This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2013

btw Eric, detrius has started w/ Taiwan's Golden Horse nominations
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 3, 2013 1:43 PM (1 minute ago)

THE LIVING HISTORY OF DETRIUS:
This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2012
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end-of-2006 film stuff (detrius 2, the Richard Donner Cut)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctgUr147zA

Any year with a Dickhouse Production is a year in which I only have to figure out the other 9 slots in my year-end list.

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-golden-horse-awards-2013-nominations

xpost

until I googled, assumed this was yr pet name for Mirimax.

Did anyone see Gandolfini's last movie?

gd it i still have the 2012 detrius thread hanging out in my bookmarks

slow down no one post here until 2016 at the earliest

2016: when I'll finally have seen most of the things that'll end up getting discussed itt

2016: when I'll finally have seen 2% of the things that'll end up getting discussed itt

seriously i do this every year where i say "i'm finally gonna watch all the movies people like from this year" and then i end up watching literally zero

well i saw boonmee last year (was that last year)

Been largely underwhelmed this year. Maybe Computer Chess will make the difference...

I can think of at least one poster who's been dying to know Tarantino's favourite films of the year so far...

1. Afternoon Delight (Jill Soloway)
2. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
3. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
4. The Conjuring (James Wan)
5. Drinking Buddies (Joe Swanberg)
6. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
7. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
8. Kick Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow)
9. The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski)
10. This Is The End (Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg)

The last three indicate to me that he's only seen 10 films this year.

Did anyone see Gandolfini's last movie?

