It has enough muscles to qualify for my best-of list.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, 1 December 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
Waters' commentary now up: https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201710&id=72432
My faves:
5 WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes) Want an IQ test for your cinephile children? Just take them to see this beautifully made, feel-good kids’ movie about the hearing-impaired, starring a little girl who looks exactly like Simone Signoret. If your small-fry like the film, they’re smart. If they don’t, they’re stupid.
10 TOM OF FINLAND (Dome Karukoski) This dirty but dignified, oddly commercial biopic of the artist who inspired the modern-day s/m gay leather scene is now the Finnish government’s official entry in the 2017 foreign-film Oscar race. That’s what I call patriotic penis progress, and I hope it wins.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, 1 December 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
http://yearendlists.com/category/2017-movies/
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, 1 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
well I did see his #1, 2 and 5
J. Hoberman: Artforum Top Ten, 2017 pic.twitter.com/mh88i7jXgw— Jordan Cronk (@JordanCronk) December 2, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
I loved The Holy Girl and The Headless Woman, looking forward to see Zama!
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 December 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
*seeing
what was the staff letter of October 26. 2017?
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 December 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
I need to get a subscription to Artforum
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 December 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
John Waters says in that piece that Woody Allen has never made a bad film, so he should be careful about calling others stupid.
Zama is alright, no Headless Woman imho.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2017 05:58 (six years ago) link
Lol at the Emihholz. He premiered four films at Berlin and I kinda gave up on it all... I do like his architecture films, though.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 10:17 (six years ago) link
LA critics now voting. Not feeling as generous about their results so I'll just link to their twitter: https://twitter.com/lafilmcritics
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
link to the mimosa drinking
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Best Cinematography, Winner: Dan Laustsen, THE SHAPE OF WATER
Best Cinematography, Runner-Up: Roger Deakins, BLADE RUNNER 2049
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Best Music/Score, Winner: Jonny Greenwood, PHANTOM THREAD— LA Film Critics (@LAFilmCritics) December 3, 2017
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
(WIth The Shape of Water as the runner up.)
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
Another win for Willem!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Assuming Nat'l Society also signs off, that's a sweep.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
Dunkirk wins for editing, which should probably be a no-brainer like Dafoe and Nixon.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Chalamet also gets another award. (They went Hawkins for actress instead because, damn, they have a chub for that Del Toro flick.)
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
But somehow managed to avoid giving it best picture (CMBYN) or best picture runner-up (Florida Project). Whew, I guess?
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
FP snubbed :(
Also, I was going to see CMBYN today, but then it turned out I looked at the program the wrong way, and it's next month. So fuck that film.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Dan S.:
http://www.artforum.com/news/id=71957
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
It's frustrating how Cynthia Nixon isn't "in the conversation" at all.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 December 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link
mayyyybe the conversation is of little actual worth?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
well, yeah
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
did we ever get runners-up/postmortem on NYFCC?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
I just watched Beach Rats and thought it was gross, the denouement is so gratuitously depressing that I felt like I wanted to have a talk with Hittman and ask her why, exactly, she made this - were the stakes so high? Because it didn't feel like they were so that it would turn out that way. Aside from that it was not believable that that guy would have been hanging out with those other three for a start and certainly not believable that he'd rope those chumps into a violent act for the sake of a bag of weed.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
she got some grief for appropriating some of the details of the death of a black gay man in NYC a few decades ago.
actually the four boys seemed like a plausible crew to me.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
I'm surprised at that. they seemed like three guys that had somehow started hanging out with an art school bro since that look is what most of the art school boys in Glasgow seem to be striving for.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
he just seemed more model-beautiful than the other mooks (who were "street cast"). You know the lead actor is a Brit, right?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
i thought they were all good in it fwiw. the main guy was a good actor who was miscast imo.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
xp i only knew that from googling. his accent seemed good from this side.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
What's this Nixon performance y'all keep going on about?
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Passion
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Monday, 4 December 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
US release last April
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
it's on UK netflix now, not sure about north america.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Monday, 4 December 2017 03:05 (six years ago) link
Beach Rats disappointed me too because her last film -- which nailed the rhythms of courtship -- impressed me.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 December 2017 03:16 (six years ago) link
It's the people who've watched A Quiet Passion that deserve an award.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Monday, 4 December 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, December 3, 2017
If I've accomplished anything in this godforsaken place I like to think it's helping the public to see what a know-nothing little bastard Rubio is.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 2, 2017
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 December 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
A Quiet Passion was the best film of 2016, but only award eligible this year.
― Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
Oh I do love it when we talk release date eligibility.
― Alba, Monday, 4 December 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link
yes, Frederik doesn't get enough chances to be a supercilious dick.
The only rhythm of courtship that interests me is "Let's screw."
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
then you should've loved Beach Rats.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 December 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
David Edelstein's Top 10:
http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/the-10-best-movies-of-2017.html
― clemenza, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
Film critics conspiring to hate me.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
I really wanted to like Valerian but it was awful
― Simon H., Monday, 4 December 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
Will watch this on my lunch break, but here's David Ehrlich's annual top 25 montage: https://vimeo.com/245670075
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Rather, they welcome your hatred!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
I watched _Girls Trip_ yesterday, Haddish is indeed infectious but man that movie sucks
― Simon H., Monday, 4 December 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
I'd rather people see Girls Trip than Thor: Ragnarok.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Nick Schager's list has the honor of being called "wackjobby" by that scumshit Jeff Wells:
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a52209/best-movies-of-2017/
Didn't know Tony Perkins' son Osgood had made a horror feature (#9).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link