(Unless you didn't mean the Catherine Breillat Sleeping Beauty.
I meant the Julia Leigh one, though I guess my opinion of Breillat's would be about the same - maybe less so.
― gukbe, Saturday, 10 December 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
ugh I didn't like the Almodovar, and it seems like people are really overstating how fucked up it is. (this might be a by-product of covering a big genre-film fest every year.) Struck me as really plodding and weirdly boring considering the subject matter.
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
but then I didn't think too much of the last two either, so, as ever, ymmv.
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 December 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
i thought broken embraces was total trash but liked this one pretty well. because i was engrossed, maybe, & it felt like as good a delivery on his premise as we were promised.
― Never translate German (schlump), Saturday, 10 December 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
I've never liked Banderas much when he has to kinda act.
geez Contagion was pretty good! cept for the parts that reminded me of Traffic's weak points, like some of what Jude Law was doing.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 10 December 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I liked Contagion. I like that it was basically an elaborate reearch piece disguised as a blockbuster. also, y'know, Paltrow brain.
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 December 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
*research
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 December 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
Bleh -- the new Almodovar.
― Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 10 December 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
well, I'm done. For now.
Best thing I saw all day was the 30-minute climactic samurai battle in Miike's 13 Assassins, the busiest, bloodiest, muddiest ever. The rest of it is professional classicism.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 December 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
The director's cut (2.5 hrs) of that was a fest highlight earlier this year.
― Simon H., Sunday, 11 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Think I'm going to blow off the pile in favor of the first episode of Fanny & Alexander.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 December 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
13 Assassins was good.
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 11 December 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
In my one poll I might vote for Brad Pitt and Michelle Williams... for other movies.
http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/content/current-winners
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
a music award for The Artist! Cannibalizing Vertigo pays off.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
bravura best actress pick from LA critics: Yun Jung-hee, Poetry
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/12/lafca_is_delibe.php
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
YES!
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Poetry is at the moment my film of the year.
ugh on Christopher Plummer, who looks like a shoe-in for a nod now.
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
racist/xenophobic assholes predictably complaining
xp
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 December 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
The Artist is the ugh of the year; I'd even rather see Hugo win.
I'd rather see The Tree of Life win.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 December 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
LAFCA have been great at championing lost causes in best actress the last few years.
Yolande Moreau, SéraphineKim Hye-ja, MotherYoon Jeong-hee, Poetry
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, I meant to say they've been great at championing the best actresses in best actress the last few years.
same thing.
The Sl4nt list is a good one! Coming in a few days...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
SF Critics a mix of yay (Certified Copy, Redgrave) dull (Oldman), and ugh (Swinton):
http://sffcc.org/main/
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
I think now that this weekend's done, we're definitely past the point where "open race" can be used anymore.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
Think we reached this point a little later than last year, tho.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
if you're assigning Oscar Inevitability to The Artist, well, this is not the Oscar thread.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
OK, you can have this thread.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
are we going to have to do Sandbox Oscars?
That I've seen better silent-film pastiches than The Artist on network variety shows.... it just.... a different nadir for the AAs.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
we're definitely past the point where "open race" can be used anymore.
But all we know is who gets nominated, not who's a lock to win.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
also, critics groups not as significant as industry guilds on such things.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'll keep Oscar chatter to a minimum, but these people look like mortal locks for noms: Clooney, Redgrave, Brooks, Streep, Dujardin, maybe Shannon and Fassbender.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
also, I'm not sure how the Best Picture race is still not somewhat "open" when The Descendants won the LA crix award.
AFI top 10 is about what you'd expect:
http://afi-afifest.tumblr.com/post/14082575426
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
Meh, Oscar's never really embraced Payne up to this point. Unless Hugo can turn it around at the BO, it's The Artist's to lose.
I agree, tho, that we haven't really settled on any acting win frontrunners outside of Christopher Plummer.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
In terms of locks, I'd go with Clooney, Pitt, and Dujardin for actor, Davis and Streep for actress, and Plummer and Brooks for supporting actor. Supporting actress has a few probables but no locks yet, IMO.
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yup -- forgot to include Pitt and Davis, nomination frontrunners for months.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
I think Spencer is basically a lock by this point. Redgrave very probable too. That said, they ought to just donate some of those slots to the best actor drag this year; it's too crowded for both Clooney and Pitt to hog up 2/5.
And as for the main contest, I bet Indiana : Oscars :: Missouri : Presidential Elections
Winner: The ArtistRunner-up: The Descendants
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Who's Spencer?
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818055/
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
oh right! In that hateful movie.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
That movie had only love in its heart you monster.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
It can put that award where its heart should be.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Why do all those maids look like sad little rabbits?
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
*unhappy* rabbits, oops
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
Eric, you sly puss.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
One good burp and you'll be rid of that Miss Plummer.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
should not have expressed fear that this would turn into the Fucking Oscar Thread.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get why you're so opposed to talking about Oscars in this thread. It's all detrius, no?
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
no. The Oscars are the glittery shart which follows lists/honors -- admittedly fewer of them every year -- that are done by some people with half a clue.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link