Obvious Child trailer made me kinda sick.
Cotillard, fine....oh hey Eric, look what's at the top of Sicinski's poll-eligible list now:
http://academichack.net/notasteforaccounting.htm
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
i just caught up w/ only lovers left alive this past weekend. i enjoyed it, though i think it ran out of a lot of steam after mia wasikowska (sp?) left. not because her character necessarily enlivened the film so much as i think it just ran out of whatever slight narrative momentum it had built up, and the visual inventiveness flagged a bit too. maybe "inventiveness" is too strong a word for jarmusch mostly running through his favored poses.
i do think the idea of ageless vampires as the ultimate hipsters is a really funny and surprisingly rich one, at least as far as ideas in jarmusch films go. the film did about as much with that as i would have hoped in the first half of the film, then it began spinning its wheels. the last sequence was pretty great, though something about the framing of the final image felt off to me.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
i really liked the visually disorienting opening shots
even more than his other films the film felt like an amused semi-autobiography. jarmusch is the ultimate hipster gadfly, carefully maintaining his cred through generational and other shifts. he probably feels a little bit like the main characters of his film by now.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
It ran out of steam for me too but it was by far the wittiest and most engaged Jarmusch I've seen in years, maybe ever. Ideal fusion of subject + form.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's about record collectors. The damned, truly.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
In the Indies' queer ghetto I prefer Test to Ira Sachs' Make Way for Old Married Gays in Sweaters.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
OK, Armond.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
it was the first decent jarmusch since parts of "ghost dog." actually i think i liked it better than anything since "mystery train," but i haven't revisited "dead man" or "night on earth" in a long long time so that's not a judgment i'd stake anything on.
ultimately i think all of films after "stranger than paradise" are basically redundant, but that doesn't mean they don't have their pleasures.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
all of HIS films, i mean
it'd be funny if i thought that "stranger than paradise" was truly the end point of cinema.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Given so much of Sic's list matches my own, and given Cotillard's participation, I'll give that one a shot.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius)
A facile comparison. Except for a mildly craven dream sequence, Test is first-rate; it has nothing to do with Sachs' movie except in how well it shows gay life unfolding. I would've thought Test's white San Fran dancers would irk you just as much.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) - IMDbwww.imdb.com/title/tt3263614//A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money./I just...
/A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money./
I just...
Idk I enjoyed it. Rinko Kikuchi is pretty wonderful.
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
Facile comparisons are the only ones worth making.
I gen don't have problems with gays in period pieces. I've never seen a film use its last shot in publicity/media photos as much as Test does, tho.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Gay movies in using bare pecs as promotional material shocker.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
there were options besides a spoiler!
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
J.Ro's top 5 (+1):
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)Locke (Steven Knight)The Owners (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)
TV vote: Borgen
― Eric H., Friday, 28 November 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Oh, and for that matter:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2014
― Eric H., Friday, 28 November 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Boyhood over Goodbye to Language by a 2:1 margin.
― Eric H., Friday, 28 November 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
goodbye to boyhood
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Leviathan seems to have really connected with UK arthouse audiences (it won best film at the London Film Festival this year, too); it's an impressive film in many ways, but there's not much that's submerged about it. The Return was a better, more oblique film.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Apparently these are all coming down today...
Cahiers du Cinéma's top 10 of the year (according to J0rd4n Cr0nk on Twitter)
01. LI'L QUINQUIN (Dumont)02. ADIEU AU LANGAGE (Godard)03. UNDER THE SKIN (Glazer)04. MAPS TO THE STARS (Cronenberg)05. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki)06. NYMPHOMANIAC (Von Trier)07. MOMMY (Dolan)08. LOVE IS STRANGE (Sachs)09. LE PARADIS (Cavalier)10. OUR SUNHI (Hong)
― Eric H., Friday, 28 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Screener season seems to have leaked early this year, have already got Mr Turner, Still Alice and Fury.
― xelab, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
screener-free year-end for the first time in 7 or 8 years for me
That Dumont film is an alleged comedy, oui?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 November 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
ugh Mommy
― Simon H., Friday, 28 November 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
heh i'm seeing Mommy for free Monday at MoMma
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 November 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Tom at the Farm (which is older but doesn't come out until next year or something) was really good.
― Eric H., Friday, 28 November 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
I saw *that* at MoMA last spring with XD in the house. A homophobia thriller, I guess? Didn't really work on me.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Watched my Wild screener yesterday - nowhere near as risible as Dallas Buyers' Club, works as kind of an undergraduate feminism primer. Plus I have a soft spot for "long walk" movies. and Laura Dern never hurts.
― Simon H., Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Tom at the Farm was kinda ordinary, I think. Very stagy, trying hard to filmify it up. Also, all the bad critics in Denmark love him, write dumb stuff about him, so my lack of enthusiasm is kinda turning into active dislike.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 29 November 2014 09:38 (nine years ago) link
if Mommy is no good I may quit the little twink forever
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 November 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
His twink days are limited. He's maybe a year or two away from being the gay, French Shia LaBeouf.
― Eric H., Saturday, 29 November 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Kevin B Lee on the best first features, topped by Dear White People and The STrange Little Cat:
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/the-best-first-features-of-2014
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Actress might be my new fave of '14 (admittedly not too much competition tho)
― Simon H., Sunday, 30 November 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Sidney_Falco/status/539420983762104320
The beginning of the end begins now.
― Eric H., Monday, 1 December 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
Unless they somehow pick Winter Sleep or Under the Skin or Stranger By The Lake over Boyhood or Birdman.
― Eric H., Monday, 1 December 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Michael Keaton will win. At a local film critic's apt yesterday watching Locke, I saw that its screener was particularly egregious about promoting Hardy.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
BEST ANIMATED FILM: The Lego Movie
― Eric H., Monday, 1 December 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
what did ye think of the dardennes' "two days, one night". i watched it (and liked it) last night, cotillard was brilliant in it.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Critics aside, only festival ppl have seen it in the US, opens 12/24.
Ida as foreign film. I don't understand the hate on ILE, but that's a boring choice.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
btw keep an eye out for Bad Hair, best Venezuelan film ever about a gay 9-year-old boy. (srsly, it's good and the best queer film I've seen this year besides Stranger by the Lake)
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
xpost wow, its out on DVD over here
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
That didn't take long. Citizenfour apparently steamrolled its way to a win as best doc.
― Eric H., Monday, 1 December 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Michael B, we are spoonfed foreign films about 6-24 months after they are relevant elsewhere.
re Stranger by the Lake, which NYFCC members do not disqualify films with come shots?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Citizenfour apparently steamrolled its way to a win as best doc
trying to make OTOH amends for Zero Dark Thirty (as if)
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Probably not.
― Eric H., Monday, 1 December 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
and entirely predictable Oz prison Nazi for supp actor
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
basically, Jeffrey Wells might be the NYFCC membership
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
and P Arquette, that's OK
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
I'm fine with both Arquette and Hawke being in the mix.
― Eric H., Monday, 1 December 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link