This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2017

WGA Nominations

http://awardswatch.com/2018/01/04/logan-i-tonya-grab-writers-guild-of-america-wga-nominations-the-post-is-snubbed/

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Big Sick, Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out, Written by Jordan Peele
I, Tonya, Written by Steven Rogers
Lady Bird, Written by Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water, Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me by Your Name, Screenplay by James Ivory; Based on the Novel by André Aciman
The Disaster Artist, Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Based on the Book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
Logan, Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold; Based on Characters from the X-Men Comic Books and Theatrical Motion Pictures
Molly’s Game, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the Book by Molly Bloom
Mudbound, Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan

fuckin' Sorkin

that movie is all voice-over; the sequences are pretty pictures to accompany the voice-over

"You don't understand poker; how impressed you'll be when you think I'm not dumbing it down for you, even though real poker players will say I've dumbed it down for you."

more Film Comment stuff, incl Molly Haskell on Phantom Thread

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/making-case-continued/

Producers Guild nominates 11... I'm fairly sure I'd last maybe 30 minutes with The Big Sick.

The Big Sick
Producers: Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel

Call Me By Your Name
Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Marco Morabito

Dunkirk
Producers: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan

Get Out
Producers: Sean McKittrick & Edward H. Hamm, Jr., Jason Blum, Jordan Peele

I, Tonya
Producers: Bryan Unkeless, Steven Rogers, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley

Lady Bird
Producers: Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill

Molly’s Game
Producers: Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal, Matt Jackson

The Post
Producers: Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger

The Shape Of Water
Producers: Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Producers: Graham Broadbent & Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh

Wonder Woman
Producers: Charles Roven & Richard Suckle, Zack Snyder & Deborah Snyder

Armond's annual better-than list: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455151/annual-better-movies-list-european-films-dominate

He's mellowing out.

The forced Trump > Obama video that plays in the middle of the page is quite appropriate/amusing.

so i *did* miss something at the GGs.

I did enjoy the eerie hush as the remnants of Kirk Douglas were rolled onstage, reminding all present that beyond glory and adulation lies only the cold of the grave.

— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) January 8, 2018

It was embarrassing, but because Douglas, while alert, was in no condition to speak. I had vaguely known about the Wood allegations.

BAFTAs. God's Own Country!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/09/full-list-of-nominations-for-the-baftas-2018-film

Labuza and Uhlich podcast marathon begins:

http://www.thecinephiliacs.net/2018/01/2017-favorites-with-keith-uhlich-part-1.html

Uhlich on The Post and the frustration thereof is essential.

on the podcast or here?

http://www.keithuhlich.com/2017/12/the-post-2017-dir-steven-spielberg.html

"11 Offenses" by Reverse Shot

http://reverseshot.org/features/2411/11_offenses_2017

xp both places, but I was talking mostly of the podcast ... "the greatest frustration of my whole fucking life"

Armond's list of the best gay films of 2017. I've already seen My Life as a Zucchini (meh) and I mean to see a few of the others, but does anyone have anything to say about Paris: 05:59: Theo & Hugo, Four Days in France or Dream Boat?

FOUR DAYS was okay at best, PARIS was good.

Paris has an opening scene to end all opening scenes.

Listing The Assignment is perfect Armond.

opening climax?

Walter Chaw's 50 Best Films of 2017.

Directors Guild of America nominees

del Toro
Gerwig
McDonagh
Nolan
Peele

Cinema Eye

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5266-the-daily-strong-island-tops-cinema-eye-honors

this guy listed 100 and seems to like them all

http://punkeinfilm.blogspot.de/2018/01/my-favourite-films-of-2017.html

Senses of Cinema world poll

http://sensesofcinema.com/2018/world-poll/world-poll-2017-introduction/

Michael K on the best good sex, worst good sex, best bad sex, and worst bad sex scenes...

http://reverseshot.org/features/2416/two_cents_2017

Jamie Bell does look daaaaaamn good in that Bening-as-Grahame movie

yeah, but I don't get fawning over Adam Driver, with or without the nü-Vader mask.

well git outta town

he looks like he reeks of patchouli

i'll bury my snout in whatever he reeks of

When your only other option seems to be a sadistic sociopath who thinks your muteness is your most attractive quality, then I suppose the scaly creature from the black lagoon might seem like a good bet for a boink. But I still wished that Sally Hawkins could get it on with someone a little less amphibious before relocating forever to the bottom of the damn ocean.

why would you write this

SAG Awards ... proving that the AFTRA merger will now just lead to straight up-and-down endorsements of whatever the Golden Globes picked.

Cast: Three Billboards
Actor: Gary Oldman
Actress: Frances McDormand
Sup. Actor: Sam Rockwell
Sup. Actress: Abuse Clown

depressing year

Yep, the dreaded Globes/guild awards slump. I should come up with a name for it. I think I shall call it: Sundance.

Well, at least there's this. The International Cinephile Society nominations. Which include the fuck outta Blade Runner.

PICTURE

A Quiet Passion
Blade Runner 2049
BPM
Call Me By Your Name
Good Time
Lady Bird
The Lost City of Z
Nocturama
On the Beach at Night Alone
Personal Shopper
Phantom Thread

DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
Bertrand Bonello for Nocturama
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
James Gray for The Lost City of Z
Luca Guadagnino for Call Me by Your Name
Denis Villeneuve for Blade Runner 2049

ACTRESS

Kim Min-hee for On the Beach at Night Alone
Vicky Krieps for Phantom Thread
Cynthia Nixon for A Quiet Passion
Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird
Kristen Stewart for Personal Shopper
Daniela Vega for A Fantastic Woman

ACTOR

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart for BPM
Timothée Chalamet for Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread
Jean-Pierre Léaud for The Death of Louis XIV
Robert Pattinson for Good Time

SUP. ACTRESS

Juliette Binoche for Slack Bay
Amira Casar for Call Me by Your Name
Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird
Sienna Miller for The Lost City of Z

SUP. ACTOR

John Lloyd Cruz for The Woman Who Left
Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project
Armie Hammer for Call Me by Your Name
Barry Keoghan for The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Michael Stuhlbarg for Call Me by Your Name
Arnaud Valois for BPM

More at their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/internationalcinephilesociety/posts/

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart for BPM
Timothée Chalamet for Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread
Jean-Pierre Léaud for The Death of Louis XIV
Robert Pattinson for Good Time

there we go

In a better world, they would be stomping Gary English Ham.

Vicky Krieps is getting gypped elsewhere for being the unknown among Phantom Thread's big three. (And also I guess her character is not ultimately someone male voters can fantasize about.)

Skandies have begun

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/

Are we not doing an ILX consensus thread this year? If not, I wish we'd at least do a thread of top 10 (or whatever) lists, so I can find out what I've missed and what's worth searching for.

it's early!

Didn't happen til March last year: Guys Guys, I'm Sorry, No, There's a Mistake - The 2016 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

(And also I guess her character is not ultimately someone male voters can fantasize about.)

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius)

i beg to differ

I can do it again, unless there's gonna be a lot of pissing in my ear about dates and eligibility etc. I think I try to do roll out the results around Oscar time. Yays/Nays?

Yay

Avidly, avidly.

In the meantime, Pinkerton's 4 parter on Twin Peaks is essentially a round up of 2017: http://reverseshot.org/features/2417/twin_peaks_one

another Gukbe vote of confidence.