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.

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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!

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.