Is it me or is this shit worse than usual this year?
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
as i remember it, Dan, there was an asterisk for those albums, saying "received (x) votes last year" -- but they were not added
but i could be wrong
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
the points totals start taking some bigger leaps from here
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/z2gJlQZ.jpg
30. The Square w/d: Ruben Östlund 78 points, 5 votes
a dark satire of the people atop the institutions of high contemporary art that won the palme d'or this year, for some reason. a couple great scenes and some quality dry LOLs, but overall i found it underwhelming and solidly an hour too long. claes bang is extremely handsome.― flopson, Wednesday, 22 November 2017
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 November 2017
wow
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
The good parts of this are really good tho
didn't like the trailer, reviews were mixed, and i thought Östlund's avalanche comedy was overrated
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
As someone said on the thread (& I said about I think wiener-dog) there is no surer sign of bankruptcy than going for the low-hanging fruit of “a satire of the contemporary art scene!”
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
that extended performance art scene at the fancy museum dinner started out feeling embarrassing but by the end was so brutal I had to look away
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
there is no surer sign of bankruptcy than going for the low-hanging fruit of “a satire of the contemporary art scene!”
tbf it is a satire about a whole lot of things, not just the art world. It's the AK to Force Majeure's pistol
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
couldn't stand this
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
most things don't need satires -- most things are bad enough!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
TOO LOW!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
(shrug) I laughed a lot, but it was easily half an hour too long
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
number 3 on my ballot, it rocks
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Agreed that we should put off voting until at least July for the previous year.
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Perhaps not quite as good as his masterpiece Play, but a lot better than Force Majeure. I didn't see it as satirizing the art world as much as class structure in Sweden in general. Modern art being just as much an ostentatious display of societal power as the horse statue that get's broken in the first scene. It's not subtle, but I loved it.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
The vagaries and varieties of international film distribution ARE fascinating imho, worth discussing here and elsewhere - geographic patterns of taste and fashion map onto the way we receive/view every film that we see. For myself, I just use this poll - and the x film thread - as a diary of things seen and enjoyed. So if I were to look back at this poll sometime, I would remember that I saw Toni Erdmann for the first (and so far only) time in 2017, and then think back to the 'controversy' about it topping the Sight and Sound poll of 2016 w/out it being released in the UK at the time.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
I got bored of Toni Erdmann and missed probably the last half -- should I go back and see the last half?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
yes
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
I rarely watch contemp movies a second time and Toni Erdmann benefited from the second viewing.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
the birthday party scene and the scene in the park afterwards were both amazing, and iirc they occur in the second half. plus Plainsong at the end!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MWalOU6.jpg
29. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library d: Frederick Wiseman (doco) 86 points, 6 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
Ex Libris is very much of a piece with At Berkeley and National Gallery: the day-to-day flow of what happens there, mixed with endless meetings where board members try to figure out ways to secure funding and keep the institution operational. I've thought all of Wiseman's recent films with the exception of Boxing Gym were great, and this one is too. I will say, though, that he finds more interest in those meetings than I do. ― clemenza, Tuesday, October 31, 2017
― clemenza, Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Oh we saw The Square and liked it recently (tt more than me) but couldn't be bothered to adjust our ballots to include it. Doesn't always hit but it is wonderfully disgusted at many of the right things, and it gets pretty weird towards the end too
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
The only film I added to new list.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
for anyone who has a card from a participating library, the public library streaming app Kanopy has what looks like the ENTIRE Wiseman filmography (except Ex Libris) at the moment, I think maybe inspired by current interest in this film
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
liked it fine, just not quite enough to vote for.
the NYPL also has all the FW DVDs, which they did not 2 years ago.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eBNgKed.jpg
26= A Ghost Story w/d: David Lowery 96 points, 8 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
I thought this was very bad, presumably there is no ILX quote bigging it up?
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
hi!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
saw it exactly a year ago before a week of laying on the beach, so it was ideal prefatory material
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
All the quotes so far have been ilxors equivocating so maybe everyone loved it
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
couldn't get past the Peanuts costume image to the box office
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
what do you mean? Under a sheet is the best way to look at Casey Affleck.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
when there are no quotes, it's because I couldn't find anything being said about the film at all (outside of the (x) movies you saw thread)
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FD98t0d.jpg 26= On Body and Soul w/d: Ildikó Enyedi 96 points, 6 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
Just watched On Body and Soul. It was completely different to anything I had imagined it would be...sort of a muted, magic realist melodrama. What a bizarre career the director seems to have had. ― tangenttangent, Sunday, 4 March 2018
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 4 March 2018
Thanks for the reminder.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
no memory of that, i see it won the top prize in Berlin. my Letterboxd is very lukewarm on it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
also it played a bunch of US fests last year, no distribution til online this year
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
It was on MUBI
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MjJmauK.jpg
26= The Big Sick d: Michael Showalter w: Kumail Nanjiani & Emily Gordon 96 points, 7 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
let's see:1) completely unlikeable, unctuous lead2) you expect there to be some tie-in to the healthcare crisis in a movie called THE BIG SICK, but nope, everything is fine! no bills, no loans, no evil insurance companies3) not funny at all. it's the epitome of contemporary comedy consisting of simply "making good points," bland moralizing & half-baked drama at the expense of jokes4) vapid navel-gazing autobiography. again, you expect a movie called THE BIG SICK to make some comment on healthcare in America, but it's just the story of how Kumail and Emily met & got married5) another piece of post-Louis dross that expects us to sympathize with the most loathsome and untalented people on earth - open mic stand ups. fuck off― flappy bird, Tuesday, July 18, 2017
― flappy bird, Tuesday, July 18, 2017
completely unlikeable, unctuous lead2) you expect there to be some tie-in to the healthcare crisis in a movie called THE BIG SICK, but nope, everything is fine! no bills, no loans, no evil insurance companies
The Big Sick as directed by Ruben Östlund.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Michael Showalter was in The State, so no, I haven't bothered to see any of his films.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
A Ghost Story and On Body and Soul were both similarly subdued and were both very watchable, but I think I preferred the more enigmatic ending of A Ghost Story
I didn't realize films can be nominated for the foreign language academy award before they have a commercial release in the US
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
in fact, usually that seems to be the case for most of the nominees
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gxi56Gm.jpg
25. Coco d: Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina w: Many Trained Story Technicians 100 points, 6 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link