Barack Obama's favorite films of 2018:
AnnihilationBlack PantherBlacKkKlansmanBlindspottingBurningThe Death of StalinEighth GradeIf Beale Street Could TalkLeave No TraceMinding the GapThe RiderRomaShopliftersSupport the GirlsWon’t You Be My Neighbor
Will update with Trump's favorites when he posts them.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
Someone ask him about the ending of Burning.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
He left off A Star Is Born. Good.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
Boots Riley must be thankful he left off STBY
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
Would be funny if he had included Sorry to Bother You.
― Chris L, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
(Sorry xpost)
― Chris L, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
not a big First Reformed guy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
Also left off, First Man. Guess he isn't interested in box-office disappointments either.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
(I mean, given his politics, Rev Toller wd've prepared to blow up the POTUS too)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 December 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
filmmakers' choice
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2018-guillermo-del-toro-edgar-wright-pedro-almodovar-1202030788/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
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 :)
― Frederik B, Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
Where is 'A Fantastic Woman' on everyone's lists? Does everyone consider it 2017 or is it just not as good as I thought...
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
It's considered 2017.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 31 December 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
A Fabulous Woman should be in a field set on fire.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Really? I thought it was trans-baiting twaddle.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
I'm sooooo tired of lugubrious queer cinema, especially when 2017 offered so many good counter examples: BPM, The Ornithologist, Staying Vertical...
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
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.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
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!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 December 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
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, 1 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Dr Casino, I wish u a happy filmwatching year
The Rider was OK for me, nothing more.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
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
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Short version: It's fucking great and an attempt to do something completely new artistically and ethically.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
I thought Blaze was really lousy, either the lead actor’s fault or the boring story (I know it’s true)
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Has there ever been a point to a Q&A other than to annoy both the audience and the talent?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
*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..."
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
in this case the problem was the As rather than the Qs
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
Ban all Q&A's
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
good lord that is my nightmare
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
leave no trace was so good
― there are no good podcasts (||||||||), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
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/
― love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
Here, have 'em...
FULL LIST OF WINNERS FOR THE 22ND ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS:BEST PICTURERomaBEST ANIMATED FEATURESpider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseBEST DIRECTORAlfonso Cuarón - RomaBEST LEAD ACTOREthan Hawke - First ReformedBEST LEAD ACTRESSToni Collette - HereditaryBEST SUPPORTING ACTORMichael B. Jordan - Black PantherBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSRegina King - If Beale Street Could TalkBEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYPaul Schrader - First ReformedBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAYBarry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could TalkBEST EDITINGEddie Hamilton - Mission: Impossible - FalloutBEST CINEMATOGRAPHYAlfonso Cuarón - RomaBEST ORIGINAL SCORENicholas Britell - If Beale Street Could TalkBEST DEBUT FEATUREAri Aster - HereditaryBEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGERomaBEST DOCUMENTARYWon't You Be My Neighbor?TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSAnnihilation - Best Visual EffectsBlack Panther - Best Costume DesignMission: Impossible - Fallout - Best Stunt CoordinationA Quiet Place - Best Sound DesignA Star Is Born - Best Original SongsONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY'S BEST OF THE YEAR1. Roma2. BlacKkKlansman3. If Beale Street Could Talk4. First Reformed5. The Favourite6. You Were Never Really Here7. Annihilation8. Eighth Grade9. Hereditary10. A Star Is Born11. SuspiriaLIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSRoger DeakinsSpike LeeRita MorenoRobert RedfordAgnès VardaSPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSDirector Ryan Coogler, for Black Panther's distinctive critical and box office appealThe city of Oakland, CA, for hosting two of 2018's most socially and artistically compelling films about race relations, "Sorry to Bother You" and "Blindspotting."
BEST PICTURERoma
BEST ANIMATED FEATURESpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST DIRECTORAlfonso Cuarón - Roma
BEST LEAD ACTOREthan Hawke - First Reformed
BEST LEAD ACTRESSToni Collette - Hereditary
BEST SUPPORTING ACTORMichael B. Jordan - Black Panther
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSRegina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYPaul Schrader - First Reformed
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAYBarry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST EDITINGEddie Hamilton - Mission: Impossible - Fallout
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHYAlfonso Cuarón - Roma
BEST ORIGINAL SCORENicholas Britell - If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST DEBUT FEATUREAri Aster - Hereditary
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGERoma
BEST DOCUMENTARYWon't You Be My Neighbor?
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSAnnihilation - Best Visual EffectsBlack Panther - Best Costume DesignMission: Impossible - Fallout - Best Stunt CoordinationA Quiet Place - Best Sound DesignA Star Is Born - Best Original Songs
ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY'S BEST OF THE YEAR1. Roma2. BlacKkKlansman3. If Beale Street Could Talk4. First Reformed5. The Favourite6. You Were Never Really Here7. Annihilation8. Eighth Grade9. Hereditary10. A Star Is Born11. Suspiria
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSRoger DeakinsSpike LeeRita MorenoRobert RedfordAgnès Varda
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Director Ryan Coogler, for Black Panther's distinctive critical and box office appeal
The city of Oakland, CA, for hosting two of 2018's most socially and artistically compelling films about race relations, "Sorry to Bother You" and "Blindspotting."
