This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year AND DECADE in Cinema" -- 2019

oh look The Florida Project!

top 20 is pretty good except for inclusion of that and Social Network... also only about 2.5 non-English-lang films. Try harder.

Not enthusiastic about The Master, The Social Network, or Boyhood. Outside of that, top 20's fine or better.

Fury Road is *not* a better film than Mad Max II, and anyone claiming that was The Film of the Decade in 1989 would've been told to collect their toys and get on the school bus.

OK Armond.

:p

if the Film Comment poll is along these lines, it will confirm my opinion that this was the worst decade for narrative cinema yet

some films that I haven’t seen on any consensus lists (outside of genre lists) so far, but hoping some will show up on the Film Comment list:

Mysteries of Lisbon
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Stray Dogs
Horse Money
A Touch of Sin
Cemetery of Splendour
Embrace of the Serpent
The Death of Louis XIV
Son of Saul
24 Frames
Zama
Kaili Blues
Western
Certain Women
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Good Time

I'm sure I can will a certain number of those onto the Sl4nt list.

Jimmy Hoffa style?

it pains me that the DiCaprio Wall St pigout looks to be the only Scorsese on these laundry lists

I don't know why I don't like it more, in retrospect. I ought to prefer its lack of, shall we say, moral seriousness.

It's trying to be morally serious though, in a woefully misjudged way.

Dan S's list is a large part of the reason this was a good decade for cinema. Also Jafar Panahi, Corneliu Porumboiu, Amour Fou, A Quiet Passion, Play, Lav Diaz, Pablo Larrain. The focus on American men is understandable, the same as always, but I'm surprised how old the directors on most of those lists are. George Miller, Terence Malick, especially. But how many will claim Coen, PTA, Linklater, made their best works this decade? Ok, perhaps Linklater.

generally thought PTA was shit til this decade

I don't understand that at all... He is still shit.

Punch-Drunk Love is good, though.

his worst

Good Time

Genuinely surprised this hasn't shown up on consensus lists, given its initial reception.

Mysteries of Lisbon, The Death of Louis XIV, and A Touch of Sin will be on mine, and Good Time struck me then as an actor showcase.

That and a soundtrack showcase.

and tut-tutting an AV Club list is classic Morbius. This ain't Film Comment -- if they can preach about Uncle Bonmee, they've done a service (though it's not my Apitchapong pick this decade).

I thought I Hated PTA in the 2000s but Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread introduced the lighter touch that the enhanced interrogation technique called Punch Drunk Love couldn't fathom.

Fully intend to give Punch Drunk Love another chance despite it having what I'm pretty confident is the worst P.S. Hoffman performance ever.

I can't complain about too much of that AV Club list tbh, it has a lot of overlap with what would be in mine

Ppl I know who've seen both unanimously seem to prefer the new one over Good Time fwiw

Fully intend to give Punch Drunk Love another chance despite it having what I'm pretty confident is the worst P.S. Hoffman performance ever.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.),

I still hang on to my crawl-under-the-seat response to The Phone Call.

...and Good Time struck me then as an actor showcase.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 18, 2019

That and a soundtrack showcase.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.)

thought the photography was really good too!

The colors!

Good fonts.

tut-tutting an AV Club list is classic Morbius

tut-tutting, am I? you may have confused me with Uncle Pumblechook from Great Expectations.

Let me clarify: No matter what their outlet, anyone who writes that Her Smell is one of the 100 best films of the decade should have their hands cut off.

I had Aunt Bumblefuck from Hard Times in mind.

I'd have opted for Martin Chuzzlewit in Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

Speaking of Chuzzlewit and Bumblefuck, I watch The Two Popes tonight.

Because individual lists are ALWAYS better than aggregate lists:

https://time.com/5725149/best-movies-2010s-decade/
https://time.com/5720170/best-movie-performances-2010s-decade/

(Somewhere is one of the worst movies I saw all decade, for the record.)

Good on Zacharek for remembering Spall and Being.

Spall and Being, an existential treatise by Mike Leigh

Bening and Nothingness.

Hawke for Before Midnight instead of First Reformed is...odd.

not to 'romantic' married str8s

My favorite film from each year of this decade:

2010: Black Swan
2011: The Tree of Life
2012: Holy Motors
2013: A Touch of Sin
2014: Under the Skin
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: The VVitch
2017: Get Out
2018: Zama
2019: Parasite

2010 was slim pickins

Slim Pickins Who Can Recall His Past Lives

:)

hehe :) prolly kind of a basic list, i aspire to be more of a film buff

2010 was also the year of Mysteries of Lisbon, Certified Copy, Poetry, Meek’s Cutoff, White Material, My Joy, Nostalgia for the Light, Carlos, Everyone Else, Mother. I don't think all of them had showings in the US that year though

what is this "VVitch" thing? is that how the title of the Eggers film is spelled?

I think that was in the title credits

Contemplating my own year-end list possibilities, I don't think any film has meant as much to me this year as the "Co-Op" episode of Documentary Now.

Independent Spirit Awards nominations (ever so slightly less Oscary than usual this year, excepting the extra actress nod to account for Zellweger, and all those nods for Marriage Story and ... Clemency?)

BEST FEATURE

A Hidden Life
Clemency
The Farewell
Marriage Story
Uncut Gems

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Karen Allen, Colewell
Hong Chau, Driveways
Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell
Mary Kay Place, Diane
Alfre Woodard, Clemency
Renée Zellweger, Judy

BEST MALE LEAD

Chris Galust, Give Me Liberty
Kelvin Harrison Jr., Luce
Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse
Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Taylor Russell, Waves
Lauren “LoLo” Spencer, Give Me Liberty
Octavia Spencer, Luce
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
Noah Jupe, Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy
Jonathan Majors, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Wendell Pierce, Burning Cane

BEST DIRECTOR

Alma Har’el, Honey Boy
Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers
Julius Onah, Luce
Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse
Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems

BEST SCREENPLAY

Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Jason Begue & Shawn Snyder, To Dust
Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems
Chinonye Chukwu, Clemency
Tarell Alvin McCraney, High Flying Bird

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Fredrica Bailey & Stefon Bristol, See You Yesterday
Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen, Driveways
Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy, Blow the Man Down
Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe, Greener Grass
James Montague & Craig W. Sanger, The Vast of Night

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Todd Banhazl, Hustlers
Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse
Natasha Braier, Honey Boy
Chananun Chotrungroj, The Third Wife
Pawel Pogorzelski, Midsommar

BEST EDITING

Julie Béziau, The Third Wife
Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
Tyler L. Cook, Sword of Trust
Louise Ford, The Lighthouse
Kirill Mikhanovsky, Give Me Liberty

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast)

Marriage Story
Director: Noah Baumbach
Casting Directors: Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
Ensemble Cast: Alan Alda, Laura Dern, Adam Driver, Julie Hagerty, Scarlett Johansson,
Ray Liotta, Azhy Robertson, Merritt Wever

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Booksmart
The Climb
Diane
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Mustang
See You Yesterday

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)

Burning Cane
Colewell
Give Me Liberty
Premature
Wild Nights With Emily

BEST DOCUMENTARY

American Factory
Apollo 11
For Sama
Honeyland
Island of the Hungry Ghosts

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Invisible Life (Brazil)
Les Misérables (France)
Parasite (South Korea)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France)
Retablo (Peru)
The Souvenir (United Kingdom)

Noah Jupe, Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy

kill me

Yeah, Kevin Garnett robbed.