thanks to my pal who asked me to go see this with him, what a picture. He deserved everything he got tbh
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
"¿Quieres vivir?"
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
12 on my ballot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjwfunNyBZ0
― devvvine, Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
woulda been my #1 or 2 if I'd voted
― Simon H., Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
Marvelous.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
such a great scene, with the llama and those descending electronic tones that seem to occur at the moments of greatest dread
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
Lucrecia Martel deserves more writing.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
the film had a lot of striking elements
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
Martel thread ftr: the films of Lucrecia Martel, most recently "The Headless Woman"
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
the story did meander, although I thought that deepened its kafkaesque quality
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
seems to be a theme of her films, things spiraling out of the characters' control
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
there were animals or animal sounds in almost every scene, including the llama and especially the horse on the beach who turned slowly around and looked directly at the camera just before the most shocking scene
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w3BLY1a.jpg
3. 버닝 [Burning] d: Lee Chang-dong w: Oh Jung-mi, Lee Chang-dong b: Haruki MurakamiKR 2018 digital492 points, 18 votes, 1 #1
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
I don't think it's out of the question that during the pivotal "I burn greenhouses" scene, that Ben is a urban trust fund guy who thinks it's funny to mess with a guy he thinks is a country rube.― intheblanks, Friday, December 14, 2018
― intheblanks, Friday, December 14, 2018
intheblanks, you did notice there was a litter box filled with cat shit, right?― Frederik B, Friday, December 14, 2018
― Frederik B, Friday, December 14, 2018
Fred, go to lunch
arguing about Burning <<<<<<<<< Bernie
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
i kinda wish this film was messier, it all feels so composed and symmetrical in a way that worked against the 'mystery'. anyway liked it, voted for it
― devvvine, Friday, 28 June 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Missed all of the presumable top 3, not really on purpose though.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
in your defence, the tsai ming-liang vr film was easy to miss
― devvvine, Friday, 28 June 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
loved this. thought the two other films of his I've seen were also really great: Secret Sunshine and Poetry
― Dan S, Friday, 28 June 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
Poetry is the better film.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
I had Burning pegged to win it all, tbh.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
now who's predicting
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
Good film; my first by Lee, so time to catch up.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
Debate's starting soon. Hurry!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2z61ceq.jpg
2. 万引き家族 [Shoplifters] w/d: Kore-eda Hirokazu JP 2018 35mm520 points, 18 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
this was quite good again - I just like what Kore-eda does. There was a lot more around sex and intimacy than usual for him with all the elements in previous films (getting by in an affluent society, or the unusual arrangements of family) in a light touch manner that brings people over.― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, November 28, 2018
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Hirokazu Kore-Eda Thread
https://i.imgur.com/hZiNt4q.png
1. First Reformed w/d: Paul SchraderUS 2017 digital 2.8K556 points, 18 votes, 4 #1s
Is Amanda Seyfried in any movies where her boyfriend isn't a fuck-up?― Philip Nunez, Sunday, July 1, 2018
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, July 1, 2018
Paul Schrader's 'slow' transcendental drama FIRST REFORMED w/ Ethan Hawke
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Cheers to all voters, posters, and lurkers here and through the year. Ballot exhibitionists, please use the separate thread: BALLOTS: Endgame - ILM 2018 film poll ballot depository in order to keep this one searchable.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
deserved congrats to weird uncle schrader
shoplifters soared whenever ando was on screen, performance of the year
thanks for running the poll sic!!!
― devvvine, Friday, 28 June 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
Thank you sic!
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
Wow -- best one-two in a film poll here.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
I remember liking zama, but it’s been two years and I don’t remember anything about it now
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 June 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
You saw it in 2017?1
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
I did too
― Simon H., Friday, 28 June 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
xp I thought on the surface it was about the bureaucratic layers, dead-ends, degradation and shame that Diego de Zama experiences in his attempts to get reposted away from Paraguay, which in the end turns into literal bodily degradation. Feels obv like there was a lot more going on on a deeper level
there were also a lot of strange seemingly random events: the people in a secret room crowded around a sanadora who is smoking a cigar and performing a healing ritual, the scene in the crypt where lyme is being dropped over the dead body of el oriental, the voiceover moment of the assistant to the Gobernador, while fondling what he thinks are the dried up ears of Vicuña Porto which were supposedly cut off before his execution (viewing this scene the second time through I could better see its portentous quality), the ghost hotel that Diego de Zama stays at on the outskirts of the town
― Dan S, Friday, 28 June 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:48 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah it played at NYFF
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 June 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
fuckin snobs
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
the most compelling theme of the movie to me was the depiction of banal oppression (as opposed to histrionic, crushing oppression) of life under colonial rule
― Simon H., Friday, 28 June 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Top 4 feels right.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 28 June 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
Good poll, sic, thanks for running it. Been too busy to comment much but I enjoyed the rollout.
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Friday, 28 June 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
xxp I loved Daniel Giménez Cacho's performance in this, he was so consistently self-possessed
― Dan S, Friday, 28 June 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
also Lola Dueñas (Luciana) was mesmerizing as the gossipy noblewoman who teases and frustrates him
― Dan S, Friday, 28 June 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
re: Shoplifters, I think Sakura Andô is great in this but I also love Lily Franky and Kirin Kiki
feels in retrospect that the crucial scene in it is when Shota confronts Osamu over breaking their moral code
― Dan S, Friday, 28 June 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
I liked First Reformed a lot, voted for it, but also had a hard time with it, is was so cold and sad. I had to watch the last few scenes over again for the events of it to really sink in, was the ending supposed to represent reality or a dying man's fantasy?
I will revisit the whole thing again at some point but it was heartbreaking to watch
― Dan S, Friday, 28 June 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
THANK YOU SIC!
― flappy bird, Friday, 28 June 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
imo "cold" is not a pejorative
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
no I agree, but i grew up in a strict, religious germanic family and "cold" in that sense is an element that I react to
― Dan S, Friday, 28 June 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
Well done, sic!
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 28 June 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
Spider-Verse: nerds (didn't see, but I will maybe)Favourite: high on my worst list; see the Greek stuffMandy: ffs {didn't see)Zama: think I had it 14th, possibly overratedBurning: overratedShoplifters: dittoFirst Reformed: my #3
shameful omission: Amazing Grace (NY/LA, December '18)
thanks sic, cept for those funny papers pages you posted
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 June 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link