There will be no sandbox Detrius 2011 thread.

So it's even then. You don't like unfunny post 1977 comedies, and I don't like unfunny pre-1950 comedies.

LOL, meant to type 1960

What does 1960 represent -- Nixon/Kennedy debate?

The year comedy became funny.

What does 1960 represent -- Nixon/Kennedy debate?

It was three years before It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

There are no unfunny pre-1950 comedies btw.

(also in '77: Mary Tyler Moore Show ends, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett enter their last seasons, SNL permanently shakes off most of the edge it initially had)

The first half-hour of War Horse is dreadfully familiar, some great images here and there after that. I would say it's SS's least interesting film since Jurassic Park 2 if I'd seen that one.

There was a Q&A after with Janusz Kaminski, Michael Kahn, Kathleen Kennedy. At an INDUSTRY GUILD screening in NYC, some woman rose and asked if John Williams was the only guy considered to do the score. It's true, nobody knows anything in showbiz.

(btw she was clearly unaware that JW has done all his scores for 40 years)

Take Shelter was quite good, except for the usual indie film gripe, i.e. the writer-director can't end the film properly.

Chastain's oppressed normality deserves as much props as Shannon and his flop sweat.

house of pleasures, as its being called in the US i guess, is on amazon instant to stream for $7/$8 (HD)

i liked it, its def a bit blunt when it gets around to making its points but i enjoyed the languid time it took getting there

it is a big Sicinski fave, I will see it this week at the IFC Center.

I found the new incarnation of Tinker Tailor a bore, sorry spyfans.

it's just v efficient or i guess slightly more generous deft, i think. surprised to see it in top ten lists

Wow, I actually thought a movie was better than Swinton's performance therein, for once.

Naturally, it's a horror movie.

I found the new incarnation of Tinker Tailor a bore,

The original is too.

^nuts

I had forgotten all the gay/bi stuff in it, unless they left some of it out on TV in deference to Sir Alec.

had you read the book, eric? hated WNTTAK but can't quiet eliminate the possibility that it might not have been so heavy handed & ott had one not known where it was going, as i did

International Documentary Association gives best feature to Nostalgia for the Light (which I found visually ravishing but not as transcendent as others did):

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/ida-awards-and-more-documentary-news

Have you seen Incendies yet, Morbs? The plot calisthenics strained the credulity of the final twist, but the movie's quite good.

I have a library copy that will be watched sometime in the next 167 hours. EH, you're welcome to my spot on this next year.

I won't even be reviewing movies next year, god willing.

pish tosh i say

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.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 5:47 PM (5 days ago)

Silent Souls is competing with Midnight in Paris for worst of the year

i'm so sad i could knock over a tree with my bare hands

a woman is like a river to drown your sorrows in, excuse me while i have sex with this woman

shot of bird in cage

oh man, if i'd finished another earth, that would end up in the worst-of competition, too.

The Way is at the top of my "Jack and Jill, Zookeeper and the like don't even count" worst-of list.

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

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.

lol yeah i saw
i 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 see
xp
xp lol, melancholia was so vague

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.

Brit Indies -- Tyrannosaur, Fassbender, Ramsay, Redgrave:

http://www.contactmusic.com/news/michael-fassbender-and-vanessa-redgrave-win-at-british-independent-film-awards_1270200

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.

Not miserable enough?

distrib didn't realize NY is the Miserabilism Capital of the US.

really afraid of this one where Glenn Close looks like old Stan Laurel.

Trailer for that looked pretty hokey.

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."

sounds like Julia then.

no, i rather liked it.

everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear rend

Meanwhile Denby pisses off Scott Rubin.

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

I don't care about it (DDenby, that is)

tonight I saw Pina, or Modern Dance Is Rubbish

3D sleepies

I'm more interested in Denby-gate than "everyone is all of the sudden interested in Margaret"-gate.

ppl were interested when/if it played in their city too.

And these were all, I'm sure, people who were huuuuuuge fans of You Can Count On Me, too. Right.

i loved the 'action' bits of pina, the talking heads not so much

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.

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.

Lonergan's ambition here is far greater here than in the other film, even if his reach exceeds grasp etc.