I'd be sort of sad if I had to start my annual year-end film detrius thread here.

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You think the Devil Wears Prada will have so many nominations or are you just pulling my leg here? I thought it was mildly entertaining but even Meryl Streep coudln't save that flick...

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I think these are the actual nominations for the Golden Satellites, which nobody cares about.

This means that National Board of Review will be announced in a couple of days, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

dicaprio's is a supporting role?

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric, I think u hafta at least tell us who picks the Golden Satellites.

the DiCaprio supporting thing is the usu guy-starring-in-2-movies strategy, cept here he's not nom'd for Blood Pudding

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric, I think u hafta at least tell us who picks the Golden Satellites.

I wish I knew. Not literally, but I wish I knew. I guess people whose credentials didn't stack up to the standards of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

so no 'buzz' at all on the Soderbergh-Clooney Good German?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Based on the trailer, I expect the cinematography to be a disaster - DV with a crappy black and white conversion. Ugliest movie since Sin City.

― milo (milo), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://reporter.blogs.com/risky/2006/11/dga_nyc_the_dud.html

On the other hand, Peter Travers likes it.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

DV with a crappy black and white conversion

Wait a sec, maybe that was just the trailer you saw? Isn't the hype on this one that S.S. used 1940s vintage equipment to shoot it?

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I thought it was like Far From Heaven meets Elephant (the White Stripes album, not the Van Sant film).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a severe eau du Borzage from the trailer - maybe he bought Frank's camera.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think the 'vintage' angle extends to celluloid - just lighting, editing and sound. I'm pretty sure this is related to his HD deal with Mark Cuban.

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thegoodgerman/hd/ - trailer I'm watching. There's no depth to the B&W (compare to Clooney's movie last year, which was shot on color film and converted giving it the widest possible tonal range). This just has the look of a digital image converted later on.

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thereeler.com/features/the_voice_in_the_wilderness.php

interesting.

sad comment from any taubin.

nathan lee is a really good writer, personally prefer him to atkinson.

but foundas... ech.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

That is a very interesting article, but I question its credentials as "detrius."

The National Board of Review winners, however, are what this thread was created for:

Top 10 Films (winner in bold)
Babel
Blood Diamond
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Flags of Our Fathers
The History Boys
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
The Painted Veil

Best Foreign Film
Curse of the Golden Flower
Days of Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver
Water

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond

Best Supporting Actress
Catherine O'hara, For Your Consideration

Best Acting By An Ensemble
The Departed

Breakthrough Performance - Male
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Breakthrough Performance - Female
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Directorial Debut
Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking

Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil

Best Original Screenplay
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction

Best Documentary
51 Birch Street
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Shut Up & Sing
Wordplay

Top 10 Independent Films
Akeelah and the Bee
Bobby
Catch a Fire
Copying Beethoven
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Half Nelson
The Illusionist
Lonesome Jim
Sherrybaby
10 Items or Less
Thank You for Smoking

Best Animated Feature
Cars

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't blood diamond supposed to be incredibly awful?

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

God, the NBR blows. Idiotic that they have a separate list for independent films. (And what, Little Miss Sunshine isn't independent because it appeared in their overall top 10?) Also, Stranger Than Fiction was not that great of a screenplay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Between the Top 10 overall and the Top 10 indies, I feel safe in declaring this to be the worst year ever for American cinema. Jesus.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"independent" as someone observed long ago is a marketing term.

has Letters from Iwo Jima even been released in LA?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Letters from Iwo Jima has been everywhere for at least a month.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Everywhere but my house.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

nowhere in New York.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, I'm sort of relieved that it wasn't Dreamgirls. The NBR was that flick's best chance until the West Oklahoma Critics Circle announces their winners.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I love that everytime I open this thread, Daniel Craig's boobies stare back at me.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I thought Letters from Iwo Jima wasn't supposed to open until next year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

It got pushed up when Flags underperformed.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Flags has vanished from NY, but no Iwo.

is that the Oklahoma! Critics Circle?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

How nuts is it that Flags nearly got an entire row of perfect ***** ratings in the most recent Film Comment critics' chart?!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno. Sometimes I don't even know half those chart guys are. I'm not even sure I saw anything **** new this year. Yet I generally like Eastwood when he's not ripping off Rocky IV.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

That John Waters list is better with his comments, of course:

1 United 93 (Paul Greengrass) The best movie in the last five years. No cheap shots in this one! I have friends who would watch a snuff film, yet they refuse to see this great action picture—I don’t get why.

