This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2016

the idea of Huppert getting any awards traction is so bizarre and thrilling that I'd rather think some more about a Trump presidency to sober me.

I count 15 new movies I've seen this year. Moonlight, Embrace of the Serpent, and Green Room probably the highlights. Zootopia was the only blockbuster I really liked.

NAT'L BOARD OF REVIEW

Film: Manchester By the Sea
Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival
Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea
Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence
Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings
Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester By the Sea
Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits
Directorial Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha
Foreign Language Film: The Salesman
Documentary: O.J.: Made in America
Ensemble: Hidden Figures
Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Cameraperson

Top Films
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hail, Caesar!
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Moonlight
Patriots Day
Silence
Sully

Top 5 Foreign Language Films
Elle
The Handmaiden
Julieta
Land of Mine
Neruda

Top 5 Documentaries
De Palma
The Eagle Huntress
Gleason
Life, Animated
Miss Sharon Jones!

Top 10 Independent Films
20th Century Women
Captain Fantastic
Creative Control
Eye in the Sky
The Fits
Green Room
Hello, My Name is Doris
Krisha
Morris from America
Sing Street

Taking that I align with the NBoR for both best film and best doc as a sign I need to quit this whole game.

Impressed they found room for both Patriot's Day and Hacksaw Ridge in there.

Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival

booooo (note: I have not seen Arrival)

I was thinking of going to Eagle Huntress tonight. Anyone seen it?

Film: Manchester By the Sea
Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival
Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight

^^ wow. I got no major problems with them.

I'm not fond of Arrival but she's not disgraceful.

Most Verhoeven enthusiasts I'm aware of say the same.

And by "Verhoeven enthusiasts" I'm guessing you meannnnnnn... "Showgirls nitwits"?

Elle is a class above evrything else I've seen by him. Frederik is still a nudnik though.

NYFCC starting in 10 min...

Here we go!

Let's see to what degree Moonlight dominates.

Silence is the wild card. NYFCC's love for Scorsese in the past has been pretty spotty.

It begins.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Mahershala Ali for "Moonlight"

aw – I was hoping for André Holland

BEST ACTOR: Casey Affleck for "Manchester By The Sea"

He's more or less undefeated, as it were, so far this season.

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Zootopia

2016. America.

lol, oh for cute, the Broadcast Film Critics Association are announcing their nominees simultaneously

nothing offensive so far

They picked Affleck in a comparative heartbeat compared to whatever's holding them up now.

OK, maybe they spent all that time debating whether or not it's TV or film ...

BEST DOCUMENTARY: "O.J.: Made in America

it's TV btw

My natural do-not-give-a-shittism is augmented by the fact that i haven't even "finished" 2015, cuz why should i?

the OJ and DuVernay docs are two of the most incisive things I've seen all year and will probably make a list next year, teevee or not

Meanwhile, the greatest:

https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201610&id=64773

"The funniest dog movie since Godard’s Goodbye to Language."

"Isabelle Huppert and the fattest Gérard Depardieu you’ve ever seen"

if any org lists my fave of '16 (NYC, spring) so far, yell bingo

http://letterboxd.com/film/the-other-side-2015/

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater) The best accidentally gay movie ever made by a known heterosexual director features the most talented and sexy ensemble cast of the last decade.

well i've never heard of 4 of JW's

have seen a fat-nuff GD, so no thanks, John

The Guardian's headline: "Drunk and nude in the desert with Gérard Depardieu"

why is it taking the Circle so long to pick Isabelle Huppert

even Rex Reed loved Huppert. so maybe he's in the bathroom.

https://twitter.com/certified_ed/status/804353272391802880

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "Toni Erdmann"

well, they aligned with 1/3 of Cahiers du cinéma's troika.

People I love and trust went nuts for that movie but it looks insufferable.

the erstwhile KJB found it overrated

It's both overrated and one of the only good things I've seen this year.

@NickPinkerton
Conclusions: There were several good movies released this year, as well as maybe a half-dozen strong contenders for Worst Movie Ever Made

it was ever thus

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Laxton for "Moonlight"

are we sure that Laxton award isn't a share for his work on Yoga Hosers?

Eric H in the house!

I've been a Lonergan evangelist for years IRL to absolutely no avail, but his new one seems to be catching on judging by the multiple people who've surprisingly brought it up in conversation lately.

I presumed, falsely, that Yoga Hosers was a Morbsism for something like, I dunno, The Neon Bible.

hahaha

On that JW list, I'm curious about Tickled, mostly because it keeps coming up on Tom Scharpling's show. It sounds...deeply uncomfortable.

Also, I just realized that I forgot to PVR Roar when TCM aired it recently. Expecting far more of an intriguing novelty than an actual good film anyway.

BEST SCREENPLAY: Kenneth Lonergan for "Manchester by the Sea"

Manchester is the first Lonergan film where the directing might be underrated.

