so, not in a cinema. but it was totally a 2018 film. oops what are the rules again
― imago, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
I thought ‘The Square’ was weak overall, but the scene with the man-monkey at the dinner was absolutely extraordinary.
YES 100%
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
xp oh no didn't mean that, just want to see it myself!
― devvvine, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
I'm delighted Ruizpalacios realized on the promise of Gueros.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
The McQueen doc is about as good as the docs made for British TV about him. It's a sad story. The room in which they interviewed his aunt was extraordinarily beautiful, gave me living-room envy.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 8:23 AM (nineteen seconds ago)
It only had to have a public cinema screening of some kind in 2018, not that you had to watch it on a big screen. Even a one-day, one-country release counts.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
speaking of
https://i.imgur.com/kKAN5Im.jpg
44. Bros: After The Screaming Stops d: Joe Pearlman, David Soutar (doco)UK 2018 digital84 points, 4 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
haha ok we got this one in too
― imago, Monday, 24 June 2019 21:57 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:12 (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
watchable tv
― devvvine, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
by the top 40 we'll be outta your hair, folks
this was v compelling. "you're the love of my life"
― imago, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
DO NOT MISS THIS. Unexpected film highlight of the year. It's like Nigel Tufnel and David Brent had twins.― aldo, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 it was absolutely brilliant.best thing I have seen so far this festive season.so many WTF moments.― mark e, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 it's pretty tense. the scenes with them arguing are a bit too real in places― ||||||||, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 Had to watch it again as there were too many howlers to fully absorb the first time― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 26 December 2018
― aldo, Wednesday, 26 December 2018
it was absolutely brilliant.best thing I have seen so far this festive season.so many WTF moments.
― mark e, Wednesday, 26 December 2018
it's pretty tense. the scenes with them arguing are a bit too real in places
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 26 December 2018
Had to watch it again as there were too many howlers to fully absorb the first time
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 26 December 2018
It seems very much like they were heavily involved in the decision making process behind the film, which makes it all the better, Matt really does think all these Spinal Tap / Alan Partridge words of wisdom are worth hearing. It's clear that he would not appreciate anyone laughing at him, but unintended brilliance is still brilliance. I would still be fairly interested in a real documentary about them, but this approach has somehow had a much better result.― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 28 December 2018 ugh that bit where he chastises the session bass player for not playing with the intensity and passion of Flea....― Michael B, Friday, 28 December 2018
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 28 December 2018
ugh that bit where he chastises the session bass player for not playing with the intensity and passion of Flea....
― Michael B, Friday, 28 December 2018
Finally finished this and I have to say that although I came in for the LOLz (and there were quite a few), this story of sibling insecurities and resentments turned out to be quite touching. For the first half of the film, I was cheering for poor ol' misunderstood Luke, having to deal with a narcissic cretin of a brother. By the end of it, I found Matt, dim as he is, to be the more sympathetic of the two.― baaderonixx, Thursday, 3 January 2019 agree with that even tho i feel it must be wrong.― Fizzles, Thursday, 3 January 2019
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 3 January 2019
agree with that even tho i feel it must be wrong.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 3 January 2019
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
I guess this is a british film?
― Dan S, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
aye, deluded brothers w zero self awareness from late 80s pop act prepare for a comeback gig. just watch a youtube cut of the best bits.
― devvvine, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
despite UK 2018 digital that scene is 100% Las Vegas
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
ok lol, it's a lot sweeter and more self-effacing than I would have thought from the title
― Dan S, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Lol tv
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
Was 2018 that bad?!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
lol better luck next time jia
― devvvine, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
I didn't vote for it but Green Book was fine as a movie in context with the rest of the Farrelly Brothers oeuvre. Best Picture material it is not, and it is a blinkered and retrograde film racially. But it's not that bad and works as a broad comedy. I mean Vigo just plays @NYCGuidoVoice, it's not that different from the cum in Cameron Diaz's hair or Ben Stiller getting his balls stuck in his zipper.
