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

I watched the first couple of installments - not yet convinced the diversion from Morris' usual style is particularly productive

AV Club: https://www.avclub.com/the-20-best-films-of-2017-1821431829

have we just committed to misspelling 'detritus' in the subject of this thread for 13 years?

https://i.imgur.com/U7Ghu2s.gif

"just"

fuuuuuck Logan so much, nice to see mother! on a list though

Re: Musto

The Beguiled?!

My group's finalists.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project

You didn't make enough phone calls beforehand, evidently.

hey man I used up minutes getting Nixon in.

Barry Keoghan – The Killing of A Sacred Deer

ok, wasn't expecting that

i notice this year in pretty much ALL the groups and orgs, the best sctors and scripts ALL speak/are in English

didn't used to happen

Since Bergman stopped making movies, more often than not tho.

As austerity politics has been tough to national film funding, a lot of international directors are making films in English as well. Lanthimos and Guadagnino and del Toro most conspicuously this year.

Bilge Ebiri posits a #1 that not many have yet: https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/21/songs-from-a-sunken-place-the-best-films-of-2017/

I'd hoped that would be After the Storm, which is the best Kore-eda in ages. Really, really, good.

I thought After the Storm was pleasant, but I struggle to think of anything remarkable about it. The few reviews I've read of it mirror your reaction far more than mine, though.

For me it's mostly that I thought Kore-eda had become too saccharine and slick on his latest films, but there's both some real darkness, and some unexpected filmic choices, in After the Storm. For instance the male lead is kinda too tall for a lot of the camera setups, which never failed to amuse me.

I can catch up on one of these three contenders today, which one do I go see?

Call Me By Your Name
Florida Project
Good Time

The first and third.

I liked The Florida Project but I'd still agree with Alfred.

Oh, wait only one. That is hard! Good Time is a safer bet but I'd personally say CMBYN.

thanks guys CMBYN was lovely :)

Wait till you see the lovelinesss of The Florida Project!

We recognized the loveliness of The Florida Project after all. I didn't expect a Dunkirk win. I included my final ballot therein.

Lol. On the other hand, you're the only group to not choose Dafoe, no?

I'd trade every Alison Janney in the world for one Dafoe.

Aw, why do you hate on Alison Janney, I like her :(

*google's "I hate Alison Janney" as part of my research to uncover whether ILX is the one place on the internet where you can find people being mean about Alison Janney*

to me, her career highlight is being killed by a bus.

Happy Christmas to one and all!

Sexy Rexy's top 10 (yawn) and bottom ten (lol)

http://observer.com/2017/12/rex-reeds-10-best-movies-and-10-worst-movies-of-2017/

Didn't the Observer lay him off midyear?

Nah, they just gave him a long bathroom break.

Bilge Ebiri on overlooked actors

https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/27/the-17-most-overlooked-performances-of-2017/

I had Adèle Haenel and Aubrey Plaza on two of my ballots. Agree about Sienna Miller (and had Charlie Hunnam on there too).

Haenel for BPM, that is.

I've had Aubrey Plaza on ballots in the past for far worse movies, so it pains me to say I haven't seen Ingrid Goes West yet.

Reverse Shot 10, led by A Quiet Passion and The Human Surge

http://reverseshot.org/features/2400/best_2017

v happy to see Colossal on a worst-of list

No Brigsby Bear on these lists is lame

Miami Film Awards went up.

Nat'l Film Soc has theirs this weekend I think. So help me, if they pick The Shape of Water...

I added the Ebiri piece Morbs just posted to our "to watch" list and can I just say after Everybody Wants Some!! and Ingrid Goes West, I'm really getting to like Wyatt Russell.

also IGW feels like a horror film wtf

This guy otm

https://i.imgur.com/DzT3xWi_d.jpg?maxwidth=640

also IGW feels like a horror film wtf

― El Tomboto

It sort of is.

This year's Slate Movie Club launches:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_movie_club/features/2018/movie_club_2017/the_best_films_of_2017_in_the_slate_movie_club.html

WGA Nominations

http://awardswatch.com/2018/01/04/logan-i-tonya-grab-writers-guild-of-america-wga-nominations-the-post-is-snubbed/

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Big Sick, Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out, Written by Jordan Peele
I, Tonya, Written by Steven Rogers
Lady Bird, Written by Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water, Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me by Your Name, Screenplay by James Ivory; Based on the Novel by André Aciman
The Disaster Artist, Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Based on the Book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
Logan, Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold; Based on Characters from the X-Men Comic Books and Theatrical Motion Pictures
Molly’s Game, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the Book by Molly Bloom
Mudbound, Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan

fuckin' Sorkin

that movie is all voice-over; the sequences are pretty pictures to accompany the voice-over