There are 10 seconds of hot man on man in that movie.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Prisoner of Azkaban is where Rowling's plotting starts getting pretty sloppy (but just before she apparently stopped using the services of an editor), but Cuarón spins a solid adaptation out of it. At the time, I was mostly impressed that he landed the gig as his follow-up to Y Tu Mama Tambien.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Harry Potter 3 is one of the better books and one of the worse films imo
― imago, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
j.lu - it was shot on digital in colour, a 70mm b&w print is definitely a gimmick
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
xxxpost: Yes, but giving the fangirls explicit homoeroticism was like parading a gazelle in front of starving lions.
And a DC-area date for that 70mm Roma print hasn't yet been announced, but it's the sort of thing AFI Silver is likely to get as part of its Oscar-bait catch-up series.
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
why is this same argument going on simultaneously in two threads, my bookmarks experience is descending into a spiral of deja vu
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
there are no other films but Roma
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Here's these things ...
OFCS Nominations
Best PictureAnnihilationBlacKkKlansmanEighth GradeThe FavouriteFirst ReformedHereditaryIf Beale Street Could TalkRomaA Star Is BornSuspiriaYou Were Never Really Here
Best Animated FeatureIncredibles 2Isle of DogsMiraiRalph Breaks the InternetSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best DirectorAlfonso Cuarón – RomaBarry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could TalkYorgos Lanthimos – The FavouriteSpike Lee – BlacKkKlansmanLynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Best ActorChristian Bale – ViceBradley Cooper – A Star Is BornEthan Hawke – First ReformedJoaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really HereJohn David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
Best ActressYalitza Aparicio – RomaToni Collette – HereditaryOlivia Colman – The FavouriteRegina Hall – Support the GirlsLady Gaga – A Star Is Born
Best Supporting ActorMahershala Ali – Green BookAdam Driver – BlacKkKlansmanRichard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?Michael B. Jordan – Black PantherSteven Yeun – Burning
Best Supporting ActressElizabeth Debicki – WidowsRegina King – If Beale Street Could TalkThomasin McKenzie – Leave No TraceEmma Stone – The FavouriteRachel Weisz – The Favourite
Best Original ScreenplayEighth Grade – Bo BurnhamThe Favourite – Deborah Davis, Tony McNamaraFirst Reformed – Paul SchraderRoma – Alfonso CuarónSorry to Bother You – Boots Riley
Best Adapted ScreenplayBlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike LeeCan You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener, Jeff WhittyIf Beale Street Could Talk – Barry JenkinsLeave No Trace – Debra Granik, Anne RosselliniWidows – Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen
Best EditingThe Favourite – Yorgos MavropsaridisFirst Man – Tom CrossMission: Impossible – Fallout – Eddie HamiltonRoma – Alfonso Cuarón, Adam GoughWidows – Joe Walker
Best CinematographyCold War – Lukasz ZalThe Favourite – Robbie RyanFirst Man – Linus SandgrenIf Beale Street Could Talk – James LaxtonRoma – Alfonso Cuarón
Best Original ScoreBlack Panther – Ludwig GöranssonFirst Man – Justin HurwitzIf Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas BritellIsle of Dogs – Alexandre DesplatSuspiria – Thom Yorke
Best Debut FeatureAri Aster – HereditaryBo Burnham – Eighth GradeBradley Cooper – A Star Is BornCarlos López Estrada – BlindspottingBoots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Best Film Not in the English LanguageBurningCold WarRomaShopliftersZama
Best DocumentaryFree SoloMinding the GapShirkersThree Identical StrangersWon’t You Be My Neighbor?
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No TraceEmma Stone – The FavouriteRachel Weisz – The Favourite
this is so fucking stupid
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Listing best animated feature second is also pretty damned stupid, as well.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
if you have to pick one single lead actingperson for those, it's McKenzie and Stone
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
the OFCS being dummies is nothing new
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
I would've been fine with all three leads from The Favourite getting nominated in supporting. (And I'd similarly be fine if Olivia Colman was the only one who actually ended up getting nominated.)
