This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2018

You detest everything more every year

07. A Star Is Born
09. Bohemian Rhapsody
10. Paddington 2

waht

P2 is a defensible choice and it'll show up on more lists

And Bohemian Rhapsody is a runaway hit and I'm sure she's getting heat from her editor.

Paddington 2 is from 2017 in my book, but if it came out somewhere in 2018, it's definitely among the best of that year.

Yeah, it's pretty securely on my list at this point, and pre-judging what's yet to come.

i'm certainly running away from BR

Can You Ever Forgive Me? was good and its place in the bottom half of a top 10 is appropriate in a relatively mediocre year

Yeah, I'm not much in love with movies this year tbqh.

Feeling very 2006 to me, only this time there isn't a David Lynch to pull me out of it at the last minute. (Though there is a Cuaron.)

Damn, and 2006 was the year of sandbox, and there isn't much of a detrius thread to relive it: end-of-2006 film stuff (detrius 2, the Richard Donner Cut)

the Cuaron doesn't look like it's gonna get here until 2019 (just like Inland Empire in 2007)

otherwise i'm most excited for The Favourite and If Beale Street Could Talk

Infinite Football towers over anything else released this year, imo. But I'm guessing An Elephant Sitting Still will win most polls.

I hope everyone gets to see Transit before the year's out.

I have, but looks like 2019 for the US.

I'm guessing An Elephant Sitting Still will win most polls.

You're admirably odd.

wrong adverb

lol. I do want to see it

a lot of the films that got talked about at Cannes and Venice this year looked interesting to me: 3 Faces, Asako I & II, Ash Is Purest White, Border, Burning, Cold War, Capernaum, Donbass, The Favourite, Girl, Lazarro Felice, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Image Book, Manta Ray, Roma, Shoplifters, The Sisters Brothers, Suspiria, The Wild Pear Tree. I haven’t seen any of them yet, probably won't until 2019

I rolled up every shirt sleeve I own as I prepare to fight the "Roma fucking sucks, you lemmings" fight this season.

To clarify, I'm not saying 2018's slate of movies is bad (or 2006's, in retrospect). Just saying I'm in a hibernation cycle.

Ash Is Purest White rules, at least. Burning has been slightly overrated.

xxp I don't even have a bete noir this year :(

(A Star is Born is far too slight for me to count.)

knowing the year is backloaded and i simply missed a lot of stuff, this is a pretty good shortlist of US releases for me

First Reformed
8 Hours Don't Make a Day
Let the Sunshine In
Claire's Camera
Monrovia, Indiana
The Death of Stalin
The Guardians

Ash also 2019 in US.

Burning hasn't been overrated, it's that no one except Reverse Shot has written well about it.

That said Yeun is amazing in it and I hope he's properly recognized

As of right now ...

24 Frames
First Reformed
Zama
Let the Sunshine In
Paddington 2

I'm sure the Wiseman will sneak into the upper ranks. My screener of Burning looks like ass, so don't expect I'll see it til next year. The Death of Stalin was grim and unfunny.

The only things left this year I'm really interested in are the Cuaron, Coens, and Bodied, which has a surprising multi-week engagement at TIFF's venue rn

Zama would probably top my list this year but I caught it at TIFF '17

all 3 principals in Burning seemed like concepts, not characters, tho i found much to like in it.

did Western get US release this year? will certainly be high on my list. still have reservations about Asako i & ii, but none have stuck with me more; looking forward to hearing people thoughts.

It did, and it was an oversight by me not to mention it!

If i was still voting in a critics' group, I would give some consideration to Gary Graver's cinematography for the Welles film.

Wait, which one did you vote in before?

If you're talking about the same one I'm still in, it's like impossible to get kicked out of it.

I quit. It seemed honorable as I was no longer writing.

you mean the OFCS? I quit for the same reason as Morbs but the reply-all squabbling ended up making it satisfying to do so

Claire's Camera
Ava
Zama
Winter Brothers
First Reformed
You Were Never Really Here
Let the Sunshine In
The Guardians
Support the Girls
Museo

whoops -- I meant Sorry to Bother You

me : YWNRH :: Soto : Roma

actually looking over my list I really loved all of these:

1. Let the Sunshine In
2. 24 Frames
3. You Were Never Really Here
4. First Reformed
5. Wobble Palace

if the next few months don't disappoint, might not be as dire a year as I thought

I've liked or loved most of the Kiarostamis I've seen, but I confess 24 Frames flew right over my head. don't understand the appeal at all

Paddington 2 is from 2017 in my book, but if it came out somewhere in 2018, it's definitely among the best of that year.

the bear film was US 2018, because Weinsteins: when Harvey finally went under investigation, Bob scrambled to sell it elsewhere so it wouldn't go down with the ship

Put me in a trance. I also realize on a different day, it could've put me to sleep. xp

Not a bad thing sometimes, as I learned from Hou and Tsai.

I'd have loved a trance; I found myself calculating remaining runtime

yeah, and having said all that, it's still my least favorite Kiarostami (of the ~10 I've seen).

Best video store rental so far has been TEN. the DVD includes 10 ON TEN, which is just 80 minutes of film school from Kiarostami himself in a car. Fucking incredible, both of them. Saw they didn't get any votes in the recent poll, not sure how obscure those films are.

and for what it's worth, Claire's Camera really, really bored me. maybe on a different day...

I quit. It seemed honorable as I was no longer writing.

Same, but at the same time it feels more honorable to remain as a bulwark against the Green Book demo.

(I know, I know. It matters not.)