This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2021

hence its appearance on mine

Just aortic dissect me...

2021 WAFCA AWARD WINNER:
Best Actor: Andrew Garfield (tick, tick...BOOM!)https://t.co/vYa5JRtzuu #WAFCA #WAFCA2021 pic.twitter.com/8P1lBEixCI

— WAFCA (@WAFCA) December 6, 2021

Started watching it an hour ago while working out, bailed screaming after 15 minutes.

I'm sure I'll see a worst one as I deep dive into Oscar crap, but as of now the musical number pantomime of his fight with his girlfriend is the year's bar that'll have to be surpassed.

(Grudgingly admit that Garfield acts the shit out of the part, but in a way that makes one need to avert one's eyes.)

Grudgingly admit that Garfield acts the shit out of the part,

That's the trouble.

Here's the full DC crix winners:

Best Film:
Belfast

Best Director:
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Best Actor:
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick...BOOM!)

Best Actress:
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Best Supporting Actor:
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Best Supporting Actress:
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Best Acting Ensemble:
Mass

Best Youth Performance:
Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon)

Best Voice Performance:
Awkwafina (Raya and the Last Dragon)

Best Original Screenplay:
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Best Animated Feature:
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best Documentary:
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best International/Foreign Language Film:
Drive My Car

Best Production Design:
Patrice Vermette, Production Designer; Richard Roberts and Zsuzsanna Sipos, Set Decorators (Dune)

Best Cinematography:
Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS (Dune)

Best Editing:
Myron Kerstein, ACE; Andrew Weisblum, ACE (tick, tick...BOOM!)

Best Original Score:
Hans Zimmer (Dune)

An opinion.

NYT crix go for Drive My Car and Summer of Soul...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/movies/best-movies.html

Manohla Dargis
01. Drive My Car
02. The Power of the Dog
03. The Velvet Underground
04. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
05. Passing
06. Azor
07. The Card Counter
08. The Disciple
09. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
10. Spencer

A.O. Scott
01. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
02. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
03. The Power of the Dog
04. Petite Maman
05. Bring Your Own Brigade
06. Bergman Island
07. Drive My Car
08. Memoria
09. West Side Story
10. The Velvet Underground

Bad Luck Banging is made to be included on year-end lists, and may well be an accurate portrait of the times we live in, but I very much disliked it.

This guy ... https://variety.com/lists/2021-best-movies/owen-gleibermans-top-10-2/

Owen G's top 10

01. Spencer
02. House of Gucci
03. The Beatles: Get Back
04. Drive My Car
05. Cruella
06. Zola
07. King Richard
08. Zack Snyder's Justice League
09. CODA
10. Parallel Mothers

Just got my ILX film poll email BTW

Compiling it is gonna be interesting, my film watching the last couple years is barely limited to the year in which I’m watching

It said "2020" -- did I read it wrong?

I think we actually are just catching up to last year, no?

Which, great, I finally watched Days and it's my #1 of 2020!

huzzah!

Oh, is it for 2020? Cool!

Sight and Sound top 50:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/50-best-films-2021

NY Film Critics Online live:

ACTOR: In this corner of the multiverse, Benedict Cumberbatch's POWER OF THE DOG performance was the dominant favorite. pic.twitter.com/j9YWWXH7Zv

— NYFilmCriticsOnline (@NYFCOOfficial) December 12, 2021

ACTRESS: It's only appropriate that Tessa Thompson joined her PASSING co-star, Ruth Negga, in the winner's circle. pic.twitter.com/YFP47DCLgq

— NYFilmCriticsOnline (@NYFCOOfficial) December 12, 2021

They do have a fondness for The Power of the Dog.

Good to see Tessa Thompson get a citation tho!

They do have a fondness for _The Power of the Dog_.

Boston is bringing a few offbeat choices tho…

And the winner is...for Best Actress: Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) pic.twitter.com/n8gC3wZae5

— Boston Society of Film Critics (@TheBSFC) December 12, 2021

And the winner is...for Best Actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car) pic.twitter.com/B4ZvTKOTlg

— Boston Society of Film Critics (@TheBSFC) December 12, 2021

They have decidedly moved into the National Society’s turf

Watched Annette with a college movie friend. We both thought it was kind of weird and unpleasant. That is how I also remember feeling about Holy Motors though, and that film has really stayed with me.

I would like to see all of these 2021 movies, but films like Memoria and Drive My Car I’m not expecting to see anytime soon

I guess the Golden Globes are back, which who cares.

pre-20th century: cyrano
20th century: the power of the dog, West Side Story, belfast, licorice pizza, king richard, Tick, Tick…Boom!
contemporary: coda, don't look up
fantasy: dune

Critics' groups that announce nominations first are irritatingly student council but Chicago didn't do too bad overall...

