This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2014

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)

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.

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) - IMDb
www.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...

Idk I enjoyed it. Rinko Kikuchi is pretty wonderful.

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.

Gay movies in using bare pecs as promotional material shocker.

there were options besides a spoiler!

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

Oh, and for that matter:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2014

Boyhood over Goodbye to Language by a 2:1 margin.

goodbye to boyhood

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.

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)

Screener season seems to have leaked early this year, have already got Mr Turner, Still Alice and Fury.

screener-free year-end for the first time in 7 or 8 years for me

That Dumont film is an alleged comedy, oui?

ugh Mommy

heh i'm seeing Mommy for free Monday at MoMma

Tom at the Farm (which is older but doesn't come out until next year or something) was really good.

I saw *that* at MoMA last spring with XD in the house. A homophobia thriller, I guess? Didn't really work on me.

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.

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.

if Mommy is no good I may quit the little twink forever

His twink days are limited. He's maybe a year or two away from being the gay, French Shia LaBeouf.

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

Actress might be my new fave of '14 (admittedly not too much competition tho)

https://twitter.com/Sidney_Falco/status/539420983762104320

The beginning of the end begins now.

Unless they somehow pick Winter Sleep or Under the Skin or Stranger By The Lake over Boyhood or Birdman.

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.

BEST ANIMATED FILM: The Lego Movie

what did ye think of the dardennes' "two days, one night". i watched it (and liked it) last night, cotillard was brilliant in it.

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.

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)

xpost wow, its out on DVD over here

That didn't take long. Citizenfour apparently steamrolled its way to a win as best doc.

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?

Citizenfour apparently steamrolled its way to a win as best doc

trying to make OTOH amends for Zero Dark Thirty (as if)

Probably not.

and entirely predictable Oz prison Nazi for supp actor

basically, Jeffrey Wells might be the NYFCC membership

and P Arquette, that's OK

I'm fine with both Arquette and Hawke being in the mix.

Mike D'Angelo @gemko
People seem really excited about SELMA. Does it delve into the NIGHT COURT years or is it mostly behind the scenes at YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS?

(I hear it's pretty good, in fact)

are there any where-to-stream-detrius lists yet?

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, October 28, 2014 7:43 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I hoped Arquette would get noticed somewhere.

I think she is the fave for most of the crix groups

J.K. Simmons juggernaut begins

Wes Anderson, finally not a bridesmaid for the NYFCC screenplay award.

good one

yes the Lou Gossett verbal sadist showoff role (Somehow didn't work for R Lee Ermey) xp

Though Budapest, Simmons, Arquette, LEGO all feel like very very very safe choices, I can't really vehemently dispute any of them.

wait till Keaton wins

totally fine w/ Citizenfour as the doc consensus pick, similarly