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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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 (six years ago)

I like that top 50 overall

Dan S, Friday, 10 January 2020 05:55 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

OU812iHollywood

The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:04 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

Do you like Franz Rogowski, Alfred? I love him.

Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:02 (six years ago)

Glad you came around on the Petzold, Alfred!

bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:05 (six years ago)

Do you like Franz Rogowski, Alfred? I love him.

― 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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

Parasite winning best cast at SAGs tonight was embarrassingly thrilling. If it can win the top award at SAG (especially with the AFTRA inclusion), maybe it's got the best picture Oscar in the bag?

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 03:42 (six years ago)

Oscars? What're those?

Just got back from Little Women and can't remotely see how that's not the best cast. I mean, Jayne Houdyshell and Tracy Letts are great in it.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 03:47 (six years ago)

Apparently Gerwig's editing choices confused old people!

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 January 2020 04:56 (six years ago)

yeah like that dope J*** Wells

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 08:36 (six years ago)

Yeah, Little Women was fantastic.

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:00 (six years ago)

Best part of SAG awards: Superhero clip montage (featuring cash-in roles SAG doesn't take seriously enough for awards) & without a single ZSnyder film--yet scored to the Man of Steel soundtrack. Undeniable greatness. Truth will out. #ReleaseTheSndyerCut pic.twitter.com/4hj0wWGyQr

— armond white (@3xchair) January 20, 2020

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:38 (six years ago)

Keith U goin' characteristically idiosyncratic on the decade... I count 3 liberally defined musicals.

https://www.keithuhlich.com/2020/01/decade-dance-10-for-10s.html

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:28 (six years ago)

Here's my annual survey of last year's 35mm-shot US theatrical releases (26 in part or whole, 18 35-only) https://t.co/BbvvhCzE0e

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) January 21, 2020

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:24 (six years ago)

PGA and DGA both confirm that this year was about 1917 all along.

Jesus, and I thought Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Green Book was boring.

I Heard You Ain't HOOS's (Eric H.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 20:02 (six years ago)

WHY 1917??

flappy bird, Monday, 27 January 2020 02:18 (six years ago)

why anything?

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 02:38 (six years ago)

fortunately, it's not important

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 January 2020 02:45 (six years ago)

Fortunately, nothing is.

I Heard You Ain't HOOS's (Eric H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:13 (six years ago)

Cut!

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:14 (six years ago)

Nothing matters, but still 1917 matters least of all.

Frederik B, Monday, 27 January 2020 08:43 (six years ago)

soviet proverb

difficult listening hour, Monday, 27 January 2020 09:04 (six years ago)

Look I'm not going to go see a movie called "1917" if it isn't about the October Revolution. That's just how it is.

— Brad 🇮🇷 (@havingabradday) January 11, 2020

xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2020 09:07 (six years ago)

pvmic

culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 January 2020 15:47 (six years ago)

baftas

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/bafta-film-awards-2020-winners-list-1203489809/

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:29 (six years ago)

Oscar will Xerox that top 8.

🚶‍♂️💨 (Eric H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:48 (six years ago)

WGA: Parasite, Jojo Rabbit

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:24 (six years ago)

the continued success of Jojo Rabbit is unfuckingbelievable

flappy bird, Monday, 3 February 2020 18:07 (six years ago)

it's the "with-it" Life Is Beautiful

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:13 (six years ago)

Jojo's screenplay is Adapted from my nightmares iirc

bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:14 (six years ago)

My main glitches with Jojo is that I think the whole Wes Anderson look is a little played and the trailer/marketing really kneecapped it. Its conceit isn't as affecting/smart as, say, Transit, but I think for a middlebrow movie that tackled a serious thing, it looks great and is funny and is emotional without being bathetic. Taika is phenomenal in it!

The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:51 (six years ago)

Really? as 'adorkable Hitler'?

flappy bird, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:13 (six years ago)

add one to the list
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=67985

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:15 (six years ago)

whoops, er, broken link i guess

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:15 (six years ago)

I don't have anything against the guy but the whole thing struck me as profoundly stupid and often offensive, not out of malice but ignorance & naivete. of course a holocaust/nazi comedy can be made, but the movie had the stale fake woke posturing of a Sprite commercial. imo

xxp

flappy bird, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:17 (six years ago)

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/cats-2020-razzie-awards-949791/

🚶‍♂️💨 (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:27 (six years ago)

WORST SCREEN COMBO
Any two half-feline/half-human hairballs,Cats
Jason Derulo and his CGI-neutered bulge, Cats
Tyler Perry and Tyler Perry (or Tyler Perry), A Madea Family Funeral
Sylvester Stallone and his impotent rage, Rambo: First Blood
John Travolta and any screenplay he accepts

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:53 (six years ago)

Spirits to Safdies, Sandler, and... The Farewell

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/2020-spirit-awards-winners-list-uncut-gems-1202208889/

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 February 2020 19:26 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Cinema Scope

https://cinema-scope.com/columns/cinema-scope-82-editors-note/

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 03:35 (six years ago)

five months pass...

Crazy follow up for Honeyland here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/world/europe/honeyland-north-macedonia-bees.html

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 07:22 (five years ago)

“It’s impossible!” sighed Mr. Georgiev. “We are filmmakers, not social workers.”

Maybe you shouldn't have bought her a fucking house then! Morons

flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:48 (five years ago)


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