didn't quite cohere for me either, but I was more beguiled by the second viewing. I definitely want to see it again
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sFjxbSI.jpg
31. Visages Villages [Faces, Places] d: Agnès Varda & JR (doco) FR 2017 digital106 points, 5 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Placed at #15 in 2017, with 138 points and 10 votes.
amazed at that Varda quote; it seems old ladies like cats!― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 July 2018
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 July 2018
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
didn't open over here till last autumn, ended up fairly low on my ballot. got the fun slightly bittersweet 90 i was promised without jr getting in the way too much
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
I liked the faces and the places
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
voted for this last year, it is another film I want to see again
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
Damn, I forgot to vote for Can You Ever Forgive Me... yeah, like I said, would've been in the bottom of my top 10. oh well.
agree that The Death of Stalin sucked
First Man was my #6, Chazelle finally put his crypto fascistic tendencies to good use in a surprisingly subtle movie that, given the subject matter and his previous two films, I expected to be completely over the top and noxious. it was really, really great.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
had a hard time with First Man, Gosling as Armstrong seemed completely personality-free, and the movie felt inert to me. I was probably in a bad mood when I saw it, maybe will watch it again
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rQxOOnH.jpg
30. Нелюбовь [Loveless] d: Andrey Zvyagintsev w: Oleg Negin, Andrey ZvyagintsevRU 2017 digital110 points, 4 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
really liked this film too, between this and Leviathan I'm impressed by Zvyagintsev and am looking forward to seeing what he does next
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Man, lots of consensus ahead I guess
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
still a few more before we get out of the 4-votes zone
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
expecting an appearance from everyone's favourite soju aficionado soon
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
Gosling as Armstrong seemed completely personality-free
true to life!
The library never got Loveless.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
― devvvine, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 4:04 PM (four minutes ago)
if Burning shows up outside the top 10 I will be disappointed
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
it won't.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
you won't.
(i meant hong)
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
oh ok. that's another one that was in my top 10
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
i'm hoping for one in the top ten and a couple others round these waters
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
haven't had a chance to see The Day After, Grass, or Hotel by the River yet
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
up next is the one that decided me it'd be fun to track the format they were made in, silby
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5d2Jmc2.jpg
29. 24 Frames [۲۴ فریم] d: Abbas Kiarostami, Ali KamaliIR 2017 desktop computer 114 points, 4 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
my biggest disappointment of the year
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
wish this was much much higher
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
I loved this film!
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
I think I put it #2. But I won’t begrudge it not working on anyone. My enjoyment of it is purely my own.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
With the Breugel painting at the beginning the making-pictures-come-to-life aspect seemed obvious in a crude sort of way. I’m sure was intentional as an opener. It didn’t really occur to me until Frame 15 or so that the static part of each subsequent vignette might have been the original still photograph? (still not sure). The CGI wasn’t what I’ve seen in other films, it was more crude but felt more natural, more surreal and dream-like than most everything else I’ve seen
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
my #5 I think? Definitely helped seeing it in a big theater and being in the right mood. Shirin didn't grab me because the whole conceit - watching famous Iranian actresses watching a movie - was obviously lost on me.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
felt the same way about Shirin
in this film I liked the way each of the frames seemed linked by theme or visual content
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
That last frame was beautiful, with a person asleep at a desk in a stark modern room, the Wyler film playing in extreme slow motion on the screen and Love Never Dies on the soundtrack.
The view out of the windows of trees in a forest swaying in winter weather at dusk made me want to be in that room at that moment
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
My enjoyment of it is purely my own.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 5:01 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It’d be surprising if it were someone else’s!
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
haha
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
Kiarostami's final film "24 Frames" , made in the last 3 years before his death in 2016, is, uh, something. He took a photo of a Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting The Hunters in the Snow and 23 of his own photos (many of them of snow-covered fields, or waves crashing on the shore) and imagined what happened before and after. He via computer tools added 4 minutes or so of action to each of the 24 shots. Some are wearying and repetitious with little happening, but others are special.― curmudgeon, Tuesday, January 30, 2018
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, January 30, 2018
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
need to watch it
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/xDM6vHv.jpg
28. The Rider w/d: Chloé ZhaoUS 2017 digital117 points, 6 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
following "the rider", i will be down for the choe zhao Eternals movie but boy am i having a hard time imagining how that will pan out― forks, Wednesday, May 8, 2019
― forks, Wednesday, May 8, 2019
It was...okay. The boy is cute.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
she picked the right person to structure the movie around, Brady Jandreau is really charismatic
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
It was subtle, it reminded me a little of Kelly Reichardt's films
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kpJ3imT.jpg
27. Monrovia, Indiana d: Frederick Wiseman (doco) US 2018 digital121 points, 4 votes, 1 #1
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
Monrovia, Indiana is straight out of a Faulkner novel. Tribulation and death in every scene.― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, October 28, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, October 28, 2018
haven't seen this yet. that's a beautiful image
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
A hair less wonderful than Wiseman's recent run, but it made my top 15.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
besides Monrovia - which I will definitely see - of the films on this list I haven't seen yet, the ones I'm most looking forward to are Ash Is Purest White, Elephant Sitting Still, The Wild Pear Tree, The Image Book, Dead Souls. I liked Frederik’s descriptions of the last three. After a somewhat traumatic experience with Berlin Alexanderplatz I'm approaching Eight Hours Don't Make a Day with trepidation.
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
one more today?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
I'm up for it, but am surprised by how little attended this is. Wish people would post more here. Anything would do
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CZmH9dR.jpg
26. Free Solo d: Elizabeth Chai Vasarelyi, Jimmy ChinUS 2018 digital 4K123 points, 6 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
(doco)
I liked this a lot, but maybe not as much as The Dawn Wall from 2017, which shared one of its protagonists
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link