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Empire’s top ten movies of 2016

Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Arrival
Hell or High Water
Captain America: Civil War
Victoria
The Hateful Eight
Kubo And the Two Strings
The Revenant
Spotlight
Green Room

WB Eric

ERIC

I'm going to miss a 4:30 pm screening of FENCES today.

tbh I'm just reasserting my desire to run the Bjork and Badu ballot polls in the near future

sad lol I've seen like eight movies this year

In addition to ILX, I kinda took a break from movies in '16.

Here's a start;

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/nov/28/and-the-braddie-goes-to-peter-bradshaws-pick-of-the-year-in-film

I can't take seriously any list with Nocturnal Animals on it

I can't take seriously any list with Nocturnal Animals Peter Bradshaw on it

I've only seen about 5 2016 movies in 2016, but Victoria was one of them and it was excellent.

Victoria is from early 2015 ;) But yeah, it's good. The photographer behind that insane shot, Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, is Norwegian, educated in Copenhagen, and has already done Icelandic prizewinners Rams and Heartstone and Danish horror film Shelley. Every one of them looks absolutely gorgeous.

i look forward to losing track of this thread within a week and having it as a current bookmark until the end of time

Rams and Victoria (2016 UK release) were both pretty great. I went into Victoria expecting it to treat its lead poorly, and it kind of did, but I found it gripping and impressive despite that. My friend said of it that she couldn't believe Victoria was literally incapable of defying the what the men told her to do.

I'm about to start filling in the gaps of everything I've missed. Is there anything people have in mind as maybe being overlooked by most from this year? I'd recommend Papusza if you missed it. A slow-burning biopic about the famous gypsy poet, but it's stayed with me longer than a lot of films this year.

A Quiet Passion is the biggest surprise, and probably best film of the year. So that, one, I guess, but I don't know if it's out in the UK.

Looks like it was released here at LFF, but doesn't seem to have surfaced in cinemas yet. Sounds exciting though, I'll definitely keep an eye out for it.

Cahiers' top 10:

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont)
Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
La Loi de la jungle (Antonin Peretjatko)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Le bois dont les rêves sont faits (Claire Simon)

https://thefilmstage.com/news/cahiers-du-cinemas-top-10-films-of-2016-includes-toni-erdmann-elle-and-the-neon-demon/

Or maybe not:

https://twitter.com/cahierscinema/status/803626977781391361

y'know I liked Elle but I think its ranking in the Sklant Verhoeven list was about right

lol *Slant

Most Verhoeven enthusiasts I'm aware of say the same.

Good on him for making a not-bad "restrained" late-career movie though - those are usually much more dismal propositions. And I'm hoping Huppert delivers her accpetance speech in character if she (deservedly) takes Best Actress.

I don't think anything will top Green Room for me this year, but only because I've been longing for a great punk movie since Ex-Drummer (or even Hard Core Logo).

the idea of Huppert getting any awards traction is so bizarre and thrilling that I'd rather think some more about a Trump presidency to sober me.

I count 15 new movies I've seen this year. Moonlight, Embrace of the Serpent, and Green Room probably the highlights. Zootopia was the only blockbuster I really liked.

NAT'L BOARD OF REVIEW

Film: Manchester By the Sea
Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival
Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea
Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence
Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings
Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester By the Sea
Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits
Directorial Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha
Foreign Language Film: The Salesman
Documentary: O.J.: Made in America
Ensemble: Hidden Figures
Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Cameraperson

Top Films
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hail, Caesar!
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Moonlight
Patriots Day
Silence
Sully

Top 5 Foreign Language Films
Elle
The Handmaiden
Julieta
Land of Mine
Neruda

Top 5 Documentaries
De Palma
The Eagle Huntress
Gleason
Life, Animated
Miss Sharon Jones!

Top 10 Independent Films
20th Century Women
Captain Fantastic
Creative Control
Eye in the Sky
The Fits
Green Room
Hello, My Name is Doris
Krisha
Morris from America
Sing Street

Taking that I align with the NBoR for both best film and best doc as a sign I need to quit this whole game.

Impressed they found room for both Patriot's Day and Hacksaw Ridge in there.

Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival

booooo (note: I have not seen Arrival)

I was thinking of going to Eagle Huntress tonight. Anyone seen it?

Film: Manchester By the Sea
Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival
Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight

^^ wow. I got no major problems with them.

I'm not fond of Arrival but she's not disgraceful.

