I missed Monrovia when it played here... I wish there was a way to see Wiseman movies other than buying the DVDs from Zipporah. It'd be one thing if he had like 10 movies but how many are there... 40?
I'm voting for The Image Book even though I saw it in 2019 and I'm also voting for Let the Sunshine In even though I voted for it in the last poll. thanks for the Fassbinder reminder Morbs, I could only come up with 9 films last night, I will include that one (screened here last summer but I didn't see it until a couple weeks ago).
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
all of the Wiseman films up through Ex Libris (not Monrovia) are on Kanopy, flappy bird
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
41 films total
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
oooh awesome thanks for the heads up!
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
If we're campaigning, I hope people find space for:
24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson)Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
I watched Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? at home on Monday. I like it, but think it's a little overaestheticized (makes sense that it was initially done as a live multimedia event).
24 Frames I was rather disappointed in. That's an installation.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Support the Girls is on my list of things to watch before voting.
I would point people towards Private Life, Happy as Lazzaro, Upgrade and 1985 (hi, Alfred!).
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
24 Frames hit me, as almost all Kiarostamis do, right in the root of my spinal cord. They're ASMR in movie form.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
(And a great deal more than that, obviously, but this one allowed me the chance to put that aspect to the forefront.)
yes 24 Frames is my #3. seeing it in a huge theater definitely helped, not sure how it would go over at home, I could barely stick with Shirin.
I don't understand the praise for Support the Girls at all. Didn't dislike it but such a wispy nothing of a movie.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
will back up alfred on claire's camera, and say dead souls over anything mentioned thus far
― devvvine, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
cocote is also worth checking out
― devvvine, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
and Western, among others
https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2018/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
First reformed will win I think Won’t be surprised if Mandy, favourite, burning right up there. Won’t be mad either. Def voting for Claire’s camera, zama, let the sunshine in
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
I’ll be voting for four on Alfred’s list
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Oh another cpt obv pick I will rep for is hereditary if that’s 18
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
wd also point to
Bisbee '17The GuardiansAmazing Grace (ran in NYC for a week in December)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
and First Man
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
I’m gonna keep throwing out notable films from last year as they come to me otherwise I’ll forget: Arcadia, wild boys
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
https://img.etonline.com/1242911076001/201702/942/1242911076001_5339012657001_et-post-show-best-picture-3-022717-hulu.jpg
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
xpost
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
: Arcadia, wild boys
I like "Goodbye is Forever"
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
lol that was not deliberate
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
No ones mentioned COLD WAR yet
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
More like COLD BORE!
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
(Just kidding, I liked it fine.)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
y'all should vote for Skate Kitchen
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Cold Snore more like. Viewers sure live heterosexual, apolitical love stories!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Films on my ballot:5/10 teens4/10 lesbians(some overlap)
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
/Cold Snore/ more like. Viewers sure live heterosexual, apolitical love stories!
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
More like mold poor
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
I liked it a lot
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
It was alright
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
For an old chore
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
OK not feeling the love for Cold War
What about BROS: AFTER THE SCREAMING STOPS? Comedy of the year, hands down
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
I deleted it from my 2018 long list bcz I thought it was TV-only, but it had a festival screening and a one-day release - back on, baby
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
a film I've been meaning to watch is Ali Abbasi's Border, has anyone seen it?
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
heard from a friend that when the bros film screened at lff, the brothers themselves paid for it to have a red carpet entrance
― devvvine, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
Border (Gräns) is going to be very high on my ballot
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
Xpost They are a pair of David Brent-esque wallys but something totally endearing about them at the same time
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
one of the entries on that Film Comment list is Personal Problems, a collaboration between Ishmael Reed and Bill Gunn, shown at the Pompidou in 1980 and then lost until its release in NY in 2018. It’s an experimental soap opera that is very loose and intimate. I’m not sure what to make of it, I didn’t think it was a masterpiece but Iiked it, it’s a look at the lives of a couple and their friends living in Harlem in 1980
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I liked it too. But it really is TV and was broadcast in New York back then, so I think it belongs to 1980.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
don't have much else to say about 2018 film at the moment except that in my opinion Zama and Burning are really it
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
xp couldn't you say the same for Eight Hours Don't Make a Day? I mean I'm voting for it either way
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 May 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
1) 8H had never been shown in the US.
2) It was shot on film and looks like cinema. Personal Problems was shot on low-grade video and looks it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 05:48 (four years ago) link
These all previously mentioned would def on my ballot:
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)Burning (Lee Chang-dong)Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)Bisbee '17BorderShoplifters Hereditary Paddington 2
The rest are either already in my to watch list or they are now... thanks for the recommends!
as long as we're aiming for votes, allow me to also rep for the rest of my top picks (with bonus "where can you stream em" parenthetical!) :The Road Movie (Amazon)The Rider (Starz)Eighth Grade (Amazon)Minding the Gap (Hulu)Thunder Road (Amazon)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link
Here's my next-to-watch list with same streaming info for US viewing:
A Quiet Place (Amazon)First Reformed (Amazon)You Were Never Really Here (Amazon)Generation Wealth (Amazon)Unsane (Amazon)The Great Buddha+ (Amazon)A Prayer Before Dawn (Amazon)Lots of Kids, A Monkey and A Castle (Amazon)Western (Amazon)John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (Amazon)Let the Corpses Tan (Amazon)Madeline’s Madeline (Amazon)Cold War (amazon)Loveless (Amazon)A Fantastic Woman (Amazon)Suspiria (Amazon)Sollers Point (Amazon)The Guardians (Amazon)Ava (Amazon)
Tully (HBO)The Tale (HBO)Jane Fonda in Five Acts (HBO)Deadpool 2 (HBO)The Meg (HBO)BlacKkKlansman (HBO)Crazy Rich Asians (HBO )Won’t You Be My Neighbor (HBO)
Happy as Lazzarro (Netflix)Roma (Netflix)Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)The Bleeding Edge (Netflix)Filmworker (Netflix)The Dawn Wall (Netflix)The Other Side of the Wind (Netflix)We the Animals (Netflix)Black Panther (Netflix)Ant Man and the Wasp (Netflix)Bird Box (Netflix)They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Netflix)Solo (Netflix)What Still Remains (Netflix)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Kanopy)In Between (Kanopy)Nancy (Kanopy)I Am Not a Witch (Kanopy)
Love After Love (Hulu)Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Hulu)The Sisters Brothers (hulu)
Have a Nice Day (shudder)Mandy (shudder)
1985 - https://vimeo.com/174131804
Not Yet Streaming:Spider-Man: Into the SpiderverseViceHale County This Morning This Evening Night Is Short, Walk on Girl Mission Impossible: Fallout Blaze ThoroughbredsBodied Silence of Others On Her Shoulders Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda LiyanaA Bread FactoryBig Fish and BegoniaAmazing GraceGavagaiSearchingMuseo (YouTube)24 FramesClaire’s Camera The Green Fog
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
I already mentioned my main issue with personal problems way upthread, viz I can’t bloody watch it 😡
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 30 May 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
At least half of forks' Amazon picks are also on Kanopy, for general reference, as is the Grace Jones doco
https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(JamieR-BX)__Tadpole(1).jpg
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 30 May 2019 06:26 (four years ago) link
if i'd seen it time minding the gap, would've been very high on my ballot. beautiful film
― devvvine, Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link