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

oh hey 1997 was "Autumn Sweater"

The American Cinema Editors have announced the winners of their Eddie awards. The film categories:

Dramatic: Sandra Adair, Boyhood.
Comedy or Musical: Barney Pilling, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Animated: David Burrows and Chris McKay, The Lego Movie.
Documentary: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Citizenfour.

Mike D'Angelo's Skandies (top 20 everything) poll has begun:

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/

I sent a top 20 list to the FC readers' poll, but will be watching/revising at least til Oscars.

Scene winners are still some of my favorite detrius.

among not-great movies' scenes, i really liked the rolling car in the b.g. window in The Rover

(a shot rather than a scene, that is)

Great scenes are def easier to pick out from not-great movies.

Dan Sallitt (#1 and 8 are both pretty underappreciated tales of oppressed youth):

1. Bad Hair (Mariana Rondón)
2. The King of Escape (Alain Guiraudie)
3. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
4. Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Sam Fleischner)
5. The Monuments Men (George Clooney)
6. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
7. A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
8. Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini)
9. Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg)
10. The Rover (David Michôd)
11. Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
12. Elle s'en va (On My Way) (Emmanuelle Bercot)
13. Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley) (Alain Resnais)
14. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)

http://sallitt.blogspot.de/2015/02/2014-manhattan-one-week-run-premieres.html

5. The Monuments Men (George Clooney)

Admirably nutty pick.

No detrius would be complete without our lists, no?

Strangers by the Lake
The Immigrant
Norte, The End of History
Abuse of Weakness
Child's Pose
Mr. Turner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Love is Strange
The Wind Rises/The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Babadook
National Gallery
Borgman
Young & Beautiful
Test
Happy Christmas
Pride
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Boyhood
Inherent Vice
Manakamana
Noah

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/tag/best-of-2014-movies/

Immigrant just hit me as too derivative at the NYFF '13.

Test exceeded my gayxpectations, Love is Strange fell short, but both land well offlist for me.

awaiting Happy Christmas and Pride tho.

Hey, we shared a #1, that's always fun.

meet you at 21.

alfred, i saw precisely seven of those. most never came to my neck of the woods. others i was just too busy and had to pass on.

Here's my best old-and-new-to-me list. Find me on Letterboxd you get ten extra.

1.Él 1953
2.The Plea 1967
3.A Borrowed Life 1995
4.Miss Oyu 1951
5.The Breaking Point 1950
6.7th Heaven 1927
7.The Brute 1953
8.City of Pirates 1983
9.A Geisha 1953
10.The Sniper 1952
11.The Joyless Street 1925
12.Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968
13.Miami Blues 1990
14.Marianne and Juliane 1981
15.The Long Good Friday 1980
16.Profound Desires of the Gods 1968
17.Letter from Siberia 1957
18.Cousin Jules 1972
19.Little Lise 1930
20.The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress 1944
21.Whirlpool 1949
22.The Battle of San Pietro 1945
23.Red Hollywood 1996
24.Regeneration 1915
25.The Lighthouse Keepers 1929

Starting the end of year poll on Monday if all goes well. Will link here. Sorry Morbs.

nice!

gee, i wonder what will win

wait! Is it too late to vote? I didn't even see it.

Morbs! Why don't you say goodbye to that little horseshit attitude, okay, because we're not taking that in the poll thread.

I haven't started it yet, Alfred. I'm aiming for Monday.

haha exactly Guk

Boyhood, the usual actors win BAFTAs

http://deadline.com/2015/02/bafta-award-winners-2015-baftas-winner-list-bafta-awards-1201368762/#

I haven't started it yet, Alfred. I'm aiming for Monday.

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 7 February 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great. I'm gonna watch Goodbye to Language at the weekend.

People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.

A+ title.

