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

well the awards dinner shd be fun

BEST DIRECTOR: BENNY AND JOSH SAFDIE FOR "UNCUT GEMS" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

so netflix wins for best director, best supporting actor/actress, best first film and presumably best film?

wait til Climax upsets for best film

BEST PICTURE: THE IRISHMAN #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

anticlimax

They're not on a terribly exciting streak of best picture winners, after Roma, Lady Bird (good tho that movie is) and La La Land.

i can't imagine an "exciting" winner (other than The Souvenir or Image Book) that wouldn't sicken me

Good.

good indeed! didn't get sickened

second Scorsese film to win NYFCC bf (Goodfellas)

One good vomit and you'll be rid of that NYCC.

dude is a hilarious piece of shit:

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2019/12/150338/

Lupita basically delivered an intelligent, first-rate, Jamie Lee Curtis-level scream-queen performance with a side order of raspy-voiced predator doppleganger

so she earned the award then

Lupita Renee Zellweger basically delivered an intelligent, first-rate, Jamie Lee Curtis-level scream-queen performance with a side order of raspy-voiced predator doppleganger

Lupita Nyong’o wins the NYFCC’s Best Actress trophy for Us? Seriously? Eight parts wokester virtue-signalling, two parts serious regard for a noteworthy performance…trust me. Last Year’s Best Actress award to Support The Girls‘ Regina Hall comes to mind. The NYFCC used to be the NYFCC — now it’s an organizational ally of Indiewire‘s wokeness gesture crusade.

Legitimately happy this asshole is upset.

lupita was the only reason to see (and maybe actually good enough to justify a watch) Little Monsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlKnp52moe4

AFI MOTION PICTURES OF THE YEAR

1917

THE FAREWELL

THE IRISHMAN

JOJO RABBIT

JOKER

KNIVES OUT

LITTLE WOMEN

MARRIAGE STORY

ONCE UPON A TIME IN...HOLLYWOOD

RICHARD JEWELL

SPECIAL AWARD

PARASITE

Special Award sucked imho

it wasn't all that special even

Has anyone seen Little Women? It looks a little twee to me

Tomorrow. A colleague wept.

i think i am taking my Alcott-obsessive partner to it on christmas

hoping to go on Christmas, I'm very excited

saw the trailer for the first time ahead of Knives Out and tbh I'm even more in love with Saoirse Ronan than I was before

Alfred, did you end up seeing Waves or Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Waves tonight.

In the last few nights:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Uncut Gems
bits of Parasite (saw it once before).

Er, I meant I'd seen those movies in the last few nights.

Out of curiosity and undiagnosed disorder, I aggregated a meta-list of the decade-end lists here and on that fimoculous link with 50 or more titles. You won't like this.

13 mentions: Mad Max: Fury Road
12: Boyhood, Inside Llewyn Davis, Moonlight, The Master
11: Get Out, The Social Network
10: Call Me by Your Name, Frances Ha, Her, Phantom Thread, The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence, The Tree of Life, The Wolf of Wall Street, Under the Skin
9: 12 Years a Slave, Burning, First Reformed, Holy Motors, Inception, Lady Bird, Roma, The Grand Budapest Hotel
8: A Separation, Carol, Inside Out, Melancholia, Parasite
7: Elle, Force Majeure, La La Land, O.J.: Made in America, Shoplifters, The Handmaiden, Toni Erdmann
6: A Ghost Story, Amour, Before Midnight, Certified Copy, Drive, Dunkirk, Hereditary, High Life, Leviathan, Manchester by the Sea, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, Paddington 2, Phoenix, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Tangerine, The Florida Project, The Lobster, Whiplash, You Were Never Really Here
5: American Honey, Annihilation, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Blue Valentine, Bridesmaids, Gone Girl, Green Room, Inherent Vice, Margaret, Only Lovers Left Alive, Spring Breakers, Stories We Tell, The Duke of Burgundy, The Favourite, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Upstream Color
4: 20th Century Women, Black Panther, Cameraperson, Dogtooth, Eighth Grade, Faces Places, If Beale Street Could Talk, It Follows, John Wick, Magic Mike XXL, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, No Home Movie, Personal Shopper, Silence, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Babadook, The Revenant, The Turin Horse, The Witch, What We Do in the Shadows, Zero Dark Thirty
3: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Birdman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cold War, Ex Machina, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Good Time, Gravity, Her Smell, Ida, Jackie, Logan, Minding the Gap, Moonrise Kingdom, Mother!, Nightcrawler, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Selma, Sing Street, Son of Saul, Sorry to Bother You, Spotlight, Stranger By The Lake, Swiss Army Man, Take Shelter, The Farewell, The Great Beauty, The Immigrant, The Lost City of Z, The Raid: Redemption, The Rider, The Souvenir, The Wind Rises, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Weekend, Your Name, Zama