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
i find critics' continued enthusiasm for Lanthimos (this year) and Spike over Denis and Schrader baffling
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
Depends on which Denis flick. And First Reformed has shown up in plenty of top tens.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
the Binoche cringe-comedy is her best in years imho
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
if anything Schrader the director rescues the writer in FR
I agree with two Morbs posts in a row. Didn't realize a year had passed so quickly.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
But I also think Spike the director rescues Spike (et al) the writer, too.
yes
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10156393283416749
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
Barack Obama's favorite films of 2018:
AnnihilationBlack PantherBlacKkKlansmanBlindspottingBurningThe Death of StalinEighth GradeIf Beale Street Could TalkLeave No TraceMinding the GapThe RiderRomaShopliftersSupport the GirlsWon’t You Be My Neighbor
Will update with Trump's favorites when he posts them.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
Someone ask him about the ending of Burning.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
He left off A Star Is Born. Good.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
Boots Riley must be thankful he left off STBY
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
Would be funny if he had included Sorry to Bother You.
― Chris L, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
(Sorry xpost)
― Chris L, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
not a big First Reformed guy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
Also left off, First Man. Guess he isn't interested in box-office disappointments either.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
(I mean, given his politics, Rev Toller wd've prepared to blow up the POTUS too)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
I watched a dvdscr of Green Book last night, omg that has be some of the most rank garbage I've seen in years! The cast of Italian-American stereotypes are like some nightmare pizza ad that never ends. Would be tempted to think it was some kind of bizarre comedy fail, but it's obv the director was actually aiming for schmaltz.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 December 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
filmmakers' choice
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2018-guillermo-del-toro-edgar-wright-pedro-almodovar-1202030788/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
I love Sean Baker, his films are surprisingly big in Denmark, and he has three films that are at least co-produced by Danish producers on his top ten :)
― Frederik B, Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
Where is 'A Fantastic Woman' on everyone's lists? Does everyone consider it 2017 or is it just not as good as I thought...
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
It's considered 2017.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 31 December 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
A Fabulous Woman should be in a field set on fire.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it made its appearances in the 2017 "detrius" thread, and won an Oscar this March. I was one of those low-information film-watchers for whom that got it more on my radar; my partner and I saw it a short time after and were really impressed.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Really? I thought it was trans-baiting twaddle.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
I'm sooooo tired of lugubrious queer cinema, especially when 2017 offered so many good counter examples: BPM, The Ornithologist, Staying Vertical...
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
Well, I'm certain I haven't seen nearly as many films working the same thematic territory as you have, so I can't really evaluate it in comparison. I'm also a cis het dude with no Chilean cultural connection, so my barometer for all kinds of things here may be out of whack. I found the primary "grieving, but cut out by the family, and no one at work/in the bureaucracy/in your life knows or takes the grief seriously" story to be very vivid and relatable. The other thing that stuck with me was the extended assault sequence, which was very hard to watch... its brutality felt real and earned, and the horrifying possibility of that kind of event was important to understanding the way the character approached various other situations, why she says/does x instead of y.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
As I said at the time, A Fantastic Woman has no interest in Marina except brutalizing her. We can expect a humiliation every few minutes – Lelio should have called A Dehumanized Woman. I don't want pity from these stories. I appreciate your take, though, as ever.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
haha wrong html tags
I can understand responding to it that way! I feel like I connected with it mostly on a level of empathy more than pity, FWIW. There was definitely a strong "god everyone's so MEAN to her!" thread that would come into my mind but she had plenty of scenes about her being a person, whose personhood included having been a victim. The music side of things does a lot of the work here. I maybe could have done without the business with the spa locker key, which was a lot of walking to get to where it does. YMMV!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 December 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
After reading through Walter Chaw's year-end wrap up, I'm looking for second opinions on: Thunder Road, Damsel, Madeline's Madeline, Blaze, Skate Kitchen and The Rider. Anyone?
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Dr Casino, I wish u a happy filmwatching year
The Rider was OK for me, nothing more.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
I'd kiss ya but I just washed my hair.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
I wrote this piece on Madeline's Madeline if google translate is your friend... https://www.skuelyst.dk/arkiv/2018/12/10/madelines-madeline-kritik
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Short version: It's fucking great and an attempt to do something completely new artistically and ethically.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
I thought Blaze was really lousy, either the lead actor’s fault or the boring story (I know it’s true)
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
I liked MM a lot, gave me things to think about. Was only disappointed that it wasn't as trippy and formally inventive as the trailer suggested.Skate Kitchen was like, a nice interesting little movie, with really vibrant and youthful vibes coming off all its real-life skater cast. I saw it with an intensely awkward, offputting Q&A and so came away feeling meh about it, but without that I'd probably think of it fondly.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link