This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2022

Otherwise known as the Kael effect

I will see TÁR obv at some point, but there's no scenario in which I'm exited to watch the new film from the director of In the Bedroom and Little Children

TÁR, the cancel culture conversation piece of the year starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss and directed by Todd Field

Whatever the hell these are ...

The 2022 Virtuosos Award honorees:
⁰AUSTIN BUTLER: Elvis⁰KERRY CONDON: The Banshees Of Inisherin⁰DANIELLE DEADWYLER: Till⁰NINA HOSS: TÁR⁰STEPHANIE HSU: Everything Everywhere All At Once (EEAAO)⁰JEREMY POPE: The Inspection⁰KE HUY QUAN: EEAAO⁰JEREMY STRONG: Armageddon Time pic.twitter.com/caqY0zHZR1

— Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) November 1, 2022

Jimmy Kimmel Returns as Host for the 95th Oscars https://t.co/ZFGAz1HpFr via @variety

— Jazz Tangcay (@jazzt) November 7, 2022

European Films Awards nominees

European Film:
• ALCARRÀS, directed by Carla Simón, produced by María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera & Giovanni Pompili (Spain/Italy)
• CLOSE, directed by Lukas Dhont, produced by Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld, Frans van Gestel & Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Belgium/France/Netherlands)
• CORSAGE, directed by Marie Kreutzer, produced by Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Bernard Michaux, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade & Jean-Christophe Reymond (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France)
• HOLY SPIDER, directed by Ali Abbasi, produced by Sol Bondy & Jacob Jarek (Denmark/Germany/Sweden/France)
• TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, directed by Ruben Östlund, produced by Erik Hemmendorff & Philippe Bober (Sweden/Germany/France/United Kingdom)

European Director:
• Lukas Dhont for CLOSE
• Marie Kreutzer for CORSAGE
• Jerzy Skolimowski for EO
• Ali Abbasi for HOLY SPIDER
• Alice Diop for SAINT OMER
• Ruben Östlund for TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

European Actress:
• Vicky Krieps in CORSAGE
• Zar Amir Ebrahimi in HOLY SPIDER
• Léa Seydoux in ONE FINE MORNING
• Penélope Cruz in PARALLEL MOTHERS
• Meltem Kaptan in RABIYE KURNAZ VS. GEORGE W. BUSH

European Actor:
• Paul Mescal in AFTERSUN
• Eden Dambrine in CLOSE
• Elliott Crosset Hove in GODLAND
• Pierfrancesco Favino in NOSTALGIA
• Zlatko Burić in TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

European Screenwriter:
• Carla Simón & Arnau Vilaró for ALCARRÀS
• Kenneth Branagh for BELFAST
• Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens for CLOSE
• Ali Abbasi & Afshin Kamran Bahrami for HOLY SPIDER
• Ruben Östlund for TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

European Documentary:
• A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS, directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark/Sweden/Finland/Ukraine)
• GIRL GANG, directed by Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland)
• MARIUPOLIS 2, directed by Mantas Kvedaravičius (Lithuania/France/Germany)
• THE BALCONY MOVIE (FILM BALKONOWY), directed by Paweł Łoziński (Poland)
• THE MARCH ON ROME (MARCIA SU ROMA), directed by Mark Cousins (Italy)

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
• 107 MOTHERS (CENZORKA), directed by Peter Kerekes (Slovakia/Czech Republic/Ukraine)
• LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA (DALVA), directed by Emmanuelle Nicot (Belgium/France)
• OTHER PEOPLE (INNI LUDZIE), directed by Aleksandra Terpińska (Poland/France)
• PAMFIR, directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine/France/Poland/Germany/ Chile)
• SMALL BODY (PICCOLO CORPO), directed by Laura Samani (Italy/Slovenia/France)
• SONNE, directed by Kurdwin Ayub, produced by Ulrich Seidl (Austria)

Corsage was good.

Reviews for She Said are about exactly what I'd have expected

Dec. 2nd – New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)

Tough to imagine most anyone caring in the immediate aftermath of the '22 Sight & Sound poll.

Independent Spirit nominations cement TAR and EEAAO:

Best Feature

“Bones and All”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“Our Father the Devil”
“TÁR”
“Women Talking”

Best Director

Todd Field, “TÁR”
Kogonada, “After Yang”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”
Halina Reijn, “Bodies Bodies Bodies”

Best First Feature

“Aftersun”
“Emily the Criminal”
“The Inspection”
“Murina”
“Palm Trees and Power Lines”

Best Lead Performance

Cate Blanchett, “TÁR”
Dale Dickey, “A Love Song”
Mia Goth, “Pearl”
Regina Hall, “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul”
Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
Aubrey Plaza, “Emily the Criminal”
Jeremy Pope, “The Inspection”
Taylor Russell, “Bones and All”
Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Supporting Performance

Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”
Nina Hoss, “TÁR”
Brian d’Arcy James, “The Cathedral”
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Trevante Rhodes, “Bruiser”
Theo Rossi, “Emily the Criminal”
Mark Rylance, “Bones and All”
Jonathan Tucker, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Gabrielle Union, “The Inspection”

Breakthrough Performance

Frankie Corio, “Aftersun”
Gracija Filipović, “Murina”
Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Lily McInerny, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Daniel Zolghadri, “Funny Pages”

Best Screenplay

“After Yang”
“Catherine Called Birdy”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“TÁR”
“Women Talking”

Best First Screenplay

“Bodies Bodies Bodies”
“Emergency”
“Emily the Criminal”
“Fire Island”
“Palm Trees and Power Lines”

Best Cinematography

“Aftersun”
“Murina”
“Neptune Frost”
“Pearl”
“TÁR”

Best Editing

“Aftersun”
“The Cathedral”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
“TÁR”

Robert Altman Award

“Women Talking”

Best Documentary

“A House Made of Splinters”
“All That Breathes”
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
“Midwives”
“Riotsville USA”

Best International Film

“Corsage”
“Joyland”
“Leonor Will Never Die”
“Return to Soul”
“Saint Omer”

Someone to Watch Award

Adamma Ebo, “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul”
Nikyatu Jusu, “Nanny”
Araceli Lemos, “Holy Emy”

Truer Than Fiction Award

Isabel Castro, “Mija”
Reid Davenport, “I Didn’t See You There”
Rebeca Huntt, “Beba (Bayba)”

John Cassavetes Award

“The African Desperate”
“A Love Song”
“The Cathedral”
“Holy Emy”
“Something in the Dirt”

Producers Award

Liz Cardenas

Tory Lenosky

David Grove Churchill Viste

I wanna keep seeing Nina Hoss' name.

Two men of the 10 lead performance nominees is going to piss the right people off

Gotham Award winners

Best Feature
Everything Everywhere All at Once -- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, directors (A24)

Outstanding Lead Performance
Danielle Deadwyler in Till (United Artists Releasing / Orion Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Performance
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Charlotte Wells for Aftersun (A24)

Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
Pachinko -- Soo Hugh, creator (Apple TV+)

Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Mo -- Mohammed Amer, Ramy Youssef, creators (Netflix)

Breakthrough Nonfiction Series
We Need To Talk About Cosby -- W. Kamau Bell, creator and director (Showtime)

Outstanding Performance in a New Series
Ben Whishaw in This is Going to Hurt (AMC+ in association with BBC)

Best Documentary Feature
All That Breathes -- Shaunak Sen, director (A Sideshow & Submarine Deluxe Release in Association with HBO Documentary Films)

Best International Feature
Happening -- Audrey Diwan, director (IFC Films)

Best Screenplay
Tár, Todd Field (Focus Features)

Breakthrough Performer
Gracija Filipovic in Murina (Kino Lorber)

https://www.artforum.com/print/202210/john-waters-s-best-films-of-2022-89642

01 PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)
02 EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
03 EVERYTHING WENT FINE (François Ozon—AGAIN!)
04 SICK OF MYSELF (Kristoffer Borgli)
05 BRUNO REIDAL, CONFESSIONS OF A MURDERER (Vincent Le Port)
06 DETAINEE 001 (Greg Barker)
07 DINNER IN AMERICA (Adam Rehmeier)
08 WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues)
09 SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (Quentin Dupieux)
10 BONES AND ALL (Luca Guadagnino)

(As always, the blurbs are what really make it worth the click.)

But then also this roster too:

https://www.artforum.com/print/202210/amy-taubin-s-best-films-of-2022-89643
https://www.artforum.com/print/202210/james-quandt-s-best-films-of-2022-89644
https://www.artforum.com/print/202210/erika-balsom-s-best-films-of-2022-89645

The 25 Best Movies of 2022 https://t.co/K5pcJ3nqBr pic.twitter.com/x0PF1qMX88

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) December 1, 2022

I sort of forgot how many lists drop on the first of December

https://www.vox.com/culture/23484805/best-movies-2022-streaming-theaters

(Jackass Forever on both these last two lists.)

It's amusing and insane to me how studios still send boxes of swag: I had three Ark of the Covenant-sized crates outside my apt door yesterday filled with shit promoting Knives Out, White Noise, etc.

Each and every one of those boxes is a reminder how many lost their jobs at Netflix. It's infuriating.

