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

(like you glamour girls give a fuck)

I count Hawke among the glamour girls

ew, you haven't seen him close up

my favorite line was "the network's first choice to host was no one, but they're already booked for tomorrow"

xxxp that final scene with Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant was so great

an understated melodramatic moment like that was what the film needed at the end I thought

FC readers poll

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/readers-poll-2018/

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?

I think "admittedly colonial but ultimately forgivable" might be more apt

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

Wondering if #13 is the worst showing for an editorial poll #1 in reader poll history.

Well! What do you think of my elegant new screenname?

Insufficiently Woke.

Not a bad list really

The Film Comment poll was also the best of the critics’ polls this year I thought

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.

looking forward to seeing it

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

"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

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)

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.

I can't read some of the thinkpieces on High Life w/out suspecting a prank is being played on me

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

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

*Let the Sunshine In

LTSS is a great (unintentional?) parody of movies like The Bucket List

the whole thing just felt pointless

it's been at least 6 months since i "paused" Twin Peaks...

heh -- some of Denis' early '00s films were more annoying than LTSI.

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

L'intrus made Twin Peaks: The Return seem pretty straightforward to me.

fabulous pinatas she's hanging from her ears

certified candy within

feels to me like Burning and Shoplifters were the two of the most amazing films of 2018

I count Zama as 2017

eventually saw it twice, think it is by far my favorite film of the last couple of years

neglected to post this

https://filmmakermagazine.com/107353-23-films-35mm-released-in-2018/#.XNXQJ6l7lBw

on that score, i'm enthusiastically looking forward to your review of Detective Pikachu

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

prob my least favorite movie of 2018 next to Proud Mary

yeah it was awful

the only thing I liked was that they ran the entire credits ~15 minutes in, but they play again at the end... stupid

but interestingly the credits ran backwards at the end

there were a lot of visual components of this I liked

but overall,,,no