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

not as good as Lakeith Stanfield in the Boots Riley joint

if we'd been allowed to include five nominees, Stanfield would've been in on my ballot.

Happy to see First Man get some noms

Oops -- forgot my favorite nomination:

Sakura Ando, Shoplifters

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 20:46 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

glad to see this, beautiful performance.

(btw alfred, on your ballot under best director you've put claire's knee)

Little White Lies' top 30:

https://lwlies.com/articles/the-30-best-films-of-2018/

Close call for #1, Roma haters.

(btw alfred, on your ballot under best director you've put claire's knee)

― devvvine,

lol I sent the ballot on Tuesday as I was posting about Rohmer in the last x movies thread.

Best scenes, Slant Mag: https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-20-best-film-scenes-of-2018

First Man fan tho I wasn't, that scene was one of the greats this year.

as someone who likes Lars more than most, the fact that Jack seems to be getting kinder notices than Nympho - or at least comparable ones - is baffling to me

an Alm0nd review to add to the pile: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/movie-review-the-house-that-jack-built-dark-satire/

xp: less of the typical (every.single.film) misogyny? LVT looking like he's near death?

if anything Nympho did a better job of complicating / audience-implicating / problematizing / pick-your-buzzword-ing w/r/t misogyny. Jack just kinda lazily lampshades it.

I love that lampshading monologue! It's so spot on with the MRA rhetoric, and I wasn't surprised that certain Danish reviewers took it as some very interesting questions Lars was asking without at all dealing with the context in the film.

Y'all should be following our winners. I'm ecstatic: https://twitter.com/FLFilmCritics

I guess I should see The Favourite huh

it blocked Roma, didn't it?

Not even your sizeable bloc could block, eh Alfred?

BEST DIRECTOR:
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
Runner-up: Lynne Ramsay - You Were Never Really Here

— Florida Film Critics (@FLFilmCritics) December 21, 2018

Supporting players and Best Actor though.

More impressive is the foreign-film result, unless that happened because of a bait-and-switch (e.g. "you give us Shoplifters in foreign, we'll go along with Roma in best picture")

Cough

Yeah, I thought so. You have no morals.

Neither will if, if and when I ever get a MN crix group off the ground.

I said nothing!

nothing against you honeybunch, but no more critics groups

Far fewer would be nice. Kinda cool with it just being the Nat'l Society tbh.

BEST PICTURE

The Favourite

Runners-up: No clear runner-up

BEST ACTOR

Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here

Runners-up: No clear runner-up

BEST ACTRESS

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Runner-up: Toni Collette – Hereditary

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Steven Yeun – Burning

Runner-up: Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sakura Ando – Shoplifters

Runner-up: Claire Foy – First Man

BEST ENSEMBLE

The Favourite

Runner-up: Support the Girls

BEST DIRECTOR

Alfonso Cuarón – Roma

Runner-up: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You

Runner-up: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Runner-up: Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Łukasz Żal – Cold War

Runner-up: Alfonso Cuarón – Roma

i may be seeing The Favourite tonight, will let you know if that's on a banner

i can't try to watch that Lynne Ramsay thing after the horrific KEVIN movie that i couldn't finish

It's fine bawdy fun, no more than that. xpost to Morbs

Minus the "fun," I'd argue. But it's still the season's most lauded bitchfest in any case.

I tee-heed a couple times

still the season's most lauded bitchfest in any case.

still Roma

Minus the "fun," I'd argue

as current-release films about three absolutely awful people interacting with each other go, it's a rollicking lolfest compared to Burning

didnt u think Sacred Deer was "fun." Eric?

isn't Eric from the Midwest? "Fun" is watching snow melt into a martini glass.

^turning into Bob Hope

you were never really here was really good. Never saw Kevin, or talked about him

Still in my bottom 5 for the year

Down with gentrified genre movies

also, down with Lanthimos doing arch unfunny "costume pictures"

Eric, Alfred, and Morbz need their own board imo

(meant kindly)

good morning

xp You could call it "I Love Film"

Glenn K’s top 50 or so: https://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2018/12/zama-martel-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-coen-and-coen-the-other-side-of-the-wind-welles-mandy-cosmatos-hale-coun.html

Just watched Museo, having realised it was added to YouTube Premium (of all platforms) a few days ago. Though not quite as lovably breathless as Güeros, it was just as affecting and recognisably his. I love that combination of wide-eyed idealism and cynicism, and the whole thing seemed to capture very well the feeling of trying frantically to regain meaning in the corporeal when loss in its various guises is creeping in at the edges.

And it's a Christmas film!

Aw, I love that film. No youtube premium in Denmark :(

We're currently trying to find Infinite Football, but it's nowhere!

Roma = total fucking garbage

I can’t tell if this is just contrarianism or not! I guess I’ll have to watch it.

no I went last minute today because it's leaving theaters & three separate people told me it was great and used the same word, "overwhelming." Nope

It is mystifying to me why people rave about Cuarón films