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

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.
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— 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

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

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?)

Why do you even watch movies anymore?

because a Souvenir comes along every now and then?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

At least he’s not talentless pervert Anthony Lane!

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

the memory of melancholia > actually rewatching it

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

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

lol at Oncle Boonmee vs Under The Skin

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

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

ze mots, zey are not bon

His novelist and poet profiles >>>> reviews

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

yah, David Bowie recast as a giant kettle

Metacritic's aggregate has an odd point system:

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

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

Why do you even watch movies anymore?

Let me try a new answer: most of the films I was responding to are made by overrated auteurist darlings.

That describes most of the films we like too.

I liked Loznitsa's My Joy and Donbass and am curious about State Funeral, which was on Hoberman's and Quandt's lists

also re: Hoberman’s list, I think Christian Marclay’s 48 War Movies is really interesting, but if I’m going to vote for a video art installation it’s going to be Lisa Reihana’s In Pursuit of Venus (Infected) or JR’s The Chronicles of San Francisco

I’m not going to vote for a video art installation

hearing him casually bash Spielberg while introducing Cutter's Way a couple months ago, I was reminded that I pretty much hate Hoberman's pretentious ass