This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2017

I just saw GOC; it's pretty damn good and is in a different key than CMBYN. (eg, violent mud sex.) But I wouldn't agree with the equation.

IDA Documentary Awards nominations

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5093-the-daily-ida-documentary-awards-nominations

I just saw GOC; it's pretty damn good and is in a different key than CMBYN. (eg, violent mud sex.) But I wouldn't agree with the equation.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 1, 2017

A colleague who saw it at Key West last month said much the same thing.

also casually full-frontal in the indie Brit way

So, it's really looking like the quartet of the year is: Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Willem Dafoe, Allison Janney.

I used to be an Oscar nerd; now I don't even know which movies they're in (Dafoe excepted).

Oldman as Churchill, McDormand in "Three Billboards..."?

The only way for a Brit to win these days is to play an Audio Animatronic doll.

Oldman as Churchill - There is a movie I'd pay not to watch, although I'm sure it will be a big hit with The Football Lads Alliance type crowds. Sometimes I think in post-brexit times every UK movie is just going to be a Dunkirk remake for the next decade.

And every horror movie in the U.S. will be about Trump.

McDormand in "Three Billboards..."?

Yup. Unless Sally Hawkins' swamp fever keeps up the momentum.

intriguing!

Boom. pic.twitter.com/o6LmIdFiuM

— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) November 7, 2017

It's easy when membership in the four groups overlaps, but still, damn.

there are critics in two or more of LA, NY, and Boston? I suspect not.

NYC, National Society, and L.A. membership often overlapped, esp the first two.

National Society is the only one that doubles up with others I think.

well sure, NSFC would be the one that had members for the other groups. xp

My own group, victims of Disney's screwing practices, i's having an internal discussion about it as I type.

lol uh screening but what's the difference

Concurrently with your drive to also disqualify The Florida Project.

the NYT joined the fray

then Disney folded! crisis over.

Disney execs strapped down at lunch, forced to watch The Florida Project.

Thank goodness critics won't have to work themselves up in knots about not being ethically disposed toward awarding Cars 3.

or Luke Skywalker: The Last Prostate

http://awardswatch.com/2017/11/13/american-gods-outlander-novitiate-the-post-among-19th-womens-image-awards-film-and-television-nominees/

Women’s Image Awards Nominations

Documentary Feature Film

After Spring (Starz)
Gender Revolution (National Geographic Channel)
Hungry (Logo Television Network)
Mansfield 66/67 (Gunpowder and Sky)

Feature Film

The Leisure Seeker (Sony Pictures Classics)
Novitiate (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Post (20th Century Fox)
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (Sony Pictures Classics)
Maudie (Sony Pictures Classics)

Actress Feature Film

Helen Mirren The Leisure Seeker
Melissa Leo Novitiate
Sally Hawkins Maudie
Meryl Streep The Post
Annette Bening Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool

Foreign Language Film

First They Killed My Father (Cambodia) (Netflix)
The Divine Order (Switzerland) (Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber)
The Square (Sweden) (Magnolia Pictures)
A Fantastic Woman (Chile) (Sony Pictures Classics)

The "written by," "directed by" and "produced by" women categories mix TV and film, which only goes to point out how much more work women get in TV than they do in feature films.

How did The Square make it's way unto that list...

going to see The Square tomorrow

good night and good luck!

Saw it earlier today, actually. So good.

Is that the new one by the director of Force Majeure? I liked FM, but the reviews I've read of this one (both positive and negative) make it sound fairly insufferable, I gotta say.

the ape scene in My Man Godfrey is funnier.

My Man Godfrey is funnier than most things, tbf.

i found FM overrated, won't pay to see this one

Both ^^^^ true for me too. (I have a screener.)

Play is way better than Force Majeure, and this is much more like Play. I love it.

NAACP Image Award Nominations

Outstanding Motion Picture

“Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
“Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
“Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
“Marshall” (Open Road Films)
“Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture

“Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
“Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)
“Mudbound” (Netflix)
“Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” (Annapurna Pictures)
“Wind River” (Acacia Filmed Entertainment)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

Algee Smith – “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
Chadwick Boseman – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
Daniel Kaluuya – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Denzel Washington – “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (Columbia Pictures)
Idris Elba – “The Mountain Between Us” (20th Century Fox)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

Amandla Stenberg – “Everything, Everything” (Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
Danai Gurira – “All Eyez on Me” (Summit Entertainment)
Halle Berry – “Kidnap” (Aviron Pictures)
Natalie Paul – “Crown Heights” (Amazon Studios)
Octavia Spencer – “Gifted” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Idris Elba – “THOR: Ragnarok” (Marvel Studios)
Laurence Fishburne – “Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)
Lil Rel Howery – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Nnamdi Asomugha – “Crown Heights” (Amazon Studios)
Sterling K. Brown – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Audra McDonald – “Beauty and the Beast” (Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures)
Keesha Sharp – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
Regina Hall – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
Tessa Thompson – “THOR: Ragnarok” (Marvel Studios)
Tiffany Haddish – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture

Dee Rees – “Mudbound” (Netflix)
Jordan Peele – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Malcolm D. Lee – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
Reginald Hudlin – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
Stella Meghie – “Everything, Everything” (Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture

Dee Rees, Virgil Williams – “Mudbound” (Netflix)
Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani – “The Big Sick” (Amazon Studios)
Jordan Peele – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Kenya Barris, Tracy Oliver – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
Mark Boal – “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)

Would be thrilled to see Lil Rel Howery get an Oscar nod tbh.

