This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year AND DECADE in Cinema" -- 2019

Phantom Thread #1, based on the other PTAs already placing.

Oops, I was wrong...

1. The Tree of Life
2. Moonlight
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Phantom Thread

#murica

smdh at 2 and 4, and even somewhat at 3

(all of which are good btw)

All five are perfectly fine.

And glad they all ranked above Roma, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Social Network.

only two can remotely be considered Decade's Best in my book xp

Dare you to scroll thru all 100: https://filmschoolrejects.com/most-beautiful-shots-of-the-decade/

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

They're really into silhouetted figures against sunsets.

A better Llewyn Davis shot (and I don't even like cats):

http://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/BHZgaujR6xlzEFulLIZTeaPWDF4=/0x0:1280x690/920x690/filters:focal(831x197:1035x401):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62574303/MV5BZDFmMDgxOTQtYTc3MC00YWMxLWI1NjMtNmFhN2UzZDI1ZDE2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDAxOTExNTM_._V1_.0.0.jpg

The page loads so slowly I can't go through the list, but I assume Boyhood is in there somewhere. Maybe my favourite shot of the decade:

http://scontent.fyzd1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/11070084_10152583857176534_3043664573621445994_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQm75Cg2ypzRtLL7G5rQkHmfVdqi_hfMvDGLLXaPeIaU-MBmWmXDuAB8M9dz2azt0SQ&_nc_ht=scontent.fyzd1-2.fna&oh=082edf0d7a850a400a8178c3b0f70afe&oe=5E47AA76

(I have no confidence either of these images will show up.)

rogue one doesn't have any perfect shots

Surprised they went with the obvious crying shot from Get Out but not the one from Call Me by Your Name.

Missed this a few days ago, but the Critics Choice Documentary Awards were lorded over by Apollo 11.

Best Documentary Feature – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Director – TIE – Peter Jackson – They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)
Best Director – TIE – Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar – American Factory (Netflix)
Best Cinematography – John Chester – The Biggest Little Farm (Neon)
Best Editing – Todd Douglas Miller – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Score – Matt Morton – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Narration – Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars (Warner Bros.)
Best First Documentary Feature – Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov – Honeyland (Neon)
Best Archival Documentary – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Biographical Documentary – Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Magnolia)
Best Music Documentary – Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Greenwich)
Best Political Documentary – American Factory (Netflix)
Best Science/Nature Documentary – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Sports Documentary – Maiden (Sony Pictures Classics)
Most Innovative Documentary – They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)
Best Short Documentary – Period. End of Sentence. (Netflix)
The D A Pennebaker Award – Frederick Wiseman
The Landmark Award – Michael Apted

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) November 13, 2019

Best Latin American Films of the Decade:

25. Cocote
24. Wild Tales
23. Güeros
22. Gloria
21. (tie) Neon Bull
21. (tie) In the Intense Now
20. The Untamed
19. Ixcanul
18. The Human Surge
17. It All Started at the End
16. No
15. A Fantastic Woman
14. Birds of Passage
13. El Club
12. The Tiniest Place
11. Neighboring Sounds
10. (tie) Araby
10. (tie) A Useful Life
9. Tempestad
8. Jauja
7. Aquarius
6. Post Tenebras Lux
5. Nostalgia for the Light
4. Roma
3. Embrace of the Serpent
2. La Flor
1. Zama

https://remezcla.com/lists/film/best-latin-american-films-2010s/

How many have you seen? I'm at 18.

Same.

Yup.

wd have to research. i rated Jauja on L'boxed and have no memory of it.

(quite commonplace for me)

I will never forget Viggo Mortensen's atrocius mangling of the Danish language. But Ghita Nørby was great as old Karen Blixen.

I'm sure that list is an aggregate but in no universe I want to inhabit is Roma better than Post Tenebras Lux.

I don't really know where to put this but... Guy Lodge (who Iike a fair bit as a critic and a lot as an internet person) posted on twitter today that he was having his house refurbished and put almost everything he has into storage while the refurb was being done and the storage place burned down and he lost everything :(

Some personal news: the storage facility in which I was keeping 80% of my worldly possessions while renovating my house — you know, for efficiency and safekeeping — has burned down. I am trying to be stoic, but did cry four times today.

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) November 15, 2019

I like that Latin American films of the decade list

so many good films on that list

Birds of Passage is so far my favorite film this year

Guy Lodge is a lovely man in person.

I bet <3 he's one of the online people I'm sure I'd enjoy in life.

I feel really sad for him.

https://film.avclub.com/the-100-best-movies-of-the-2010s-1839846306

My pleasure that of all things Mad Max: Fury Road has emerged as the consensus choice of the decade is only partially offset by The Master being the most common first-runner-up.

consensus might give us Pete Buttigieg too

it is to be shunned

What isn't, sunshine?

well sunshine can give you melanoma so no

From the comments: "Did I miss it or are there no MCU films on this list? What, did Scorsese put this list together or something?"

Fury Road certainly affected me more than almost anything else this decade. I hadn't been seeing very many movies for several years prior to Fury Road, and it kicked off a new spate of movie-watching.

someone will be mystified that Turin Horse and Uncle Boonmee only reached #94 and 97

"only"

Not a ton of docs on this list.

oh look The Florida Project!

top 20 is pretty good except for inclusion of that and Social Network... also only about 2.5 non-English-lang films. Try harder.

Not enthusiastic about The Master, The Social Network, or Boyhood. Outside of that, top 20's fine or better.

Fury Road is *not* a better film than Mad Max II, and anyone claiming that was The Film of the Decade in 1989 would've been told to collect their toys and get on the school bus.

OK Armond.

:p

if the Film Comment poll is along these lines, it will confirm my opinion that this was the worst decade for narrative cinema yet

some films that I haven’t seen on any consensus lists (outside of genre lists) so far, but hoping some will show up on the Film Comment list:

Mysteries of Lisbon
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Stray Dogs
Horse Money
A Touch of Sin
Cemetery of Splendour
Embrace of the Serpent
The Death of Louis XIV
Son of Saul
24 Frames
Zama
Kaili Blues
Western
Certain Women
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Good Time

I'm sure I can will a certain number of those onto the Sl4nt list.

Jimmy Hoffa style?

it pains me that the DiCaprio Wall St pigout looks to be the only Scorsese on these laundry lists

I don't know why I don't like it more, in retrospect. I ought to prefer its lack of, shall we say, moral seriousness.

It's trying to be morally serious though, in a woefully misjudged way.

Dan S's list is a large part of the reason this was a good decade for cinema. Also Jafar Panahi, Corneliu Porumboiu, Amour Fou, A Quiet Passion, Play, Lav Diaz, Pablo Larrain. The focus on American men is understandable, the same as always, but I'm surprised how old the directors on most of those lists are. George Miller, Terence Malick, especially. But how many will claim Coen, PTA, Linklater, made their best works this decade? Ok, perhaps Linklater.