There will be no sandbox Detrius 2011 thread.

And Tim and Eric.

Can't make up my mind which one I'm going to hate more between The Artist or The Iron Lady.

Oh wait, I'll hate A Dangerous Method more than either.

that last is a weird addition. Pissed at Cronenberg for picking real horror over the funhouse kind?

re The Artist, I wonder how many Guy Maddin films Rex Reed has seen.

Pissed at Cronenberg for making boring movies instead of ones worth watching.

And NYFCC just served you up some karma for that one, bitch.

Pissed at no tongue action between Fassbender and Viggo.

Movie critics not knowing shit about baseball shockah. Also, what's your problem lately? xp

They have Animated and Cinematography yet to do...

Shortest pause ever in the Twitter feed to announced Lubezki for cinematography.

That they're going to try to give something w/ Sorkin's name on it a screenplay award whenever possible is a sign of devolution from the Ben Hecht era.

special cemetery award to Raul Ruiz, highlight of the day

Best Picture to The Artist

Yep, it's official. I'm going to hate that one.

me too, bitch

Well heil Hitler, bitch.

Harvey Weinstein's cache of NYFCC members' horsefucking photos have carried the day again!

Actually, the movie looks kinda cute for real.

If it was between that and Moneyball, I'm guessing they chose correctly.

It's no more special than the OSS movies, really.

And who paid attention to them?

Indie Spirits (glad to see In the Family up for First Film... but UGH Bellflower, maybe the year's most repulsive):

Best Feature

50/50
Beginners
Drive
Take Shelter
The Artist
The Descendants

Best Director

Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Mike Mills, Beginners
Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive

Best Screenplay

Joseph Cedar, Footnote
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Tom McCarthy, Win Win
Mike Mills, Beginners
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, The Descendants

Best First Feature

Another Earth
In the Family
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Natural Selection Director

Best First Screenplay

Mike Cahill, Brit Marling, Another Earth
J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Patrick deWitt, Terri
Phil Johnston, Cedar Rapids
Will Reiser, 50/50

John Cassavetes Award – Given to the best feature made for under $500,000

Bellflower
Circumstance
Hello Lonesome
Pariah
The Dynamiter

Best Female Lead

Lauren Ambrose, Think of Me
Rachael Harris, Natural Selection
Adepero Oduye, Pariah
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn

Best Male Lead

Demián Bichir, A Better Life
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Ryan Gosling, Drive
Woody Harrelson, Rampart
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

Best Supporting Female

Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter
Anjelica Huston, 50/50
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Harmony Santana, Gun Hill Road
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants

Best Supporting Male

Albert Brooks, Drive
John Hawkes, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
John C. Reilly, Cedar Rapids
Corey Stoll, Midnight in Paris

Best Cinematography

Joel Hodge, Bellflower
Benjamin Kasulke, The Off Hours
Darius Khondji, Midnight in Paris
Guillaume Schiffman, The Artist
Jeffrey Waldron, The Dynamiter

Best Documentary

An African Election
Bill Cunningham New York
The Interrupters
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
We Were Here

Best International Film

A Separation
Melancholia
Shame
The Kid With a Bike
Tyrannosaur

Robert Altman Award (Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast)

Margin Call

UGH Bellflower, maybe the year's most repulsive

So you really do hate anything that excites 20- and 30-something straight male movie fans, huh.

or, as Glenn Kenny called the star-director, misogynist closet cases.

Better just skip Drive imo.

If we still lived in a Roger Corman world, Bellflower would play drive-ins under the title Fuckin' Bitches, Man.

I'll never understand how people watch Bellflower and take the woman-hating at face value.

This was Armond's five for the S&S poll apparently:

Incendies
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Attack The Block
Paul
Film socialisme

Attack The Block tied for twelfth in the overall list

planning to see Incendies and Paul in the next 10 days...

I'll never understand how people watch Bellflower and take the woman-hating at face value.

It's arguably the kind of face value that's a secret to the filmmaker, like Tarantino's racism.

Had no idea Armond was so big on Incendies.

well he doesn't like Georges Melies!

http://cityarts.info/2011/11/25/how-unique-got-ordinary-hugo-is-scorsese%e2%80%99s-fantasy-autobiography/

There's a little truth in:

Scorsese seems to be imitating the pixilated world of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a vision of Paris’s cultural heart that was authentically marvelous in Amelie, City of Forgotten Children and last year’s wondrous, underappreciated Micmacs.

Aside from the implication that Amelie is anything other than excrement souffle.

or that Micmacs was any good at all

authentically marvelous

more confirmation that I loathe adverbs.

Or that "pixilated" is a word choice.

not a fan of Mr Deeds Goes to Town?

To the extent it matters, Melancholia and Hugo were runners up at the NYFCC.

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/movies/oscar_watch_nyfcc_artist_streep_cgtEJaBqTH0iqr9hhEmzpN

Not The Tree of Life.

Authentically marvelous?

has anyone warmed up to these Russian art movies Silent Souls, My Joy, etc? They're morbid as hell and yet I still can't get into em.

Huh...watched Attack the Block last night and I thought it was ok, but not great or anything.

I agree. I much preferred "Submarine" in terms of film debuts from British comedians

what is the guy who did Submarine known for? I have been putting that one off since the US reviews were "minor league Rushmore."

He's a very mannered comedic actor who's appeared in a couple of fairly well known UK sitcoms (The IT Crowd being the most prominent). It is very Wes Anderson but it's a little bit nastier than he normally is. The shots of a perpetually gloomy Swansea are quite lovely

I think The IT Crowd has run on US cable, but I've never seen it.

Probably blowing off J Edgar screening (they sent a disc) so I can see A Dangerous Method tonight.

It is very Wes Anderson but it's a little bit nastier than he normally is. The shots of a perpetually gloomy Swansea are quite lovely

Submarine reminded me of what the Youth In Revolt movie should have been. I wish they'd been able to have a genuine 80s soundtrack instead of all the Alex Turner stuff. Noah Taylor & Sally Hawkins both superb as well-drawn parents.

Also features a Pink Floyd reference on a custom van, so it rules.

They actually made a pilot for a US version of The IT Crowd with Ayoade playing the same character. It pretty much sank without trace though

I liked the Alex Turner songs too. I think having a load of period pop songs would have been an Andersonism too far

Perhaps. I imagine that--along with budget restrictions--was part of the reasoning. Though it still bugs me that the dad gives the kid his mix tapes from his own youth to listen to and we hear Alex Turner pretending to be Nick Drake/Cat Stevens/James Taylor etc. instead of the real deal.

submarine was the most generic indie movie possible