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
fabulous pinatas she's hanging from her ears
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
certified candy within
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 April 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
feels to me like Burning and Shoplifters were the two of the most amazing films of 2018
― Dan S, Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
I count Zama as 2017
eventually saw it twice, think it is by far my favorite film of the last couple of years
― Dan S, Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:50 (five years ago) link
neglected to post this
https://filmmakermagazine.com/107353-23-films-35mm-released-in-2018/#.XNXQJ6l7lBw
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
on that score, i'm enthusiastically looking forward to your review of Detective Pikachu
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
re: the 2018 films shot in 35mm, I really wanted to like Vox Lux (score by Scott Walker!) but I thought is was terrible, particularly Natalie Portman's performance
― Dan S, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
prob my least favorite movie of 2018 next to Proud Mary
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 03:54 (four years ago) link
yeah it was awful
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
the only thing I liked was that they ran the entire credits ~15 minutes in, but they play again at the end... stupid
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
but interestingly the credits ran backwards at the end
there were a lot of visual components of this I liked
― Dan S, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
but overall,,,no
― Dan S, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link