Here's what's alleged to be Cahiers' top 10 for 2022

1) Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2) Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3) Nope (Jordan Peele)
4) EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
5) Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
6) Bowling Saturne (Patricia Mazuy)
7) Apollo 10 1/2 (Richard Linklater)
8) Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
9) Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie)
10) Qui A Part Nous (Jonas Trueba)

Vanity Fair's top 10:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/06/best-movies-2022

01. TÁR
02. You Won’t Be Alone
03. Empire of Light
04. Benediction
05. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
06. Armageddon Time
07. One Fine Morning
08. Hit the Road
09. Saint Omer
10. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

NYFFC gets the ball rolling for Paul Mescal:

BEST ACTOR: Paul Mescal, Aftersun #NYFCC

— New York Film Critics Circle (@NYFCCC) December 2, 2022

Nice. I've had the best success promoting Aftersun in recent weeks.

Gah, fake account, disregard.

OK, a REAL award now for Aftersun

BEST FIRST FILM: Aftersun

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Nice. Was going to watch this weekend.

BEST NON-FICTION FILM: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Not surprised at the speed on this decision

I'm going to knock ^^^^ down this weekend

i'm not mad at marcel winning best animated feature but i gotta say it didn't stick to me at all. i frankly liked the minions movie more lol

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is easily in my top five of the year.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

More Claire Denis than René Clair.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 12 November 2022 02:15 (two weeks ago) link

My puissant powers of prediction prevail!

Wrong thread, never mind.

Props, but hasn't Clair been absent from these polls since 1962?

xp oh lol

I might finally try and get to EEAAO this weekend; been putting it off because I found Swiss Army Man so irritating.

were you irritated that it wasnt an hour longer and 10x more overwrought? bc if not...

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Keke Palmer, Nope

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Borderline category fraud but we've all seen worse

All in on populism at this point:

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: EO

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

OK this stinks

BEST SCREENPLAY: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell, After Yang and The Banshees of Inisherin

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Oh dear

I mean, he's fine but

I'd rank the movie's performances Kerry; Barry; Colly; Brendy.

BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, TÁR

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

And here's this year's requisite flex

BEST DIRECTOR: S. S. Rajamouli, RRR

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST FILM: TÁR

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

it does, yet, everyone I know who watched it loved it (this is three people) so maybe the hype is justified. dunno guess I'll watch it later this week.

mescal’s scottish accent is actually half decent

Watched the Navalny doc in HBO today—worth watching for the middle section when they figure out who attempted his assassination and how they did it. Really a mind blowing scene.

Mike D'Angelo's started up his annual unveiling of the Skandies with the 20th place finishers:

Picture: Benediction (36/5)
Director: James Vaughan, Friends and Strangers (36/3)
Actress: Anna Cobb, We're All Going to the World's Fair (30/3)
Actor: RJ Cyler, Emergency (40/4)
S. Actor: Dave Bautista, Glass Onion (40/3)
S. Actress: Anne Hathaway, Armageddon Time (35/4)
Screenplay: Emmanuel Mouret, The Things We Say, the Things We Do (31/3)
Scene: [Arrgh!] (30/3)

Because a lot of voters lazily allotted 10 points across the board in Scene this year, there's actually a fucking six-way tie for #20, as that's how many films wound up with 30 points from three votes. Here they are, with a link to the scene in question (or part of it) if I could quickly find it on YouTube:

• Bonfire, Bones and All
• Eve's kitchen, Confess, Fletch
• Benoit Blanc vs. Gillian Flynn, Glass Onion
• "KIMI, play 'Sabotage,'" KIMI
• Lydia's new gig (final scene), TÁR
• "New Body Rhumba," White Noise

Benediction just barely making the top 20 is a flat out crime

it’s hard to see most of these films winning the Academy Award for Best Picture honestly. Top Gun is way too up its ass in being macho and it is pedestrian and not of the moment, Everything Everywhere All At Once is a mess and is super chaotic and hard to watch, The Banshees of Inisherin is as my sister says a completely pointless film albeit with good acting, The Triangle of Sadness has some elements of interest but it should have had an hour of it cut out easily, Elvis was a few electrifying performance scenes in a very long and flaccid movie, Women Talking is not going to win let’s be real, All Quiet On the Western Front was so tedious, and Avatar, come on.

That leaves The Fabelmans and Tár. One of those two has to win Best Picture imo

Those are the only two I particularly like and neither has a shot

I did a double feature of All Quiet and Top Gun, which just made TG all the more laughable.

Started watching All Quiet... tonight; I'm about an hour in and it's pretty good so far. The only thing I don't like is the stupid three-note score. This movie shouldn't have any music at all.

Everything Everywhere is still considered the favorite, right? It certainly has its enthusiasts, though it also seems like a movie that you're either on board with or you're not. With ranked-choice voting, I could see Everything Everywhere getting a plurality (but not a majority) of 1st-place votes -- but then Banshees overtaking it with more 2nd- and 3rd-place votes.

That's the going theory, that Banshees will CODA its way to a surprise win. (It'd be just about dead last on my ballot.)

