This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2016

(should be obv I was referring to the BFCA, not the NYFCC)

oh i know

i get the obvious and that's about it, like when you were here before.

Haven't been following awards season this year, but was just perusing some listenings and there are more movies I really want to see in the next few weeks/months than there have been in some time.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2016?utm_content=buffer9eacd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebookbfi&utm_campaign=buffer

http://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2285/jackie

(Portman) is, I hasten to add, singularly awful, though by virtue of the fact that the actress is attempting an impersonation of a dead celebrity with a highly recognizable speech pattern, she will automatically be catapulted into the awards season frontrunner shortlists, because of a popular tendency to confuse party-trick mimicry with great acting. Portman doesn’t bear much of a physical resemblance to the First Lady, but the technical aspects of her impression are more or less on the money—she gets the unusual cadences of Jackie’s speech, and most of her peculiar combination of boarding school elocution and mishmash mid-Atlantic phrasing, though speaking through her scrim of muzzy breathiness she sometimes strays closer to the pouty baby voice of Marilyn Monroe.

That Sight & Sound list is on the whole pretty pleasing and much stronger than last year's (from what I can tell at this stage). Agree that O.J can't really be considered a film though. I've nothing against TV, just so surprised to see it showing up on these lists. Apologies if I missed a whole debate.

Also I can't pretend I'm not nervous about Elle. No idea how those components can be grouped into something laudable, but everyone seems to like it so I'll try to reserve most of my judgement until I've actually seen it. These UK release dates are the worst.

i want an oral history on how film twitter decided on all-caps for movie titles

Nice S&S list - look forward to catching a bunch of those in 2017. Just in time for our own ballot. We doing that?

‏@LAFilmCritics
Best Production Design, Winner: Ryu Seong-hee, THE HANDMAIDEN.

Took them long enough.

Theres a lot of others in the mix, but this one's worth isolating:

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Lily Gladstone, CERTAIN WOMEN

Best Documentary, Winner: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO.
Best Documentary, Runner-Up: OJ: MADE IN AMERICA.

yay, fuck TV

@servingcinema
#LAFCA Awards Douglas Edwards Independent / Experimental Film Prize WINNER: The Illinois Parables.

^saw this a couple weeks ago, it's pretty good

Just watched it actually, and I'd say better than that, but it's a style I usually respond well to.

LA LA LAND has only so far managed a few runner-up positions. Fingers crossed.

Best Screenplay, Winner: Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, THE LOBSTER.
Best Screenplay, Runner-Up: Kenneth Lonergan, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA.

(Circling back)

Best Supporting Actor, Winner: Mahershala Ali, MOONLIGHT.
Best Supporting Actor, Runner-Up: Issey Ogata, SILENCE.

(And I was wrong. LA LA LAND won best music.)

Best Actor, Winner: Adam Driver, PATERSON.
Best Actor, Runner-Up: Casey Affleck, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA.

Best Documentary, Winner: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO.
Best Documentary, Runner-Up: OJ: MADE IN AMERICA.

― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Sunday, December 4, 2016 3:07 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yay, fuck TV

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius)

both are good, shut up

Preliminary congrats to Isabelle Huppert for sweeping the critics awards and then getting snubbed by Oscar.

Best Actress, Winner: Isabelle Huppert, ELLE and THINGS TO COME.
Best Actress, Runner-Up: Rebecca Hall, CHRISTINE.

the Driver award is the final impetus I needed to get me to the screening next Thursday

delighted by the Gladstone win

Whew, MOONLIGHT defeats LA LA LAND in picture/director.

Which means LA LA LAND is all set to win the Best Picture Oscar.

yup

https://www.bifa.film/awards/winners

Nice to see Hayley Squires winning Best Newcomer. She was something else in I,DB.

i don't contribute to Oscarcentric threads, bye

Atlanta:

BEST FILM – LA LA LAND

BEST DIRECTOR – Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND

BEST ACTOR – Casey Affleck, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

BEST ACTRESS – Annette Bening, 20TH CENTURY WOMEN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Mahershala Ali, MOONLIGHT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Lily Gladstone, CERTAIN WOMEN

BEST ENSEMBLE – Cast of AMERICAN HONEY

BEST ANIMATED FILM – KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM – 13TH

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – TONI ERDMANN

BEST SCREENPLAY – Kenneth Lonergan, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

BEST SCORE – Cliff Martinez, THE NEON DEMON

BEST SONG – “Drive It Like You Stole It” from SING STREET

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Linus Sandgren, LA LA LAND

BEST EDITING – Tom Cross, LA LA LAND

BEST SCORE – Cliff Martinez, THE NEON DEMON

OK with this.

Scott Walker was robbed

lol at the ostensibly superior musical not winning best song

What are your problems with LLL, Eric? I liked it well enough but it proved vaporous. I don't remember the songs or the moves – I remember Stone and Gosling singing and dancing.

Lacking in charm and talent, which wouldn't be in itself a problem if the movie's entire thesis weren't that charm and talent will naturally find their reward in Hollywood.

I'm not among those offended by Gosling's co-opting of jazz culture/traditions, but damn is the movie condescending toward Stone's resistance.

(Just listened to Scott Walker and it's really strong work, tho I still don't want to see the movie.)

I will say that this looks like a slightly better-than-average awards season run, if only because La La Land looks like the only thing I'm dead set against seeing. Assuming the Jackie O biopic has been declared DOA, that is.

Lacking in charm and talent, which wouldn't be in itself a problem if the movie's entire thesis weren't that charm and talent will naturally find their reward in Hollywood.

― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), M

I was disappointed too that Gosling wasn't nude.

When even the BFCA can't find room for your prestige biopic slop in their best picture lineup, it's probably DOA, yes.

Then again, the surfeit of critics groups that can't have more than a half dozen people voting does sometimes portend unhappy resurrections:

D.C. CRITICS AWARDS
Best Film: La La Land
Best Director: Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Best Actress: Natalie Portman, Jackie
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences
Best Acting Ensemble: Hell or High Water
Best Youth Performance: Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Best Voice Performance: Liam Neeson, A Monster Calls
Best Motion Capture Performance: Mark Rylance, The BFG
Best Original Screenplay: Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Best Adapted Screenplay: Eric Heisserer (based on the Story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang), Arrival
Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings
Best Documentary: The 13th
Best Foreign Language Film: Elle
Best Production Design: David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, SDSA, La La Land
Best Cinematography: Linus Sandgren, SFS, La La Land
Best Editing: Tom Cross, ACE, La La Land
Best Original Score: Justin Hurwitz, La La Land
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC: Jackie

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC: Jackie

I debated whether to start a Jackie thread until I watched the screener on Saturday and felt like I needed a couple slugs of vodka.

It's that bad? Because I kinda like Larrain, and had hoped for something as good as El Club :(

I disliked The Club's last third intensely. Neruda was an admirable attempt to avoid biopic conventions, but it beached itself on voice-over.

Manchester by the Sea was really remarkable. Can't remember the last time a movie ended with the main character ended up in the same place emotionally. All the promo made it look like one of these "broken man learns to live again through the opportunity to be a parental figure" redemption stories, but Affleck's character remains just as broken at the end of the movie. It really earns its 137 minutes.

Yes, this entirely.

xpost sorry for my fucked up grammar up there, i also wanted to mention how that aspect of MBTS didn't hit me until a few hours after i saw it. it really hums afterwards, still thinking about it, more than i can say about most movies...

more critics groups should give an award to the old biddie at the beginning lump with horror at the thought of attending a niece's Bat Mitzvah ("I could slit my throat").