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

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

they are both better than mid-90's which had some charms but was kind of forgettable.

anyone see Waves? the trailer makes it look like the cheesiest thing ever.

I thought Waves was awesome

The music use in it is incredible

The trailer does not do the first half of that movie justice

good to know!

Yeah, it’s really bold and stylish, the music use is like an expressionist fever dream, I kind of wish they would do the soundtrack as one 75 minute track or something. One of my faves of the year!

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.

― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, November 30, 2019 1:00 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

eighth grade is pretty obviously not a self-serious movie about bo burnham's suburban upbringing

you should watch it just for the dope anna meredith soundtrack tbh whiney

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Climax could have been better if the 15 minute sequence of 2 and 3 part improvs that painted every character in a negative light were dropped. After that, I saw the rest as a morality play where justice was dealt.

I've decided that inclusion of Upstream Color and Under the Skin is my litmus test for critical lists of the decade. I've returned to both regularly.

both of those movies would be on my list, though i'm like... physically incapable of returning to them. thankfully they both burned themselves into my mind on first contact

the first twenty minutes of upstream color is body horror even beyond my personal threshold and the drowning scene in under the skin is just... nope, can't do it again

Y'all should watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

it's not even out as a limited release yet, keep your pants on

December 6 here in flyover land.

I'm aware! I'm saying don't miss out.

I have to decide between Waves and the Mr. Rogers thing tonight.

Kinda think i need to try Atlantics tonight.

Some of the people really laying into Waves probably need to take a step back from the A24 backlash pileon but ... I can absolutely see the validity of the criticisms about the first half in particular.

I'm always get some anxiety that ILX FILM GUY movies are are like The Souvenir and Gloria Bell where its like "a subtle, unhurried character study of a woman navigating life's valleys and occasional peaks"

And like exciting, cool, exploitationy art-house stuff like A24 is for herbs and noobs

you might prefer Diane as she dies at the end?

(ILX FILM GUY spoiler)

but A24 did release The Souvenir!

i got fifteen minutes into mid90's and bailed, it was boring

Anyway, I liked Waves

And Gloria Bell is a remake, so we all prefer the Chilean original. Whine better, Whiney!

is the remake worth a watch? i really liked the original but kinda assumed there was no point to the remake except to sell a proven commodity to an anglo audience.

I don't.

I didn't find time to watch the remake, but it's probably good. My mom liked it.

I liked the original, but in the context of American film it's cool we can still get a subtle, unhurried character study of a woman navigating life's valleys and occasional peaks -- with a little sex in it.

Sure, sure. I just really don't care about that context :)

Latin American cinema has been really great with those subtle studies of middle aged women, btw. Gloria, Las Herederas (which might still be on Netflix), and The Desert Bride.

Marriage Story swept the Gotham Awards, winning best feature, best actor, best screenplay, and the audience award. Akwafina won best actress, and Taylor Russell (Waves) won breakthrough performer. American Factory won best documentary.

With Bo Burnham and Awkwafina, our current path to a celebrated cinema career is lined with crypto-racist rap YouTubes. Really cannot wait for Riff Raff and Lil Dicky to be crowned the new Welles and Bergman

Really cannot wait for Riff Raff

I mean, James Franco's big critical breakthrough was like 7 years ago now.