Still, the raw enthusiasm factor may be enough this contest:

Biggest applause-getters when their names were announced: Everyone from EEAAO (the actors, the directors, and producer Jonathan Wang) Colin Farrell, Nan Goldin, and Tom Cruise

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) February 13, 2023

All Quiet was as pointless and dreadful as I feared. I think it's gonna beat EEAAO for the best picture Oscar, for sure.

After the BAFTAs win, it's putting me in the position of suddenly rooting for EEAAO, which would at least be an interesting Oscar winner, even if I'm lukewarm on the movie itself.

(Interestingly, though, of the previous eight BAFTA Best Film winners, only one -- Nomadland -- went on to win the Oscar.)

Just finished watching Close, my first from the director. Visually beautiful, but too visual. It starts on identity, before turning to grief / trauma. The first 20 minutes are quite perfect, you think of Malick. But after that, there's an event where I had to suspend my judgment to let the film go, which is "fine, ok". But then it becomes heavy-handed, and it drowns in repetition, and the narrative becomes sluggish. Especially, I found the lack of meaningful dialogue irritating, for example the choice to depict the children entirely cut out from parents and adults is rather unrealistic. I would still recommend a watch to make your own opinion.

With each nominee I catch up with, I get increasingly irritated at The Fabelmans’ inevitable across the board snub

If it weren’t a preferential ballot I’d say EEAAO has it in the bag, but I expect a LOT of last-place votes for that one

I still haven’t seen EEAAO, The Fablemans, or Tar, but I’ve been catching up on a lot of the other films that have been nominated across the categories and thus far it’s all just really underwhelming.

All Quiet was as pointless and dreadful as I feared. I think it's gonna beat EEAAO for the best picture Oscar, for sure.

― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.),

Really?!

Here's the thing that I still don't get about All Quiet, which tbf I haven't seen: I know ppl are impressed by the technical achievements, but are they connecting with it emotionally? I really haven't gotten any sense of that, which is why it's hard for me to believe it as a Best Picture winner.

"That's the going theory, that Banshees will CODA its way to a surprise win"

On an elemental emotional level I loved CODA so much more than Banshees. I'm not that on board with the almost certain win for Everything Everywhere All at Once. I think The Fabelmans and Tár were the best of these

All Quiet was as pointless and dreadful as I feared. I think it's gonna beat EEAAO for the best picture Oscar, for sure.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.),

Really?!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 25, 2023 4:29 PM

I honestly don't really know. Maybe tomorrow's SAG awards will make me feel better about predicting an EEAAO win, but the people who hate it really hate it and are not a small group of people in general.

Thought One Fine Morning was okay--so determined to be quiet and observant, though, that it could have used...I really don't know; something. I liked Eden from a few years ago better.

Now that Everything Everywhere All At Once has won the DGA, PGA and SAG awards, it will inevitably win the Oscar. I really liked the speeches given by the winners at the SAG awards

It got three of the four acting wins as well as Ensemble. The Jamie Lee Curtis win was a surprise, and she gave a great speech

SAG award winner Biff Wiff

Agreed that EEAAO has solidified its chances as the Oscar favorite, though there's an argument that All Quiet missed out on guild nominations only because it crested too late and, now that people have seen it, it has the momentum to take Best Picture. I'm skeptical of that, but also not 100% sure about EEAAO.

Can't remember the last time that 3/4 acting nominees felt so up in the air before the Oscars.

Was gonna say just that … for even two to be real toss ups in the final stages is really rare at this point

All Quiet on the Western Front won't win Best Picture.

I think Cate Blanchett gave the best performance of the year, in any category. It was so fierce and memorable

I also really liked Michelle Yeoh and will be happy if either of them wins

my favorites are

Cate Blanchett

Colin Farrell, give him the Oscar already

Brian Tyree Henry, who I think illuminated a believable and lived-in character who revealed who he was without many words but with a mesmerizing performance

Stephanie Hsu or Jamie Lee Curtis or Kerry Condon, can't decide

Meantime, an urgent and key thread

In honour of the fact that there is now one week left until the Oscars, here is Kate Bush as each of the ten Best Picture nominees. 🧵

— 𝕋𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕤 (@cinema_gay) March 5, 2023

I maybe obliged to do that, but with Björk, before the week is up

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/oscars-brutally-honest-ballot-top-gun-riseborough-1235342054/

2022's Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominees

I maybe obliged to do that, but with Björk, before the week is up

Done.

Alright, let's do this. Björk as each of the ten Best Picture nominees. 🧵

— Eric Henderson (@ephender) March 10, 2023

a state of emergency!

The Quiet Girl is very quiet. I liked its quiet better than One Fine Morning's--I should see it again, as my mind tends to wander these days. Some beautiful images and moments.

ooh I've been looking to talk to someone about One Fine Morning. It's rare for me to have a reaction as unabashed as I did last weekend -- I loved it.