Stick a fork in A Star is Born, basically.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
always about the AAs!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
At this point in the year it is, yeah.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
DGA to Cuaron
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
BAFTA winners:
Best Picture: RomaFilm not in the English language: RomaBritish Film: The FavouriteAnimated Film: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseBritish Short Film: 73 CowsOutstanding Debut: Beast (Michael Pearce-Writer/Director, Lauren Dark-Producer)
Lead Actress: Olivia Coleman (The Favourite)Lead Actor: Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali (Green Book)Rising Star: Letitia Wright (Black Panther)
Director: Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)Cinematography: Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)Editing: Hank Corwin (Vice)Original Screenplay: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (The Favourite)Adapted Screenplay: Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott (BlacKKKlansman)Visual Effects: Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick (Black Panther)Costume Design: Sandy Powell (The Favourite)Makeup & Hair: Nadia Stacey (The Favourite)Production Design: Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton (The Favourite)Original Music: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson (A Star is Born)Sound: John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst (Bohemian Rhapsody)
― no expense was incurred (Sanpaku), Sunday, 10 February 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Beast was aight
lol at two dozen awards going to like five films
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Monday, 11 February 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
If Joanna Lumley's 'jokes' were anything to go by, all award shows might be better off without a presenter. Jokes fell flat because they were lame.
Stoked for Olivia Coleman tho.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 February 2019 08:10 (five years ago) link
Can You Ever Forgive Me? was a real treat - sharp, funny and desperately sad, in the end. McCarthy is amazing in it. Has it been discussed on here?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
No dedicated thread. It's the sharpest mainstream queer film of 2018.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
I was very moved by it. It made me think of 84 Charing X Road too, which is always good.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
I have not gotten to it; my best friend couldn't get past the "repulsive" characters.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
I loved both of them.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
Did you do a review, Al?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
yes
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
I don't wanna oversell it: the ending is as soft as the repulsive characters aren't in the other 100 minutes.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
I found it. I agree that the film unfolds almost exactly how you'd imagine it would but I still found it exciting and found the ending moving in a way that I didn't anticipate. Or rather, that I did anticipate but it still got me, in spite of its obvious movement.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
(probably because of Melissa M)
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
I liked it a lot, agree with pretty much everything above. MM and REG are great, its melancholy is moving, and it is surprisingly understated in parts (particularly the date MM goes on). Rare to find an awards season movie starring two gay characters, addiction, unrequited love, and AIDS that isn't cloying or totally nauseating. Wonderful color palette, too - its light as if through whiskey.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link
yeah i've been trying to carefully talk that movie up, it really moved me but a lot of what's great is its smallness and subtlety and i don't want to pump it up too much.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:41 (five years ago) link
Wonderful color palette, too - its light as if through whiskey.
otm
It's also not cloddish about writing. It realizes an essential truth: to be a writer is to engage in a beautiful fraud.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
Indie Spirits to Beale Street, Jenkins, Close, Hawke
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/2019-spirit-awards-winners-complete-list-1203147196/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 February 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
(like you glamour girls give a fuck)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 February 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
I count Hawke among the glamour girls
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 February 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
ew, you haven't seen him close up
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 February 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
my favorite line was "the network's first choice to host was no one, but they're already booked for tomorrow"
― Dan S, Monday, 25 February 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
xxxp that final scene with Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant was so great
― Dan S, Monday, 25 February 2019 00:21 (five years ago) link
an understated melodramatic moment like that was what the film needed at the end I thought
― Dan S, Monday, 25 February 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
FC readers poll
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/readers-poll-2018/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
Anderson’s daring to work in a foreign idiom, guaranteeing thorny questions for most viewers and recriminations from the nitpicking woke feels more like an asset than a distraction. Frances McDormand’s limited role is both comfort food and anchor: a beacon in an admittedly colonial but ultimately forgivable effort.—Brett Scieszka, Los Angeles, CA
Bold part=New Board Description?
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
I think "admittedly colonial but ultimately forgivable" might be more apt
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
shameful absence of the Denis/Binoche film from that poll, esp given FC's cover story on the new, very stupid Denis/Pattinson/Binoche film
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
Wondering if #13 is the worst showing for an editorial poll #1 in reader poll history.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
Well! What do you think of my elegant new screenname?
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
Insufficiently Woke.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 March 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
Not a bad list really
The Film Comment poll was also the best of the critics’ polls this year I thought
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
I caught Capernaum today with my Mom - I can definitely see why some hate it but Labaki's facility with her young actors is just too good for me to be too mad about the schmaltz, which also wasn't nearly as over-the-top as I was expecting. plenty of consensus "classics" are way more overwrought, and most of the more upsetting events were elided. Rami Malek oughta send that kid his Oscar.
― Simon H., Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
looking forward to seeing it
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
I will say that if you instinctively recoil against sentiment or melodrama it is Not For You
also the "very stupid" Denis film was much more enjoyable to me than Let the Sunshine In
― Simon H., Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
"esp given FC's cover story on the new, very stupid Denis/Pattinson/Binoche film"
I was wondering about that. I've heard good things about it
although I did really like Let the Sunshine In
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
I found LTSS mysteriously irritating, the only Denis film I feel this way about (though L'Intrus went over my head and White Material kinda bored me)
― Simon H., Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:45 (five years ago) link
ditto on those last two, and Bastards didn't do much either
I thought LTSS was a scream, and much more accurate about men than some of the nitwit American [redacted]ism of the last 10 years.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
I can't read some of the thinkpieces on High Life w/out suspecting a prank is being played on me
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
Accurate =/= compelling, idk it had some chuckles and the late Depardieu appearance was intriguingly off-kilter but the whole thing just felt pointless, much like dating itself, which is some kind of accomplishment but not one that felt worthwhile to me
― Simon H., Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
L'intrus was for me the most out there of all of her films, really didn't get it. White Material was also somewhat mysterious, after seeing it twice I'm still not sure I understand what it was really about.
Let the Sunshine felt like something familiar, about someone trying but unable to make a connection, struggling to realize that maybe it doesn't matter
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link
*Let the Sunshine In
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
LTSS is a great (unintentional?) parody of movies like The Bucket List
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
the whole thing just felt pointless
it's been at least 6 months since i "paused" Twin Peaks...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
heh -- some of Denis' early '00s films were more annoying than LTSI.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
I was going to say the advertising materials for LTSI are crucial to understanding what it's making fun of, but then I remembered what the poster for Certified Copy looks like:
https://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/print/u-g-F4S5LB0.jpg
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
L'intrus made Twin Peaks: The Return seem pretty straightforward to me.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 April 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link