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

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.

I like the screenplay nod for HFB

Aren't they all from A24?

always happy to see Alfre Woodard get any plaudits

and at the very end there's one token for The Souvenir

assorted decade shite:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6693-2010s-the-listing-begins

Top Films of the Decade
2010: CRAZY ASS
2011: DO I KNOW YOU?
2012: LOVE IN MY PANTS
2013: JESUS IV
2014: PERIOD FILM
2015: LIFE IS A LIE
2016: HAPPY THINGS HAPPEN
2017: DRY KISSES
2018: GET OUT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
2019: PLEASE HOLD ME

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 17, 2019

is that Pete Buttigieg's porn rental list?

Stephanie Zacharek seems to be the first out of the gate this year, even before John Waters.

https://time.com/5737103/best-movies-2019/

1. Pain & Glory
2. The Irishman
3. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
4. Marriage Story
5. Little Women
6. Parasite
7. Knives Out
8. Dolemite Is My Name
9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
10. Hustlers

Oh, and performances.

https://time.com/5737198/best-movie-performances-2019/

1. Antonio Banderas, Pain & Glory
2. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
3. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
4. Taylor Russell, Waves
5. Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang
6. Renee Zellweger, Judy
7. Joe Pesci, The Irishman
8. Margot Robbie, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
9. Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name
10. Kristen Stewart, Seberg

As usual, too much English-lang stuff.

Saw John Waters on the first floor of MoMA last night! Should've badgered him for his choices.

I already know from the Polyester Criterion that Climax is probably on that list.

whatever these are

https://awardswatch.com/once-upon-a-time-leads-hollywood-critics-association-nominations/

I get the enthusiasm for Pain & Glory all too well: a film about film for critics. Second-tier Almodovar.

http://www.fimoculous.com/decade-review-2010.cfm?cat=film

If Jojo Rabbit, The Joker and Shia LeBeouf are gonna keep popping up in these, its gonna be a long awards season.

Vanity Fair's best of the decade: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/best-movies-decade-2010s-collins

List manages to include what is my very least favorite movie of the decade tbh.

Wolf is amomg mine; Leviathan too

I guess this goes here?

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2019?fbclid=IwAR1ANFFDEJyYGFqm4dPEMOWxg9ZMTqtYJqf-CYXNVUqW0diUICltmS4GPog

icymi, the NY Times decade picks

Manohla Dargis:

The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Boyhood — Richard Linklater
Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler [retrospective] — Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
13th — Ava DuVernay
A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke

AO Scott:

Carol — Todd Haynes
Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
Norte, the End of History — Lav Diaz
Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick

all-purpose decade link: https://www.yearendlists.com/category/2010s-movies

LOL, Fury Road is the only overlap.

didn't paste their Most Influential list bcz no one should gaf

back to 2019 -- props to Jonathan Rosenbaum for #9 and 10:

Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
Transit — Christian Petzold
It Must Be Heaven — Elia Suleiman
Flannery — Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco
Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
Conrad Veidt: My Life — Mark Rappaport
Where's My Roy Cohn? — Matt Tyrnauer
If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
Ad Astra — James Gray
The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg

Sight and Sound's annual round-up of the best blu-ray (and DVD) releases:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2019

...and the Sight and Sound top fifty films of 2019:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2019

jesus do people really think us is that good

is the Last Black Man in San Francisco going to get left off best of the year lists? I thought it was the best film I saw this year.

Definitely in my top ten

I find it really hard to bring myself to watch the whole Eighth Grade/Booksmart/Mid90s run of wealthy white millennial directors getting self-serious about their suburban upbringings.

Man spoke too soon, looks like 2/3 of them grew up rich kids and I'm not so sure about Bo.

Richard Brody's decade-list from a few days ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-twenty-seven-best-movies-of-the-decade

I don't usually seize on one pick, but The Wolf of Wall Street, yikes.

Anti-detritus sermon aimed straight at Morbs’ heart, among others’s

https://www.anothergaze.com/elena-gorfinkel-manifesto-against-lists

John Waters' list drops and, indeed, his #1 is Climax:

https://www.artforum.com/print/201910/john-waters-81340?fbclid=IwAR3DFbO8OPNBC3hqkQ3DJNLqO5_g3deSTL1-oTZUt8xFOx6HDk9tabd9uAo

yeah, I had to remind myself what that is, and hence why I don't care what he likes

I'm with him on Amazing Grace, Hail Satan and Once Upon a Time
Border woulda been in my top 20 for last year
Still need to see Climax, pain and Glory and Souvenir

both extended dance routines in Climax are great but you should switch the film off after the second one.

booksmart is very funny.

Eighth Grade is great btw