This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2017

i have no idea who Tiffany Haddish is. This an all-out broadly comic role?

I did like Malcolm Lee's Undercover Brother, but damn that was a long time ago.

hoping my beloved Cynthia Nixon takes it

(watch they pull some Kate Winslet bullshit)

the Winslet sizzle of October seems to have cooled some

Yep, to put it far too reductively, she's the Melissa McCarthy Bridesmaids force in Girls Trip. Very broad, very unsubtle, very funny.

BEST ACTOR: TIMOTHEE CHALAMET / CALL ME BY YOUR NAME #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

No issues with that choice either tbh. These are going well enough that I can't wait for them to top the last-minute La La Land win in sheer eleventh-hour awfulness.

BEST PICTURE: DARKEST HOUR #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

BEST PICTURE: DUNKIRK and DARKEST HOUR (tie) #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

nice try, you naughty boy

It's all fun and games until The Same Kind of Different As Me takes it

I already know K3ith Uhl1ch is going to vote for The Snowman in all categories.

BEST ACTRESS: SAOIRSE RONAN / LADY BIRD #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

oh yeah, LB is the only alternative i see to CMBYN

I have $5 down on Lady Bird also winning director and picture.

must be the youngest pair of lead acting winners

I'm cool with them.

Oh crap, I forgot about the last-minute groundswell on this one ... I rescind my $5

BEST SCREENPLAY: PHANTOM THREAD / PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

oh snap

SPECIAL AWARD FOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: MOLLY HASKELL #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

Frederick B was right after all!

BEST DIRECTOR: SEAN BAKER / THE FLORIDA PROJECT #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

yay Molly

that's what i call a "Danish fix"

gtfo

BEST PICTURE: LADY BIRD (GRETA GERWIG) #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

something for everybody, except passionate Florida haters

2017 NYFCC awards the rare case of successfully pulling a “sorry sorry I’m trying to delete” re: their 2016 awards

— Jake Cole (@notjustmovies) November 30, 2017

Awards Watch seems in shock that The Post didn't factor in at all.

i'm glad i've never been to Awards Watch

I don't read him regularly, so I'm just gonna ask: is K.U. trolling with this Snowman stuff?

Assuredly.

I don't care that much about oscars, but since Sean Baker is the quintessential American filmmaker of the decade, it would be cool to see him nominated at least once.

The Florida Project is gonna be a tough Oscar sell beyond Dafoe.

Yeah, probably :)

oh, darRYL

This doesn't really fit here (although it must one of the best short films of the year) I'm posting it because I want Alfred and Eric to watch it and tell me what they think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54fea7wuV6s

It has enough muscles to qualify for my best-of list.

Waters' commentary now up: https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201710&id=72432

My faves:

5 WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes) Want an IQ test for your cinephile children? Just take them to see this beautifully made, feel-good kids’ movie about the hearing-impaired, starring a little girl who looks exactly like Simone Signoret. If your small-fry like the film, they’re smart. If they don’t, they’re stupid.

10 TOM OF FINLAND (Dome Karukoski) This dirty but dignified, oddly commercial biopic of the artist who inspired the modern-day s/m gay leather scene is now the Finnish government’s official entry in the 2017 foreign-film Oscar race. That’s what I call patriotic penis progress, and I hope it wins.

http://yearendlists.com/category/2017-movies/

well I did see his #1, 2 and 5

J. Hoberman: Artforum Top Ten, 2017 pic.twitter.com/mh88i7jXgw

— Jordan Cronk (@JordanCronk) December 2, 2017

I loved The Holy Girl and The Headless Woman, looking forward to see Zama!

*seeing

what was the staff letter of October 26. 2017?

I need to get a subscription to Artforum

John Waters says in that piece that Woody Allen has never made a bad film, so he should be careful about calling others stupid.

Zama is alright, no Headless Woman imho.

Lol at the Emihholz. He premiered four films at Berlin and I kinda gave up on it all... I do like his architecture films, though.

LA critics now voting. Not feeling as generous about their results so I'll just link to their twitter: https://twitter.com/lafilmcritics

link to the mimosa drinking

Best Cinematography, Winner: Dan Laustsen, THE SHAPE OF WATER

Best Cinematography, Runner-Up: Roger Deakins, BLADE RUNNER 2049

Best Music/Score, Winner: Jonny Greenwood, PHANTOM THREAD

— LA Film Critics (@LAFilmCritics) December 3, 2017

(WIth The Shape of Water as the runner up.)