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

Look forward to hating Roma all season.

Of course it's funny - this is all
too laughable to be anything else.
You know what I think about this -
this ROMA obsession of yours - and
now this ridiculous attempt to whip
yourself up into an angry froth

It is possible - even conceivable - that you've confused me with that gang of backward ILXers you've been playing tricks on - that you have the same contempt for me that you have for them?

Very effective. But why take it out on me?

oh the boys are doing their routine again

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Raúl Castillo
Adam Driver

I would willingly make my directorial debut with these two on a closed set.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BPHRW9/laura-harring-justin-theroux-mulholland-dr-2002-BPHRW9.jpg

ACTION!

"An Elephant Sitting Still" wins Best Film at the @Golden_Horse awards. Even more so than normal, I haven't and won't see everything of importance this year; but of those I have, Hu's is definitely the standout, a major masterpiece that should be discussed among the decade's best

— Michael J. Anderson (@Tativille_MJA) November 17, 2018

He doesn't even have a blue check mark.

I'm planning on turning him into the Dick Nixon of ilx film threads.

loved him in the red room

Gothams: best film to The Rider; Hawke, Collette

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/gotham-awards-winners-list-2018-new-york-1203037073/

Hawke and Schrader's writing noms the likeliest to keep appearing this semester.

Not sure how, but The Rider already had its shot at the IFP indie awards last year.

I hope First Reformed doesn't get swept aside for Bohemian Rhapsody/A Star is Born. Hawke and Schrader have never won Oscars in their respective categories right?

Schrader has never even been nominated.

for writing?

Hawke, we should note, has two supporting noms for acting and one for co-writing (Before Sunset).

Just saw an assembly cut of VICE.

Wait, that was the finished film? Oy gevalt.

— Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman) November 26, 2018

we dont do Oscars in November in this fuckin' thread

even tho it's ALL THAT MATTERS NOD NOD NOD

This thread isn't even spelled right, what kind of rules do you expect for a thread like that anyway?

Cider House

https://media1.tenor.com/images/83e9f264560cb0f7347e86610d9fb318/tenor.gif?itemid=4268615

A thread like this the doesn't nod toward Oscars is like a thread about gin that doesn't mention martinis.

eff 'em and all AA scholarship

this is about the GOOD stuff

you and yer gotdamn nodz

eff 'em and all AA scholarship

this is about the GOOD stuff

As if on cue, here are this year's National Board of Review results ...

Best Film
GREEN BOOK

Best Director
Bradley Cooper, A STAR IS BORN

Best Actor
Viggo Mortensen, GREEN BOOK

Best Actress
Lady Gaga, A STAR IS BORN

Best Supporting Actor
Sam Elliott, A STAR IS BORN

Best Supporting Actress
Regina King, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Schrader, FIRST REFORMED

Best Adapted Screenplay
Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Best Animated Feature
THE INCREDIBLES 2

Breakthrough Performance
Thomasin McKenzie, LEAVE NO TRACE

Best Directorial Debut
Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE

Best Foreign Language Film
COLD WAR

Best Documentary
RBG

Best Ensemble
CRAZY RICH ASIANS

William K. Everson Film History Award
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND and THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD

NBR Freedom of Expression Award
22 JULY

NBR Freedom of Expression Award
ON HER SHOULDERS

Top Films (in alphabetical order)

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
Roma
A Star Is Born

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)

Burning
Custody
The Guilty
Happy as Lazzaro
Shoplifters

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)

Crime + Punishment
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)

The Death of Stalin
Lean on Pete
Leave No Trace
Mid90s
The Old Man & the Gun
The Rider
Searching
Sorry to Bother You
We the Animals
You Were Never Really Here

Best Foreign Language Film
COLD WAR

Best Documentary
RBG

Best Ensemble
CRAZY RICH ASIANS

hell of a hat trick

Best Film
GREEN BOOK

hell of a shat brick

I didn't know there was a word for such happiness!

damn i meant to predict that

Jeffwey Wells will cream himself, if that's still possible

I daren't admit that I prefer Green Book to A Star is Born.

dasn't you?

i just feel like reminding Eric of a film that won 3 Golden Globes for acting:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073766/awards

I debated whether I should wait for a screener or pay to watch goddamn Green Book tomorrow night.

Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Richard Benjamin

Legitimately more laughable than Pia Zadora.

do not pay to see green book xp

^^^^^^ this, let your most elderly relative buy your ticket this holiday season

i have no plans to see Green Book EVER

Benjamin's good, i just watched it again

(he's in it more than Burns tho)

Viggo basically plays @nycguidovoice personified in Green Book.

izzat some twitter celeb?

I had a visceral, must-flee, "John Simon every time he laid eyes on Liza Minnelli" reaction to every scene Benjamin appeared in.

howbout Goodbye Columbus?

re morbs:

I neva meant ta say anyting dat was racialist [burping up sauce] I respect all races and people [more pasta barf] POCs are *kissing fingers*

— nYC Guido Voice (@nycguidovoice) March 12, 2017

Can confirm, this is the Twitter account Viggo Mortensen plays in Green Book.

so what is the arthouse horse this year, say for the NYFCC (tomorrow?)

i guess NY will go either Roma, Beale St or First Reformed?

Nice to see The Guilty mentioned :)

I don’t trust the NYFCC anymore, in the wake of their La La Land best pic citation.