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
watching it was like getting my balls stuck in a zipper
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
OK, not these docs.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
I will say seeing it opening weekend with a packed (mostly elderly) crowd was kind of depressing, because pretty much everyone bought into the wish fulfillment of race relations that it presents. I'll never forget overhearing a woman to my left whispering "I don't think that was still happening" when they stop on the side of the road and see dozens of black people picking cotton.
xxl
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Bless her smart.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
wtf are these
lmk when the real stuff recommences
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8hsjE0Y.jpg
43. 大象席地而坐 [An Elephant Sitting Still] w/d: Hu BoCN 2018 digital89 points, 3 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
An Elephant Sitting Still is a very sad artifact, and mostly a waste of four hours.― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 24, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 24, 2019
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
I don't have 4 hours for anything
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
was it really 4 hours? I was looking forward to it as a standard feature-length film
― Dan S, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
number five on my ballot, claire denis's words are better than mine:
"In this apartment trapped in urban fog, we cannot see anything, the colors are subdued... We sense that it is daytime, but everything around us is gray. We feel captive in this apartment – in order to get out, someone needs to jump from the window. Little by little, we follow characters into the city at dusk. We discover this mysterious Chinese city, enclosing the different strata of China’s history, buildings under construction and ancient territories, and it is only once night has fallen that we see the elephant."
― devvvine, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
elephant shit
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
it sounds intriguing to me but maybe I will have to watch it in installments, not sure I can take 4 hours of a subdued gray film at dusk illuminating a mysterious chinese city all in one sitting
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
the first installment will dispel the intrigue
spoilers, Claire!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
I may end up really loving it, just a feeling
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
didn't vote in this but I saw the square (ok with some great parts) and minding the gap (great)
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
my favorite film first seen in 2018 from previous years was Last Year at Marienbad, such an amazing film
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
followed by Twin Peaks: The Return, A Brighter Summer Day, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Playtime, Close-Up, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Meshes of the Afternoon, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Colossal Youth
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
I'd only managed to whittle my new-to-me down to 11 by dumping an entire museum season of British Hitchcocks, before looking at the ballots and discovering I didn't need to bother weighting or deciding what to sacrifice next.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
there have to have been so many different choices
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:12 (four years ago) link
More results tomorrow; UK folks are welcome to warm the thread up in the GMT morning by posting closed-captioned screencaps from After The Screaming Stops.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
If you do that you'll be arrested and thrown in jail.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
i didn’t vote bc i mostly watch Marvel movies but keen to see what yall watched & voted for
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is bad punning, not good
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Elephant Sitting Still was no 4 on my ballot, although tbh it is overlong and repetitive but whatever does happen comes from a place (even if you don't know what happened to its director), and I think its one of the first Chinese films where the politics of the place just isn't there, as a thing that weighs in. I would probably go lower with it now but I'm glad it got in.
I'll vote for Jia next year. Which I regret because it might have put it above a doc on fucking Bros - oh yes! brb, going to brainlessly describe this as "compelling". wtf is it with you all aargh, just can't fucking unsee that.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
elephant is more interested in talking about society through its effect on the individual's lived in experience and psychology than portraying society in of itself, and so lets the grey swathes of the city and the out of focus supporting characters just become a canvas.
does have an incredible chekov's gun moment
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
if it really matters, you have a few hours itt to explain how the directors of After The Screaming Stops did not craft an engaging and fascinating psychological portrait of two people trapped in their own resentments, working desperately every day of their lives to build internal worlds that aren't circumscribed by their personal limitations, only to have their decades of constructive delusion come crashing when met with each other's bubbles of self-belief
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
if i knew we could vote for tv i would have voted for limmy's homemade show
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi1lvLdwoTjAhUD1hoKHfFqAG8QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailydead.com%2Fthe-earth-dies-screaming-blu-ray-announced-by-kino-lorber%2Fearth-dies-screaming-poster%2F&psig=AOvVaw08XFjrfwuLt62F-WOS8GEs&ust=1561548254685325
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link