what are your 3 favorite movies of 2019 so far?

TBD for Seattle still ugh!

Previewed at Regal last week, opens at the Egyptian on Friday, guessing it’s at Regal downtown if not other multiplectra after the SIFF run

Oh!! Thank u I just checked the siff site the other day and I guess I missed it or it wasn’t listed yet

(I knew about but missed the Regal screenings, saw a listing while at the Egyptian for Victim (1951) on Monday)

watched Marco Bellocchio's The Traitor last night, it's much better than some of the lukewarm reviews it has garnered. Similar themes as The Irishman are covered - time wearing down top crims who think they are gods into sad old bastards etc but not with the same finesse as Scorcese, but still an excellent movie with very memorable performance by Favino.

I enjoyed it too, the best new film I've watched the last two months -- I count it as a 2020 film.

oh yeah thanks Alf it was your write up on it that encouraged me to check it out.

I don't know if 2019 was a better movie year than average or if the movies that clustered at the top of the average consensus (the trio of Parasite, OUATIH and The Irishman, unto infinity) were just better than average.

I'm basing this on my 12-15 favorites and not by observing the landscape of cinema as a whole, which I don't have time for and I wouldn't be able to assess accurately in either case. I'm no film expert but I do enjoy hunting for educated guesses on what stuff I would enjoy the best.

2019 had lots of 4-1/2 stars and a few 5 stars. I also loved 2009 and 1999 movies so maybe since it was a 9 year I had the idea in my head that this was supposed to be a hot year.

The only movie year in my adult life I can say with certitude was exceptionally, embarrassingly weak was 2010 (only one masterpiece, Certified Copy, which was released the following year in the States).

Oh, and Uncle Boonmee, which is tbh probably my least favorite Joe movie outside of Mysterious Object.

scott pilgrim, tangled and the other guys all told me you were a damned liar

My 2010 list:

Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
Mother (Bong Joon-hoo)
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvoir)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)

35 Shots of Rum didn't make it over here for 2 years?

Big fan of the Lanthimos and Denis there too, but not IMDB 2010.

fond memories of arriving to my Dogtooth screening approximately 45 seconds after the movie started and wondering if the subtitles were fucked up.

Big fan of the Lanthimos and Denis there too, but not IMDB 2010.

― 🚶‍♂️💨 (Eric H.),

South Florida premiere dates in that era were weird, man.

Try Minnesota premieres. Dogtooth is just hitting local screens next fall here.

Tupelo just got Dude, Where's My Car?

what are your 3 favorite movies of 2020 so far?

I liked Inception because I'm basic or something.

from 2010 I also really liked Mysteries of Lisbon, Poetry, Meek’s Cutoff, My Joy, Nostalgia for the Light

of 2019 films:

Ash Is Purest White
The Irishman
The Wild Pear Tree
Birds of Passage
Parasite

the image book
once upon a time in hollywood
uncut gems
recorder: the marion stokes project
the beach bum
pain and glory
the lighthouse
family
joker
pokémon detective pikachu

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there

maybe it's because tarantino and joker is such rank garbage it puts your movie tally into negative equity!

i watched detective pikachu stoned and even that didn't make the tonal shifting less manic. the pokémon were cute and the scale of the city was... more than the film deserved, but the movie itself was not good and was constantly struggling with the sense that it must be for children while incorporating concepts like illegal pokémon fighting rings with edm soundtracks

alita: battle angel
portrait of a lady on fire
knife + heart (if it counts)
midsommar
in fabric
little women
us
knives out

i expect when i see the image book and the souvenir they'll work their way into this list. high life too despite the total polarization it inspired. desperately want to see la flor? i loved parasite but these films all hit me personally in a way parasite did not (even/especially knives out, i just love a detective story with flawless clockwork)

oh and i still need to see the third black christmas remake, i know i'm going to love every minute of that

second remake rather

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there either Brad

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there either Brad

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i've followed the thread rules upthread! flappy's faulty math inspired me to attempt a longer list

I'm not opening the missing 17 messages to find out the thread got retconned

you'll all have a chance to post top ten lists soon enough

is this thread being audited? there's nowhere else yet for top 10 lists, I was stoned last night when I posted that, fuck it lets roll with 10 for now

maybe it's because tarantino and joker is such rank garbage it puts your movie tally into negative equity!

― calzino

it was either joker or booksmart, two mostly ok movies with great moments.

Saw Portrait of a Lady on Fire today. (No director- or film-specific thread.) Liked it more or less as much as Girlhood. That song that's used at the bonfire and again over the end credits is unsettling and memorable. Noémie Merlant looks so much like Emma Watson. Lots of great images. I'd pull a screenshot of the most painterly one from the trailer, but there's a pull-quote overtop.

Sciamma did best with Tomboy, I think.

Saw a copy at the library--I'll take it out.

haven’t seen this one, but I liked Tomboy, also Water Lilies

it’s fuckin great

as I said in the arthouse thread, I was relieved that there was only one Risible Feminism scene (yeah, the one with the baby on the maid's face)

I liked POALOF, but I was disappointed. Probably the ~10 month wait since Cannes, nothing but raves. Very pretty but to me it was dead, not moving at all, never romantic. But it's obviously there on some frequency, it just didn't hit me. I was going to say something about how predictable and boring the actual arc was and how cliched it was at points, but you could say the same of Carol, which actually did sweep me up and move me in a way where I forgot where I was. That was what I was expecting with this movie.

i thought as i watched it “oh maybe this isn’t affecting me as much as i expected” and then it would reliably do something that dragged me further in

“risible feminism” smh

I was going to say something about how predictable and boring the actual arc was and how cliched it was at points, but you could say the same of Carol, which actually did sweep me up and move me in a way where I forgot where I was.

I don't get what they have in common other than lesbianism, but I'll bite: Carol moved me far less.

yes Brad, every single ideology has risible manifestations, regardless of its merit

which thread, Morbs?

Never Coming to a Theater Near You - Arthouse Cinema 2020

the abortion subplot is one of the best things about the freaking movie

i still can’t decipher what you find risible about it or that scene, just that you find it risible

the baby's presence

i'm not saying anymore bcz there's no path to victory

Once Upon A Time… In Pollywood: The ILX Film Poll (for 2019 viewings) Voting Thread - Ballots Due Friday April 3rd