There will be no sandbox Detrius 2011 thread.

yeah, I can't get too psyched for voting for either LvT's best film in awhile or Malick's worst.

I only give credit when other ppl's vision matches my own.

Errol Morris is a Great Filmmaker if you think pet cemeteries and crazy filthy crones are fascinating, I guess. #notgayenough

If he's a Great Filmmaker, it's because he freed someone from death row, an impact I don't immediately recall any other film matching. While somewhat pornographic, this time around almost literally, his voyeuristic commitment to uprooting truths is valuable, even if its value varies somewhat with the subject matter, this time falling relatively low on the scale because he wasn't telling us much of anything new.

gabbneb, stick to electing police-state Democrats

I will be exercising my temporarily unabridged freedom of speech, thanks. Remind what liberties Obama has taken from you again?

go fuck yourself

Huh, I didn't even nominate Kevin in screenplay.

Oh, and The New World is far and away Malick's worst fuiud.

morbius telling gabbneb to STFU somehow perfectly encapsulating everything good about a sb-free board

he freed someone from death row

def deserved the Nobel over the Smooth Criminal

Are you reminding us that Obama is half-black? I don't have much of an opinion on the appropriateness of the prize, perhaps because I don't take it especially seriously (the sciences and other achievements less in the public eye moreso), but I think it quite likely that Obama has saved more lives, net, than Morris.

Are you reminding us that Obama is half-black?

wtg morbs, can't believe you're suggesting blacks shouldn't get the nobel

What do you propose is the significance of comparing Obama to Michael Jackson, schlump?

whites shouldn't get it either

What do you propose is the significance of comparing Obama to Michael Jackson, schlump?

It's the song title, fool.

Thanks, I've been aware since age 11. Why was the song title of one of the other most famous black people in the world selected as an appellation?

cuz he's a silver-tongued war criminal according to Morbz.

This is really not that difficult.

What do you propose is the significance of comparing Obama to Michael Jackson, schlump?

i am totally with you, i think 'smooth criminal' referred covertly to michael jackson, like the song, reminding us of how those two guys are similar, rather than being a neat encapsulation of how obama might be perceived, smooth, like how you might describe a good, camera-friendly orator, & criminal, the thing we are discussing, his purported criminal acts.

MJ was black iirc, & your weird 'half-black' pluck is further out than anything anyone else is saying

"your weird 'half-black' pluck is further out than anything anyone else is saying"

I was merely being precise wrt Obama. MJ, of course, lost a great deal of pigmentation, so there is some parallel there.

your sensitivity has lost a great deal of pigmentation today.

dirty detrius, yeah

I bet gabbneb likes The Artist, too

OH NO, PRINCE REF

That is what I thought of first, being that music is the greater medium.

Obama has saved more lives, net,

"net" is what should be thrown over you.

That seems insensitive somehow.

The Artist is crap.

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yes, it is to Singin' in the Rain & Guy Maddin what Drive is to Le Samourai & The Driver.

I was wondering about this - the breathless reviews I've read, none of them have cited Maddin or Singin' In The Rain, both of which seem like such obvious touchstones/reference points. It's like people forgot these movies existed or something.

music is the greater medium.

haha okay waht

It's like people forgot these movies existed or something.

It's possible. Watching The Artist made me forget that movies can ever be any good.

The Artist is what SITR would've been if it had concentrated exclusively on the Kelly-Reynolds relationship...without songs or jokes.

I suspected as much

I have to stress what a boring nullity this thing is.

You guys seem to be talking about it a lot.

weren't you talking about Jacko?

Most ppl who are mooning over The Artist have never seen Maddin, and probably no silent films in decades if ever. (Then there are extreme exceptions like Kevin Brownlow and Godfrey Cheshire, which just flummox me.)

have never seen Maddin

same goes for tree of life apparently

Q: should i watch the crappy version of a brighter summer day that i just torrented or wait a billion years for it to somehow become attainable to me otherwise

the 2011 version, that is, which i assume is of better quality

it's on Google video too.... I would wait, it's gotta be coming out on DVD in the next year.

schlump, Tabloid is not a mess or anything--quite amusing, actually--but it's very much television. Like an extended episode of First Person, nothing ambitious about it.

If he's a Great Filmmaker, it's because he freed someone from death row, an impact I don't immediately recall any other film matching.

lol, NOT taking this bait

Nat'l Film Registry list gets downright schizo.

● “Allures” (1961)
● “Bambi” (1942)
● “The Big Heat” (1953)
● “A Computer Animated Hand” (1972)
● “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment” (1963)
● “The Cry of the Children” (1912)
● “A Cure for Pokeritis” (1912)
● “El Mariachi” (1992)
● “Faces” (1968)
● “Fake Fruit Factory” (1986)
● “Forrest Gump” (1994)
● “Growing Up Female” (1971)
● “Hester Street” (1975)
● “I, an Actress” (1977)
● “The Iron Horse” (1924)
● “The Kid” (1921)
● “The Lost Weekend” (1945)
● “The Negro Soldier” (1944)
● Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-’40s)
● “Norma Rae” (1979)
● “Porgy and Bess” (1959)
● “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)
● “Twentieth Century” (1934)
● “War of the Worlds” (1953)

● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)

haha waht

I don't get the doc love for the late-opening El Sicario, Room 164.

also not sure it's a documentary.

saw Tuesday, After Christmas today. I can't think of any significant flaws except the fuzziness of the husband's relations with his in-laws.

heads up non-critics like myself can stream Tuesday, Poetry, Certified Copy and uh Cold Weather on netflix right now

ty, cosmo

i watched poetry just the other day - is v good

Poetry is marvelous.

Will watch CC tomorrow now that I see it's available.

uncle boonmee also streamable

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lchb2pe8RW1qa0jlno1_500.jpg

^^ would stream

you trout!

(oh, catfish I guess)

someone commented in the VV film poll that the "verdant night-scapes and gently materializing apparitions of uncle boonmee" were the best movie moments of the year. agreed!

and finally saw Meek's Cutoff last night. Kinda thrilling to watch Kelly Reichard handle the sex/race relations. Also a plus to see something where Paul Dano is tolerable.