Plummer w/ gay Scout neckerchief. I didn't realize that was Goran Whatshisname til the credits -- I liked that the film didn't hate him even though he's kind of a pinhead.
I believe my current top 3 films of the year ran a total of 6 weeks in NYC. (And two of them I first saw before 2011.)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
i am not a great listmaker but was paralysed earlier flicking through s&s & remembering that the portuguese nun was 2011, which makes my top 5, more for effort & singularity than for being solid, but which i enjoyed a lot.
six weeks in nyc doesn't seem terrible tbh ...
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Will finally get to Incendies this weekend.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
never heard of the portuguese nun , which even sounds like it will never open in NYC. Skolimowski's Essential Killing would be my #1 if VOD-only films were eligible.
Alfred, it seemed real obv to me that Beginners was set in LA, I think even before the "I went to Akbar" line. And do you know many men who came out age 50 or later? CP's performance seemed a fair representation of them to me (notice I did not say "real/istic" cuz fuck that).
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
The premise didn't offend me – it's slinking away from a situation of real dramatic interest by inserting a chickenshit hetero love story.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Plus, Plummer's been playing post-fifty closeted gay men for decades now; he's the least convincing of good hetero actors.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
I also think Goran Visnjhvgc was a fair representation of aesthetically appalling gays, who are everywhere.
Mike Wallace is gay??
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'll be totally cool with Certified Copy running the table like Azealia Banks.
― Eric H., Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
you mean in Indiewire / FC?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not at all sure it will beat out the cosmos and flying Chastain.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'll be fine with that too.
― Eric H., Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
feeling guilty for skipping out of Incendies & essential killing, now, the latter bc i couldn't quite motivate myself to see something i thought was just gonna be a great performance - hadn't really heard anyone speak of it so highly.
portuguese nun is a v ""bressonian"", ie static, solemn film by french-new-yorker eugene green, who made a few other pics i haven't seen & a third of a film that i maybe even recall you mentioning on ilx morbs?, w/farocki & costa, 'correspondences', which section i liked a lot too (it was about email).
i should maybe try to catch our beloved month of august before the end of the year, also
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of clergy, Of Gods and Men would make my list.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
yes, likely to at least make my Hon Ments. Too "middlebrow" for some people (ie it's about monks).
ah, I'm not real wild about Eugene Green.
I saw To Die Like a Man at NYFF 2010 but really wasn't impressed tho I like the director.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh damn yeah that also, i did like it a lot (xp re OG&M) - i guess the argument against it/the competition would be that it feels like there have been v 'wide ranging' films of a similar feel this year, but yeah. there's actually a lil reverent spiritual run of pre-holiday screenings at the cinema, here, feat of gods & men (re: which, btw, has anyone seen the guy's other film?), as well as into great silence, which sounds interesting. still to catch mysteries of lisbon & a couple of other things this year, so maybe this will all get more complicated soon. (i wish this our still life was playing locally).
my top five, vaguely, fwiw, in no order is: the portuguese nun, the future, la quattro volte, archipelago & a separation. of gods & men bubbling under, & i also hope to see something like tron 3d to take the feeling of insularity from my top five. into the abyss, the tree of life, some others bubbling under.
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
No idea where this will show up (low low budget/promotion), but it's the best gay-themed American film I've seen in a long while:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-11-02/film/in-the-family/
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
this still leads all documentaries for me:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/petition/5236
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
you guys liked Weekend?
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of the press for it here seems to have been jubilant & appreciative at it not being too distinctly, in content or pitch, a ""gay movie"", but tbh i think it could have gone even further in that direction, that its state-of-the-union wasted discussion of marriage &c was kinda a distraction from what it was achieving just as a portrait. but yeah it was good. maybe a lil tidy.
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Artforum lists from John Waters and Ed Halter:
http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=29547
haha, Woody Allen has his biggest hit in years so of course JW snubs him this time.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
I did sign the Margaret petition. Eric, did it show up in Mpls?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
also I'm sicking of ppl bitching about actors' accents. As long as it's better than Mandy Patinkin's in The Princess Bride, stfu and tell me what you thought about the shit that matters.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
9 We Were Here (David Weissman) Half my friends died of AIDS, so this simple and painfully told doc on the disastrous epidemic’s effect on San Francisco is personal. If you don’t sob watching, maybe you should be dead too.
<3 JW
― Eric H., Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
NBR names Hugo best film
― gukbe, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Best Actor: George Clooney, The DescendantsBest Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About KevinBest Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, BeginnersBest Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The DescendantsBest Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
*rubs hands together*
Oh, this is gonna be a fun Oscar year.
― Eric H., Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
ugh, you knew some group would take fucking Hugo up as a "cause."I'm to see We Need to Talk About Kevin next week.
I think Waters is unique even among Almodovar fans in ranking this one.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really hoping Plummer doesn't die before voters send ballots.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
pajama-wearing NBR.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Their dismissal of Moneyball is enough to offset their ongoing Eastwood/Clooney lovefest.
― Eric H., Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)
IOW "Best Actor if we didn't have such a hard on for Clooney"
― Eric H., Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
That's a more estimable body of work than Clooney's the last three years (barring Fantastic Mr. Fox).
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
btw Jane Eyre is quite good.
WIll probably watch Shame first. I think it might appeal to me since everyone who hates it actually enjoys sex.
― Eric H., Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
like a nylon lemon peel
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Don't worry. You can always put that detrius where Michael Fassbender's dick ought to be.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
NBR actually awarded Finding Neverland in '04, that was a kneeslapper.
(shining from their list is Empire of the Sun in '87)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Also, I'm sure, a better movie in your estimation than Hugo.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Neversawland
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
other NBR awards:
Best Foreign Language Film: "A Separation"
Best Documentary: "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory"
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise -- A Distinguished Translation from Book to Film
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
you can almost see the souvenir plastic cup in honoring a "franchise"
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, I didn't realize until today that Steve McQueen isn't white.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
not this one, no
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
my annual single post to these threads: the john waters list is kind of whatever this year (surprised 'kevin's not on it), and i really wish it were easier to see all the stuff on halter's list (i got to see some of luther price's earlier super 8 films a few weeks ago, they're fantastic).
anyway, carry on
― silvana mangano, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
McQueen is getting 20x the attention for his crap second film than his brilliant debut.
Eric, Ke1th and D4n seem to somewhat not hate Shame, so I'm not sure that pattern holds up...
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
i have to know who you are bc your dn choice brings so much joy, silvana
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
donna rouge, la donna più bella d'italia
― silvana mangano, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
ah, awes, hello &cyeah year end lists are always fascinating & frustrating in equal measure, triply so if you live outsida new york
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
this thread always makes me feel better abt my own top ten list
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link