what are your 3 favorite movies of 2024 so far?

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I Saw the TV Glow
Janet Planet
Evil Does Not Exist

moral ziosk (geoffreyess), Monday, 23 September 2024 03:05 (three months ago) link

So many I still need to/want to see, but

Sing Sing
Furiosa
Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees (a comedy set, but wgaf)

ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Monday, 23 September 2024 03:12 (three months ago) link

The Zone of Interest
Love Lies Bleeding
The Boy and the Heron

jam up the pump (Matt #2), Monday, 23 September 2024 03:30 (three months ago) link

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
The Substance
Challengers

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 23 September 2024 04:06 (three months ago) link

The Zone of Interest
Blood For Dust
The Beekeeper

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 23 September 2024 04:10 (three months ago) link

I consider Zone of Interest 2023 so my current three would be

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
I Like Movies
I Saw the TV Glow

The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 23 September 2024 04:14 (three months ago) link

the beast
love lies bleeding
longlegs

ivy., Monday, 23 September 2024 04:26 (three months ago) link

Aw so glad you like I Like Movies, Whiney! ivy yours is the first recommendation I’ve heard for Longlegs and I’m taking it very seriously

I’ve been watching Gena Rowlands and Shelley Duvall movies and haven’t seen anything “top 3” this year except Challengers but I liked Thelma and I’m glad The Substance exists and that I saw it

I myself care less for them (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 23 September 2024 05:30 (three months ago) link

Raayan - My Indian action film of the year so far. Great stoic hero, great tragic plotline.

Merry Christmas - Superior mystery period piece set amongst Mumbai's christian population (lots of portuguese names I noticed). Wonderful romantic comedy chemistry between Vijay Sethupathi and Katrina Kaif.

Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In - The last man standing of Hong Kong action cinema with an elegiac ode to the city's past.

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 23 September 2024 09:23 (three months ago) link

Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
The Substance

Ward Fowler, Monday, 23 September 2024 09:28 (three months ago) link

The restorations of Edward Yang's A Confucian Confusion and Marguerite Duras Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert have been my favourites days out at the cinema so far.

The two things that I've seen that have been listed so far I've had either hated or found it nice enough..

xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 September 2024 09:42 (three months ago) link

I Saw the TV Glow
Evil Does Not Exist
The Beast

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 September 2024 09:42 (three months ago) link

Not been to the cinema much this year, but a film I liked a lot which seemed to go under the radar was Perfect Days.

John Backflip (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 23 September 2024 09:49 (three months ago) link

I wish I'd liked it more.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 September 2024 10:03 (three months ago) link

If only I could hibernate
Sometimes I think about dying
All of Us Strangers

(Also rated I Saw the TV Glow and Didi)

Bob Six, Monday, 23 September 2024 11:10 (three months ago) link

if i had to submit a year end list today i'd be happy with this top 3

the beast
megalopolis
love lies bleeding

ivy., Wednesday, 2 October 2024 21:38 (three months ago) link

hmmm

i saw the tv glow
furiosa
hundreds of beavers (letterboxd has this as 2022 but it sure seems like it hit theaters in 2024)

also loved challengers and longlegs. and perfect days but i think that was a 2023.

na (NA), Thursday, 3 October 2024 13:33 (three months ago) link

you're the second person to mention Hundreds of Beavers in the last week

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 October 2024 13:35 (three months ago) link

Hundreds of Beavers is great old school Looney Tunes fun

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 3 October 2024 13:38 (three months ago) link

movies i liked:

perfect days
the sweet east
dune 2
la chimera
the fall guy
twilight of the warriors: walled in
alien: romulus
between the temples

flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2024 13:45 (three months ago) link

"All of Us Strangers"

this surely must be 2023? not that I gaf - I loved it. It's a movie of one of my most frequent dreams (going back to my childhood home and chatting shit with ghosts)

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:01 (three months ago) link

other than the really big hollywood films with clearly defined universal release dates there isn’t really a clear mapping from films to “years” imho

flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:05 (three months ago) link

Just watched Knox Goes Away last night (wrote about it in scott's movie thread) and it's definitely one of the best things I've seen this year.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:37 (three months ago) link

Oddity
Kinds of Kindness
His Three Daughters
Furiosa
Alien: Romulus

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 3 October 2024 19:00 (three months ago) link

All We Imagine Is Light
Black Dog
Poor Things (released 2024 in NZ, uh I Saw The TV Glow / Love Lies Bleeding tie if going by US/UK release dates)

etc, Friday, 4 October 2024 01:57 (three months ago) link

Release date is when you were able to see it first, otherwise everything's always a year behind and you never get to vote for anything. Unless you saw it at a festival before it was on general release I guess.

