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.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Sunday, 15 January 2017 03:24 (seven years ago) link
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
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Toni Erdmann is out here soon as well :)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 January 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 January 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
Nathaniel Rogers: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/1/13/best-of-year-nathaniels-top-ten.html
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
"Would That It Were So Simple" - The ILX 2016 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday, February 26th
― Gukbe, Monday, 16 January 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
http://reverseshot.org/features/2305/two_cents_2017
Worst De Palma Critic: De PalmaTake 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
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure MK is the Arnold Schwarzenegger to my Danny DeVito.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
Nice dig at considering OJ: Made in America a movie.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
A master class in shade.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 03:09 (seven years ago) link
that's what many of the talking heads in the film imply about OJ
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 03:15 (seven years ago) link
Don't sleep on the Romanian Aferim! Painterly b&w widescreen compositions, among other virtues.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 January 2017 05:43 (seven years ago) link
otm. it's great. and don't sleep on jude's followup Scarred Hearts either.
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 January 2017 09:43 (seven years ago) link
Denzel over Casey for the SAG award. Can't say I'm surprised that there would be cooling off on Manchester overall.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Monday, 30 January 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
the Skandies begin:
http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.de/2017/01/skandies-20.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2017 04:44 (seven years ago) link
should i pay to see Neruda?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
i enjoyednot many contemporary auteurs whose decisions are as interesting just to think abt as larrain imo
― schlump, Friday, 3 February 2017 03:25 (seven years ago) link
BAFTAs
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/la-la-land-tops-baftas
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
BAFTAZZZZZZZZZZZZ......
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Monday, 13 February 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
@labuzamoviesI 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
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Indie Spirits to Moonlight, Huppert, Affleck
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-independent-spirit-awards-20170225-story.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 February 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
FC readers voted
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-readers-poll-2016/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 March 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
the Muriels -- Paterson by a nose
http://murielcommunity.blogspot.de/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
Weird, it didn't win any other categories.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Don't know if it's THE favorite, but Hell or High Water has one of my favorite film endings ever.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link