2 Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine) Playing on more than three thousand screens, Jackass 2 was the number-one-grossing movie in America on its opening weekend—and the male stars eat shit and drink horse semen for real. They’re nude a lot, too. If this isn’t cultural terrorism, I don’t know what is.

3 The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald) Forest Whitaker tops the performance of Joseph Olita in 1981’s Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, one of my all-time favorite trash masterpieces.

4 Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell) When was the last time the star of a film rimmed someone, sang “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and walked away with his dignity? A touching, lovely movie that I hope gets turned into a Broadway musical.

5 The Departed (Martin Scorsese) The best-acted film of the year from America’s coolest director. The final shot is beyond perfection.

6 Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer) Maggie Gyllenhaal plays an ex-convict drug addict (the kind I see in Baltimore every day), and the film is so depressing and great that I wish I could see it with an all-female prison audience.

7 Inside Man (Spike Lee) Handsome bank-robbing outfits—so chic, so scary, so fashionably conformist.

8 Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bobcat Goldthwait) A feminist tale of a girl who once blew her dog and mistakenly tells her boyfriend. Now there’s a high-concept romantic comedy.

9 Hamilton (Matthew Porterfield) A tiny, minimalist art film from Baltimore that made it to New York and is astonishing in its simple beauty, amazing performances, and hypnotic pace. The real thing.

10 Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola) Sofia Coppola is Karen Kilimnik!

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

he oft has bad taste when watching films, too (tho I've only seen Shortbus and Ditztoinette).

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah but I'm intrigued by Bobcat Goldthwait Feminist Dog Blowing Movie now that I know what it is.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that one's been totally Netflixed.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

many x-posts I was thinking Letters from Iwo Jima was the title of the American part.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Between the Top 10 overall and the Top 10 indies, I feel safe in declaring this to be the worst year ever for American cinema. Jesus.

No shit. Jesus is that list depressing.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 7 December 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd at least wait until the formerly-Village Voice polls come out before declaring that.

In any case, it's the worst year ever for me going to cinema from America or anywhere else.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

uh holmes, the word is 'detritus'. jus' sayin!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link

but anyway it must have been a bad year for films, i only paid to see three.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The only movie I went to see this year was Casino Royale.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Enrique, it's kind of a tradition.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't figure out why I liked Volver as much as I did despite it being completely Almodovar-By-Numbers

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I've been having trouble figuring that out, too. Mostly it was just an entertaining, well-made film.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a fan of detrius, even if I'm not a fan of most of the movies detrius celebrates.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Was The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada released this year or last year?

― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

take your pick. it was on last year's list for critics, but most theaters didn't get it til this year I think.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 December 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

re Volver, it's the singer not the song

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Regardless of how mediocre or bad 2006 was for American films, I saw one critic point out that it would seem to be even more shockingly terrible for foreign titles released in the U.S. this year. Volver will probably win every "not from here" prize in existence, and almost everyone is saying it's not up to his last three. Beyond that, it's Lazarescu, L'Enfant and ... that would seem to be it for heavy hitters with widespread support. Duck Season and Three Times and Gabrielle would push the list over five, but I defy you to try and stretch that list to the 15 or 20 necessary to match years past.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

On the other hand, I just saw that the NY Times suggested that NYFCC might pick Army of Shadows for Best Picture this year.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

(not that any of their critics should know that, as I think they're not involved in the awards.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

even more shockingly terrible for foreign titles released in the U.S. this year.