RIO Speedwagon (Matt #2), Friday, 4 October 2024 02:08 (three months ago) link

the people’s joker is technically 2022 and it would be top three for me if it were a lesser year. “whenever the theatrical run was in your country” seems like a fine not embarrassing metric

ivy., Friday, 4 October 2024 02:24 (three months ago) link

don't have a top 3 but just saw Black Dog, what a sweet film

symsymsym, Friday, 4 October 2024 02:32 (three months ago) link

Challengers
I Saw the TV Glow
Janet Planet

runners-up:

The Beast
Trap
Love Lies Bleeding

jaymc, Sunday, 6 October 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link

I don’t know if I have any favorite movies of 2024, but perhaps by the end of December?

Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 6 October 2024 20:01 (two months ago) link

fallen leaves
I saw the TV glow
love lies bleeding

have seen fewer new films this year than in years past tbh

brony james (k3vin k.), Sunday, 6 October 2024 20:07 (two months ago) link

Letterboxd keeps me honest regarding release dates. It's a good motivator to check out more off the beaten track stuff when all the big hyped releases are categorized as from last year.

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 7 October 2024 09:21 (two months ago) link

Things I've enjoyed that don't seem to have been mentioned yet...

THE PROMISED LAND (they should have released it under the Danish title - THE BASTARD) - Mads Mikkelson having a ball as hard-boiled retired soldier trying to cultivate potatoes in 18th century Jutland. The best western of 2024.

CHUCK CHUCK BABY - quite corny but nonetheless enjoyable queer love story set in a north Wales chicken factory. Features an excellent singalong montage set to the sound of "Northern Lights" by Renaissance, for any prog-pop fans.

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL - part Knives Out/part Highsmith extended universe inheritance caper starring the very good Laure Calamy out of Call My Agent.

SLOW - if you only see one Estonian drama about the dawning relationship between a choreographer and an asexual sign language interpreter, make it this one.

HOARD - maybe my favourite BritFlick of the year? Young girl leaving school is triggered into a sudden flashback about her birthmum's hoarding. Excellent use of Baby D's "Let Me Be Your Fantasy".

MY FAVOURITE CAKE - lovely late-life romance between an Iranian widow and a lonely cab driver she picks up - like Before Sunrise for the over-70s.

Maggy Scraggle, Monday, 7 October 2024 11:53 (two months ago) link

I like the sound of THE BASTARD, it's on bbc i-player as well.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 7 October 2024 12:32 (two months ago) link

furiosa
a real pain
challengers

hott ogo (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2024 12:53 (two months ago) link

a lot i haven’t seen yet, glad that tv glow and love lies bleeding are on streaming now

hott ogo (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2024 12:53 (two months ago) link

All of these technically have '23 dates but beat anything else I've seen so far:

La Chimera
Fallen Leaves
The Beast

Chris L, Monday, 7 October 2024 13:07 (two months ago) link

BASTARDEN owned

secretary of state for fractal pluripotencies (||||||||), Monday, 7 October 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link

I just wanted to note as well as it being top notch so far, there is a character in Bastarden who is always moaning about his hemorrhoids. This is what I like about Danish Westerns.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 7 October 2024 17:50 (two months ago) link

I remember reading about The Origin Of Evil and thinking it sounded interesting. Might have to look for that.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 7 October 2024 17:55 (two months ago) link

two weeks pass...

worst film of the year: we live in time

ivy., Friday, 25 October 2024 11:54 (two months ago) link

is Andrew Garfield nude in it

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 October 2024 11:57 (two months ago) link

you do get to see his butt

ivy., Friday, 25 October 2024 12:04 (two months ago) link

three weeks pass...

i saw the tv glow
furiosa
hundreds of beavers

i think anora knocked HOB out of the top 3

na (NA), Monday, 18 November 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

Man, Hundreds of Beavers. Definitely too long, but what an indulgence! Bugs Bunny meets Buster Keaton meets Jackie Chan meets Nintendo.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2024 13:25 (two weeks ago) link

It didn't work for me. On paper, given the various ingredients, it should have been my favourite film ever but... I dunno. The pacing was weird, the gags were repetitive and outstayed their welcome, it dragged and it didn't really make me laugh. I wish I'd enjoyed it more though - I appreciated the effort!

