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

https://vimeo.com/378176559

it's about an Esquire writer, sic

Mr Rogers is the savior

xpost why in the world would anyone watch that

it's about an Esquire writer, sic

Mr Rogers is the savior

I already had no interest in this movie, now I'm Bret Easton Ellis ovah heah

Consensus seems to be "decent movie that would have been intolerable if almost anyone else directed it"

Tom Hanks is phenomenal in it, all the Gondry-esque touches are cute/cool (but would have been better with Gondry), but it's mostly pretty meh

someone observed that the Esquire offices in the late '90s are seen as staffed significantly by women and people of color...

xp to whiney: because it's well edited (if painfully scored)

(and it is very much detritus)

Why would I want to watch a bunch of movie clips edited together for 14 minutes?

"Wow, what if someone made the montage that opens the Oscars but it had Midsommar in it!"

I love film, but I don't think I understand film fans sometimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Plays_Itself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Fog

https://www.acmi.net.au/events/terror-nullius/

Yes, the Twitter guy editing Star Wars scenes is just like Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma

sometimes i think you mostly like to argue

i'm with whiney here though, that edit is obnoxious

There is entirely too much Midsommer in there.

there's a top 25 list once you get past the intro, which i skipped entirely. or possibly don't watch it?

or possibly don't watch it?

capitulation!

or.... possibly do?

Even Film Comment succumbs to the detriusness of it all.

Our live talk unveiling Film Comment's Best of 2019 poll is starting now. Follow updates in this thread. 🎥 pic.twitter.com/AO9BiQZska

— Film Comment Magazine (@FilmComment) December 11, 2019

#1 no surprise

Souvenir at #6 is fine but still too low

Still a bit perplexed by how well High Life (FC's #7) is doing. Belated recognition of the director? It's probably in the poorer half of Denis's output, and among 2019's "lost in space" art films I liked Aniara more.

It's a sex movie imo

The car wash Sybian is about as sexy as a wrench set...

God, I forgot High Life existed

robots in dis guys

I wish I could forget High Life exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adw772km7PQ

"back in the fuck box again" would make for an excellent Peaches comeback single

TIFF's Canadian top 10:

And The Birds Rained Down by Louise Archambault, Quebec
Anne At 13,000 Ft by Kazik Radwanski, Ontario
Antigone by Sophie Deraspe, Quebec
Black Conflux by Nicole Dorsey, Newfoundland/Quebec
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn, British Columbia
Matthias & Maxime by Xavier Dolan, Quebec
Murmur by Heather Young, Nova Scotia
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk by Zacharias Kunuk, Nunavut
The Twentieth Century by Matthew Rankin, Quebec
White Lie by Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Ontario

I hear great things about a couple of these but I wouldn't mind if they took a year off from Dolan worship

well he is only director on that list that most of us down south have heard of

The Body Remembers... is on Netflix, at least in Canada. I suspect Anne at 13,000 Ft will make some waves when it makes the rounds theatrically next year. (I haven't seen it but ppl I trust loved it, and it earns automatic points for its 75-minute runtime.)

You can always count on the week of the Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations throwing a big dose of ice bucket water on the whole season...

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
“Bomshell”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
“Parasite”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale, “Ford v Ferrari”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”
Taron Egerton, “Rocketman”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”
Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”
Lupita Nyong’o, “Us”
Charlize Theron, “Bombshell”
Renee Zellweger, “Judy”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Jamie Foxx, “Just Mercy”
Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
Al Pacino, “The Irishman”
Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”
Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”
Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”
Nicole Kidman, “Bombshell”
Jennifer Lopez, “Hustlers”
Margot Robbie, “Bombshell”

(I'll say that, for the first time, I now feel Parasite actually will get that best picture nod.)

i thought everyone was unthrilled by Harriet

Just Mercy?

Classic industry awards gravitating toward the wrong middlebrow candidates. Ergo...

I know CLEMENCY is neither widely seen nor easy to watch, but to those who have, Alfre Woodard's near no-show in this year's awards season so far looks close to absurd: no American actor this year is working at a higher level of detail, complexity and emotional intuition.

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) December 11, 2019

Harriet, many have been quick to point out, actually made a fairly large chunk of change. More than any other best actress candidate outside of Lupita, so far.

This feels early this year:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/purple-rain-amadeus-boys-dont-cry-clerks-enter-national-film-registry-1261469

Amadeus (1984)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Before Stonewall (1984)
Body and Soul (1925)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Clerks (1994)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
Employees Entrance (1933)
The Fog of War (2003)
Gaslight (1944)
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
Girlfriends (1978)
I Am Somebody (1970)
The Last Waltz (1978)
My Name Is Oona (1969)
A New Leaf (1971)
Old Yeller (1957)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Platoon (1986)
Purple Rain (1984)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Zoot Suit (1981)

I've been banging on the Alfre Woodard bell for a couple weeks.

Clemency boasts one of my favorite drunk scenes in a while too.

try ringing it xp

there was a MoMA screening of Clemency that i missed last night

Neon hasn't promoted it a-tall.

Congrats to new National Film Registry inductees Elaine May's A New Leaf, Claudia Weill's Girlfriends, Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story, Albert Magnoli's Purple Rain, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, and Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit, the last film released in Sensurround Plus!

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) December 11, 2019

yikes, Clerks!

https://time.com/5747503/national-film-registry-2019-additions/

FC top 20

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2019/

I sat thru #12-14, and there went many hours

At this point each year's Nat'l Film Registry list is about half eye-opening and incredibly cool-looking a-g or documentary works from the first half of the century, and half I Love the 80s/90s fodder.

Cool list

Morbs where did you watch a 13 hour movie?

It screened at some fests and rep houses, split over three nights

what does the film registry actually do with the things it preserves? Obtain celluloid prints and place them in cold storage?

I'm not part of the Ash is Purest White-Pain and Glory consensus. Need to watch Transit again; I've never been mad about Petzold.