that goes double for the mostly execrable Wind River which was bad enough on more or less every level that I ended up walking out during the protracted, unnecessary and vaguely prurient rape scene. that film sucks.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
there's always been good money in flattering your audience
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
National Film Registry Class of 2017
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
SCREEN ACTOR GUILD AWARDS
Supporting Female, Motion PictureMary J. Blige, MudboundHong Chau, DownsizingHolly Hunter, The Big SickAllison Janney, I, TonyaLaurie Metcalf, Ladybird
Supporting Male, Motion PictureSteve Carrell, Battle of the SexesWillem Dafoe, The Florida ProjectWoody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriRichard Jenkins, The Shape of WaterSam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Leading Female, Motion PictureJudi Dench, Victoria & AbdulSally Hawkins, The Shape of WaterFrances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriMargot Robbie, I, TonyaSaoirse Ronan, Ladybird
Leading Male, Motion PictureTimothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your NameJames Franco, The Disaster ArtistDaniel Kaluuya, Get OutGary Oldman, Darkest HourDenzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
CastThe Big SickGet OutLadybirdMudboundThree Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
"Supporting Female"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Harrelson instead of Hammer, eh?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
More like Carell instead of literally any other person who's actually been discussed for the award thus far.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
But, yeah, audiences at large aren't hugely into CMBYN it appears.
The Post is the more shocking exclusion, but maybe the SAG nomination body at large just hasn't seen it.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
Man, poll deadlines loom and I'm struggling to think of many foreign language performances to break up the English-language monotony.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
BPM's leads and then ... ?
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
Jean-Pierre Leaud
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure it's acting but it's a performance
Oh right! That counts. (Maybe I should say non-English and non-French?)
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
of course it's acting, he aint dead
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Sherwan Haji in The Other Side of Hope
def Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in BPM, esp cuz Jeff Wells think it's the wrong kind of gay
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
Adèle Haenel for the 3 films she was in
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
Claes Bang in The Square. Elliott Crosett Hove in Winterbrothers. The one from Spoor. The leads in On Body and Soul.
But performance of the year is Charlotte Ramplings Volpi-winning all time great turn in Hannah, btw. Look forward to that!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
he's asking for votes for stuff that's already out in the US, but keep humblebragging
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
Kim Min-hee in the Hong Sang-soos! And the lead in A Fantastic Woman.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
Is Hannah out?
Oh, sorry, now I get what you're saying. Well, I don't always check US release dates, I think some is out in NY? (Also, it's not really bragging that I get to see different films. I saw Neruda today, a year after the US premiere, it seems. It's just different)
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
no US distro as yet for Hannah
The Square looks really annoying
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
It is! In a raelly great way, imo, but it's also a really Scandinavian movie. ymmv.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
yeah i both liked and hated the square, i think it's worth seeing even if you kind of want to slap all of the main characters
― k3vin k., Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
I have to admit, it's made for me. I studied cultural communication, and I recognize pretty much all the characters...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
I studied cultural communication
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Parts of the Square are really feeble - the subplot about the piles of detrius being accidentally cleaned up (lol modern art is indistinguishable from rubbish lol), the entirely predictable/unshocking 'shocking' video of the child being blown up, cheap laughs at the guy with tourette's at the press conference, who cannot be silenced because of middle class artworld fear over 'blocking discourse'. The ape guy at the party is obviously meant to be socially awkward to watch, but the scene comes so late in this (much too long) movie that you can't help feeling just duffed up by it, even though the performance is obv a technical bit of work. The only time the film really came alive for me was the long sequence of the museum director and his work intern going off to post the leaflets in the block of flats - very tense, a sense of disaster looming, hubris, good music - and the robbery scene before that.
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
I don't think this has been posted yet
https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-20-best-film-scenes-of-2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
xpostAnd Killing of a Sacred Deer is ten times smarter and funnier than The Square about male privilege and economic inequality without resorting to apparently unironic shots of homeless people camped outside art museums.
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
I really like Dogtooth and The Lobster but Sacred Deer was a shitty arthouse revenge movie
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
I really like you Michael B but that was a shitty revenge on arthouse post
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
:P
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
witty arthouse revenge
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
And Killing of a Sacred Deer is ten times smarter and funnier than The Square about male privilege and economic inequality without resorting to apparently unironic shots of homeless people camped outside art museums.
^^^ this.
The Square played as if Östlund set out to write a parody of a Cannes favorite for a Eurotrash Living in Oblivion.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
I give purportedly misanthropic cinema a colder reception, but Killing's wit and use of horror compensated.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
The Square is not about economic inequality, that's one of the biggest misreads of it, imo.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
To answer Eric's question: Sherwan Haji in The Other Side of Hope.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
And the many shots of homeless people would be absolutely ordinary if you went to Stockholm. It's one of the things that has stuck with me after travelling to swedish film festivals.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
It's like complaing an NY film had too many shots of subways.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 December 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
does Elizabeth Moss do her usual mogadon performance in The Sq?
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
that everyone's like oh Eliz Moss is so magnetic! to
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
Nathan Rabin's Top 10
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
I preferred The Square to Sacred Deer despite it being about a half-hour too long.
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
xp shares only 4 of my top 10 list, not bad
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
man, Close really looked like an ill Stan Laurel in AN
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
square snobbery here is confounding to me but tastes differ i guess
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
Justin Chang's list.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
and Chicago Film Critics announced their winners yesterday:
Picture: Lady BirdDirector: Christopher Nolan, DunkirkActor: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your NameActress: Saoirse Ronan, Lady BirdSupporting actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida ProjectSupporting actress, Laurie Metcalf, Lady BirdOriginal screenplay: Jordan Peele, Get OutAdapted screenplay: James Ivory, Call Me by Your NameForeign language film: The SquareDocumentary: JaneAnimated feature: CocoCinematography: Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049Editing: Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss, Baby DriverArt direction: Blade Runner 2049Original score: Jonny Greenwood, Phantom ThreadMost promising performer: Timothee Chalamet, Call Me by Your NameMost promising filmmaker: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
"let's have the dead compete against one another for our memorial award," said the Online Film Critics Society pic.twitter.com/3utkYlpJVZ— Jason (@jasonosia) December 18, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link