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

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

The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:42 (six years ago)

Waves tonight.

In the last few nights:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Uncut Gems

bits of Parasite (saw it once before).

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:43 (six years ago)

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

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:44 (six years ago)

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.

полезный инструмент (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:46 (six years ago)

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

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:49 (six years ago)

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?

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:18 (six years ago)

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

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:39 (six years ago)

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

oh this is on my list

american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:46 (six years ago)

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.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:47 (six years ago)

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

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:22 (six years ago)

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

Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:28 (six years ago)

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

The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:06 (six years ago)

why are you so mad Whiney

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:18 (six years ago)

he got peanut butter on his waifu pillow again

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:44 (six years ago)

Quite a few trans cinephiles are extremely fond of Alita

Simon H., Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:48 (six years ago)

Robo-Peter Travers' characteristically featureless top 10:

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

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:58 (six years ago)

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

Dan S, Friday, 6 December 2019 06:06 (six years ago)

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

flappy bird, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:04 (six years ago)

the Peaks blinders live on

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:06 (six years ago)

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

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:09 (six years ago)

Or Redacted?

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:10 (six years ago)

cahiers list is very good

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:12 (six years ago)

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

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:13 (six years ago)

big Nanni Moretti fan, Brad?

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

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:14 (six years ago)

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

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:15 (six years ago)

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

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:19 (six years ago)

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

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:20 (six years ago)

I guess that will be the only list to include The Image Book

flappy bird, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:24 (six years ago)

didnt mind Holy Motors, but its no Pola X

nah, i think anyone who's Godard-centric will list that or Film Socialisme (surely Brody had both?)

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:26 (six years ago)

Why do you even watch movies anymore?

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:28 (six years ago)

because a Souvenir comes along every now and then?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:28 (six years ago)

Have seen Melancholia pop up a lot on mainstream decade lists the last few weeks.

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:29 (six years ago)

also i concentrate on repertory, where most of the good stuff i haven't seen is

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:29 (six years ago)

i thought you liked the list of a dozen i posted on FB last week? A dozen is p good considering ive seen maybe 35-38 features this year.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:30 (six years ago)

Brody:

The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
Get Out — Jordan Peele
An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? — Travis Wilkerson
The Future — Miranda July
Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
Somewhere — Sofia Coppola
Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty — Terence Nance
Holy Motors — Leos Carax
Coma — Sara Fattahi
Red Hook Summer — Spike Lee
Zama — Lucrecia Martel
Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
The Mule — Clint Eastwood
It Felt Like Love — Eliza Hittman
The Last of the Unjust — Claude Lanzmann
In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
A Ghost Story — David Lowery
A Screaming Man — Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi — Jafar Panahi
Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
Infinite Football — Corneliu Porumboiu

https://www.yearendlists.com/2019/11/richard-brody-the-twenty-seven-best-movies-of-the-decade

flappy bird, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:34 (six years ago)

a couple of serious "hell yeah"s from me for that list which suggests I might want to watch other things on it

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:42 (six years ago)

Brody for me is either dead on (rarely) or spectacularly off the mark, generally regarding some element of the film that didn't bother me at all.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:21 (six years ago)

At least he’s not talentless pervert Anthony Lane!

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:45 (six years ago)

http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388917094l/54890.jpg

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:52 (six years ago)

the memory of melancholia > actually rewatching it

johnny crunch, Friday, 6 December 2019 21:02 (six years ago)

god the blurb on the bottom of that cover is almost as nauseating as anthony lane's own writing

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:13 (six years ago)

I read Lane with pleasure until 2001 or two, after which he couldn't stop yawning in character.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:16 (six years ago)

lol at Oncle Boonmee vs Under The Skin

morbs I don't remember if you stopped at or before episode 8?

insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:28 (six years ago)

I like a lot of the Lane in that book, sometimes skim him in the magazine now hoping for a bon mot or two but

insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:30 (six years ago)

ze mots, zey are not bon

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:43 (six years ago)

His novelist and poet profiles >>>> reviews

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:47 (six years ago)

sic yes i saw 8 if it's the alien/bomb one

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:52 (six years ago)

yah, David Bowie recast as a giant kettle

insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 22:01 (six years ago)

Metacritic's aggregate has an odd point system:

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-best-movies-of-2019

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 22:21 (six years ago)

#1: 3 pts, #2: 2 pts, #3-10: 1 pt

полезный инструмент (Sanpaku), Friday, 6 December 2019 22:37 (six years ago)


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