BEST PICTURE

Drive My Car
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
David Lowery, The Green Knight
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

BEST ACTOR

Nicolas Cage, Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick...BOOM!
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car
Simon Rex, Red Rocket

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Colman Domingo, Zola
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Catriona Balfe, Belfast
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Riley Keough, Zola
Ruth Negga, Passing

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Drive My Car by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Haruki Murakami & Takamasa Oe
The Green Knight by David Lowery
The Lost Daughter by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion
West Side Story by Tony Kushner

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Card Counter by Paul Schrader
The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson
Pig by Michael Sarnoski
Red Rocket by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Flee
Procession
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Velvet Underground

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Drive My Car
A Hero
Petite Maman
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

I submitted my nominations to my critics group an hour ago.

The only scuttlebutt: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar will do better than expected, and I hope Jamie Dornan gets the nod for it instead of Belfast.

They really didn’t like King Richard, did they?

Legit who did tho?

I stopped watching three more minutes more than Tick Tick.

Spencer
Belfast
Dune
King Richard
West Side Story
House of Gucci
tick tick…Boom!

haven’t seen most of them and am not looking forward to them. watched part of King Richard, about 45 minutes, which was all I needed to see of that movie (two and a half hours long!), and sat through the film about Jonathan Larson with Andrew Garfield playing him in a disconcertingly aggressive way

how does West Side Story translate to 2021

as far as 2021 musicals go, In the Heights is lovely

i suppose i will be seeing west side story with my gal in the theaters on christmas. We did little women when it came out and it made her very happy; methinks this will be much the same vibe of my just drinking my soda and radiating neutrality.

The Independent Spirit Awards go back to their roots, ignoring Oscar movies almost entirely…

Best Feature

“A Chiara”
“C’mon C’mon”
“The Lost Daughter”
“The Novice”
“Zola”

Best Director

Janicza Bravo, “Zola”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter”
Lauren Hadaway, “The Novice”
Mike Mills, “C’mon, C’mon”
Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure”

Best First Feature

“7 Days”
“Holler”
“Queen of Glory”
“Test Pattern”
“Wild Indian”

Best Female Lead

Isabelle Fuhrman, “The Novice”
Brittany S. Hall, “Test Pattern”
Patti Harrison, “Together Together”
Taylour Paige, “Zola”
Taylor Reece, “Catch the Fair One”

Best Male Lead

Clifton Collins, Jr., “Jockey”
Frankie Faison, “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
Michael Greyeyes, “Wild Indian”
Udo Kier, “Swan Song”
Simon Rex, “Red Rocket”

Best Supporting Female

Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”
Amy Forsyth, “The Novice”
Ruth Negga, “Passing”
Revika Anne Reustle, “Pleasure”
Suzanna Son, “Red Rocket”

Best Supporting Male

Colman Domingo, “Zola”
Meeko Gattuso, “Queen of Glory”
Troy Kotsur, “CODA”
Will Patton, “Sweet Thing”
Chaske Spencer, “Wild Indian”

Best Screenplay

“C’mon, C’mon”
“The Lost Daughter”
“Swan Song”
“Together Together”
“Zola”

Best First Screenplay

“Cicada”
“Mass”
“Pig”
“Test Pattern”
“Wild Indian”

Best Cinematography

“A Chiara”
“Blue Bayou”
“The Humans”
“Passing”
“Zola”

Best Editing

“A Chiara”
“The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
“The Novice”
“The Nowhere Inn”
“Zola”

Robert Altman Award

The Director, Cast, and Casting Director of “Mass”

Best Documentary

“Ascension”
“Flee”
“In the Same Breath”
“Procession”
“Summer of Soul”

Best International Film

“Compartment No. 6”
“Drive My Car”
“Parallel Mothers”
“Pebbles”
“Petite Maman”
“Prayers for the Stolen”

Colman Domingo!

but fuck Swan Song, ugh

So I’m clear, Barb and Star not eligible here right?

No idea what that movie is, but love seeing Frankie Faison get a nod.

some of these titles are truly unknown to me

haven't seen it yet, but A Chiara is the third in a series of films about residents of a Calabrian town, following Mediterranea and A Ciambra. I thought those were both interesting films

surprised I'm not seeing The Souvenir Part II mentioned, despite its reviews.

in awards, that is

i suppose i will be seeing west side story with my gal in the theaters on christmas. We did little women when it came out and it made her very happy; methinks this will be much the same vibe of my just drinking my soda and radiating neutrality.

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 13, 2021 9:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I'm considering seeing WSS for my first movie in theaters since Little Women on New Year's Day 2020. My wife loved LW, but has no interest in WSS, so I expect I'll be going alone.