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

Banderas, off to Spain in the morning, won the crowd over by being honest: “I am tired of campaigning,” he said. “I am not a politician. I am an actor!”

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/nyfcc-bong-joon-ho-oscar-rock-star-tarantino-confronts-film-critics-1202201531/

The rest of the Film Comment top 50 is now posted and the Boyhood/Social Network skew is definitely a minority bloc.

I like that top 50 overall

I got the issue; as usu, the individual lists are more interesting.

Both Molly Haskell and Hoberman have Charlie Says and OUaTiHollywood in their top tens of '19.

OU812iHollywood

The only one of FC's decade 50 I haven't seen is Roma. Criterion coming Feb 11. (I expect to be underwhelmed)

Per Letterboxd, my most watched filmmaker of 2019 was Abel Ferrara; most watched actor, Doris Day. (Respectively due to MoMA retrospective and death.)

I just saw Transit again, almost a year to the day of my first screening. My heart was in my throat. How quickly the times line up with our aesthetic preferences.

xp

Jack Mercer and Dave Fleischer for me, thanks to all those Popeye shorts I logged.

Do you like Franz Rogowski, Alfred? I love him.

Glad you came around on the Petzold, Alfred!

Do you like Franz Rogowski, Alfred? I love him.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_),

I do enough to vote him as a finalist in the Florida Film Critics Award for Best Actor, and, yeah, he's cute in a whey-faced Joaquin Phoenix way.

I missed, for reasons too stupid to go into here, a crucial plot point in Transit and was therefore completely baffled by it and had no idea what was happening. I still enjoyed it though.

No Joker to be found...

https://filmmakermagazine.com/108819-the-2019-village-voice-film-poll-reconstructed/#.Xh4z2Kl7lBw

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2019-bong-joon-ho-guillermo-del-toro-sofia-coppola-luca-guadagnino-1202197153/

Have just seen that's from Dec 30, so apologies if it has already been posted here

Parasite winning best cast at SAGs tonight was embarrassingly thrilling. If it can win the top award at SAG (especially with the AFTRA inclusion), maybe it's got the best picture Oscar in the bag?

Oscars? What're those?

Just got back from Little Women and can't remotely see how that's not the best cast. I mean, Jayne Houdyshell and Tracy Letts are great in it.

Apparently Gerwig's editing choices confused old people!

yeah like that dope J*** Wells

Yeah, Little Women was fantastic.

Best part of SAG awards: Superhero clip montage (featuring cash-in roles SAG doesn't take seriously enough for awards) & without a single ZSnyder film--yet scored to the Man of Steel soundtrack. Undeniable greatness. Truth will out. #ReleaseTheSndyerCut pic.twitter.com/4hj0wWGyQr

— armond white (@3xchair) January 20, 2020

Keith U goin' characteristically idiosyncratic on the decade... I count 3 liberally defined musicals.

https://www.keithuhlich.com/2020/01/decade-dance-10-for-10s.html

Here's my annual survey of last year's 35mm-shot US theatrical releases (26 in part or whole, 18 35-only) https://t.co/BbvvhCzE0e

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) January 21, 2020

PGA and DGA both confirm that this year was about 1917 all along.

Jesus, and I thought Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Green Book was boring.

WHY 1917??

why anything?

fortunately, it's not important

Fortunately, nothing is.

Cut!

Nothing matters, but still 1917 matters least of all.

soviet proverb

Look I'm not going to go see a movie called "1917" if it isn't about the October Revolution. That's just how it is.

— Brad 🇮🇷 (@havingabradday) January 11, 2020

pvmic

baftas

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/bafta-film-awards-2020-winners-list-1203489809/

Oscar will Xerox that top 8.

WGA: Parasite, Jojo Rabbit

the continued success of Jojo Rabbit is unfuckingbelievable

it's the "with-it" Life Is Beautiful

Jojo's screenplay is Adapted from my nightmares iirc

My main glitches with Jojo is that I think the whole Wes Anderson look is a little played and the trailer/marketing really kneecapped it. Its conceit isn't as affecting/smart as, say, Transit, but I think for a middlebrow movie that tackled a serious thing, it looks great and is funny and is emotional without being bathetic. Taika is phenomenal in it!

Really? as 'adorkable Hitler'?

add one to the list
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=67985

whoops, er, broken link i guess

I don't have anything against the guy but the whole thing struck me as profoundly stupid and often offensive, not out of malice but ignorance & naivete. of course a holocaust/nazi comedy can be made, but the movie had the stale fake woke posturing of a Sprite commercial. imo

xxp

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/cats-2020-razzie-awards-949791/

WORST SCREEN COMBO
Any two half-feline/half-human hairballs,Cats
Jason Derulo and his CGI-neutered bulge, Cats
Tyler Perry and Tyler Perry (or Tyler Perry), A Madea Family Funeral
Sylvester Stallone and his impotent rage, Rambo: First Blood
John Travolta and any screenplay he accepts

Spirits to Safdies, Sandler, and... The Farewell

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/2020-spirit-awards-winners-list-uncut-gems-1202208889/

Cinema Scope

https://cinema-scope.com/columns/cinema-scope-82-editors-note/

Crazy follow up for Honeyland here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/world/europe/honeyland-north-macedonia-bees.html