Jeffrey Wells absolutely aploplectic that BAFTA broke the string of Birdman victories. After that and his recent "Patricia Arquette will only get 'dumpy' mom roles" remarks, i'm half convinced a bot writes his blog, or should.

oh yeah, DGA went to Innaritu.

Am starting to think that you all might have a point, but again it's exciting to pretend that BP is once again "a race."

yeah – white

Don't bring your Grammys into this thread.

BP? what is this BP? take it away

beep

well now it's time for Last of the Unjust

appparently you and I are the only American fags who liked Pride, Sotosyn.

pride is better than theory of everything and imitation game and should have won more awards.

mais oui

Last of the Unjust a complicated watch whose initial seeming faults mostly turn into assets.

INDIE SPIRITS with mostly a xerox year. Still no idea why ppl are bowled over by Nightcrawler.

Best Feature: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole

Best Director: Richard Linklater (IFC Films)

Best Screenplay: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)

Best First Feature: Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)
Director: Dan Gilroy, Producers: Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak

Best First Screenplay: Justin Simien, Dear White People (Roadside Attractions/ Lionsgate)

John Cassavetes Award (For best feature made under $500,000): Land Ho! (Sony Pictures Classics)
Writers/Directors: Aaron Katz, Martha Stephens, Producers: Christina Jennings, Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy

Best Supporting Female: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood (IFC Films)

Best Supporting Male: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Female Lead: Julianne Moore, Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Male Lead: Michael Keaton, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Robert Altman Award: Inherent Vice (Warner Bros.)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, Casting Director: Cassandra Kulukundis, Ensemble Cast: Josh Brolin, Hong Chau, Martin Donovan, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Sasha Pieterse, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Serena Scott Thomas, Benicio del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Kenneth Williams

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Editing:Tom Cross, Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best International Film: Ida (Poland – Music Box Films)
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Best Documentary: CITIZENFOUR (RADiUS-TWC / HBO Documentary Films / Participant Media)
Director: Laura Poitras; Producers: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky

Special Distinction Award: Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classics)
Director/Producer: Bennett Miller, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik, Writers: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman, Actors: Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum

FC readers poll

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/film-comment-readers-poll-2014

Should probably have linked here earlier. In the midst of the ILX 2014 Film Poll rollout here: People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.

Just saw Imitation Game -- terrible film saved by an inherently interesting story and decent acting. Script is awful. Putting that tagline "Sometimes the individuals you least expect...[or whatever]" in the mouths of characters THREE different times is beyond the ordinary hacky biopic garbage. Way too little time spent actually trying to convey how Engima worked and/or how they solved it. Lots of unbelievable conceits (literally the first attack they have the ability to stop just happens to be on one of the codebreakers' own brother's ship) Director had obviously seen "The Fog Of War" and tried but failed to lend gravitas with similar math/carnage overlays.

I really like Amalric's The Blue Room, esp that blase-like-a-fox magistrate.

I did too. As an exercise in swank economy, The Blue Room is the kind of movie hard to screw up. It’s content to stay on the surface, registering as nothing more than an adaptation of Simenon. I saw only one howler: a cut from a closeup of Esther’s vagina to Julien’s daughter.

I'm too upset by any shot of a vagina to notice what follows.

i've seen many movies "like" that screwed up, if we're talking erotic thrillers. Louis Malle's Damage? Terrible.

(tho phaps that was sold on the sexy more than a Simenon adap wd be)

Oh I love Damage. It's genuinely weird.

"Damaghed peeeple are dahnjerou peeple. That's how we surbive."

Haha

A lovely, winsome Blythe Danner performance and Sam Elliot's sexy rumble are at the heart of I'll See You In My Dreams, a snappier than usual Hallmark Channel movie (and in the eighties James Garner would've starred).

Watched Spotlight: good, with a couple impressive moments. Not as effective as Zodiac cuz visually it's dead (Fincher would have at least shown Boston's insularity by showing how close the Globe building is to Michael Keaton's high school earlier and more gracefully).

oops -- wrong detrius