Most Verhoeven enthusiasts I'm aware of say the same.

And by "Verhoeven enthusiasts" I'm guessing you meannnnnnn... "Showgirls nitwits"?

Elle is a class above evrything else I've seen by him. Frederik is still a nudnik though.

NYFCC starting in 10 min...

Here we go!

Let's see to what degree Moonlight dominates.

Silence is the wild card. NYFCC's love for Scorsese in the past has been pretty spotty.

It begins.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Mahershala Ali for "Moonlight"

aw – I was hoping for André Holland

BEST ACTOR: Casey Affleck for "Manchester By The Sea"

He's more or less undefeated, as it were, so far this season.

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Zootopia

2016. America.

lol, oh for cute, the Broadcast Film Critics Association are announcing their nominees simultaneously

nothing offensive so far

They picked Affleck in a comparative heartbeat compared to whatever's holding them up now.

OK, maybe they spent all that time debating whether or not it's TV or film ...

BEST DOCUMENTARY: "O.J.: Made in America

it's TV btw

My natural do-not-give-a-shittism is augmented by the fact that i haven't even "finished" 2015, cuz why should i?

the OJ and DuVernay docs are two of the most incisive things I've seen all year and will probably make a list next year, teevee or not

he is right about Being 17 > Moonlight as far as the depictions of gay black relationships goes.

Hacksaw Ridge, Knight of Cups, Voyage of Time > Silence Mel Gibson professes faith the difficult way, by defending a conscientious objector’s war experience. Terrence Malick searches for faith in Hollywood (fiction) and throughout history (nonfiction). But Martin Scorsese’s latest protracted remake replaces their conviction and originality with a lapse of cinematic faith.

that last sentence means nothing, i'm not even sure he saw it.

saw that too and almost made a similar post. wtf with that nonsense.

Izzie!

Sight & Sound's best blu rays and DVDs of 2016:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2016

Razzie long list: https://www.comicbookmovie.com/batman_vs_superman/razzie-shortlists-revealed-for-2016-the-37th-golden-a147971

Beyond Collateral Beauty and the latest D'Souza woke-umentary, nothing to see here.

you guys HAVE to see Collateral Beauty. best unintentional comedic masterpiece since The Happening or The Wicker Man remake.

collateral beauty should have been the name of a straight-to-streaming gina carano flick

Don't get DIRTY GRANDPA getting reamed by the Razzies... great rock fuck stupid movie, good fun... ZOOLANDER 2 should sweep, the original is shot-for-shot perfect, sequel was an embarrassment and complete waste of time & money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh0niSXueu0

i thought Cameraperson v nearly lived up to the hype. Criterion edition next month.

agreed

I like how the Razzies shortlisted Mother's Day for numerous awards and then wussed out when it came to including Garry Marshall in the Worst Director category.

Wow -- Hidden Figures beat Rogue One this weekend. A pleasant, inoffensive picture that would have gone to #1 w/out a hitch pre-#Marvelflicks

^They thought those women were in the Rebel Alliance.

BAFTA noms, La La Land, zzzzzzzz:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/2017-bafta-nominations

PGA nominations: http://variety.com/2017/film/awards/la-la-land-moonlight-fences-producers-guild-nominations-1201956869/

wtf Deadpool

Awards contenders “Silence,” “Jackie,” “Sully,” “Loving,” “Captain Fantastic,” “Nocturnal Animals,” “20th Century Women” and “Florence Foster Jenkins” were overlooked

said Jack Kennedy

Senses of Cinema

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-introduction/

DGA nominations: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article126119929.html

My Letterboxd Year in Review:

316 films logged

Jerry Lewis
Most Watched Actor

Douglas Sirk
Most Watched Director

(the Sirks were mostly the non-canon obscure stuff Lincoln Center showed)

Are we going to have a poll this year? I've been watching everything I can get my hands on...

Yeah, I've got a busy week ahead but maybe I'll get the thread going in the next day or two.

