ffs
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
just save yourself the bother and watch the "hilarious" trailer.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
this was bad, panel show levels of unfunny
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
just watch the armando ianucci shows
go get yer Apatow
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
can only assume americans not having to put up with smug british comedy 24/7 makes this easier to digest
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
or smug British comedy fans!
btw sic, the VV P&J used to combine vote totals over 2 years (but wd not have permitted Phantom Thread to win 2 years in a row)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
https://sovietmoviesonline.com/comedy/305-hrustalev-mashinu.html
don't watch that watch Khrustalyov, My Car!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Toni Erdmann won in 2016, placed at 40 in 2017.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dzek4Kj.jpg
33. First Man d: Damien Chazelle w: Josh Singer b: James R. HansenUS 2018 16mm, 35mm, IMAX 65mm 101 points, 4 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
Saw this at the imax last night (because my wife decrees that we have to see all space movies at the imax). It’s not a great movie for that format, the handheld camera is a bit jarring at that size and my enduring impression is that Ryan’s Gosling has weirdly small ears. It does, however set up an interesting counterpoint with the lunar scenes being full imax as opposed to the rest of the film being regular widescreen, as well as going from jumpy handheld to serene. I guess that’s the point, also going from high activity to a very contrasting moment of serenity on the moon.It also owes a lot to the right stuff, I found the colour and grain to match that film very well and the first scene is almost a mirror of Chuck Yeager’s last flight in that film. (Bouncing off the atmosphere rather than failing to reach space). It’s not quite as inspiring as the right stuff but it’s a much more personal film, very sparse dialogue, reflecting Armstrong’s character.Worthwhile, I think although was pretty stoked for the queen biopic they trailed before hand.― Ed, Thursday, October 18, 2018 Oh yeah, all that handheld camerawork really got on my nerves. I saw regular DCP projection fwiw.Also forgot to mention that when I saw it, when they got the moon and the soundtrack went completely silent, we all heard Lady Gaga belting a song from A Star is Born playing in an adjacent theater. Lol― flappy bird, Thursday, October 18, 2018
It also owes a lot to the right stuff, I found the colour and grain to match that film very well and the first scene is almost a mirror of Chuck Yeager’s last flight in that film. (Bouncing off the atmosphere rather than failing to reach space). It’s not quite as inspiring as the right stuff but it’s a much more personal film, very sparse dialogue, reflecting Armstrong’s character.
Worthwhile, I think although was pretty stoked for the queen biopic they trailed before hand.
― Ed, Thursday, October 18, 2018 Oh yeah, all that handheld camerawork really got on my nerves. I saw regular DCP projection fwiw.
Also forgot to mention that when I saw it, when they got the moon and the soundtrack went completely silent, we all heard Lady Gaga belting a song from A Star is Born playing in an adjacent theater. Lol
― flappy bird, Thursday, October 18, 2018
Finally saw this, loved it.It represented Armstrong so beautifully.His inscrutability, his steadfastness, his depth...but also how much he and all the Gemini & Apollo astronauts gave to the program, the deeply human cost of getting to the moon & the weight of the achievement of actually setting foot on the moon by showing how much had to go right.I thought it was truly a beautiful movie, and a credit toArmstrong & his family.I never thought Gosling could pull off a characterization of Armstrong but hats (helmets?) off, he really killed it.― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, February 19, 2019
It represented Armstrong so beautifully.His inscrutability, his steadfastness, his depth...but also how much he and all the Gemini & Apollo astronauts gave to the program, the deeply human cost of getting to the moon & the weight of the achievement of actually setting foot on the moon by showing how much had to go right.
I thought it was truly a beautiful movie, and a credit toArmstrong & his family.
I never thought Gosling could pull off a characterization of Armstrong but hats (helmets?) off, he really killed it.
