This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2018

^all five of those nominated films look interesting to me

went to a decently packed matinee of Boy Erased yesterday and the projectionist started playing Beautiful Boy instead 😂

Skip both

Jeez, Independent Spirit Award nominations are announced this Friday.

Boy Erased is like Joel Edgerton's acting.

I thought Flea was OK

I'm reading the memoir, and, boy, is it funnier/more fun than the movie

Some of the bigger dates this season, btw:

Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations (ISP) – November 16, 2018
National Board of Review (NBR) – November 27, 2018
New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) – November 29, 2018
Golden Globe Nominations (HFPA) – December 6, 2018
Los Angeles Film Critics Circle (LAFCA) – December 9, 2018
Screen Actors Guild Nominations (SAG) – December 12, 2018
Oscar Shortlists Announced – December 17, 2018

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-oscar-race-became-a-referendum-netflix-1160629

Some Academy skeptics are railing against Netflix's reliance on four-walling, a strategy akin to self-publishing in the cinema world, in which a distributor pays theater owners for the privilege of screening to the general public, rather than booking a theater and sharing a percentage of the gross. By four-walling, Netflix removes the burden of revealing any unfavorable box office numbers, a privilege none of the other companies releasing their best picture contenders the traditional way will enjoy. If Netflix secures a best picture nomination for Roma based strictly on these purchased screenings, multiple knowledgeable sources say they believe the film will become the first ever four-walled movie to do so in the modern era.

that's an interesting wrinkle

It’s November 15th. pic.twitter.com/RuifiA2FpD

— Mike D’Angelo (@gemko) November 15, 2018

John Waters is the only first list, year in and year out, to me. Nonetheless ...

http://time.com/5454739/best-movies-2018/

STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
01. Roma
02. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
03. First Reformed
04. Eighth Grade
05. The Favourite
06. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
07. A Star Is Born
08. If Beale Street Could Talk
09. Bohemian Rhapsody (!)
10. Paddington 2

Truth be told, though, I don't know of any particular Phantom Thread or Silence proposition waiting in the wings this year. (Vice for sure ain't it.)

Alan Sepinwall tweeted that due to print deadlines, not only had he had to do his Best of 2018 list already, he had already seen a new tv show that deserved to be on that list.

LOL

i detest this premature shit more every year

You detest everything more every year

07. A Star Is Born
09. Bohemian Rhapsody
10. Paddington 2

waht

P2 is a defensible choice and it'll show up on more lists

And Bohemian Rhapsody is a runaway hit and I'm sure she's getting heat from her editor.

Paddington 2 is from 2017 in my book, but if it came out somewhere in 2018, it's definitely among the best of that year.

Yeah, it's pretty securely on my list at this point, and pre-judging what's yet to come.

i'm certainly running away from BR

Can You Ever Forgive Me? was good and its place in the bottom half of a top 10 is appropriate in a relatively mediocre year

Yeah, I'm not much in love with movies this year tbqh.

Feeling very 2006 to me, only this time there isn't a David Lynch to pull me out of it at the last minute. (Though there is a Cuaron.)

Damn, and 2006 was the year of sandbox, and there isn't much of a detrius thread to relive it: end-of-2006 film stuff (detrius 2, the Richard Donner Cut)

the Cuaron doesn't look like it's gonna get here until 2019 (just like Inland Empire in 2007)

otherwise i'm most excited for The Favourite and If Beale Street Could Talk

Infinite Football towers over anything else released this year, imo. But I'm guessing An Elephant Sitting Still will win most polls.

I hope everyone gets to see Transit before the year's out.

I have, but looks like 2019 for the US.

I'm guessing An Elephant Sitting Still will win most polls.

You're admirably odd.

wrong adverb

lol. I do want to see it

a lot of the films that got talked about at Cannes and Venice this year looked interesting to me: 3 Faces, Asako I & II, Ash Is Purest White, Border, Burning, Cold War, Capernaum, Donbass, The Favourite, Girl, Lazarro Felice, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Image Book, Manta Ray, Roma, Shoplifters, The Sisters Brothers, Suspiria, The Wild Pear Tree. I haven’t seen any of them yet, probably won't until 2019

I rolled up every shirt sleeve I own as I prepare to fight the "Roma fucking sucks, you lemmings" fight this season.

To clarify, I'm not saying 2018's slate of movies is bad (or 2006's, in retrospect). Just saying I'm in a hibernation cycle.

Ash Is Purest White rules, at least. Burning has been slightly overrated.

xxp I don't even have a bete noir this year :(

(A Star is Born is far too slight for me to count.)

knowing the year is backloaded and i simply missed a lot of stuff, this is a pretty good shortlist of US releases for me

First Reformed
8 Hours Don't Make a Day
Let the Sunshine In
Claire's Camera
Monrovia, Indiana
The Death of Stalin
The Guardians

Ash also 2019 in US.

Burning hasn't been overrated, it's that no one except Reverse Shot has written well about it.

That said Yeun is amazing in it and I hope he's properly recognized

As of right now ...

24 Frames
First Reformed
Zama
Let the Sunshine In
Paddington 2

I'm sure the Wiseman will sneak into the upper ranks. My screener of Burning looks like ass, so don't expect I'll see it til next year. The Death of Stalin was grim and unfunny.

The only things left this year I'm really interested in are the Cuaron, Coens, and Bodied, which has a surprising multi-week engagement at TIFF's venue rn

Zama would probably top my list this year but I caught it at TIFF '17

all 3 principals in Burning seemed like concepts, not characters, tho i found much to like in it.

did Western get US release this year? will certainly be high on my list. still have reservations about Asako i & ii, but none have stuck with me more; looking forward to hearing people thoughts.

It did, and it was an oversight by me not to mention it!

If i was still voting in a critics' group, I would give some consideration to Gary Graver's cinematography for the Welles film.

Wait, which one did you vote in before?

If you're talking about the same one I'm still in, it's like impossible to get kicked out of it.

but interestingly the credits ran backwards at the end

there were a lot of visual components of this I liked

but overall,,,no