This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2012

I really don't understand what I've done to merit Cloud Atlas in my mailbox.

s1ocki! You got my invitation! How nice of you to arrive!

How nice for s1ocki. How nice for everyone.

Honored members of ILX Detrius Society, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: What is there for me to say? Everything wise and witty has long since been said - by minds more mature and talents far greater than mine. For me to thank you as equals would be presumptuous - I am an apprentice in detrius and have much to learn from you all. I can say only that I am proud and happy and that I regard this great thread not so much as an award for what I have achieved, but as a standard to hold against what I have yet to accomplish.

I will boycott the Oscar thread
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:38 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the oscar grouch

Still not 100 percent sure of what Morbs is going to use this thread for except to post a bunch of links to TL;DR articles.

for starters i'm going to google TL;DR

I wouldn't, it's really long.

Just got digital screener access for these. What's good?

How to Survive a Plague
The Loneliest Planet
Your Sister's Sister
On the Road
First Position
The Central Park Five
Sleepwalk With Me
The Flat
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

ai weiwei doc is only one ive seen. its pretty bleh

i liked your sister's sister

zing

oh no wait

carry on

Really want to see The Loneliest Planet. Might have to (gasp) buy a ticket!

opened here this weekend

is GGB nude in it?

Your Sister's Sister has one my very favourite scenes of the year, when Iris and Hannah are whispering to each other late at night in bed. So beautifully conceived and played.

Wasn't as enthused about the film as a whole.

Finally got my Magnolia/Magnet pack, along w/ a couple others - 28 in total, just from today (so far). Yikes.

nice to finally have a copy of Beyond the Blac Rainbow, wish I had a big ol' TV to watch it on.

*Black

Cahiers top 10:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-cahiers-2012-and-sundances-2013

I missed Cosmopolis, no DVD r1 on the horizon, guess I'll have to wait til spring.

i really want to see that faust

I did see and like In Another Country the other night, prob not Top 10 material for me tho

Can't imagine Cosmopolis won't end up in my top 10 as it stands on Jan. 1, 2013. Of course, odds are I won't see most of Cahiers' top 10 list until many months later.

the lack of a Cosmopolis R1 release is strange.

also wonder what clever sods will cheat and put it and Holy Motors in the same spot on their list because they're both centred around limos and weird

Critic K3v1n B. L33 on FB sez: "As of now, both the best and worst films on my 2012 movie list are set in Iran. Both are about how filmmaking can save lives under threat of violence and oppression. Only one of them actually demonstrates exceptionally resourceful filmmaking in action. The other is just a recycling of 20th century "third world action movie" cliches, reeking of Hollywood's smugness over the power of its lies."

let me guess...

Argo pulling slightly ahead of Silver Linings in this year's snob critic pariah pigs blood dumpapalooza.

Argo Is Not a Film

I've decided to see Silver Linings. Maybe this week. Maybe Life of Pi as well.

Really would like to see Life of Pi stoned, as Dana Stevens recommends.

Argo Is Not a Film

― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Sunday, 25 November 2012 02:08 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a+

I don't know that my Best Actress vote right now wdn't go to the girl in Moonrise Kingdom, or Isabelle Huppert

Greta Gerwig in Damsels, atm, or (gah!) Meryl in Hope Springs.

yes on Garwig

I'd be happy for Jennifer Lawrence to get it for SLP.

Marion Cottilard in Rust and Bone.

although i've seen about 5 new movies this year so whatevs.

Don't see a thread for it here, but dear god is Compliance the single biggest missed opportunity of the year. It could've been one of the great real-life horror movies ever had they not made the decision to cut away to the smirking, pervert prank caller halfway through. Totally undermines the microscopic study of people fundamentally ignorant of their rights bending under presumed authority and instead turns it into a pretentious Phone Booth. (Am now seeing that a number of other reviewers have basically made that same argument.)

That said, Ann Dowd definitely gets swapped into Gerwig/Meryl's slot. The moment when she takes the employee's clothes out to her car without a qualm but pauses to make sure that she cleans up the fast food bags from the floor of the vehicle is just perfect.

Also, it was already an episode of SVU.

Unless Robin Williams was playing the prank caller in Mrs. Doubtfire getup, I'm not sure I want to watch.

It's certainly one of the drippier episodes in that it quite resembled a Robin Williams movie.

iirc http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2d/One_Hour_Photo_movie.jpg/220px-One_Hour_Photo_movie.jpg

compliance was directed by homestar runner lol what

Holy crap! Turns out it was actually the latest installment of Teen Girl Squad!

I totally support Gerwig, though she was even better in Frances Ha.

The Loneliest Planet was an arch bore.

what are these SLOTS of which you speak? Simon, we go for the best here, not making allowances for Dead Ernest Borgnine Appeal.

FB update of the year:

Ugh! Jared Leto just won a Gotham!!!!!!