Labuza and Uhlich. Interesting convo around #1.

http://www.thecinephiliacs.net/2017/01/2016-favorites-with-keith-uhlich-part-1.html

Walter Chaw's 2016 wrap-up is several zillion times more interesting than all these year-end awards:

I want to say, too, that the best films of 2016 are split evenly between grief and reflection, and raging against the dying of the light. Hindsight being what it is, a Trump presidency and the global rise of fascism aren't surprising. The roots of our hopelessness are in these films. The seeds are there too, though, of the shape that rebellion will take in the next four years. Our horror genre is in the midst of a golden age. It's about to be extraordinary. Anyway, Paul Feig's Ghostbusters is Hillary. David Ayer's Suicide Squad is Trump. One is disappointing and groundbreaking in the safest possible way (and why aren't there any Asian people in a movie whose heroes work above a Chinese restaurant?); the other is a hate crime people came out in droves to witness. Outrage is selective, see? Welcome to the brave new world.

Yeah, I've got a busy week ahead but maybe I'll get the thread going in the next day or two.

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Toni Erdmann is out here soon as well :)

Hoberman's Top 10:

http://yearendlists.com/2016/12/j-hoberman-10-best-films-of-2016/

(Noticed he doesn't vote in the Voice poll...understandable.)

Nathaniel Rogers: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/1/13/best-of-year-nathaniels-top-ten.html

"Would That It Were So Simple" - The ILX 2016 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday, February 26th

http://reverseshot.org/features/2305/two_cents_2017

Worst De Palma Critic: De Palma
Take it from a staunch Brian De Palma addict: Brian De Palma is the person you least want to hear talk about le cinéma de Palma. Sitting awkwardly before a fireplace mantle in Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s talking-head doc, the now enormous De Palma holds court, going through his films chronologically, one by one, relating some terrific anecdotes, and overall being a surprisingly genial guide. The result is an aesthetically impoverished documentary about a great visual thinker—a disconnect hard to get over—but more detrimentally, his perspective on his own work’s merits is mostly tied to financial success (as is the case with many American filmmakers, including Spielberg). Thus, De Palma reiterates that his greatest accomplishments are benchmarks Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible, while such relative box-office disappointments as The Fury, Raising Cain, and Femme Fatale get short shrift—especially the latter, which barely rates any screen time even though any true De Palma fan knows it’s a career-defining masterwork. There’s a purity of vision and concept to Baumbach and Paltrow’s approach for sure: wind up the man and let him talk. But if there’s any filmmaker whose work is worthy of a more dialectical approach it’s De Palma, one of our most hotly debated, divisive directors. Like any artist, his work benefits from considered, serious criticism. (If you really care about De Palma, read Chris Dumas’s brilliant recent book Un-American Psycho, an engaging and endlessly revealing political and aesthetic study.) De Palma provides us with a rare home visit with an elusive figure, but its anti-critical approach left me thirsty. —MK

The Paul Giamatti Award for Overacting: Natalie Portman in Jackie

In the voice of South Park’s Cartman mixed with a Marilyn Monroe-impersonating drag queen:
“Misteh Valenti . . . would you mahnd getting a message to ool aww funeral guests when they lehnd? Infoohm them that I will whoa-wuk with Jack tomorrow . . . Alone if necessary. And tell General de Gawul that if he wishes to rahd in an uh-merd cahhr—or in a tank, fuh that mattuh—I won’t blame him. And I’m shoo-uh the tens of millions of people oowahhtching won’t eye-thuh.” —MK

Pretty sure MK is the Arnold Schwarzenegger to my Danny DeVito.

Nice dig at considering OJ: Made in America a movie.

A master class in shade.

that's what many of the talking heads in the film imply about OJ

Don't sleep on the Romanian Aferim! Painterly b&w widescreen compositions, among other virtues.

otm. it's great. and don't sleep on jude's followup Scarred Hearts either.

Denzel over Casey for the SAG award. Can't say I'm surprised that there would be cooling off on Manchester overall.

the Skandies begin:

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/2017/01/skandies-20.html

should i pay to see Neruda?

i enjoyed
not many contemporary auteurs whose decisions are as interesting just to think abt as larrain imo

BAFTAs

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/la-la-land-tops-baftas

BAFTAZZZZZZZZZZZZ......

@labuzamovies
I don't understand how my least favorite scene in MANCHESTER became the de facto best scene of 2016. #skandies

http://skandies.org/results/scenes/1805

http://skandies.org/results/categories.1?year=2016

Indie Spirits to Moonlight, Huppert, Affleck

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-independent-spirit-awards-20170225-story.html

FC readers voted

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-readers-poll-2016/

the Muriels -- Paterson by a nose

http://murielcommunity.blogspot.de/

Weird, it didn't win any other categories.

Don't know if it's THE favorite, but Hell or High Water has one of my favorite film endings ever.