It's not his last.

~~~~spooky~~~~

This go here or the Oscars thread? My detrius is rusty.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/10/07/oscars-academy-foreign-language-film-shortlist/

Canada, “Gabrielle,” Louise Archambault, director

Anyone know anything about this one?

no. re the other Gabrielle, wonder if Patrice Chereau makes the AA obits.

This go here or the Oscars thread? My detrius is rusty.

As the founder of detrius, I say yes. However someone with an axe to grind usually starts a separate Oscars thread at some point.

Yeah, some punk did in May

Oscars 2014

diminsihing returns, indeed

But enough about your social life.

http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/jerrylewisbw.jpg

Gotham Award nominations are next week?!

Let the good times roll.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/12-years-a-slave-leads-650576

Best Feature
12 Years a Slave
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Before Midnight
Inside Llewyn Davis
Upstream Color

Best Documentary
The Act of Killing
The Crash Reel
First Cousin Once Removed
Let the Fire Burn
Our Nixon

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station (The Weinstein Company)
Adam Leon for Gimme the Loot (Sundance Selects)
Alexandre Moors for Blue Caprice (Sundance Selects)
Stacie Passon for Concussion (RADiUS-TWC)
Amy Seimetz for Sun Don’t Shine (Factory 25)

Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films)
Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Robert Redford in All Is Lost (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
Isaiah Washington in Blue Caprice (Sundance Selects)

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
Scarlett Johansson in Don Jon (Relativity Media)
Brie Larson in Short Term 12 (Cinedigm)
Amy Seimetz in Upstream Color (erbp)
Shailene Woodley in The Spectacular Now (A24)

Breakthrough Actor
Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings (Sony Pictures Classics)
Kathryn Hahn in Afternoon Delight (The Film Arcade and Cinedigm)
Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station (The Weinstein Company)
Lupita Nyong’o in 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Robin Weigert in Concussion (RADiUS-TWC)

Ain't Them Indies Boring

Best Actress
Scarlett Johansson in Don Jon (Relativity Media)

Thay give ah-WHADS for those kinda moo-vaiys!

@labuzamovies
Gotham awards hail film with numerous major Hollywood stars, disband category that highlights talent in need of publicity.

Delpy missing from their best actress lineup suggests they are just as susceptible as Oscar is to forgetting about women once they hit 30-ish.

do what you will. gets more interesting after #20.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-best-indie-movies-of-2013-so-far-according-to-criticwire

I want to burn every print of Blue Jasmine. Who wants to help?

can we call DCPs prints?

http://www.thewrap.com/broken-circle-breakdown-leads-european-film-awards-nominations/

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-british-independent-film-awards-2013-nominations

year's best undistributed (I've only seen Tsai's Stray Dogs)

http://www.film.com/movies/the-best-undistributed-films-of-2013

I think I've only seen Mistaken for Strangers.

I've seen three - Closed Curtain, Harmony Lessons and Strange Little Cat - and plan to go and see two more this weekend - A Spell to Ward of the Darkness and Til Madness Do Us Apart.

I'm suspicous of films named after National songs.

sorry FB, where are you?

My interest is seriously piqued re: Strange Little Cat.

sorry FB, where are you?

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), 15. november 2013 18:03 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Copenhagen. And DOX, the second largest docomentary-festival in Europe, is on at the moment. Manakanama on sunday as well. Strange Little Cat won the competition for debut features at CPH:PIX earlier this year over Harmony Lessons, and what might have been my favorite: Leonardo Brzezicki's Noche.

i gotta get a new career that will let me move to Europe

Copenhagen is an insane film-city, I've sorta come to think. Mostly because it's so small, 1 mil people, and there are two major film festivals which mostly keeps it covered, and no showing is ever sold out. Then there is the gay film festival, the childrens film festival, the regional film festivals, etc. Although, if you're busy or broke those few intense weeks, as I've been - both - for this years DOX, then you miss a hell-of-a-lot, as very few serious art-house films gets released. We're still waiting for Jia and Tsai, which hopefully will come next PIX in april, and The Grandmaster flopped so much I saw it alone in a big theater a week after release.

do they pay film critics?

Nobody in Denmark wants to read about good films. If you like middlebrow pap about horseracing or unfaithful politicians, then yeah, the newspapers might have a use for you. That's the downside to being able to get in to everything, I suppose...

There's no need for film critics in a Scandinavian paradise.

It's socialism for you. Noone knows more about film than everyone else, and if you think you do, don't say anything, or we'll be coming after you!

But seriously, I wish we had a lot more good film-critics. That kind of community is what we are missing, I think.

Well, I'll be damned. A Spell to Ward of the Darkness was completely sold out... Stupid me, very stupid me. I got in to Til Madness do us Part, though, which is a great, great film. Tough, but rewarding. Surprisingly big crowd as well, to a four hour documentary on mental illness in China. Fittingly, the guy next to me grumbled and threw hand-signs at the screen throughout the film. It will make my end-of-year list, I suppose, but then again, I will only get to see the best of 2013 next spring...

anyone seen The Spectacular Now? A friend lent me the screener. It blindsided me -- one of the best of the year. One of the few convincing movies about teen drinking, teen sex, and parents.

yeah, i really loved it too, way more than i was expecting to. the main kid was terrific

ok, The Wolf of Wall Street

After Earth and The Lone Ranger are worth inclusion on the basis that they at least have defenders. The other three are senseless to cite in any canonical context whatsoever.

Would've been a more incisive list if it included stuff like The Canyons, Lone Survivor and The Great Gatsby, for comparison.

you got it, old spote.

I thought we blew up canons?

put armond in charge of the razzies

Excellent Zen riddle: how do you heckle someone who wins a Razzie? Mock him for his film being pretty good?

I don't know if it was ever that great but man the slate movie club is lame this year

I haven't watched it, but there seems to be a legit cult forming around the Lone Ranger.

gotta be better than that last Bruno Dumont thing

SAG, yawwwnnn, etc

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-sag-awards-2014

