I don't know how one remembers 'snubs' a year later unless one is a trophy workhorse like Jeff Wells
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
I don't know how one gives one shit about baseball stats, so we're even.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
I don't give a shit about baseball awards, so we're uneven again
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
I can live with that.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
Now kiss
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
we both kiss you, Three Stooges style
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
nyuk nyuk nyuk
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
was Eve Harrington one of the stooges
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
Curly Eve
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
Nomi Malone slapping everyone itt
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
*stabbing
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
https://media2.giphy.com/media/3o85xwpCu3LWa4kz8A/source.gif
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
Dennis Lim tries to sort out the decade:
Presenting his work at a film at Lincoln Center retrospective in 2018, Christian Petzold railed against a type of festival film he described as “the lemon-tree movie.” This would, as Petzold derisively imagines it, involve two lovers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, their star-crossed romance represented by a lemon tree situated right on the Gaza-Israel border. (He may have had in mind an actual Israeli movie called Lemon Tree, which has a somewhat different plot but uses similar botanical symbolism.) Anyone who has sampled even a sliver of contemporary world cinema will recognize this species of “subject movie,” to use Petzold’s term. These are films that are relentlessly about something: laden with sociopolitical import, allowing for a touch of lyricism but very little ambiguity, and bearing the telltale traces of the screenwriting workshop.
Petzold’s example gets at a rarely spoken truth about the film-industrial complex. While distinctive work is emerging all the time, especially on the margins, and therefore easy to overlook, many of the institutions that determine what gets made and shown still function as forces of homogenization, from film schools to the funding bodies and development labs that are sometimes attached to the very festivals that serve as showcases for the end results of this often highly professionalized process. Ours is an age of fatiguing overload but also of numbing sameness: too many movies, too many festivals, too many reviews, too many opinions, too many lists, too many hot takes and think pieces that turn complicated issues into cultural talking points and empty posturing—all of which amount not to a lively discourse but a reinforcement of conventional wisdom (or worse)....
The brave new world of digital streaming promises instant access, but choice is a pernicious myth when entire swathes of cinema are conveniently forgotten or actively suppressed (as is happening with Disney’s continued withholding of 20th Century Fox titles from repertory theaters). Everything is market-tested, only for us to be told that what people want is more of the same. The late-capitalist logic is seamless: what we get is not, as advertised, plenitude, but its precise opposite, a narrowing of options to an algorithmically determined menu and a simultaneous impression that no other options exist.
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-termites-return-dennis-lim-best-of-the-decade/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/l0G18fHgs241OUyxW/giphy.gif
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
Also ...
http://filmcomment.com/best-films-of-the-decade/
The fact that that top 5 gets followed by that 6-10 is astonishing ... specifically that #1, which awesome but I wouldn't have predicted that to get this decade's Mulholland Drive slot.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
namechecks Martin Eden as a fave......my man xps
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
I've seen all ten on that list, don't dislike any, but am crazy about 3 or 4 tops.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
surprised to see Zama at the top spot as well but I'm not mad about it
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
same
― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
Lol, that top ten kinda plays out like a normal American zine top ten, but turned on it's head :)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
Exactly! (I'd have been a little less surprised had it been Toni Erdmann that came out on top.)
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
RE: Lemon Tree fetishism, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Wild Pear Tree" might be my favorite film of the year but it sort of acknowledges the trope and plays with it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po0vls18Koc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
well Toni Erdmann is the arthouse 'hit' of the top 5, right? The other four filmmakers are defiantly sui generis. xp
I think The Master might've benefited from the tragic resonance of PS Hoffman's death, as Akerman's film echoes strongly after hers.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
DGA nominates zero women:
Directors Guild (DGA) nominations:Bong Joon HoSam MendesMartin ScorseseQuentin TarantinoTaika Waititi— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) January 7, 2020
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
and a Jojo Rabbit honor to shit in the punchbowl?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
of course they honored sam MENdes
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
Bong, Mendes, Scorsese and Tarantino are fait accompli for the oscars at this point; i'm wondering if they're gonna be shamed into Gerwig for #5.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Producers Guild:
1917Ford v. FerrariThe IrishmanJoJo RabbitJokerKnives OutLittle WomenMarriage StoryOnce Upon A Time in HollywoodParasite
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
amazing how this fucking year deflated our pleasant arthouse decade once again
i'm beginning to retroactively hate Parasite
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
anyway i'll be intrigued to see #11-25 in the Film Comment '10s list when i get the magazine, esp if Inherent Vice is there
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
Every FC top ten maker is in my top twenty except the Carax.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 7, 2020 2:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
OTM. His last great performance, and iirc, he relapsed at the wrap party.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 05:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/adam-sandler-confronts-film-critics-mean-nyfcc-1202201523/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
Oh my god Joe Pesci is currently on his 20th word pic.twitter.com/fMlqz5Lcsy— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) January 8, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Banderas, off to Spain in the morning, won the crowd over by being honest: “I am tired of campaigning,” he said. “I am not a politician. I am an actor!”
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/nyfcc-bong-joon-ho-oscar-rock-star-tarantino-confronts-film-critics-1202201531/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
The rest of the Film Comment top 50 is now posted and the Boyhood/Social Network skew is definitely a minority bloc.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
I like that top 50 overall
― Dan S, Friday, 10 January 2020 05:55 (four years ago) link
I got the issue; as usu, the individual lists are more interesting.
Both Molly Haskell and Hoberman have Charlie Says and OUaTiHollywood in their top tens of '19.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
OU812iHollywood
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
The only one of FC's decade 50 I haven't seen is Roma. Criterion coming Feb 11. (I expect to be underwhelmed)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
Per Letterboxd, my most watched filmmaker of 2019 was Abel Ferrara; most watched actor, Doris Day. (Respectively due to MoMA retrospective and death.)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
I just saw Transit again, almost a year to the day of my first screening. My heart was in my throat. How quickly the times line up with our aesthetic preferences.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 January 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
xp
Jack Mercer and Dave Fleischer for me, thanks to all those Popeye shorts I logged.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 11 January 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
Do you like Franz Rogowski, Alfred? I love him.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
Glad you came around on the Petzold, Alfred!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_),
I do enough to vote him as a finalist in the Florida Film Critics Award for Best Actor, and, yeah, he's cute in a whey-faced Joaquin Phoenix way.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
I missed, for reasons too stupid to go into here, a crucial plot point in Transit and was therefore completely baffled by it and had no idea what was happening. I still enjoyed it though.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
No Joker to be found...
https://filmmakermagazine.com/108819-the-2019-village-voice-film-poll-reconstructed/#.Xh4z2Kl7lBw
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2019-bong-joon-ho-guillermo-del-toro-sofia-coppola-luca-guadagnino-1202197153/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
Have just seen that's from Dec 30, so apologies if it has already been posted here
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link