I don't think it's all that shocking when US distributors seem to be taking fewer and fewer chances (or ones that do are folding). Tsai ming-Liang has completed two since Goodbye Dragon Inn that haven't been distrib'd.

Foreign detrius films are crowd-pleasers; even if I liked Volver OK, I'd likely put Kekexili (Mountain Patrol), Battle in Heaven, 4, Fratricide plus maybe Changing Times ahead of it.

Doesn't The Science of Sleep count as foreign?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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Yesterday's BAFTAs results (winner in bold obv)

FILM

BABEL - Alejandro González Iñárritu/Jon Kilik/Steve Golin
THE DEPARTED - Brad Pitt/Brad Grey/Graham King
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Albert Berger/David T Friendly/Ron Yerxa
THE QUEEN - Andy Harries/Christine Langan/Tracey Seaward

Outstanding British Film of the Year

CASINO ROYALE - Michael G Wilson/Barbara Broccoli/Martin Campbell/Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel/Kevin Macdonald/Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock
NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Scott Rudin/Robert Fox/Richard Eyre/Patrick Marber
THE QUEEN - Andy Harries/Christine Langan/Tracey Seaward/Stephen Frears/Peter Morgan
UNITED 93 - Tim Bevan/Lloyd Levin/Paul Greengrass

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film

ANDREA ARNOLD (Director) - Red Road
JULIAN GILBEY (Director) - Rollin' with the Nines
CHRISTINE LANGAN (Producer) - Pierrepoint
GARY TARN (Director) - Black Sun
PAUL ANDREW WILLIAMS (Director) - London to Brighton

THE DAVID LEAN AWARD for Achievement in Direction

BABEL - Alejandro González Iñárritu
THE DEPARTED - Martin Scorsese
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris
THE QUEEN - Stephen Frears
UNITED 93 - Paul Greengrass

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BABEL - Guillermo Arriaga
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Michael Arndt
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo del Toro
THE QUEEN - Peter Morgan
UNITED 93 - Paul Greengrass

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

CASINO ROYALE - Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis
THE DEPARTED - William Monahan
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Aline Brosh McKenna
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock
NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Patrick Marber

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

APOCALYPTO - Mel Gibson/Bruce Davey
BLACK BOOK (ZWARTBOEK) - Teun Hilte/San Fu Maltha/Jens Meurer/Paul Verhoeven
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Alfonso Cuarón/Alvaro Augustin/Guillermo del Toro
RANG DE BASANTI (PAINT IT YELLOW) - Ronnie Screwvala/Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
VOLVER - Agustín Almodóvar/Pedro Almodóvar

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

CARS - John Lasseter
FLUSHED AWAY - David Bowers/Sam Fell
HAPPY FEET - George Miller

ACTOR in a LEADING ROLE

DANIEL CRAIG - Casino Royale
LEONARDO DICAPRIO - The Departed
RICHARD GRIFFITHS - The History Boys
PETER O'TOOLE - Venus
FOREST WHITAKER - The Last King of Scotland

ACTRESS in a LEADING ROLE

PENÉLOPE CRUZ - Volver
JUDI DENCH - Notes on a Scandal
HELEN MIRREN - The Queen
MERYL STREEP - The Devil Wears Prada
KATE WINSLET - Little Children

ACTOR in a SUPPORTING ROLE

ALAN ARKIN - Little Miss Sunshine
JAMES MCAVOY - The Last King of Scotland
JACK NICHOLSON - The Departed
LESLIE PHILLIPS - Venus
MICHAEL SHEEN - The Queen

ACTRESS in a SUPPORTING ROLE

EMILY BLUNT - The Devil Wears Prada
ABIGAIL BRESLIN - Little Miss Sunshine
TONI COLLETTE - Little Miss Sunshine
FRANCES DE LA TOUR - The History Boys
JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls

THE ANTHONY ASQUITH AWARD for Achievement in Film Music

BABEL - Gustavo Santaolalla
CASINO ROYALE - David Arnold
DREAMGIRLS - Henry Krieger
HAPPY FEET - John Powell
THE QUEEN - Alexandre Desplat

CINEMATOGRAPHY

BABEL - Rodrigo Prieto
CASINO ROYALE - Phil Meheux
CHILDREN OF MEN - Emmanuel Lubezki
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo Navarro
UNITED 93 - Barry Ackroyd

EDITING

BABEL - Stephen Mirrione/Douglas Crise
CASINO ROYALE - Stuart Baird
THE DEPARTED - Thelma Schoonmaker
THE QUEEN - Lucia Zucchetti
UNITED 93 - Clare Douglas/Christopher Rouse/Richard Pearson

PRODUCTION DESIGN

CASINO ROYALE - Peter Lamont/Lee Sandales/Simon Wakefield
CHILDREN OF MEN - Jim Clay/Geoffrey Kirkland/Jennifer Williams
MARIE ANTOINETTE - K K Barrett/Véronique Melery
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Eugenio Caballero/Pilar Revuelta
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Rick Heinrichs/Cheryl A Carasik

COSTUME DESIGN

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Patricia Field
MARIE ANTOINETTE - Milena Canonero
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Lala Huete
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Penny Rose
THE QUEEN - Consolata Boyle

SOUND

BABEL - José García/Jon Taylor/Chris Minkler/Martín Hernández
CASINO ROYALE - Chris Munro/Eddy Joseph/Mike Prestwood Smith/Martin Cantwell/Mark Taylor
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Martín Hernández/Jamie Bashkt/Miguel Polo
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Christopher Boyes/George Watters II/ Paul Massey/Lee Orloff
UNITED 93 - Chris Munro/Mike Prestwood Smith/Douglas Cooper/Oliver Tarney/Eddy Joseph

ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

CASINO ROYALE - Steve Begg/Chris Corbould/John Paul Docherty/Ditch Doy
CHILDREN OF MEN - Frazer Churchill/Tim Webber/Michael Eames/Paul Corbould
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Edward Irastorza/Everett Burrell/David Marti/Montse Ribe
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - John Knoll/Hal Hickel/Charles Gibson/Allen Hall
SUPERMAN RETURNS - Mark Stetson/Neil Corbould/Richard Hoover/Jon Thum

MAKE UP & HAIR

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Nicki Ledermann/Angel De Angelis
MARIE ANTOINETTE - Jean-Luc Russier/Desideria Corridoni
PAN'S LABYRINTH - José Quetglas/Blanca Sànchez
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Ve Neill/Martin Samuel
THE QUEEN - Daniel Phillips

SHORT ANIMATION FILM

DREAMS AND DESIRES - FAMILY TIES - Les Mills/Joanna Quinn
GUY 101 - Ian Gouldstone (to view, click here)
PETER AND THE WOLF - Hugh Welchman/Alan Dewhurst/Suzie Templeton

SHORT FILM

CARE - Rachel Bailey/Tracy Bass/Corinna Faith (to view, click here)
CUBS - Lisa Williams/Tom Harper (to view, click here)
DO NOT ERASE - Asitha Ameresekere
HIKIKOMORI - Karley Duffy/Paul Wright
KISSING, TICKLING AND BEING BORED - David Smith/Jim McRoberts

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD

EMILY BLUNT
EVA GREEN
NAOMIE HARRIS
CILLIAN MURPHY
BEN WHISHAW

(Emily Blunt woz robbed)

― DavidM (DavidM), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Paul Greengrass should be convicted, not awarded.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

WGA: LMS & Departed

http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2310

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure I even remember Wahlberg giving the middle finger in The Departed! Musta been more monumental if you don't give and receive it on a daily basis.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

and I'd never subject myself to this, but hey:

http://www.amctheatres.com/promos/showcase/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The key to Oscar forecasting:

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/02/20/oscar-predictions-what-would-ernest-borgnine-do/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

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