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'll say that, for the first time, I now feel Parasite actually will get that best picture nod.)

i thought everyone was unthrilled by Harriet

Just Mercy?

Classic industry awards gravitating toward the wrong middlebrow candidates. Ergo...

I know CLEMENCY is neither widely seen nor easy to watch, but to those who have, Alfre Woodard's near no-show in this year's awards season so far looks close to absurd: no American actor this year is working at a higher level of detail, complexity and emotional intuition.

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) December 11, 2019

Harriet, many have been quick to point out, actually made a fairly large chunk of change. More than any other best actress candidate outside of Lupita, so far.

This feels early this year:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/purple-rain-amadeus-boys-dont-cry-clerks-enter-national-film-registry-1261469

Amadeus (1984)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Before Stonewall (1984)
Body and Soul (1925)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Clerks (1994)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
Employees Entrance (1933)
The Fog of War (2003)
Gaslight (1944)
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
Girlfriends (1978)
I Am Somebody (1970)
The Last Waltz (1978)
My Name Is Oona (1969)
A New Leaf (1971)
Old Yeller (1957)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Platoon (1986)
Purple Rain (1984)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Zoot Suit (1981)

I've been banging on the Alfre Woodard bell for a couple weeks.

Clemency boasts one of my favorite drunk scenes in a while too.

try ringing it xp

there was a MoMA screening of Clemency that i missed last night

Neon hasn't promoted it a-tall.

Congrats to new National Film Registry inductees Elaine May's A New Leaf, Claudia Weill's Girlfriends, Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story, Albert Magnoli's Purple Rain, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, and Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit, the last film released in Sensurround Plus!

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) December 11, 2019

yikes, Clerks!

https://time.com/5747503/national-film-registry-2019-additions/

FC top 20

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2019/

I sat thru #12-14, and there went many hours

At this point each year's Nat'l Film Registry list is about half eye-opening and incredibly cool-looking a-g or documentary works from the first half of the century, and half I Love the 80s/90s fodder.

Cool list

Morbs where did you watch a 13 hour movie?

It screened at some fests and rep houses, split over three nights

what does the film registry actually do with the things it preserves? Obtain celluloid prints and place them in cold storage?

I'm not part of the Ash is Purest White-Pain and Glory consensus. Need to watch Transit again; I've never been mad about Petzold.

Mildly shocked Portrait of a Lady on Fire is as low as it is.

in NYC, Lincoln Center split La Flor into 5 parts, I think. Took me 13 days, I think.

Transit would be in my top 5 fer sure

How do you split La Flor in five?

it would be hilarious to watch one "part" per night considering the wildly divergent lengths of the parts

Yeah, isn't one part like three days long?

seemed so

Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/every-movie-of-the-2010s-ranked-sort-of.html

lmao that is one way to do it

I'm so glad I maxed out on the articles I can read there for free this month.

The one at 5,272 played in main competition at Cannes, and how the fuck hasn't that cost someone their job already?

I had no idea they even had an article limit which I guess says it all.

The only WTF I care to mention is What's Next in the Worst

you’re next is the worst movie of the decade? they need to try harder

or i guess one of the worst*

they also stuck Endgame at the very bottom for the clicks, which? fine

melancholia is #1, Avenger at #5,279 suggest this is mostly a list of movies in unranked order for clicks so wheeeeeeeeeeeee

Here are the 4,961 films that are neither the best nor the worst movies.

https://www.gq.com/story/every-best-picture-nominee-of-the-2010s-ranked

It's clickbait and I won't blame anyone for not peeking, but ...

The Tree of Life (#52) criminally too low

Way too many to list criminally too high

otm

Les Miserables too high in that BP ranking

also Vice

Dallas Buyers Club is in the bottom quarter and it really should be in the bottom 4 or so.

the bottom -4, you meant

NO OSCARS

the trouble with ranking them is that 30 of them should be in the bottom 3

i was surprised dallas buyers club wasn't at the very bottom

jean-marc vallée is a fucking hack

not that there was any salvaging that material anyway but ^^^^^

down in Death Vallée

this was a new one on me, giving it a look: https://www.topic.com/cutting-my-mother

may i point out that The Image Book is next to The Illusionist, which came out in 2006

Now, not featuring anyone who's in this thread! (I think.)

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-25-best-films-of-2019/

Different illusionist, right? The animated one by the triplets of Belleville guy is from this decade