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

ok who is PWB

phoebe waller bridge, creator of fleabag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHVoeo5K0s

reading the NYT's Year in Culture wrapup yesterday, i have never felt so alienated from everything

Obama probably didn't even recognize Jello Biafra in The Last Black Man in San Francisco pathetic.

— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) December 29, 2019

I don't count for much but I put an end-of-decade detrius together.

I'm not sure i ever heard of Only the Young, but the library has it so i'll give it a go.

Yay! It's short and sweet.

Walter Chaw's year-end list is always a great read, no matter how seriously you can take a list that includes Terminator: Dark Fate and The Kid Who Would Be King but no Uncut Gems or Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/01/the-50-best-films-of-2019-by-walter-chaw.html

I've seen a number of serious critics who dislike the latter two

however, his #1 "group" includes Her Smell, High Life, and ye gods, An Elephant Sitting Still, plus the Tarantella, so you can't do much worse than that.

for a long film I thought An Elephant Sitting Still was mesmerizing

the quietness and overwhelming grayness and emptiness of tone, long hypnotic circling tracking shots, shunning of the most violent elements of the story, specific blurring or highlighting of background images, grim determination of characters, subtly hopeful ending - it was all so hypnotic and beautiful

I disagree in every particular; found it just overwhelmingly dreary

I can see not liking it but thought it was so unusual

wouldn't have thought that such a constantly moving camera could be that subduing, but it really drew me in

honestly gun to my head you could erase every Tarantino movie except Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and I would feel a mild sadness but it would be an easy choice

Don't trash movies you haven't seen

Get rid of Jackie Brown over my dead body.

Elephant Sitting Still was one of those movies I will never watch again but it was definitely a memorable experience.

Get rid of Jackie Brown over my dead body.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:59 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah wtf

Miami critics: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/miami-film-awards-2019-local-film-experts-pick-their-favorites-of-the-year-and-decade-11396761

I said gun to my head!

Won't someone out there help flappy bird?!

Don't trash movies you haven't seen

i'm not trashing it, i'm trashing HIM. He's an immoral person and artist who is getting no more cultural oxygen from me.

Jackie Brown was the last good thing i saw from him, and it is overrated.

you guys ready to die for some movies huh

hidden decade gems

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6738-hidden-gems-of-the-2010s

Ari Aster otm

wow i gotta see the homesman

helluva blurb

it's the better version of MM: Fury Road

lol

Lol, Morbs absolutely otm.

It's fine.

Wow, would not have expected a Tommy Lee Jones western to have tons of overcranked, reckless in-camera stuntwork F/X but sure let's give it a try!

the most deeply affecting western since Unforgiven

you lost me immediately by not acknowledging meek's cutoff

not having it is the virtue, honeybunch

Cool, good luck selling fans of MM:FR on it then.

the commonality: transporting traumatized women through the desert

OTOH, i am here for any love for Seidl's Paradise Trilogy which i consider HIGHLY underrated

i dunno about hard to be a god being underrated (i think it's universally beloved?) but it was one of the more hallucinatory experiences i've ever had in a theater.

Still need to see Capernaum
will add Homesman and Ingrid Goes West to the watch list
gonna continue passing on The Bad Batch

those fans are busy at amusement parks xp

xp, i forgot that morbs is anti-Reichardt

unless that honeybunch was directed at eric

The H stands for “Hot Lips”

nope! liked Meek's Cutoff and all her other stuff a lot, til the last one at NYFF

xp

"h" is my Otto Preminger-derived nickname for E

okay, i love you again then. you thought first cow was a snoozefest iirc.

yes, first dog

Paradise trilogy is good, but I kinda think Faith is the weakest part.

"h" is my Otto Preminger-derived nickname for E

Advise and no consent.

I knew you'd snag a husband when you put on a few pounds.

The wrong kind, unfortunately.