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

assorted decade shite:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6693-2010s-the-listing-begins

Top Films of the Decade
2010: CRAZY ASS
2011: DO I KNOW YOU?
2012: LOVE IN MY PANTS
2013: JESUS IV
2014: PERIOD FILM
2015: LIFE IS A LIE
2016: HAPPY THINGS HAPPEN
2017: DRY KISSES
2018: GET OUT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
2019: PLEASE HOLD ME

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 17, 2019

is that Pete Buttigieg's porn rental list?

Stephanie Zacharek seems to be the first out of the gate this year, even before John Waters.

https://time.com/5737103/best-movies-2019/

1. Pain & Glory
2. The Irishman
3. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
4. Marriage Story
5. Little Women
6. Parasite
7. Knives Out
8. Dolemite Is My Name
9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
10. Hustlers

Oh, and performances.

https://time.com/5737198/best-movie-performances-2019/

1. Antonio Banderas, Pain & Glory
2. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
3. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
4. Taylor Russell, Waves
5. Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang
6. Renee Zellweger, Judy
7. Joe Pesci, The Irishman
8. Margot Robbie, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
9. Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name
10. Kristen Stewart, Seberg

As usual, too much English-lang stuff.

Saw John Waters on the first floor of MoMA last night! Should've badgered him for his choices.

I already know from the Polyester Criterion that Climax is probably on that list.

whatever these are

https://awardswatch.com/once-upon-a-time-leads-hollywood-critics-association-nominations/

I get the enthusiasm for Pain & Glory all too well: a film about film for critics. Second-tier Almodovar.

http://www.fimoculous.com/decade-review-2010.cfm?cat=film

If Jojo Rabbit, The Joker and Shia LeBeouf are gonna keep popping up in these, its gonna be a long awards season.

Vanity Fair's best of the decade: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/best-movies-decade-2010s-collins

List manages to include what is my very least favorite movie of the decade tbh.

Wolf is amomg mine; Leviathan too

I guess this goes here?

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2019?fbclid=IwAR1ANFFDEJyYGFqm4dPEMOWxg9ZMTqtYJqf-CYXNVUqW0diUICltmS4GPog

icymi, the NY Times decade picks

Manohla Dargis:

The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Boyhood — Richard Linklater
Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler [retrospective] — Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
13th — Ava DuVernay
A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke

AO Scott:

Carol — Todd Haynes
Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
Norte, the End of History — Lav Diaz
Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick

all-purpose decade link: https://www.yearendlists.com/category/2010s-movies

LOL, Fury Road is the only overlap.

didn't paste their Most Influential list bcz no one should gaf

back to 2019 -- props to Jonathan Rosenbaum for #9 and 10:

Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
Transit — Christian Petzold
It Must Be Heaven — Elia Suleiman
Flannery — Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco
Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
Conrad Veidt: My Life — Mark Rappaport
Where's My Roy Cohn? — Matt Tyrnauer
If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
Ad Astra — James Gray
The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg

Sight and Sound's annual round-up of the best blu-ray (and DVD) releases:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2019

...and the Sight and Sound top fifty films of 2019:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2019

jesus do people really think us is that good

is the Last Black Man in San Francisco going to get left off best of the year lists? I thought it was the best film I saw this year.

Definitely in my top ten

I find it really hard to bring myself to watch the whole Eighth Grade/Booksmart/Mid90s run of wealthy white millennial directors getting self-serious about their suburban upbringings.

Man spoke too soon, looks like 2/3 of them grew up rich kids and I'm not so sure about Bo.

Richard Brody's decade-list from a few days ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-twenty-seven-best-movies-of-the-decade

I don't usually seize on one pick, but The Wolf of Wall Street, yikes.

Anti-detritus sermon aimed straight at Morbs’ heart, among others’s

https://www.anothergaze.com/elena-gorfinkel-manifesto-against-lists

John Waters' list drops and, indeed, his #1 is Climax:

https://www.artforum.com/print/201910/john-waters-81340?fbclid=IwAR3DFbO8OPNBC3hqkQ3DJNLqO5_g3deSTL1-oTZUt8xFOx6HDk9tabd9uAo

yeah, I had to remind myself what that is, and hence why I don't care what he likes

I'm with him on Amazing Grace, Hail Satan and Once Upon a Time
Border woulda been in my top 20 for last year
Still need to see Climax, pain and Glory and Souvenir

both extended dance routines in Climax are great but you should switch the film off after the second one.

booksmart is very funny.

Eighth Grade is great btw

they are both better than mid-90's which had some charms but was kind of forgettable.

anyone see Waves? the trailer makes it look like the cheesiest thing ever.

I thought Waves was awesome

The music use in it is incredible

The trailer does not do the first half of that movie justice

good to know!

Yeah, it’s really bold and stylish, the music use is like an expressionist fever dream, I kind of wish they would do the soundtrack as one 75 minute track or something. One of my faves of the year!

I find it really hard to bring myself to watch the whole Eighth Grade/Booksmart/Mid90s run of wealthy white millennial directors getting self-serious about their suburban upbringings.

― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, November 30, 2019 1:00 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

eighth grade is pretty obviously not a self-serious movie about bo burnham's suburban upbringing

you should watch it just for the dope anna meredith soundtrack tbh whiney

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Climax could have been better if the 15 minute sequence of 2 and 3 part improvs that painted every character in a negative light were dropped. After that, I saw the rest as a morality play where justice was dealt.

I've decided that inclusion of Upstream Color and Under the Skin is my litmus test for critical lists of the decade. I've returned to both regularly.

both of those movies would be on my list, though i'm like... physically incapable of returning to them. thankfully they both burned themselves into my mind on first contact

the first twenty minutes of upstream color is body horror even beyond my personal threshold and the drowning scene in under the skin is just... nope, can't do it again

Y'all should watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

it's not even out as a limited release yet, keep your pants on

December 6 here in flyover land.

I'm aware! I'm saying don't miss out.

I have to decide between Waves and the Mr. Rogers thing tonight.

Kinda think i need to try Atlantics tonight.

Some of the people really laying into Waves probably need to take a step back from the A24 backlash pileon but ... I can absolutely see the validity of the criticisms about the first half in particular.