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

generally thought PTA was shit til this decade

I don't understand that at all... He is still shit.

Punch-Drunk Love is good, though.

his worst

Good Time

Genuinely surprised this hasn't shown up on consensus lists, given its initial reception.

Mysteries of Lisbon, The Death of Louis XIV, and A Touch of Sin will be on mine, and Good Time struck me then as an actor showcase.

That and a soundtrack showcase.

and tut-tutting an AV Club list is classic Morbius. This ain't Film Comment -- if they can preach about Uncle Bonmee, they've done a service (though it's not my Apitchapong pick this decade).

I thought I Hated PTA in the 2000s but Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread introduced the lighter touch that the enhanced interrogation technique called Punch Drunk Love couldn't fathom.

Fully intend to give Punch Drunk Love another chance despite it having what I'm pretty confident is the worst P.S. Hoffman performance ever.

I can't complain about too much of that AV Club list tbh, it has a lot of overlap with what would be in mine

Ppl I know who've seen both unanimously seem to prefer the new one over Good Time fwiw

Fully intend to give Punch Drunk Love another chance despite it having what I'm pretty confident is the worst P.S. Hoffman performance ever.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.),

I still hang on to my crawl-under-the-seat response to The Phone Call.

...and Good Time struck me then as an actor showcase.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 18, 2019

That and a soundtrack showcase.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.)

thought the photography was really good too!

The colors!

Good fonts.

tut-tutting an AV Club list is classic Morbius

tut-tutting, am I? you may have confused me with Uncle Pumblechook from Great Expectations.

Let me clarify: No matter what their outlet, anyone who writes that Her Smell is one of the 100 best films of the decade should have their hands cut off.

I had Aunt Bumblefuck from Hard Times in mind.

I'd have opted for Martin Chuzzlewit in Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

Speaking of Chuzzlewit and Bumblefuck, I watch The Two Popes tonight.

Because individual lists are ALWAYS better than aggregate lists:

https://time.com/5725149/best-movies-2010s-decade/
https://time.com/5720170/best-movie-performances-2010s-decade/

(Somewhere is one of the worst movies I saw all decade, for the record.)

Good on Zacharek for remembering Spall and Being.

Spall and Being, an existential treatise by Mike Leigh