse Luper Suitcases
Santa Sangre
City Lights
Cemetery Man
Wanda
Toute une nuit
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Platform
Ganja & Hess

I'll post my ballot post-countdown. That will take care of that.

I did include old films last year (and maybe the year before) too. Don't mind if they get one vote. Its part of my experience (as Ward says) and just as importantly I want to minimize the not-so-good-sorta-ok entries that get in just because I happened to watch it this year. I'm not gonna compromise.

Obv I prioritise 2015 films but I watch just as many older films.

I think I put Tout Une Nuit in my 2014 or 2013 ballot

If we can't hold to the US release schedule or even a UK/US combination one, then there's no real way to do it. An older film getting a single vote is probably better than a vote for a festival film that isn't released until the next year.

It's just a mess as a non uk/us citizen. Release dates are so different, and just checking for what is eligible would be work. Plus I would hardly ever get to vote for the favorite films from my own country, and that would be too bad.

It probably does affect the main list a bit, as it shoves the broad releases down a few spots on the non-english lists, but that just makes the list more interesting, I think. It's been working great the last two years, imo!

Barging in with a plug: "It's not Bro Time, It's POLL Time" The ILX 2015 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday February 21st at Midnight EST

SAG winners:

Spotlight
Leo
Larson
Idris Elba
Vikander

one of the funnier scenes of 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRIuq25xqTM

I really liked that movie, will def be giving it a vote

well that would be ridiculous

Iñárritu is the first to win the DGA in consecutive years.

The Skandies begin to roll out... bunch of films that have hardly been mentioned in this thread:

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/2016/02/skandies-20.html

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/

Touching Stallone interview

Gomes's Arabian Nights now streaming on Fandor.

BAFTAs: Revenant, Leo, Larson, Brooklyn

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/14/baftas-2016-full-list-of-winners

films of last year shot on 35mm

http://filmmakermagazine.com/97320-64-films-released-in-2015-shot-on-35mm/#.VstBxPkrJhE

Skandies: http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.com/2016/02/skandies-1.html

Also voting in the ILX poll has been extended through Sunday. "It's not Bro Time, It's POLL Time" The ILX 2015 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday February 21st at Midnight EST

most interesting Skandies finish is 3rd

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.com/2016/02/skandies-3.html

Indie Spirits

Best Feature: Spotlight

Best Director: Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

Best Female Lead: Brie Larson, Room

Best Male Lead: Abraham Attah, Beasts of No Nation

Best Supporting Female: Mya Taylor, Tangerine

Best Supporting Male: Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation

Best Cinematography: Ed Lachman, Carol

Best International Film: Son of Saul

Best Screenplay: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight

Best Documentary: The Look of Silence

Best Editing: Tom McArdle, Spotlight

Best First Feature: Marielle Heller, The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Best First Screenplay: Emma Donoghue, Room

John Cassavetes Award: Krisha

Robert Altman Award: Spotlight

Christ

he wasnt nominated

finally saw Gett, quietly building first-rate courtroom stuff. Lensed by reg Ozon DP Jeanne Lapoirie!

Surprised to learn it's third of a trilogy.

Is there a Cannes 2016 poll thread? Eeriiiiiic!