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

if you have to pick one single lead actingperson for those, it's McKenzie and Stone

the OFCS being dummies is nothing new

I would've been fine with all three leads from The Favourite getting nominated in supporting. (And I'd similarly be fine if Olivia Colman was the only one who actually ended up getting nominated.)

i find critics' continued enthusiasm for Lanthimos (this year) and Spike over Denis and Schrader baffling

Depends on which Denis flick. And First Reformed has shown up in plenty of top tens.

the Binoche cringe-comedy is her best in years imho

if anything Schrader the director rescues the writer in FR

I agree with two Morbs posts in a row. Didn't realize a year had passed so quickly.

But I also think Spike the director rescues Spike (et al) the writer, too.

yes

https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10156393283416749

Barack Obama's favorite films of 2018:

Annihilation
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Blindspotting
Burning
The Death of Stalin
Eighth Grade
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
Minding the Gap
The Rider
Roma
Shoplifters
Support the Girls
Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Will update with Trump's favorites when he posts them.

Someone ask him about the ending of Burning.

He left off A Star Is Born. Good.

Boots Riley must be thankful he left off STBY

Would be funny if he had included Sorry to Bother You.

(Sorry xpost)

not a big First Reformed guy

Also left off, First Man. Guess he isn't interested in box-office disappointments either.

(I mean, given his politics, Rev Toller wd've prepared to blow up the POTUS too)

I watched a dvdscr of Green Book last night, omg that has be some of the most rank garbage I've seen in years! The cast of Italian-American stereotypes are like some nightmare pizza ad that never ends. Would be tempted to think it was some kind of bizarre comedy fail, but it's obv the director was actually aiming for schmaltz.

filmmakers' choice

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2018-guillermo-del-toro-edgar-wright-pedro-almodovar-1202030788/

I love Sean Baker, his films are surprisingly big in Denmark, and he has three films that are at least co-produced by Danish producers on his top ten :)

Where is 'A Fantastic Woman' on everyone's lists? Does everyone consider it 2017 or is it just not as good as I thought...

It's considered 2017.

A Fabulous Woman should be in a field set on fire.

Yeah, it made its appearances in the 2017 "detrius" thread, and won an Oscar this March. I was one of those low-information film-watchers for whom that got it more on my radar; my partner and I saw it a short time after and were really impressed.

Really? I thought it was trans-baiting twaddle.

I'm sooooo tired of lugubrious queer cinema, especially when 2017 offered so many good counter examples: BPM, The Ornithologist, Staying Vertical...

Well, I'm certain I haven't seen nearly as many films working the same thematic territory as you have, so I can't really evaluate it in comparison. I'm also a cis het dude with no Chilean cultural connection, so my barometer for all kinds of things here may be out of whack. I found the primary "grieving, but cut out by the family, and no one at work/in the bureaucracy/in your life knows or takes the grief seriously" story to be very vivid and relatable. The other thing that stuck with me was the extended assault sequence, which was very hard to watch... its brutality felt real and earned, and the horrifying possibility of that kind of event was important to understanding the way the character approached various other situations, why she says/does x instead of y.

As I said at the time, A Fantastic Woman has no interest in Marina except brutalizing her. We can expect a humiliation every few minutes – Lelio should have called A Dehumanized Woman. I don't want pity from these stories. I appreciate your take, though, as ever.

haha wrong html tags

I can understand responding to it that way! I feel like I connected with it mostly on a level of empathy more than pity, FWIW. There was definitely a strong "god everyone's so MEAN to her!" thread that would come into my mind but she had plenty of scenes about her being a person, whose personhood included having been a victim. The music side of things does a lot of the work here. I maybe could have done without the business with the spa locker key, which was a lot of walking to get to where it does. YMMV!

After reading through Walter Chaw's year-end wrap up, I'm looking for second opinions on: Thunder Road, Damsel, Madeline's Madeline, Blaze, Skate Kitchen and The Rider. Anyone?

Dr Casino, I wish u a happy filmwatching year

The Rider was OK for me, nothing more.

I agree with two Morbs posts in a row. Didn't realize a year had passed so quickly.

I'd kiss ya but I just washed my hair.

I wrote this piece on Madeline's Madeline if google translate is your friend... https://www.skuelyst.dk/arkiv/2018/12/10/madelines-madeline-kritik

Short version: It's fucking great and an attempt to do something completely new artistically and ethically.

I thought Blaze was really lousy, either the lead actor’s fault or the boring story (I know it’s true)

I liked MM a lot, gave me things to think about. Was only disappointed that it wasn't as trippy and formally inventive as the trailer suggested.

Skate Kitchen was like, a nice interesting little movie, with really vibrant and youthful vibes coming off all its real-life skater cast. I saw it with an intensely awkward, offputting Q&A and so came away feeling meh about it, but without that I'd probably think of it fondly.

Has there ever been a point to a Q&A other than to annoy both the audience and the talent?

*long-winded ramblings that have little or nothing to do with the film just watched* "uh I guess that wasn't so much of a question..."

in this case the problem was the As rather than the Qs

Ban all Q&A's

the last thing I want to hear after I watch a movie is the director explaining it. and that's the best case scenario - usually they just turn into Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes.

Q and A’s tend to just happen without any warning after seeing an independent film at the arclight in LA. Seen lots of cringey moments. There was one w Dakota Fanning after seeing Kelly Reinhardt’s Night Moves where the yahoo journalist interviewer leading it asked mostly about War of the Worlds which made me think she didn’t understand the movie and was deathly afraid of discussing it.

good lord that is my nightmare

leave no trace was so good

Most of the regional crix have now weighed in, and if you thought they would tilt the best actor race back to Bradley Cooper or Christian Bale, nope.

https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/roma-alfonso-cuaron-ethan-hawke-regina-king-dominate-critics-awards-circuit-1203095798/

After reading through Walter Chaw's year-end wrap up, I'm looking for second opinions on: Thunder Road, Damsel, Madeline's Madeline, Blaze, Skate Kitchen and The Rider. Anyone?

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, January 1, 2019 10:54 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thunder Road is worth seeing. I wasn't 100% crazy about it immediately after watching it but it's stuck with me. The lead (who also directed iirc) is just such a live wire that he completely makes the picture worthwhile on his own.