Having perused all these, I'm pleased by how much the appraisal of Boyhood and The Revenant has fallen, and the growing appreciation of Under the Skin, Holy Motors, The Duke of Burgundy, and Take Shelter; disappointed by the lesser recognition of Zama, The Witch, Nocturama and Timbuktu, perplexed by the admiration of High Life and Annhilation, Swiss Army Man, and angry that film critics would mention Last Jedi and Inception in the vicinity of a canonical list. And I think I need to see Phoenix and The Immigrant.

You do (re the The Immigrant). I'm lukewarm on Petzold generally.

is "a ghost story" worth the time?

I'm trying to determine ten more 2019 films to see before end of the year that i've yet to watch and have landed on: ash is purest white, atlantics, the chambermaid, Ad Astra, For sama, Pain and Glory, Seahorse, Souvenir, Burning Cane and high life. anybody wanna weigh in on prioritization and/or naysaying?

ulysses did you see Alita Battle Angel, you should watch that

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

oh this is on my list

i did! it was good! not life changing but good. as with the rabbi's cat (which i also saw recently) it was SO true to the comic that I felt like i had kinda already seen it somehow.

really think Phantom Thread and The Souvenir are near-great films with overlapping aesthetics

In Fabric would make a good double bill with Phantom Thread.

Anyone who watches Alita Battle Angel should be reported to a sex offender registry

why are you so mad Whiney

he got peanut butter on his waifu pillow again

Quite a few trans cinephiles are extremely fond of Alita

Robo-Peter Travers' characteristically featureless top 10:

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/10-best-movies-of-2019-918400/joker-921104/

watched my first Lav Diaz film, The Woman Who Left. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film from the Philippines before (I’ve been planning on watching Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’ Rosa but haven’t gotten around to it yet).

I thought it was really great. Kanopy has two others - From What Is Before and Norte, The End of History - so I will get to see those too

Le top 10 2010-2019 des Cahiers du Cinéma.
Pour acheter le numéro en ligne : https://t.co/VU1Beukw6g pic.twitter.com/R64vuIlhDD

— Cahiers du Cinéma (@cahierscinema) December 6, 2019

the Peaks blinders live on

I was expecting slightly more hilarious trolling from Cahiers - where's the obligatory third-rate Eastwood? https://t.co/U47X47t13I

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) December 6, 2019

Or Redacted?

cahiers list is very good

personally, as someone who doesn't give a shit whether twin peaks s3 is a movie or a show

big Nanni Moretti fan, Brad?

Nymphomaniac wd've been a better and ballsier choice than Melancholia.

whatever TP was, i stopped halfway months ago. (planning on finishing in next 3 weeks)

Dumont was about as terrible as usual

wasn't head-over-heels about either Joe i saw this decade (Boonmee, Cemetery) but he sure made a lotta shorts i didnt see

i am pretty head over heels about boonmee and cemetery, and holy motors at no. 2 feels very right to me. i agree the von trier pick is safe but i also really love melancholia. also i haven't seen every film on the list lol