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

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

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),

We've been eagerly promoting it as twaddle for the last month.

xp really. there’s nothing about his films that you can recognize as something some people would get excited about. huh.

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

just so thoroughly pedestrian, even the cinematography was a letdown.

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.

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...

Roma = total fucking garbage

― 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 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.

j.lu - I suppose so, yeah. I’d go to see almost any movie in 70mm tbh. But I agree, it’s not a good black and white, it’s v boring digital. And aside from a few scenes I can’t imagine the size of a 70mm image improving my opinion of the movie.

and fwiw I saw it in a theater

I wish y'all were film critics

We've been eagerly promoting it as twaddle for the last month.

That doesn’t stop it from being contrarianism!

don't get me started on the C word

lazy way of dismissing a dissenting opinion - I was genuinely let down by this

So you insisted telling us on two separate threads

yæs

Romæ

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 (two days ago) Permalink

Its quite something how the same human being can both think and type the 1st and 2nd para of the post above.

Going to watch Bros again. pic.twitter.com/QzLmtkVbXO

— John Rain (@MrKenShabby) December 25, 2018

I wish I'd seen this on the big screen but it had a really limited run I think.

_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 (two days ago) Permalink_


Its quite something how the same human being can both think and type the 1st and 2nd para of the post above.

the third harry potter

It was good

I’ve never been disappointed by him per se. I disliked Y Tu Mama back in ‘02 but I didn’t really know who he was back then so.