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

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.

why is this same argument going on simultaneously in two threads, my bookmarks experience is descending into a spiral of deja vu

there are no other films but Roma

Here's these things ...

OFCS Nominations

Best Picture
Annihilation
BlacKkKlansman
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
First Reformed
Hereditary
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
A Star Is Born
Suspiria
You Were Never Really Here

Best Animated Feature
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here

Best Actor
Christian Bale – Vice
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman

Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Regina Hall – Support the Girls
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther
Steven Yeun – Burning

Best Supporting Actress
Elizabeth Debicki – Widows
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Best Original Screenplay
Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham
The Favourite – Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
First Reformed – Paul Schrader
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
Sorry to Bother You – Boots Riley

Best Adapted Screenplay
BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins
Leave No Trace – Debra Granik, Anne Rossellini
Widows – Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen

Best Editing
The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis
First Man – Tom Cross
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Eddie Hamilton
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough
Widows – Joe Walker

Best Cinematography
Cold War – Lukasz Zal
The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
First Man – Linus Sandgren
If Beale Street Could Talk – James Laxton
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Best Original Score
Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson
First Man – Justin Hurwitz
If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
Suspiria – Thom Yorke

Best Debut Feature
Ari Aster – Hereditary
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
Carlos López Estrada – Blindspotting
Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You

Best Film Not in the English Language
Burning
Cold War
Roma
Shoplifters
Zama

Best Documentary
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Shirkers
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

this is so fucking stupid

Listing best animated feature second is also pretty damned stupid, as well.

if you have to pick one single lead actingperson for those, it's McKenzie and Stone

the OFCS being dummies is nothing new

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.)

i find critics' continued enthusiasm for Lanthimos (this year) and Spike over Denis and Schrader baffling

Depends on which Denis flick. And First Reformed has shown up in plenty of top tens.

the Binoche cringe-comedy is her best in years imho

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.

But I also think Spike the director rescues Spike (et al) the writer, too.

yes

https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10156393283416749

Barack Obama's favorite films of 2018:

Annihilation
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Blindspotting
Burning
The Death of Stalin
Eighth Grade
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
Minding the Gap
The Rider
Roma
Shoplifters
Support the Girls
Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Will update with Trump's favorites when he posts them.

Someone ask him about the ending of Burning.

He left off A Star Is Born. Good.

Boots Riley must be thankful he left off STBY

Would be funny if he had included Sorry to Bother You.

(Sorry xpost)

not a big First Reformed guy

Also left off, First Man. Guess he isn't interested in box-office disappointments either.

(I mean, given his politics, Rev Toller wd've prepared to blow up the POTUS too)

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.

filmmakers' choice

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2018-guillermo-del-toro-edgar-wright-pedro-almodovar-1202030788/

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 :)

Where is 'A Fantastic Woman' on everyone's lists? Does everyone consider it 2017 or is it just not as good as I thought...

It's considered 2017.

A Fabulous Woman should be in a field set on fire.

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.

Really? I thought it was trans-baiting twaddle.

I'm sooooo tired of lugubrious queer cinema, especially when 2017 offered so many good counter examples: BPM, The Ornithologist, Staying Vertical...

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.

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.

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!

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?

Dr Casino, I wish u a happy filmwatching year

The Rider was OK for me, nothing more.

I agree with two Morbs posts in a row. Didn't realize a year had passed so quickly.

I'd kiss ya but I just washed my hair.

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

Short version: It's fucking great and an attempt to do something completely new artistically and ethically.

I thought Blaze was really lousy, either the lead actor’s fault or the boring story (I know it’s true)

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.

Has there ever been a point to a Q&A other than to annoy both the audience and the talent?

*long-winded ramblings that have little or nothing to do with the film just watched* "uh I guess that wasn't so much of a question..."

in this case the problem was the As rather than the Qs

Ban all Q&A's