Is that the new one by the director of Force Majeure? I liked FM, but the reviews I've read of this one (both positive and negative) make it sound fairly insufferable, I gotta say.

"Insufferable" is a good response to The Square. It tries to Say Something about inequality and the media outrage cycle, but gets bogged down in liberal cringe. And it reaffirms my belief that every movie that comes in at over 2 hours should be taken out of the director's hands and cut to 90 minutes.

regardless of how bad The Square is it can't be as stupid as that "belief".

"every" is too doctrinaire, but wd've helped with Blade Runner 2049

(as would 0 minutes)

Producers Guild of America nominees for Documentary Feature:

Chasing Coral
City of Ghosts
Cries From Syria
Earth: One Amazing Day
Jane
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

Not an intensely impressive slate afaic.

Unless Jane is about Goodall, I've never even heard of any of these.

Only doc I've seen so far this year is the Gilbert Gottfried one, but haven't there been some notable ones? The Wiseman NYPL thing, for instance?

No overlap whatsoever with the Gothams' list ...

Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Rat Film
Strong Island
Whose Streets?
The Work

And the first heavy-hitting bit of detrius: the Independent Spirit Award Nominees.

BEST FEATURE

Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
The Florida Project
Lady Bird
The Rider

BEST DIRECTOR

Sean Baker, The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano, A Ciambra
Luca Gudagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Benny Safdie & Josh Benny, Good Time
Chloé Zhao, The Rider

BEST SCREENPLAY

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Azazel Jacobs, The Lovers
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Mike White, Beatriz at Dinner

BEST MALE LEAD

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Harris Dickinson, Beach Rats
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Robert Pattinson, Good Time

BEST FEMALE LEAD:

Salma Hayek, Beatriz at Dinner
Francis McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saiorse Ronin, Lady Bird
Shinobu Terajima, Oh Lucy!
Regina Williams, Life and Nothing More

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster, Good Time

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Nnamdi Asomugha, Crown Heights
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Benny Safdie, Good Time

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Departure
Faces/Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

BPM (Beats Per Minute)
A Fantastic Woman
I Am Not a Witch
Lady Macbeth
Loveless

A few other categories here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/independent-spirit-award-nominations-full-list-2017-1057823/item/

Willem Dafoe seems a huge ommission, as well as Gerwig in director.

waiting for someone to have the cojones to give Mother a screenplay nod

lol the Spirit male lead category is almost as All-Babe as any Oscar year's supporting actress!

(at least two of them are good performances, tho)

None of the three I've seen (the non gay jailbait perfs) are slouches.

I liked CMBYN a lot and have my criticisms but every one of those comments reeks of smugness. No sex? No Italian vistas? Did they even watch the movie?

Yeah, most of those comments were askew.

"Non-horror movies that act like horror movies" is my worst nightmare, honeybunch. ;)

I could tell.

With a side helping of "horror movies that act like horror movies."

How on earth do you take Nocturama to be about the power of collectivity?

wait, is Sacred Deer a horror movie or not?

The teamwork of that French SWAT team was awesome and inspiring. xp

xp well it's a comedy, first and foremost

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/02/16/film-poll-the-full-results/

OK, Twin Peaks came closer to the top 10 than I figured.

there are voters in that pool i haven't thought of in 20 years -- Joanna Langfield, David Ansen -- plus the young turks i've never heard of.

Get Out was indeed "pants" plotwise tho.

pants?

ask the kids

BAFTAs to 3BB

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5405-the-daily-three-billboards-tops-the-baftas

I didn't mention In Transit on the other thread because I saw it several years ago

Skandies poll results ... Nocturama at #1, Vicky Krieps as best actress

http://skandies.org/results/categories.1?year=2017

Can anyone shed any light on how the character of the Skandies panel might lead it to coalesce around Nocturama as the best film of the year?

they're terr'ists eh

at least they don't recognize child rapists like [lists every white guy in movies]

I'm happy with this explanation.

The D'Angelo effect usually only applies to MD'A's favorite movie of the year, which this year was mother!

Indie Spirit Awards: Get Out, Peele, Chalamet, McDormand, Rockwell, Janney

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/spirit-awards-2018-winners-list-1202716594/

Ingrid Goes West over Columbus for best first feature is some bullshit. (Not as much as magically promoting Get Out beyond the category, of course.)

I really want to see Columbus (won the Filmspotting podcast's "golden brick" of the year – are any of you listeners?) but can find zero sign of it getting a UK release in cinemas following its LFF appearance.

I guess it'll turn up on Mubi or whatever some time.

Ingrid Goes West was great

I laughed a lot.

Elizabeth Olsen should've been nominated in Supp Actress.

I swear Columbus was briefly streaming on Amazon Prime, didn’t catch it in time

it's fine i don't know why people liked it so much

IGW was watchable, not the scorching anti-Twitter jeremiad we need

six Cesars to BPM

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/robin-campillos-bpm-beats-per-minute-wins-best-film-at-cesar-awards-1202715674/

Finally: my longform aggregation roundup of the ~31 films shot on 35mm released in 2017. https://t.co/BzuYJipC4P

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) April 5, 2018

Great piece, thanks for the link... that bit about Sean Baker preserving his digitally shot films and losing one of the master files for Starlet is really sobering.