There will be no sandbox Detrius 2011 thread.

That seems insensitive somehow.

The Artist is crap.

― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, December 23, 2011 10:19 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Permalink

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.

got my hands on UK horror-thriller Kill List; a little too familiar in some ways (the climax splits the difference between a couple of genre touchstones), but damn if that last 20 minutes didn't give me heart palpitations.

Tinker Tailor was pretty great. Bellflower was interesting.

finally saw the stylish indie rapefest Martha Marcy Carsey Marilyn Manson. Damn, Brady Corbet is growin' up real nice.

I forget: did you like Certified Copy?

oh yeah: your #2

Dunno, Corbet seems a little like the guy you'd cast as the real-life version of Chucky in A Child's Play Pinocchio Christmas Special.

after flirting with American movies Juliette Binoche has become an actress whose performances I look forward to watching.

can't imagine anything topping certified copy this year except for maybe margaret?

I had about a dozen films btwn those two. Didn't give much of a damn about the mom in Margaret (u know, actress).

I'm sure the kids appreciated all the Chinatown, Leone and Hunter Thompson refs in Rango.

out of the 160+ films in the VV poll why don't I see any repping for Wuthering Heights, Pariah, or Oslo, 31 August? Thought these all got some screenings this year.

Pariah just opened in NYC yesterday. Hear much praise for lead performance.

Finally saw Cerified Copy, which I liked a great deal in spite of its Marienbad-La Notte flimflammery. I realized that I wish Juliette Binoche would film a Before Sunrise-esque walking-and-talking film every year. Like I said upthread, this actress is getting more and more fascinating to watch.

wd slap you for invoking Bored Sunrise!

the 'flimflammery' makes the movie, if it doesn't let it touch A Voyage in Italy.

I mean, I think the flimflammery works but the kind of leap of faith of which second viewings are made.

*it's the kind of

'certified copy' is p corny looking but its also really rad

13 assassins was a pointless testosterone blahblahblah, i might actually prefer miike when he's doing torture porn rather than war porn. i don't have a history with samurai movies though.

and to completely kill my credibility, the more i think about war horse the more i realize it's quite a good WW1 movie, conceptually at least.

I want to watch it but I'm not sure I can endure two-hours-plus of equine porn.

i actually really like the idea of War Horse, though i know nothing of the source material. i am kinda afraid to see it. stuff like Au Hasard Balthazar or Umberto D can make me emotional just thinking about them. it's pathetic.

I didn't much like the idea or scenario for War Horse at all, really. It's 100 percent execution.

Really enjoyed Tuesday, After Christmas. The trick to making an asshole interesting is make him seem calm and rational.