not entirely wrong
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 February 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
Lady Bird was not without its minor charms, but I suspect I would have enjoyed a lot more with Gerwig rather than Ronan in front of the camera, and ultimately I was tempted to deem it the vaguely-indie coming-of-age-comedy cognate of the comic-book/sci-fi films whose artistic merit appears to have been inflated by whatever cultural importance there may be in their being helmed by and/or starring women and/or African-Americans
entirely wrong
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 February 2018 11:25 (six years ago) link
Saw Good Time last night! Lovely nerve-shredder. I cried at the end
― imago, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, February 19, 2018 11:25 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It may be that I'm just insufficiently suburban in origin, female in gendering, millennial in generation, or Catholic in upbringing to have more than modest feeling for a film that competed with food and drink, etc. for my attention as many increasingly do, but even putting aside the fact that for all her very good work Ronan never entirely registered as Sacramentian, the whole thing just felt less real than even the comic-book take of Ghost World, for which I had less feeling even before a recent screening highlighted its fairly reactionary/not a little creepy script. Part of that may also have to do with the slightly peculiar lightness with which Gerwig's (or, I suppose more appropriately, her teenaged/post-collegiate characters') happy-go-lucky vision/persona treats life's difficulties, but again I find that treatment more convincing when she embodies it herself.
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
The slightly peculiar lightness is a sensibility I've encountered more than a few times in adulthood, and only rarely have I seen it incarnated onscreen as fully as Gerwig does. Couple this sensibility with the editing and Ronan's acting chops and the result was a small miracle.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
Ronan never entirely registered as Sacramentian
I didn't exactly feel that (someone like Christine could exist anywhere in the US, and it's up to the movie to show us what kinds of people there are), but if Ronan's own origins were creating some interference, that could work in its favour given that Christine is always dreaming of being away from Sacramento.
― jmm, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
Yeah, sorry, I just saw a very good performance of teenaged suburban American identity rather than someone actually acquainted with it. It wasn't necessarily the specific geography I was hung up on, though I do tend to care about such things, but I did, like Richard Brody (who offhandedly appears to agree with me about Gerwig's absence), miss the absence of much specificity - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/greta-gerwigs-exquisite-flawed-lady-bird.
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 19 February 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
absence/presence
Voted.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
Sent mine!
― Cherish, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
GG was not going to play a 17-year-old. Ronan's fine.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
Not going to vote until the deadline, but I generally vote for anything I’ve seen prior to the poll even if its UK release was later as I don’t like to get left out of the US voting current and risk the lower placement or missing out of things I loved.
Really appreciate Cherish’s list upthread - I’ll definitely try to see at least one of those before voting. Any other suggestions for probably-missed films? The more intense the better. I have limited patience for slowcore atm
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
'limited patience for slowcore' waaaait we saw A Ghost Story like yesterday and you LIKED it
but yeah we're going to watch something tonight and it might as well be from that list, although I'm angling for Paddington 2
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
I DID NOT necessarily know what I thought of it beyond disconsolate crying.
Someone save me from Paddington 2
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
On body & soul was good! From the fest here I liked kékszakállú and the forest of lost souls
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
I also recommend voting for twin peaks
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
By the Time It Gets Dark is pretty slowcore, fyi. Also my least favorite of the four.
Have you guys seen Wonderstruck?
― Cherish, Monday, 26 February 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
I have not! It is not on my radar at all. Would you recommend? Thanks for the advice too. Definitely going to try and watch On Body and Soul and Berlin Syndrome before the deadline.
For now we are watching I Am Not a Witch, but everything mentioned is getting added to the list.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
Paddington 2 is great, unless you hated Paddington 1
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Paddington 2 is so deeply moving and emotional that it transcends traditional categorization
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
Would you recommend?
I do recommend it! It's a kids's movie, really, but carefully and cleverly designed for film buffs -- with its two story lines filmed in two distinct styles.
I think you'll really like the other two also. I'm always happy to pass on good movies!
― Cherish, Monday, 26 February 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Wonderstruck doesn't really work, but I kinda admire Haynes for trying it.
― Frederik B, Monday, 26 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
I’ve not gotten around to some key movies yet but I want to vote for Ex Libris. Hmmm...
― Chris L, Monday, 26 February 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
Wonderstruck is a minor work by Haynes, still pretty good though.
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
Yeah. I went in with no expectations and was surprised how much I liked it. It's a very simple story, sure, but visually fun. And that young deaf actress is extremely good.
― Cherish, Monday, 26 February 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
I Am Not A Witch was superb and you should all subscribe to the BFI player and see it. Really unusual and risk-taking but it pretty much all comes off. And it's totally hilarious
― imago, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
also, [Mr Peanutbutter voice] I *loved* Paddington 1!
― imago, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
Paddington 2 is, then: great
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 08:22 (six years ago) link
accurate
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
i spose this is better than stanning for the bloody 'days of empire' movies
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
Bump. Theoretical final week of voting. Work just threw some stuff at me though so I'll know by Saturday.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 1 March 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
btw deadline was bumped a week last year...
I apologize to wins for telling him to blow me on last year's thread. I deserved his opprobrium.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
I've forgotten how the weighting works. If you put fewer films on your ballot, will the ones that are left be given more juice?
― Alba, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
No, you're just denying the films lower on the ballot any points. 1=40, 2=36, etc...
― Gukbe, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
voted!
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
we've been seeing filmz
call me by your name is an excellent movie about summering in italy and it features a lot of really excellent birdsong
― imago, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Haha morbius I don't doubt it, no need to apologise tho cmonimago/tt and any others looking to catch up over the weekend, I v much recommend watching Dawson City, Frozen Time - a highlight of my cinemagoing last year and deserving of a place (fundamentally tho I recommend everyone stop playing themselves and vote for twin peaks obv)
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 2 March 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
excerpted from a major film journal's year-end request email:
...if you could send me a top ten, ranked, of your choice for annum 2017, based on films that premiered (in festivals or cinemas or on Showtime), that would be great...
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
some of us have seen only 2/18 of TP:TR, categorization be damned
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Vote for it anyway
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
saving it for TV poll
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
everyone i know that saw Dawson City: Frozen Time said they liked it but found the music super treacly and almost unbearable
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
I can't call the music to mind- it was a sigur ros guy right?
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
Simon's quote is unsurprising I think serious venues are quite aware of how undistinguished a year 2017 is once you ignore the filmic event of the yearObviously it's excellent to be more bothered about whether things are filed correctly tho 😎
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
I have two episodes left in TP:TR and it wouldn't even occur to me to vote it best of the year.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
i still haven't recovered from xyzzzz calling the nothing factory better than arabian nights and i doubt i can tbh, that's the kind of cognitive dissonance you don't come back from
― imago, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird,
This is another one I sorta liked but started looking at my watch after 50 minutes.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
BPM, The Other Side of Hope, Phantom Thread: all distinguished.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
BPM not out til April here ☹️
― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 2 March 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
Faces places not out til idk never