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

I admit Morbs may have seen better days, but he's still not to be had for the price of a cocktail - like a salted peanut.

i'm at my peak right this minute i'll have you know

Reminder that PWB faps to an Obama speech in the pilot

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Sunday, December 29, 2019 6:00 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also, the opening scene of Booksmart pans around Beanie Feldstein's bedroom, which has a photo of Michelle on the wall.

until I reread that in the quote, my mind somehow interpolated PWB as JLG and I thought Simon was saying that Godard jerks it to Obama speeches in The Image Book, which I haven't seen... but seemed possible!

nah, JLG has it out for muslims

well see

Godard has never had it out for Muslims. if anything, he has an Israel problem...
The Image Book is an enormously empathetic and heartfelt film. "moral fault was merged with state crimes"
Its critique of the Middle East "lacking a territory," a place to express themselves outside of throwing bombs, this is of course a naive reduction
because when Godard says "if you ask me I will always be on the side of those who throw bombs," he sounds like the radical chic blowhard he was in '68-'72. But this film is more humble and open than any of that stuff. it's not a didactic film, it's 84 minutes inside the mind of a man at the end of his life. and he admits he knows nothing, all he has left is hope, "a necessary utopia." it's so beautiful

I only made it through like 14 minutes of The Image Book, presumably because I'm a huge dumbass

devvv had a good comment on letterboxd about Image Book, m/l it works as a pure light and sound show. I mean obviously ymmv but I think the pure flow of the film's images and sounds itself is what makes it so beautiful, compared to Ici et Ailleurs or Numero Deux, much more programmatic and willfully difficult films. I haven't read Finnegans Wake but it feels like the only proper comparison.

ok who is PWB

phoebe waller bridge, creator of fleabag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHVoeo5K0s

reading the NYT's Year in Culture wrapup yesterday, i have never felt so alienated from everything

Obama probably didn't even recognize Jello Biafra in The Last Black Man in San Francisco pathetic.

— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) December 29, 2019

I don't count for much but I put an end-of-decade detrius together.

I'm not sure i ever heard of Only the Young, but the library has it so i'll give it a go.

Yay! It's short and sweet.

Walter Chaw's year-end list is always a great read, no matter how seriously you can take a list that includes Terminator: Dark Fate and The Kid Who Would Be King but no Uncut Gems or Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/01/the-50-best-films-of-2019-by-walter-chaw.html

I've seen a number of serious critics who dislike the latter two

however, his #1 "group" includes Her Smell, High Life, and ye gods, An Elephant Sitting Still, plus the Tarantella, so you can't do much worse than that.

for a long film I thought An Elephant Sitting Still was mesmerizing

the quietness and overwhelming grayness and emptiness of tone, long hypnotic circling tracking shots, shunning of the most violent elements of the story, specific blurring or highlighting of background images, grim determination of characters, subtly hopeful ending - it was all so hypnotic and beautiful

I disagree in every particular; found it just overwhelmingly dreary

I can see not liking it but thought it was so unusual

wouldn't have thought that such a constantly moving camera could be that subduing, but it really drew me in

honestly gun to my head you could erase every Tarantino movie except Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and I would feel a mild sadness but it would be an easy choice

Don't trash movies you haven't seen

Get rid of Jackie Brown over my dead body.

Elephant Sitting Still was one of those movies I will never watch again but it was definitely a memorable experience.

Get rid of Jackie Brown over my dead body.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:59 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah wtf

Miami critics: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/miami-film-awards-2019-local-film-experts-pick-their-favorites-of-the-year-and-decade-11396761

I said gun to my head!

Won't someone out there help flappy bird?!

Don't trash movies you haven't seen

i'm not trashing it, i'm trashing HIM. He's an immoral person and artist who is getting no more cultural oxygen from me.

Jackie Brown was the last good thing i saw from him, and it is overrated.

you guys ready to die for some movies huh

hidden decade gems

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6738-hidden-gems-of-the-2010s

Ari Aster otm

wow i gotta see the homesman

helluva blurb

it's the better version of MM: Fury Road

lol

Lol, Morbs absolutely otm.

It's fine.

Wow, would not have expected a Tommy Lee Jones western to have tons of overcranked, reckless in-camera stuntwork F/X but sure let's give it a try!

the most deeply affecting western since Unforgiven

you lost me immediately by not acknowledging meek's cutoff

not having it is the virtue, honeybunch

Cool, good luck selling fans of MM:FR on it then.

the commonality: transporting traumatized women through the desert

OTOH, i am here for any love for Seidl's Paradise Trilogy which i consider HIGHLY underrated

i dunno about hard to be a god being underrated (i think it's universally beloved?) but it was one of the more hallucinatory experiences i've ever had in a theater.

Still need to see Capernaum
will add Homesman and Ingrid Goes West to the watch list
gonna continue passing on The Bad Batch

those fans are busy at amusement parks xp

xp, i forgot that morbs is anti-Reichardt