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

preferably a hemlock souffle

My only objection is that we don't talk seriously about movies on the detrius thread. It's just not done.

I created these threads so I could enjoy movies in the least-intellectual, most frivolous manner possible.

shh!

hello!

BURNING (dir. Lee Chang-dong, 2018) - Murakami adaptation feat. Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo

xp not sure what you mean by that

I'm not minding the discussion of Burning, just skipping it

KU's tie at the top is sure to please all

https://www.keithuhlich.com/2018/12/10-for-2018-introduction-list.html

Simply the best.

he has the courage of his convictions, that's for sure

ayyyy La Flor!

KU likes If Beale Street, which counts as "a remembrance of things past stagnating at the level of storyboard/previz"

he has the courage of his convictions, that's for sure

Honestly the only thing I care about in my critics.

what's this guy's deal with women, or possibly writers? The Favourite is "rancidly homophobic" on the part of the male director, not the female writer, a bunch of actresses are credited for directing a film that had some improvised dialogue, and the first X-Files in 200+ episodes written by women gets credited to the now-extremely-bad male writer who started the show 23 years ago

Eric knows him better than i do, he could ask.

He mentioned he deliberately intended to credit directors and show creators for TV-based list entries ... but let's be honest, authorship is a moving target in some of these cases in the first place, no matter how much we've tried to force the role of show runner into some kind of Sarris-approved auteurist reading. And I don't think it's unsavory to point out the communication the past and present are having with each other when it comes to TV reboots.

I haven't watched the new X-Files myself, so I can't speak to whether he was right or wrong to credit Chris Carter. But he told me he intends to give credit to the show's writers (many female) in a longer write-up.

The Favourite, otoh, he believes to be homophobic specifically because of how Lanthimos directs it, not how it was written.

I didn't sense the homophobia, but that's my conviction. Don't go Frederik on me.

I don't play "I'm gayer than/not as gay as you" game unless I'm one of the two being compared.

And even then, it's not a game but a crucial establishing shot.

deep focus

you beat all comers with your music playlists, honeybunch

Thanks, Eric!

(That X-Files episode is very good, btw; it and the two Darin Morgan-written-and-directed joints on the reunion albums affirm that Carter's best strength as a showrunner was in avoiding an auteurist approach. Crediting directors comes off as even more queasy in this instance, though, as Carter enabled writerly auteurism in the new seasons by having all the returning writers direct... so here he's credited one of the writer's husband over her.)

I do wish Darin Morgan had a career trajectory more like Charlie Kaufmann's, and less like Jerry Stahl's.

Slant Magazine's top 25: https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-films-of-2018

(I didn't participate this year.)

Notable films that don't seem to showing up on many (any?) of these lists - The Wild Pear Tree, Loveless

Wild Pear Tree has only been released now?

bless Slant, but sub-Syfy dreck like Prototype doesn't belong on any respectable best movies list!

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Has been on release in the UK for the last couple of weeks, but it was shown at Cannes this year (I actually think it's the weakest of Ceylan's three most recent films, but there's still enough there to earn it a place in any decent top ten).

I was really hoping La Flor would crack Slant's list but I'd wager no one but the actual reviewer saw it

It hasn't gotten a theatrical US release, not even in NYC (only played the fest), hence ineligible.

(cue the Dane)

also Dead Souls is opening here today (in 3 parts, for a week) and I'm not sure i have the time OR money for that.

charging people 3x for a long movie is criminal. when La Flor played TIFF over three nights, it was free, presumably because they knew almost no one would give up all that time otherwise

They charged the normal single-feature rates at NYFF.

'I hear this discussion, and it is like Gucci versus Prada' -Alfonso Cuaron, as Spike Lee and Ryan Coogler are debating NYU vs USC film schools in the @THR directors roundtable. https://t.co/RNuo3n0IKr

— Rebecca Keegan (@ThatRebecca) December 14, 2018

NYU and USC are like mirror images

Spike's turtleneck is fucking sick

I guess David Edelstein kept his job at New York. That's good, but I didn't much like his Top 10 this year:

http://www.vulture.com/2018/12/the-10-best-movies-of-2018-as-chosen-by-david-edelstein.html

Fahrenheit 11/9 is just a bad film, and the other four I've seen (Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, and Sorry to Bother You) I either found a little overrated or, with the last, admirably ambitious but perplexing.

ah, Roma, how unusual

European Film Awards:

European Film - Cold War, Dir Pawel Pawlikowski (Pol, Uk, Fr)
European Comedy - The Death Of Stalin, Dir Armando Iannucci (Fr, Uk, Bel)
European Discovery - Prix Fipresci - Girl, Dir Lukas Dhont (Bel, Neth)
EFA People’s Choice Award - Call Me By Your Name, Dir Luca Guadagnino (Fr, It)
European Documentary - Bergman – A Year In A Life, Dir Jane Magnusson (Swe-Ger)
European Animated Feature - Another Day Of Life, Dirs Damian Nenow, Raúl De La Fuente (Pol, Sp, Bel, Hun, Ger)
European Director - Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr)
European Actress - Joanna Kulig, Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr)
European Actor - Marcello Fonte, Dogman (It, Fr)
European Screenwriter - Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr)
European Short Film - The Years, Dir Sara Fgaier (It, Fr)
European Achievement In World Cinema- Ralph Fiennes
Lifetime Achievement Award- Carmen Maura
Honorary Award- Costa-Gavras

Previously Announced Excellence Awards

European Cinematographer - Martin Otterbeck For U – July 22 (Nor)
European Editor- Jarosław Kamiński For Cold War (Pol, Uk, Fr)
European Production Designer- Andrey Ponkratov For Summer (Leto) (Rus, Fr)
European Costume Designer- Massimo Cantini Parrini For Dogman (It, Fr)
European Hair & Make-Up Artist- Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini And Daniela Tartari 
For Dogman (It, Fr)
European Composer- Christoph M. Kaiser And Julian Maas 
For 3 Days In Quiberon (Ger, Aus, Fr)
European Sound Designer- André Bendocchi-Alves And Martin Steyer 
For The Captain (Ger)
European Visual Effects Supervisor- Peter Hjorth For Border (Swe, Den)

Boston critics: best actor, John C Reilly in Stan & Ollie

http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainmentlife/20181216/boston-film-critics-name-if-beale-street-could-talk-years-best-film

Saw the trailer today. Reilly dons a fat suit!

the word 'detrius' in this thread title is gaslighting me

it's gaslighted me for 5 years at least. the other word is some fake bs.

The reviews for Vice make the ones for Bohemian Rhapsody look soft and cuddly.

A dissenting opinion, however:

You folks hating on VICE so much vitriol and rage right now: **No one improperly eats a slice of pizza in it.** Please keep that in mind when you call it the "worst movie of the year."

— David Fear (@davidlfear) December 17, 2018

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR: Roma (Netflix)

BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

BEST ACTOR: Ethan Hawke, First Reformed

BEST ACTRESS: Toni Collette, Hereditary

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST: Widows

BEST SCREENPLAY: The Favourite – Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, directors

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, director

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, directors

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

http://seattlefilmcritics.com/

officially on the Roma hate train now

choo-choo!

Anyway, I'm about to submit my Florida Film Critics Circle ballot. I can tell you which film won't be on it.