an Alm0nd review to add to the pile: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/movie-review-the-house-that-jack-built-dark-satire/
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
xp: less of the typical (every.single.film) misogyny? LVT looking like he's near death?
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
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.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 December 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 December 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
Y'all should be following our winners. I'm ecstatic: https://twitter.com/FLFilmCritics
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
I guess I should see The Favourite huh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
it blocked Roma, didn't it?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Not even your sizeable bloc could block, eh Alfred?
BEST DIRECTOR:Alfonso Cuarón - RomaRunner-up: Lynne Ramsay - You Were Never Really Here— Florida Film Critics (@FLFilmCritics) December 21, 2018
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
Supporting players and Best Actor though.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
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")
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
Cough
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I thought so. You have no morals.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
Neither will if, if and when I ever get a MN crix group off the ground.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
I said nothing!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
nothing against you honeybunch, but no more critics groups
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
Far fewer would be nice. Kinda cool with it just being the Nat'l Society tbh.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
BEST PICTURE
The Favourite
Runners-up: No clear runner-up
BEST ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
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
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
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
i may be seeing The Favourite tonight, will let you know if that's on a banner
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
i can't try to watch that Lynne Ramsay thing after the horrific KEVIN movie that i couldn't finish
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
It's fine bawdy fun, no more than that. xpost to Morbs
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
Minus the "fun," I'd argue. But it's still the season's most lauded bitchfest in any case.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
I tee-heed a couple times
still the season's most lauded bitchfest in any case.
still Roma
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
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
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
didnt u think Sacred Deer was "fun." Eric?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
isn't Eric from the Midwest? "Fun" is watching snow melt into a martini glass.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
^turning into Bob Hope
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
you were never really here was really good. Never saw Kevin, or talked about him
― flappy bird, Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
Still in my bottom 5 for the year
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:36 (five years ago) link
Down with gentrified genre movies
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:38 (five years ago) link
also, down with Lanthimos doing arch unfunny "costume pictures"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 December 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
Eric, Alfred, and Morbz need their own board imo
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 December 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
(meant kindly)
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 December 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
good morning
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 December 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
xp You could call it "I Love Film"
― brokenshire (jed_), Saturday, 22 December 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
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
― love craptually (Eric H.), Saturday, 22 December 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
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!
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
Aw, I love that film. No youtube premium in Denmark :(
― Frederik B, Sunday, 23 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
We're currently trying to find Infinite Football, but it's nowhere!
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 23 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Roma = total fucking garbage
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
I can’t tell if this is just contrarianism or not! I guess I’ll have to watch it.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 24 December 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
It is mystifying to me why people rave about Cuarón films
― tangenttangent, Monday, 24 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd),
We've been eagerly promoting it as twaddle for the last month.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 December 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
xp really. there’s nothing about his films that you can recognize as something some people would get excited about. huh.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Monday, 24 December 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
this is the first time I've been let down by him, probably the hype, probably wasn't in a good mood & didn't get good sleep. still, even having only read Alfred's part in the back and forth about the movie on here, I'm completely with him. this isn't a movie that would make my top 10 or 20 of the year even if I saw it in ideal conditions.
but yeah y tu mama, the 3rd harry potter, children of men, and gravity were all great imo
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
just so thoroughly pedestrian, even the cinematography was a letdown.
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
It's not that there's nothing to like, but the relatively rapturous critical responses for all of the aforementioned (even Y Tu Mama Tambien to a lesser degree) has seemed a bit much (though that could go for a lot of people tbf). Maybe I was being over-zealous with 'mystifying', but I'm just not a fan at all.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
I just find his films bloated and a struggle to get through. Films like Children of Men and Gravity just felt weighed down (no pun intended) with overly long scenes and repeated motifs and themes wanting for exploration. I'll still watch Roma though...
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
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― flappy bird, Monday, December 24, 2018 2:52 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I am taking your statement at face value, but apparently Netflix is sending out a 70mm print (mind you, that's a classic Oscar-baiting tactic these days). If I am going to see Roma, in the face of all the criticism here, is it worth waiting to see what a big-screen presentation can do for it?
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
I already said this in the Roma thread, but I don’t think its that good looking of a movie. It looks like an HD image set to B&W.
Of course, I watched it on Netflix, so I can’t directly speak to the theatrical experience.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link