My only objection is that we don't talk seriously about movies on the detrius thread. It's just not done.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
I created these threads so I could enjoy movies in the least-intellectual, most frivolous manner possible.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
shh!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
hello!
BURNING (dir. Lee Chang-dong, 2018) - Murakami adaptation feat. Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
xp not sure what you mean by that
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:29 (five years ago) link
I'm not minding the discussion of Burning, just skipping it
KU's tie at the top is sure to please all
https://www.keithuhlich.com/2018/12/10-for-2018-introduction-list.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Simply the best.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
he has the courage of his convictions, that's for sure
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
ayyyy La Flor!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
KU likes If Beale Street, which counts as "a remembrance of things past stagnating at the level of storyboard/previz"
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Honestly the only thing I care about in my critics.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
what's this guy's deal with women, or possibly writers? The Favourite is "rancidly homophobic" on the part of the male director, not the female writer, a bunch of actresses are credited for directing a film that had some improvised dialogue, and the first X-Files in 200+ episodes written by women gets credited to the now-extremely-bad male writer who started the show 23 years ago
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
Eric knows him better than i do, he could ask.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
He mentioned he deliberately intended to credit directors and show creators for TV-based list entries ... but let's be honest, authorship is a moving target in some of these cases in the first place, no matter how much we've tried to force the role of show runner into some kind of Sarris-approved auteurist reading. And I don't think it's unsavory to point out the communication the past and present are having with each other when it comes to TV reboots.
I haven't watched the new X-Files myself, so I can't speak to whether he was right or wrong to credit Chris Carter. But he told me he intends to give credit to the show's writers (many female) in a longer write-up.
The Favourite, otoh, he believes to be homophobic specifically because of how Lanthimos directs it, not how it was written.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
I didn't sense the homophobia, but that's my conviction. Don't go Frederik on me.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
I don't play "I'm gayer than/not as gay as you" game unless I'm one of the two being compared.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
And even then, it's not a game but a crucial establishing shot.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
deep focus
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
you beat all comers with your music playlists, honeybunch
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
Thanks, Eric!
(That X-Files episode is very good, btw; it and the two Darin Morgan-written-and-directed joints on the reunion albums affirm that Carter's best strength as a showrunner was in avoiding an auteurist approach. Crediting directors comes off as even more queasy in this instance, though, as Carter enabled writerly auteurism in the new seasons by having all the returning writers direct... so here he's credited one of the writer's husband over her.)
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
I do wish Darin Morgan had a career trajectory more like Charlie Kaufmann's, and less like Jerry Stahl's.
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
Slant Magazine's top 25: https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-films-of-2018
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
(I didn't participate this year.)
Notable films that don't seem to showing up on many (any?) of these lists - The Wild Pear Tree, Loveless
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
Wild Pear Tree has only been released now?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
bless Slant, but sub-Syfy dreck like Prototype doesn't belong on any respectable best movies list!
― calzino, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
xpostHas been on release in the UK for the last couple of weeks, but it was shown at Cannes this year (I actually think it's the weakest of Ceylan's three most recent films, but there's still enough there to earn it a place in any decent top ten).
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
I was really hoping La Flor would crack Slant's list but I'd wager no one but the actual reviewer saw it
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
It hasn't gotten a theatrical US release, not even in NYC (only played the fest), hence ineligible.
(cue the Dane)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
also Dead Souls is opening here today (in 3 parts, for a week) and I'm not sure i have the time OR money for that.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
charging people 3x for a long movie is criminal. when La Flor played TIFF over three nights, it was free, presumably because they knew almost no one would give up all that time otherwise
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
They charged the normal single-feature rates at NYFF.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
'I hear this discussion, and it is like Gucci versus Prada' -Alfonso Cuaron, as Spike Lee and Ryan Coogler are debating NYU vs USC film schools in the @THR directors roundtable. https://t.co/RNuo3n0IKr— Rebecca Keegan (@ThatRebecca) December 14, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 December 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
NYU and USC are like mirror images
― Dan S, Saturday, 15 December 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
Spike's turtleneck is fucking sick
― flappy bird, Saturday, 15 December 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
I guess David Edelstein kept his job at New York. That's good, but I didn't much like his Top 10 this year:
http://www.vulture.com/2018/12/the-10-best-movies-of-2018-as-chosen-by-david-edelstein.html
Fahrenheit 11/9 is just a bad film, and the other four I've seen (Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, and Sorry to Bother You) I either found a little overrated or, with the last, admirably ambitious but perplexing.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
ah, Roma, how unusual
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
European Film Awards:
European Film - Cold War, Dir Pawel Pawlikowski (Pol, Uk, Fr)European Comedy - The Death Of Stalin, Dir Armando Iannucci (Fr, Uk, Bel)European Discovery - Prix Fipresci - Girl, Dir Lukas Dhont (Bel, Neth)EFA People’s Choice Award - Call Me By Your Name, Dir Luca Guadagnino (Fr, It)European Documentary - Bergman – A Year In A Life, Dir Jane Magnusson (Swe-Ger) European Animated Feature - Another Day Of Life, Dirs Damian Nenow, Raúl De La Fuente (Pol, Sp, Bel, Hun, Ger)European Director - Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr) European Actress - Joanna Kulig, Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr)European Actor - Marcello Fonte, Dogman (It, Fr)European Screenwriter - Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr)European Short Film - The Years, Dir Sara Fgaier (It, Fr)European Achievement In World Cinema- Ralph Fiennes Lifetime Achievement Award- Carmen MauraHonorary Award- Costa-Gavras
Previously Announced Excellence Awards
European Cinematographer - Martin Otterbeck For U – July 22 (Nor)European Editor- Jarosław Kamiński For Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr)European Production Designer- Andrey Ponkratov For Summer (Leto) (Rus, Fr)European Costume Designer- Massimo Cantini Parrini For Dogman (It, Fr)European Hair & Make-Up Artist- Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini And Daniela Tartari For Dogman (It, Fr)European Composer- Christoph M. Kaiser And Julian Maas For 3 Days In Quiberon (Ger, Aus, Fr)European Sound Designer- André Bendocchi-Alves And Martin Steyer For The Captain (Ger)European Visual Effects Supervisor- Peter Hjorth For Border (Swe, Den)
― brokenshire (jed_), Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Boston critics: best actor, John C Reilly in Stan & Ollie
http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainmentlife/20181216/boston-film-critics-name-if-beale-street-could-talk-years-best-film
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 December 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
Saw the trailer today. Reilly dons a fat suit!
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 December 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
the word 'detrius' in this thread title is gaslighting me
― flopson, Monday, 17 December 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
it's gaslighted me for 5 years at least. the other word is some fake bs.
― brokenshire (jed_), Monday, 17 December 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
The reviews for Vice make the ones for Bohemian Rhapsody look soft and cuddly.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
A dissenting opinion, however:
You folks hating on VICE so much vitriol and rage right now: **No one improperly eats a slice of pizza in it.** Please keep that in mind when you call it the "worst movie of the year."— David Fear (@davidlfear) December 17, 2018
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR: Roma (Netflix)
BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
BEST ACTOR: Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
BEST ACTRESS: Toni Collette, Hereditary
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST: Widows
BEST SCREENPLAY: The Favourite – Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, directors
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, director
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, directors
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
http://seattlefilmcritics.com/
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
officially on the Roma hate train now
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
choo-choo!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Anyway, I'm about to submit my Florida Film Critics Circle ballot. I can tell you which film won't be on it.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
I honestly can't think of a time when a movie that ran the table with the critics awards was even remotely, Mulholland Drive-level worthy.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link