no struggle, it's '14― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so you're struggling then..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:55 (eight years ago) link
Trump would be proud of Morbs' American exceptionalism
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
someone's got to fill the power vacuum and lead
also this was my last poll, ladies and gentlemen
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:03 (eight years ago) link
wow, Heart of a Dog played nowhere yet, huh? and The Forbidden Room, people?
I'm starting to think we aren't getting HOAD
Forbidden room was my #6
― anglos with derpy phasis (wins), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link
10. It Follows - didn't vote for this, should have, it's as good as pop horror got last year9. Carol - not terrible, both lead performances excellent, but sabotaged by haynes's restraint5. Inside Out - sweet, inventive, moving, i dunno... i lack perspective where pixar's concerned4. Hard to be a God - my #1, and i kind of hated it, "endurance cinema" is right, imagery is everything1. Mad Max Fury Road - liked this, feel i should have liked it more, maybe i just want to be 10 again
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Forbidden Room was fitfully amazing but maddening as a whole. One of my least favorite Guy Maddin flicks.
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
Ballobt:
Hard to Be a GodWorld of TomorrowMad Max: Fury RoadInside OutWhat We Do in the ShadowsTale of TalesLost RiverThe Duke of BurgundyWild TalesKrampus
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
Oh and while I dug Bone Tomahawk (more so the long, slow journey, less so the Cannibal Holocaust climax), I don't think it ever found a way around it's fundamentally and deeply racist premise. And in fact took several opportunities to throw salt in the wound: "Godless savages", ffs.
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
Just watched Gueros which was a lot like Girlhood for me in that I found it mostly admirable and even impressive, but it didn't leave any real impression on me. Palacios clearly has talent, but the meta touches were irksome.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 March 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
The meta bit was awesome! The whole film is so playful, I fell in love with it.
― Cherish, Friday, 4 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
The second meta bit in particular bugged me, like it was aware of itself as a cliche of Mexican cinema (I'm assuming by the dialogue, anyway) and wanted to preempt criticism in a "clever" way.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 March 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
That assumes he thought he'd get criticism, which seems improbable. Who cares if he pays tribute to the French New Wave? Plus it's a timeless look, pre-filtered nostalgia, as if Tomás were already grown and looking back. That's the whole movie, to me: youthful resilience and brother-love.
― Cherish, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Cemetery of Splendour is starting in NYC this week, right? I'll vote for that next year, that's for sure.
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Opens tonight as part of MIFF. Gonna catch it next weekend.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 March 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
"Really wanted to see The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"It is currently on i-playerhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071gr5h/storyville-20152016-17-the-black-panthers― calzino, Thursday, March 3, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It is currently on i-player
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071gr5h/storyville-20152016-17-the-black-panthers
― calzino, Thursday, March 3, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ty, now to try and find time to watch it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
Cemetery of Splendour is fanstastic indeed, saw right after sending my ballot.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
Heading to Mexico for Gueros. From what's been said, I'm hoping for a Bolañian odessey into the infinite, but charmingly so.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 5 March 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
:O
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
I don't know what I can say. It was everything I wanted it to be, and my expectations are rarely met.
I want to go and write an essay about Mexican breakfasts. I need to watch it again immediately.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
Really really cool, watched it mad high tho
― Laertiades (imago), Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
i watched world of tomorrow - loved it, its a work or art imo; still would prob not have voted for it on this list tbf
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
It was everything I wanted it to be, and my expectations are rarely met.
Yay! Isn't it great?! :D
― Cherish, Sunday, 6 March 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
The whole film was amazing, but the way that big climactic scene ended pretty much brought our house down
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 09:46 (eight years ago) link
I dreamt about it all night. I wish every film was that energetic and achieved that much clarity through incoherence!
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 6 March 2016 09:51 (eight years ago) link
The best thing is that it's a first film. What WILL he come up with next?
Had I seen it in time, this might have threatened my top 2
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 09:54 (eight years ago) link
Gueros is a lovely film but for me the narrative was a bit too flimsy and rambling to get fully invested in it
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Sunday, 6 March 2016 12:55 (eight years ago) link
It impressed me too; it was in my top twenty.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:04 (eight years ago) link
watched it mad high tho
disqualified
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
When I watched "The Tree of Life" I was mad high and thought it was a masterpiece. I'm afraid to rewatch it now
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
as long as you didnt recommend it
i liked it sober tho bcz that's how i watch films, every single time
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
I watch 95% of films sober. This was a glorious extravagance
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
speaking of sobering experiences, Hard To Be a God should be placed in a double bill with The Passion of Joan of Arc in medieval lit/history courses.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
xpost watching movies high doesnt inevitably mean that a shit movie will become a good one tho
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
ps i rarely get high anymore btw
I only watch films tired
― anglos with derpy phasis (wins), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
Film was obviously great enough to endure a sober watch.
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
I get high on sublime imagery!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 March 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
Lol I didnt even think you got high, imago...
(You guys arent in the US, are you?)
― i;m the worst poster e9er (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 March 2016 10:47 (eight years ago) link
nope sorry. getting high is for me a once-every-2/3-months privilege tbf
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 11 March 2016 10:56 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, thats prob the best way to do it tbh
― i;m the worst poster e9er (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:00 (eight years ago) link
you should get high and listen to the new oranssi pazuzu album if you haven't already fwiw
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:03 (eight years ago) link
Lol
(I've heard some of it; Im not as overwhelmed by it as so many others, but Im hardly done giving it a shot. Valionelu ended up in my top 5 for 2013, I think. I havent touched weed in almost 2 years, and that prob wont change any time soon, and I only thought you were maybe in the US cuz your gf said something about going to Mexico and I hadn't scanned the thread for evidence of facetiousness or any clarifying context or anything, and so thought your presence had maybe graced our fine continent. I was NOT insinuating that you and tt should roadtrip up to Michigan to smoke me down, though that may have been how it came across lol)
(Also I saw no new movies in '15, and dont belong here. Soz, foax)
― i;m the worst poster e9er (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:47 (eight years ago) link
(the 17-minute track is incredible imo)
(also scramming)
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:55 (eight years ago) link
think she meant they were travelling to a Mexico of the mind, thru the magic of film~
― anglos with derpy phasis (wins), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
Thought It Follows was okay. It scared me--that's easy. (Had to abandon it at night and pick up the next morning.) Some symmetrically elegant shots; if Wes Anderson made a horror film, it'd look like this. Felt cheated in the end--if there was any internal logic, which I guess I expect a little of even in a horror film, it escaped me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 12 March 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
Really thought I would like Diary of a Teenage Girl, and really really didn't. Somehow both too earnest and too unpleasant; it reminded me of some 90s indie film (or maybe just a bunch of 90s indie films) that I no longer remember. I don't remember the last time I wanted away from a movie character more than I did Alexander Skarsgård's here. And even though I wasn't a huge fan of Girlhood (or Gueros, for that matter) it still kind of surprises me that this is getting any praise in the same year in which those existed.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
*no longer remember the name of
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
3/4 months in and my favourite films of the year are Godard films from '78, '96 and '98 and a Manoel De Oliveira films shot in '82.
Whatever happens a few if not all of these will go into the 2016 ballot.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
The jokers can keep getting high.
Really thought I would like Diary of a Teenage Girl, and really really didn't.
neither did I
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link