― love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
Rita Moreno? did she do a Marvel?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
1,352 acting credits, and aside from West Side Story, all in shows I've no interest in ever seeing again.
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
Slate's year-ending Movie Club started without my knowing it...
https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/thanos-avatar-2018-movies.html
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 2, 2019 2:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/emmys/la-et-st-rita-moreno-one-day-at-a-time-emmys-20180402-story.html
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
God bless the AARP Movies For Grown-Ups Awards ...
Best Picture/Best Movie for GrownupsA Star Is BornBlacKkKlansmanCan You Ever Forgive Me?Green BookRomaBest ActressSandra Bullock (Bird Box)Glenn Close (The Wife)Viola Davis (Widows)Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)Julia Roberts (Ben Is Back)Best ActorWillem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)Hugh Jackman (The Front Runner)Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)Robert Redford (The Old Man & the Gun)John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie)Best Supporting ActressAngela Bassett (Black Panther)Blythe Danner (What They Had)Judi Dench (All Is True)Nicole Kidman (Boy Erased)Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians)Best Supporting ActorRobert Duvall (Widows)Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)Robert Forster (What They Had)Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)Ian McKellen (All Is True)Best DirectorKenneth Branagh (All Is True)Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)Peter Farrelly (Green Book)Mimi Leder (On the Basis of Sex)Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)Best ScreenwriterPeter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie & Nick Vallelonga (Green Book)Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (The Favourite)Peter Hedges (Ben Is Back)Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)Paul Schrader (First Reformed)Best EnsembleBlack PantherBohemian RhapsodyCrazy Rich AsiansThe Front RunnerWidowsBest Grownup Love StoryAll Is TrueOn the Basis of SexPrivate LifeThe Old Man & the GunWhat They HadBest Intergenerational FilmA Quiet PlaceBeautiful BoyBen Is BackCrazy Rich AsiansMary Poppins ReturnsBest Time CapsuleBlacKkKlansmanBohemian RhapsodyFirst ManIf Beale Street Could TalkRomaBest DocumentaryAmazing GraceBathtubs Over BroadwayRBGThe Rest I Make UpWon’t You Be My Neighbor?Best Foreign FilmCold War (Poland, France, U.K.)Never Look Away (Germany)Roma (Mexico)Shoplifters (Japan)The Guilty (Denmark)
Best ActressSandra Bullock (Bird Box)Glenn Close (The Wife)Viola Davis (Widows)Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)Julia Roberts (Ben Is Back)
Best ActorWillem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)Hugh Jackman (The Front Runner)Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)Robert Redford (The Old Man & the Gun)John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie)
Best Supporting ActressAngela Bassett (Black Panther)Blythe Danner (What They Had)Judi Dench (All Is True)Nicole Kidman (Boy Erased)Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians)
Best Supporting ActorRobert Duvall (Widows)Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)Robert Forster (What They Had)Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)Ian McKellen (All Is True)
Best DirectorKenneth Branagh (All Is True)Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)Peter Farrelly (Green Book)Mimi Leder (On the Basis of Sex)Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Best ScreenwriterPeter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie & Nick Vallelonga (Green Book)Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (The Favourite)Peter Hedges (Ben Is Back)Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)Paul Schrader (First Reformed)
Best EnsembleBlack PantherBohemian RhapsodyCrazy Rich AsiansThe Front RunnerWidows
Best Grownup Love StoryAll Is TrueOn the Basis of SexPrivate LifeThe Old Man & the GunWhat They Had
Best Intergenerational FilmA Quiet PlaceBeautiful BoyBen Is BackCrazy Rich AsiansMary Poppins Returns
Best Time CapsuleBlacKkKlansmanBohemian RhapsodyFirst ManIf Beale Street Could TalkRoma
Best DocumentaryAmazing GraceBathtubs Over BroadwayRBGThe Rest I Make UpWon’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best Foreign FilmCold War (Poland, France, U.K.)Never Look Away (Germany)Roma (Mexico)Shoplifters (Japan)The Guilty (Denmark)
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
Yay The Guilty :)
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 January 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
PGA Nods ...
Black PantherBlacKkKlansmanBohemian RhapsodyCrazy Rich AsiansThe FavouriteGreen BookA Quiet PlaceRomaA Star is BornVice
+ their animated feature picks
The GrinchIncredibles 2Isle of DogsRalph Breaks the InternetSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 4 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Yes, Bohemian Rhapsody has best picture-equivalent nominations from PGA, SAG and the Globes now.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 4 January 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
lotsa 60-year-olds who usta have bad mustaches
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
will win/should win's for the GG'shttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/04/golden-globes-2019-film-categories-who-win-favourite-star-born-wife-bohemian-widows-buster-scruggs
― brokenshire (jed_), Friday, 4 January 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link