Helen Mirren, Phil Spector.

this must've been some makeup job!

so no ilx poll huh

Producers guild adds to the season of ties, awarding both Gravity and 12 Years.

How nice for everybody!

Do you have any bicarbonate of soda?

"The Lone Ranger" could have been better in many ways but not anywhere as terrible as it was made it out to be. And it is one of the best looking big studio films in years. Really jawdropping shots in parts.

"I've Watched A LOT of MOVIES, Paul!" - The ILX 2013 Film Poll Voting and Discussion Thread -Closes Feb. 28th, Midnight EST

anyone see Gondry's The We and the I? I couldn't quite understand why it's loaded with Young MC tracks when it's clearly set in the present day. Anyway, a "nice" movie. (The teens are pretty awful, but y'know, teens.)

i thought it betrayed a deep lack of understanding of NY kids

how so? also damn it got dark on the last day of school by the tim ethat ride ended. awful commute.

just that all the dialogue and most of the situations seemed contrived and poorly worked out
not like i'm the newark teen whisperer or anything but i thought it was pretty wack top to bottom

It's written in collaboration with the kids themselves, right? I thought it was ok, some of the stories and actors worked much better than others, and anyone could guess the twist at the end a long time sooner.

well the kids weren't that great with a few exceptions, mostly the kid breaking down when his boyfriend broke up with him
in general it would've been a very impressive film school project but nothing that needed this level of development

i saw it roughly back to back with gimme the loot and thought that did everything right, so i guess compare and contrast?

oh, right, the break-up scene. That was basically the only really good part of the movie. Oh, no, the scene with the girl on the bike! I saw it last april, can't really remember it all. Those were some good scenes, though. Does it qualify for the end-of-year poll?

DGA to Cuaron

César nominees:

BEST FILM

9 Month-Stretch (Neuf mois ferme)
Me, Myself and Mum (Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!)
Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du Lac)
Jimmy P. (Jimmy P. Psychothérapie d’un Indien des Plaines)
The Past (Le Passé)
Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la Foururre)
Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (La Vie d’Adèle)

BEST DIRECTOR

Albert Dupontel, 9 Month-Stretch
Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum
Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake
Arnaud Desplechin, Jimmy P.
Asghar Farhadi, The Past
Roman Polanski, Venus in Fur
Abdellatif Kechiche, Adele: Chapters 1 & 2

BEST FOREIGN FILM

The Broken Circle Breakdown (Alabama Monroe), Andy Tennant
Biancanieves, Pablo Berger
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dead Man Talking, Patrick Ridremont
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
La Grande Bellezza, Paolo Sorrentino
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón

http://www.screendaily.com/news/adele-garcon-lead-cesar-nominees/5066044.article

BAFTAs

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-12-years-a-slave-tops-the-baftas

Gravity winning a bunch of awards followed by a guilty and isolated best picture award for 12 Years is a pattern (Globes, now BAFTA) I expect to repeat at the Oscars.

Ten best shots of the year:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/the-top-10-shots-of-2013-part-one
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/the-top-10-shots-of-2013-part-two

gravity twice, eh?

I liked the Taviani Brothers' Caesar Must Die more than the cool kids do, btw. They frame and light very satisfyingly.

Ok. I watched Good Morning Babylon some time ago, and it was quite crappy, so I've been doubtful on the Taviani's, but they can be good?

I'm not sure I've seen any of their other films. Maybe Night of the Shooting Stars 30 years ago.

At some point, I'll watch their Palme-winner. It's a way down in the queue, though.

And the Big 6 winners for the Indie Spirits are... the same as the Oscars? What is the point?

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-spirit-awards

McQueen's not winning, but otherwise, yes indeed. Someone needs to put the Spirit awards out to pasture.

last minute cross-thread pimping: "I've Watched A LOT of MOVIES, Paul!" - The ILX 2013 Film Poll Voting and Discussion Thread -Closes Feb. 28th, Midnight EST

You have until tomorrow at noon EST to get in a last minute ballot, in case anyone did a list for something and wants to e-mail it to me.

Counting down now! "I've Watched A LOT of MOVIES, Paul!" - The ILX 2013 Film Poll Voting and Discussion Thread -Closes Feb. 28th, Midnight EST

LOL at the MTV Movie Awards, of all things, choosing 12 Years over Gravity.

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2014/3/6/mtv-movie-awards-katniss-vs-uhsolomon-northup.html

Also ...

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
• Amy Adams – “American Hustle” (Columbia Pictures)
• Jennifer Aniston – “We're the Millers” (New Line Cinema)
• Sandra Bullock – “Gravity” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Jennifer Lawrence – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” (Lionsgate)
• Lupita Nyong'o – “12 Years a Slave” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

did Django Unchained win last year? I'm unsure their average voter could tell the difference.

still there was the year that was the only show that correctly named Seven as best picture.

If there was a Twilight movie in the mix, that won.

Still not exactly sure who orchestrated these. They seem like an alternate Skandies.

http://www.murielawards.org/

Still, worth pointing out these:

50th Anniversary Award for Best Film, 1963 – 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini)
25th Anniversary Award for Best Film, 1988 – Die Hard (dir. John McTiernan)
10th Anniversary Award for Best Film, 2003 – Dogville (dir. Lars von Trier)

Just saw and really enjoyed (aside from one ill advised moment of false suspense) The Spectacular Now, which I don't think I'd've ever even heard of were it not for my lurking in this thread. So, thanks!

Haven't brought myself to watch Dirty Wars yet, but that's down to the fear that it'll just be the Jeremy Scahill - Hero Reporter story

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, November 25, 2013

watching it now, halfheartedly. i'm sure it's a good movie, but "jeremy scahill -- hero reporter story" is exactly how it's coming-off so far.

such a bizarre conceit. can't remember another documentary so determined to show the interviewer's pained, contemplative expressions and to frame him as a "hero-journalist." lots of chutzpah at work here.

it's the michael moore school
except dude is a legit journo

Yeah, Scahill does good work. I wonder if it came down to trying to recreate what he was finding?

i like scahill's journalism. but it just looked like ego to me.