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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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.

namechecks Martin Eden as a fave......my man xps

I've seen all ten on that list, don't dislike any, but am crazy about 3 or 4 tops.

surprised to see Zama at the top spot as well but I'm not mad about it

same

Lol, that top ten kinda plays out like a normal American zine top ten, but turned on it's head :)

Exactly! (I'd have been a little less surprised had it been Toni Erdmann that came out on top.)

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

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.

DGA nominates zero women:

Directors Guild (DGA) nominations:

Bong Joon Ho
Sam Mendes
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Taika Waititi

— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) January 7, 2020

and a Jojo Rabbit honor to shit in the punchbowl?

of course they honored sam MENdes

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.

Producers Guild:

1917
Ford v. Ferrari
The Irishman
JoJo Rabbit
Joker
Knives Out
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Parasite

amazing how this fucking year deflated our pleasant arthouse decade once again

i'm beginning to retroactively hate Parasite

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

Every FC top ten maker is in my top twenty except the Carax.

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, January 7, 2020 2:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

OTM. His last great performance, and iirc, he relapsed at the wrap party.

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/adam-sandler-confronts-film-critics-mean-nyfcc-1202201523/

Oh my god Joe Pesci is currently on his 20th word pic.twitter.com/fMlqz5Lcsy

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) January 8, 2020

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/

The rest of the Film Comment top 50 is now posted and the Boyhood/Social Network skew is definitely a minority bloc.

I like that top 50 overall

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.

OU812iHollywood

The only one of FC's decade 50 I haven't seen is Roma. Criterion coming Feb 11. (I expect to be underwhelmed)

Per Letterboxd, my most watched filmmaker of 2019 was Abel Ferrara; most watched actor, Doris Day. (Respectively due to MoMA retrospective and death.)

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.

xp

Jack Mercer and Dave Fleischer for me, thanks to all those Popeye shorts I logged.

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

Glad you came around on the Petzold, Alfred!

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.

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.

No Joker to be found...

https://filmmakermagazine.com/108819-the-2019-village-voice-film-poll-reconstructed/#.Xh4z2Kl7lBw

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2019-bong-joon-ho-guillermo-del-toro-sofia-coppola-luca-guadagnino-1202197153/

Have just seen that's from Dec 30, so apologies if it has already been posted here

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?

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.

Apparently Gerwig's editing choices confused old people!

yeah like that dope J*** Wells

Yeah, Little Women was fantastic.

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

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

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

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

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

WHY 1917??

why anything?

fortunately, it's not important

Fortunately, nothing is.