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, February 19, 2019
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
in my top 10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
A bore.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
A well-meaning one though.
https://i.imgur.com/t86RIM6.jpg
32. Hale County This Morning, This Evening d: RaMell Ross w: RaMell Ross, Maya Krinsky (doco)US 2018 DSLR104 points, 4 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
tried this one a couple times too
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
made my ballot
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
thought this film was beautiful
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
In my top 5.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
I really don’t have anything to say about Can You Ever Forgive Me. It’s the most “fine” movie I saw last year and the least likely I’ll ever revisit.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
otm
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
For a documentary Hale County is extremely oblique and decentered, but it makes sense as an intuitive right-brained portrait of a group of people, and there are many beautiful auditory and visual effects and surreal juxtapositions of images
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is the best of the masterpieces, but I'd say The Wild Pear Tree is a masterpiece as well. Nuri Bilge Ceylan might be my favorite of the, like, praised directors working at this moment. Apichatbong is better, but irregular, ditto Hou Hsaio-hsien, etc. Every couple of years there's a new Ceylan, it's always different, nearly always great, and always in new ways.
The Image Book rose a lot in my estimation as I kept on thinking about it. What a way to go out if this is his last one. The parallels between the old man dancing until he faints, and Godard trying to talk but coughing. Beautiful self portrait in there.
Dead Souls on of the simpler eight hour films I've ever seen - ok, the only eight hour film I've ever seen, and yeah, eight hours is pretty much a day - but the point of showing the funeral close to the beginning, then later on showing all the unburied bones, then having the old, dying people tell their stories before it's too late, is very powerful. These victims deserve to be lamented, and if their families can't, then these eight hours can perhaps help a little.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
I agree with that description, but it didn't cohere into a compelling result.xpost
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
didn't quite cohere for me either, but I was more beguiled by the second viewing. I definitely want to see it again
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sFjxbSI.jpg
31. Visages Villages [Faces, Places] d: Agnès Varda & JR (doco) FR 2017 digital106 points, 5 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Placed at #15 in 2017, with 138 points and 10 votes.
amazed at that Varda quote; it seems old ladies like cats!― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 July 2018
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 July 2018
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
didn't open over here till last autumn, ended up fairly low on my ballot. got the fun slightly bittersweet 90 i was promised without jr getting in the way too much
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
I liked the faces and the places
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
voted for this last year, it is another film I want to see again
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
Damn, I forgot to vote for Can You Ever Forgive Me... yeah, like I said, would've been in the bottom of my top 10. oh well.
agree that The Death of Stalin sucked
First Man was my #6, Chazelle finally put his crypto fascistic tendencies to good use in a surprisingly subtle movie that, given the subject matter and his previous two films, I expected to be completely over the top and noxious. it was really, really great.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
had a hard time with First Man, Gosling as Armstrong seemed completely personality-free, and the movie felt inert to me. I was probably in a bad mood when I saw it, maybe will watch it again
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rQxOOnH.jpg
30. Нелюбовь [Loveless] d: Andrey Zvyagintsev w: Oleg Negin, Andrey ZvyagintsevRU 2017 digital110 points, 4 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
really liked this film too, between this and Leviathan I'm impressed by Zvyagintsev and am looking forward to seeing what he does next
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Man, lots of consensus ahead I guess
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
still a few more before we get out of the 4-votes zone
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
expecting an appearance from everyone's favourite soju aficionado soon
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
Gosling as Armstrong seemed completely personality-free
true to life!
The library never got Loveless.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
― devvvine, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 4:04 PM (four minutes ago)
if Burning shows up outside the top 10 I will be disappointed
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
it won't.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
you won't.
(i meant hong)
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
oh ok. that's another one that was in my top 10
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
i'm hoping for one in the top ten and a couple others round these waters
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
haven't had a chance to see The Day After, Grass, or Hotel by the River yet
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
up next is the one that decided me it'd be fun to track the format they were made in, silby
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5d2Jmc2.jpg
29. 24 Frames [۲۴ فریم] d: Abbas Kiarostami, Ali KamaliIR 2017 desktop computer 114 points, 4 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
my biggest disappointment of the year
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
wish this was much much higher
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
I loved this film!
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link