shot of bird in cage
― VHS duct, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, if i'd finished another earth, that would end up in the worst-of competition, too.
― VHS duct, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
The Way is at the top of my "Jack and Jill, Zookeeper and the like don't even count" worst-of list.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
Cahiers (the no-US-release Skolimowski), Edelstein (Ruiz, Spielberg x 2 and... Beginners!), more:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/daily-briefing-cahiers-du-cinemas-top-ten-of-2011
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Lars von Trier has done a masterly job of evoking onscreen his nihilistic worldview. But how can you champion a film that is, in the end, so loathsomely anti-life-affirming?
Someone hit this man with a dead squirrel.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol yeah i sawi can get behind most of bradshaw's, however; the appreciation for kevin mystifies me but even the almodovar i can get behind
cahiers gets point for cover design. will anyone else (here) rep for the new moretti? having trouble working up the enthusiasm to go seexpxp lol, melancholia was so vague
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 5 December 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched The Future on Amazon-on-demand. I was expecting more of a comedy. It starts out as an amiable quirk-fest a la Me and You and Everyone We Know, but ends in a much darker place.
― o. nate, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Brit Indies -- Tyrannosaur, Fassbender, Ramsay, Redgrave:
http://www.contactmusic.com/news/michael-fassbender-and-vanessa-redgrave-win-at-british-independent-film-awards_1270200
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
btw Tyrannosaur ran one week (I think?) at one theater in NY, and I missed it; the last 4 days were 11a.m. shows only. British miserabilism not traveling well these days.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Not miserable enough?
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
distrib didn't realize NY is the Miserabilism Capital of the US.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
really afraid of this one where Glenn Close looks like old Stan Laurel.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Trailer for that looked pretty hokey.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Monday, 5 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
also saw the French fin de siecle brothel wallow House of Pleasures last night, which has something for everybody: a panther, appalling knife wounds, "Nights in White Satin."
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like Julia then.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
no, i rather liked it.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear rend
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile Denby pisses off Scott Rubin.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
just gonna use this for an all-purpose film thread for a sec; finally caught, it having been on the shelf for forever, maren ade's everyone else, which i remember hearing such good things about but never catching over the last couple of years of EOY lists. so good. & not really because it was appealing at all, i am a sucker for appealing, but just earned excellence. brutal. she made a student film as well that's apparently v interesting, also.
i can't quite get interested in denby-gate, sorta inside baseball to me
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
I don't care about it (DDenby, that is)
tonight I saw Pina, or Modern Dance Is Rubbish
3D sleepies
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'm more interested in Denby-gate than "everyone is all of the sudden interested in Margaret"-gate.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
ppl were interested when/if it played in their city too.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
And these were all, I'm sure, people who were huuuuuuge fans of You Can Count On Me, too. Right.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
i loved the 'action' bits of pina, the talking heads not so much
― silvana mangano, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
is there a problem with people's interest being piqued by hearing about a film they might like? i don't know if anyone has to swear allegiance to YCCOM first (i found that film kinda limited by its trappings but ymmv). margaret is interesting, it's a film w/an unusually visible cast with zero distro if nothing else.
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
people got to see YCCOM is the point, and yeah, Margaret has two of the best American performances of the year by Paquin and Berlin.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
Lonergan's ambition here is far greater here than in the other film, even if his reach exceeds grasp etc.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
G Kenny on A Brighter Summer Day, Margaret and 'activist' criticism:
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/12/a-brighter-summer-day-margaret-and-film-criticism-as-activism-andor-service-journalism.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://whatdoyouthinkmaxvonsydow.tumblr.com/
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
Again, I don't get it.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
beyond to do with his mute role in Incredibly Hanks Unbearably Bullock?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
I like this about the Yang film:
In 2006, when I was at Premiere, I put Jean-Pierre Melville's 1968-made Army of Shadows on my year's best list—at the TOP of my year's best list, in fact!—and I quoted Robert Christgau's review of Dylan/The Band's The Basement Tapes, which had been recorded in the latter '60s but not released officially until the mid-'70s: "We needn't bow our heads in shame because this is the best album of 1975. It would have been the best album of 1967 too." That went for Army at the time, I thought, and it goes maybe even double for Yang's film. Still. In 2006 Army of Shadows got a relatively high-profile arthouse rerelease courtesy of Rialto Films. It was highly publicized; an event more or less. A place on a critic's ten best list that motivated new viewers into seeking the film out would not necessarily led to something like a dead end.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say the same about The Killer of Sheep.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not crazy about doing it -- I live in NY so I can achieve cultural superiority by seeing ABSD and Killer of Sheep in the '90s -- but oh well.
Full S&S poll:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/films-of-2011-full.php
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
The part most people probably care/don't care about:
IncendiesDenis Villeneuve, Canada/FranceA moving post-9/11 vision of our utter connectivity that simultaneously recalls Greek tragedy and the epic-intimate miracles of 70s American films.
Rise of the Planet of the ApesRupert Wyatt, USA/Hungary/UK/Australia/CanadaA spirited re-think of the 1968 original captures the vengeful madness of our times – confirmation that movies can be pop and still be art.
Attack the BlockJoe Cornish, UK/FranceA ghetto action flick yet amazingly prescient about London’s long hot summer and perfect antidote to what Morrissey called “the Royal Dredding”.
PaulGreg Mottola, USA/UK/JapanNick Frost and Simon Pegg come to America and find more fun and depth than ever before in our pop culture/sci-fi heritage.
Film SocialismeJean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/FranceVisionary as ever, titled to note the passing of outmoded technology and philosophy.
Reflections:You’d expect a major publishing boom about a film critic to be a heartening occasion. Think again: this year’s biography of Pauline Kael and a high-toned collection of her writing has, instead, revealed the sorry, fractious state of contemporary film commentary as critics bash her and her legacy. Yes, the Age of Movies has passed, as the title of Godard’s Film Socialisme slyly jests.Kael’s way of taking movies personally as a part of a humanist tradition is no longer apparent in the current stumbling into nihilism that pervades the festival circuit and passes for contemporary film culture. Movies that sustain humane values are ignored for political fads and negativity. When Cannes crowned Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, it was apparent that aesthetics judgment is over, too. It’s more difficult than ever to defend a personal view of cinema, as Godard surely knows. That’s why Kael’s bio has a Once Upon a Time aspect.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Did anyone here like Incendies? cos I watched it last night and i thought it was kind of terrible? Like it was obviously really well made but in the service of a story so ridiculous and over-wrought that it actually made me angry.
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
ignore that second question mark
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
I saw it this weekend too and posted a mixed response.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
ok I recognized that "part"
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
might squeeze in Paul before Sunday, since at least it's only Rogen's voice
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
I refuse to believe Paul is anything but terrible
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
^this
― j crunchwrap supreme, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
it wd be my choice for a stab at ersatz Spielberg over Super 8
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
also, there's really nothing like getting multiple 3-to-5-hour films in the mail the week before listmaking.
Had no idea Sch3nk3r was in the S&S poll!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Why not just put War Horse in that spot?
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
bcz I've seen it, smartypants
The woman sitting next to me was cowering and shrieking during the horse's big action scene.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
"action" scene
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
the horse's big action scene.
what is not to love about this, really def gonna catch this film now
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
Dutch porn?
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
no, barbed wire.
Yeah, it is, let me know if you've seen a better one this year.
The hero horse's name is Joey, and Janusz Kaminski griped at the Q&A "We had 13 Joeys and 12 grips."
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link