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

Side note: has anyone ever bought a DVD or DVD set from dvdcoming.com?

My group:

Alright folks, it's time to announce our collection of nominees for 2021. A complete list will be available on our site soon and the winners will be announced next week! pic.twitter.com/l84VHcnrO0

— Florida Film Critics (@FLFilmCritics) December 15, 2021

I wash my hands of anyone who voted for the Lucy farrago

Is there a story behind why some categories have only three or four nominees?

Speaking of washing hands of things ...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The nominations for the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards will be presented Jan. 28, 2022. The awards will then be presented Feb. 13, 2022.#AwardSeason #AwardsSeason #FilmTwitter #MNFCA

— The Minnesota Film Critics Alliance (@MNCritics) December 14, 2021

I am not affiliated with this group and will not answer for the image they give Minnesota.

Lack of run-offs.

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I DO see your hands all over the preference for the other Hamaguchi movie tho.

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https://www.screenslate.com/articles/best-movies-2021-first-viewings-discoveries-and-individual-ballots

Including a ballot from our own obscurist Tape Store!

First Viewings:
“Strike City” (Tom Griffin and John Douglas, 1967)
"I Don't Know" (Penelope Spheeris, 1970)
The Selection (Gyula Gazdag, 1970)
The Resolution (Judit Ember & Gyula Gazdag, 1972)
“Sea Space” (William Farley, 1972)
"A Day More" (Vlatko Gilić, 1972)
Pictures of the Old World (Dušan Hanák, 1972)
"Children of the Fields" (Robert M. Young, 1973)
We’re Not the Jet Set (Robert Duvall, 1977)
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford, 1983)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985)
Mix-Up (Francoise Romand, 1986)
Just Like Weather (Allen Fong, 1986)
Kamikaze Hearts (Juliet Bashore, 1986)
Motel (Christian Blackwood, 1989)
Strangers in Good Company (Cynthia Scott, 1990)
These Hands (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling, 1992)
Double-Blind (Sophie Calle & Greg Shepard, 1992)
Ruby In Paradise (Victor Nuñez, 1993)
“The Trained Chinese Tongue” (Laurie Wen, 1994)
Goshogaoka (Sharon Lockhart, 1997)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh, 2005)
"Daga’a" (Shadi Habib Allah, 2015)

Film Comment is counting down the year-end poll results:

Welcome to our official Best of 2021 Countdown! Follow along as FC Co-Deputy Editors Clinton Krute and @devikagirgayi discuss the results of our year-end critics’ poll with @bealoayza, @BilgeEbiri, & @edogoesboating. pic.twitter.com/oaNVowFWoM

— Film Comment Magazine (@FilmComment) December 17, 2021

Here's FC's full list:

01. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Colombia/Thailand/UK/France/Germany/Mexico/Qatar)
02. Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
03. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
04. Annette (Leos Carax, France)
05. Days (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France)
06. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, Australia/New Zealand)
07. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
08. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia/Germany)
09. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, France/Netherlands)
10. Undine (Christian Petzold, Germany/France)
11. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude, Romania/Luxembourg/Czech Republic/Croatia)
12. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes, USA)
13. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany/Belgium/Sweden)
14. El Planeta (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
15. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
16. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
17. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, USA/UK/China)
18. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili, USA)
19. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
20. Titane (Julia Ducournau, France)

Pretty shit year for American movies, based on the evidence of this poll and Sight & Sound's.

Not much love for Wes Anderson’s new one; I gather it is just finally too much?

it's actually grown on me in memory, but it's certainly the wes andersoniest wes anderson movie i've ever seen

its stunning use of color and black and white and the different ways the images fill the frame are the attractions and the elements that really linger

I like the Film Comment list more than any of the others, and remember feeling that way for the last several years

Los Angeles weighs in, and between then, N.Y. and Boston (and in all likelihood the Nat'l Society), it's a clean sweep for Drive My Car.

Picture: DRIVE MY CAR
Director: Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Actor: Simon Rex, RED ROCKET
Actress: Penélope Cruz, PARALLEL MOTHERS
Supporting Actor: Vincent Lindon, TITANE and Kodi Smit-McPhee, THE POWER OF THE DOG (tie)
Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose, WEST SIDE STORY
Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, DRIVE MY CAR
Cinematography: Ari Wegner, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Production Design: Steve Saklad, BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR
Editing: Joshua L. Pearson, SUMMER OF SOUL
Music Score: Alberto Iglesias, PARALLEL MOTHERS
Foreign-Language Film: PETITE MAMAN
Non-Fiction Film: SUMMER OF SOUL
Animation: FLEE
New Generation Award: Shatara Michelle Ford, TEST PATTERN and Tatiana Huezo, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN
Career Achievement Award: Mel Brooks
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award: THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN)

From some site telling me where I can see it: "If you’re looking for an introspective, character-driven road drama, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film, Drive My Car, checks all of the boxes." Geez, I did a whole poll of such films. So I really want to see it--but can't, yet, as far as I can tell.