Manchester is the 2016 thing that I'm most excited about by far. I hope it doesn't get overhyped by the time I get to it.

Walter Chaw's 2016 wrap-up is several zillion times more interesting than all these year-end awards:

I want to say, too, that the best films of 2016 are split evenly between grief and reflection, and raging against the dying of the light. Hindsight being what it is, a Trump presidency and the global rise of fascism aren't surprising. The roots of our hopelessness are in these films. The seeds are there too, though, of the shape that rebellion will take in the next four years. Our horror genre is in the midst of a golden age. It's about to be extraordinary. Anyway, Paul Feig's Ghostbusters is Hillary. David Ayer's Suicide Squad is Trump. One is disappointing and groundbreaking in the safest possible way (and why aren't there any Asian people in a movie whose heroes work above a Chinese restaurant?); the other is a hate crime people came out in droves to witness. Outrage is selective, see? Welcome to the brave new world.

Yeah, I've got a busy week ahead but maybe I'll get the thread going in the next day or two.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 14 January 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Toni Erdmann is out here soon as well :)

Hoberman's Top 10:

http://yearendlists.com/2016/12/j-hoberman-10-best-films-of-2016/

(Noticed he doesn't vote in the Voice poll...understandable.)

Nathaniel Rogers: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/1/13/best-of-year-nathaniels-top-ten.html

"Would That It Were So Simple" - The ILX 2016 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday, February 26th

http://reverseshot.org/features/2305/two_cents_2017

Worst De Palma Critic: De Palma
Take it from a staunch Brian De Palma addict: Brian De Palma is the person you least want to hear talk about le cinéma de Palma. Sitting awkwardly before a fireplace mantle in Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s talking-head doc, the now enormous De Palma holds court, going through his films chronologically, one by one, relating some terrific anecdotes, and overall being a surprisingly genial guide. The result is an aesthetically impoverished documentary about a great visual thinker—a disconnect hard to get over—but more detrimentally, his perspective on his own work’s merits is mostly tied to financial success (as is the case with many American filmmakers, including Spielberg). Thus, De Palma reiterates that his greatest accomplishments are benchmarks Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible, while such relative box-office disappointments as The Fury, Raising Cain, and Femme Fatale get short shrift—especially the latter, which barely rates any screen time even though any true De Palma fan knows it’s a career-defining masterwork. There’s a purity of vision and concept to Baumbach and Paltrow’s approach for sure: wind up the man and let him talk. But if there’s any filmmaker whose work is worthy of a more dialectical approach it’s De Palma, one of our most hotly debated, divisive directors. Like any artist, his work benefits from considered, serious criticism. (If you really care about De Palma, read Chris Dumas’s brilliant recent book Un-American Psycho, an engaging and endlessly revealing political and aesthetic study.) De Palma provides us with a rare home visit with an elusive figure, but its anti-critical approach left me thirsty. —MK

The Paul Giamatti Award for Overacting: Natalie Portman in Jackie

In the voice of South Park’s Cartman mixed with a Marilyn Monroe-impersonating drag queen:
“Misteh Valenti . . . would you mahnd getting a message to ool aww funeral guests when they lehnd? Infoohm them that I will whoa-wuk with Jack tomorrow . . . Alone if necessary. And tell General de Gawul that if he wishes to rahd in an uh-merd cahhr—or in a tank, fuh that mattuh—I won’t blame him. And I’m shoo-uh the tens of millions of people oowahhtching won’t eye-thuh.” —MK

Pretty sure MK is the Arnold Schwarzenegger to my Danny DeVito.

Nice dig at considering OJ: Made in America a movie.

A master class in shade.

that's what many of the talking heads in the film imply about OJ

Don't sleep on the Romanian Aferim! Painterly b&w widescreen compositions, among other virtues.

otm. it's great. and don't sleep on jude's followup Scarred Hearts either.

Denzel over Casey for the SAG award. Can't say I'm surprised that there would be cooling off on Manchester overall.

the Skandies begin:

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/2017/01/skandies-20.html

should i pay to see Neruda?

i enjoyed
not many contemporary auteurs whose decisions are as interesting just to think abt as larrain imo

BAFTAs

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/la-la-land-tops-baftas

BAFTAZZZZZZZZZZZZ......

@labuzamovies
I don't understand how my least favorite scene in MANCHESTER became the de facto best scene of 2016. #skandies

http://skandies.org/results/scenes/1805

http://skandies.org/results/categories.1?year=2016

Indie Spirits to Moonlight, Huppert, Affleck

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-independent-spirit-awards-20170225-story.html

FC readers voted

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-readers-poll-2016/

the Muriels -- Paterson by a nose

http://murielcommunity.blogspot.de/

Weird, it didn't win any other categories.

Don't know if it's THE favorite, but Hell or High Water has one of my favorite film endings ever.