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

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.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 14 January 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.