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

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

“It’s impossible!” sighed Mr. Georgiev. “We are filmmakers, not social workers.”

Maybe you shouldn't have bought her a fucking house then! Morons

i applaud their willingness to share their good fortune! It's incredibly rare among filmmakers that they treat their subjects as human after the camera stops rolling.
can't help but feel that follow up pieces like this are sort of mixed-up PR though.

That's absolutely what it is. And there's a difference between treating your subjects as human beings and all of a sudden becoming their patrons. It's really deplorable, unethical stuff, and anyone that couldn't see these issues coming from a mile away, I don't know what to say. Good intentions mean so little.

I will say I think cutting a check and sharing in the good fortune of the movie with its subjects is one thing, and admirable -- what I find inappropriate is the extent to which the filmmakers became involved in her life, whatever their intentions were.

well they clearly got heavily involved in both families' lives in the process of filming! They just never disentangled.

I don't think it's despicable? ethically fraught, sure. but when you spend a lot of time around specific humans, these things can happen.

You're right, too harsh a word. But this is the A1 rule of documentary filmmaking, and yes, these things happen, they are human--they still failed to do their job and "disentangle" from the family.

true. Herzog's almost certainly done worse of course

I haven't seen the film or read the piece, so I'm just responding to what I take is the general gist of the story. I've mentioned this anecdote before. At a Q&A with Frederick Wiseman after a screening of Juvenile Court, I asked him if he followed up with any of the kids he filmed. His answer was four or five words--I forget exactly what he said, but the unmistakable message was no, of course not, and that I'd asked the dumbest question in the world.

Other end of the spectrum: Steve James and Stevie.

(Or not--James had a relationship with Stevie Fielding that predated the film by a decade.)

now, conversely, I'm wondering to what extent the subjects of The Act of Killing keep an eye on Josh Oppenheimer and co....

now, conversely, I'm wondering to what extent the subjects of _The Act of Killing_ keep an eye on Josh Oppenheimer and co....

I haven't seen the film or read the piece, so I'm just responding to what I take is the general gist of the story. I've mentioned this anecdote before. At a Q&A with Frederick Wiseman after a screening of _Juvenile Court_, I asked him if he followed up with any of the kids he filmed. His answer was four or five words--I forget exactly what he said, but the unmistakable message was no, of course not, and that I'd asked the dumbest question in the world.