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Thursday, 19 December 2024 13:31 (two weeks ago) link

It's fucking great, loved every minute.

a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 19 December 2024 13:32 (two weeks ago) link

I loved the repetition of the jokes, and how they paid off. Granted, I'm not sure I would watch it again, but I can imagine it playing on a loop in the local bar.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2024 13:34 (two weeks ago) link

My experience was greatly enhanced by having a couple behind me who had understood the assignment, their laughter was infectious.

a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 19 December 2024 13:40 (two weeks ago) link

The only bit that raised a laugh for me was the woodpecker being summoned every time he whistled. I couldn't really get much further than the parts after he receives his trapper gear

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Thursday, 19 December 2024 14:02 (two weeks ago) link

So you didn't make it to the reveal of what the beavers have been up to?

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2024 14:10 (two weeks ago) link

My daughter and I, we saw how much time was remaining and were perplexed, but I think they filled the duration well enough.

We have a friend with a son in film school right now, and apparently the son thought the movie was the most inspiring " I want to make something like that" thing ever. Tbh, I hope he is an outlier, lol.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2024 14:12 (two weeks ago) link

I'll be honest, I was half an hour in thinking "This must be over pretty soon, right?"

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Thursday, 19 December 2024 14:17 (two weeks ago) link

That's about when I bailed on it. Which I never do! It just wasn't my cup of tea.

jaymc, Thursday, 19 December 2024 14:27 (two weeks ago) link

planning to show it to my 10 year old, it is totally his brand of humor so will be an interesting test if it can hold his attention with the absence of dialogue

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 December 2024 22:04 (two weeks ago) link

It's very charming in that homemade movie way. The pace can be drag a bit at times but the final madcap chase reminded me of Wallace and Gromits The Wrong Trousers[show hidden text]

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 19 December 2024 23:02 (two weeks ago) link

Just a thought but I wonder if it rated better with US audiences for whatever reason?

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Thursday, 19 December 2024 23:08 (two weeks ago) link

My daughter said it reminded her of Wallace & Gromit, too. With, you know, poo and pee and stripper jokes.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2024 23:46 (two weeks ago) link

Just a thought but I wonder if it rated better with US audiences for whatever reason?

It's a small cult film, I don't think anything like that can be inferred?

As I said, worked like gangbusters with the London audience I saw it with.

a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 20 December 2024 11:01 (two weeks ago) link

It's also just a thing where it's tough for a modern audience to get into the right mindset for it. Obviously it's nowhere near Keaton/Chaplin level but even with those guys most ppl these days mostly consume them through shorts and highlight reels.

a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 20 December 2024 11:03 (two weeks ago) link

My colleagues in our circle loved it; I too could only stand about a half hour. But it's a cool movie to embrace and I understand its aims.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 December 2024 13:38 (two weeks ago) link

I think one reason my friend's kid in film school found it so inspiring is that it really shows that whatever your ridiculous idea, if there is a will there is a way. This movie cost, what, $150,000 and was made over the course of a few years, with breaks in between, in the dead of winter in rural Wisconsin and Michigan? Sheer creativity and ingenuity and originality and willpower, regardless of how much one likes the results. I saw a bit of an interview with the filmmakers and I think they said one of their goals was just to make a movie completely at odds with what's expected from a lot of indie film, slapstick and silly. I suppose in that sense it has some in common with the Daniels guys, just embrace the independence and do whatever the fuck you want. I can't imagine watching their films a second time, either, but I'm as glad they were made as I hope no one tries to make movies like them.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2024 15:09 (two weeks ago) link

not really into Wallace and Gromit either. I'm a traitor to my city.

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Friday, 20 December 2024 15:14 (two weeks ago) link

I tried the beaver movie last night too and bailed after 10 minutes in favor of Smile 2. *shrugs*

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 20 December 2024 16:57 (two weeks ago) link

i think maybe since we don't really get capital-C comedies anymore and no one goes to theaters anymore, we've forgotten the contagious joy of seeing a funny movie in the theater with other people. i would have enjoyed HOB in any environment but it really benefited from seeing it with an audience. it is admittedly a little exhausting even with that but i loved that someone made a mostly-silent, slapstick comedy that only cares about getting laughs (though i am tempted to write my essay on how Hundreds of Beavers is actually about trauma)

na (NA), Friday, 20 December 2024 17:16 (two weeks ago) link

This month, the LA Times named All of Us Strangers as the best film of 2023

The Guardian: Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 1 – All of Us Strangers

How can it be both? Reading about this, I kinda want to see it, I didn't realize it's partly a ghost story

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 December 2024 18:25 (two weeks ago) link

i thought it was really good. had no idea going in that it was kinda sorta a horror movie. ending is divisive but i ultimately liked that it went there

ivy., Friday, 20 December 2024 18:33 (two weeks ago) link

na otm

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 December 2024 19:38 (two weeks ago) link


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