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

The hell is it with Banshees? I want more comedy acknowledged, but come now.

I want a cumulative count of how many actual laughs are in those five movies in best picture-musical/comedy; to say nothing of how many musical numbers.

Here's one that's new to me. The Women Film Critics Circle:

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
She Said
The Woman King
Till
Women Talking

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Don’t Worry Darling – Olivia Wilde
Till – Chinonye Chukwu
The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood
Women Talking – Sarah Polley

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
Dana Stevens (and Maria Bello, story) – The Woman King
Sarah Polley – Women Talking

BEST ACTRESS
Vicky Krieps – Corsage
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Cate Blanchett – TAR

BEST ACTOR
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Bill Nighy – Living
Brendan Fraser – The Whale

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Corsage
Girl
Happening
Murina
Rickshaw

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Aftershock
Gabby Giffords
The Janes
Lucy and Desi
Won’t Back Down

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Fire of Love
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
The Woman King

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
Izzy Hawthorne – Lightyear
Belle Bottom – Minions: The Rise of Gru
Meilin – Turning Red

BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward – Empire of Light
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Kevin Kline & Sigourney Weaver – The Good House
Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

BEST TV SERIES
Dead to Me
The Handmaid’s Tale
Julia
Yellowjackets

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: Adrienne Shelly was a promising actress and filmmaker who was brutally strangled in her apartment in 2006 at the age of forty by a construction worker in the building, after she complained about noise. Her killer tried to cover up his crime by hanging her from a shower rack in her bathroom, to make it look like suicide. He later confessed that he was having a “bad day.” Shelly, who left behind a baby daughter, had just completed her film Waitress, which she also starred in, and which was honored at Sundance after her death.

Don’t Worry Darling
Holy Spider
She Said
Women Talking

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of colour experience in America

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: The daughter of a laundress and a musician, Baker overcame being born black, female and poor, and marriage at age fifteen, to become an internationally acclaimed legendary performer, starring in the films Princess Tam Tam, Moulin Rouge and Zou Zou. She also survived the race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois as a child, and later expatriated to France to escape US racism. After participating heroically in the underground French Resistance during WWII, Baker returned to the US where she was a crusader for racial equality. Her activism led to attacks against her by reporter Walter Winchell who denounced her as a communist, leading her to wage a battle against him. Baker was instrumental in ending segregation in many theaters and clubs, where she refused to perform unless integration was implemented.

Alice
Master
Nanny
Till

KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity

KAREN MORLEY AWARD: Karen Morley was a promising Hollywood star in the 1930s, in such films as Mata Hari and Our Daily Bread. She was driven out of Hollywood for her leftist political convictions by the Blacklist and for refusing to testify against other actors, while Robert Taylor and Sterling Hayden were informants against her. And also for daring to have a child and become a mother, unacceptable for female stars in those days. Morley maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for Lieutenant Governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She passed away in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93.

Alice
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Woman King
Women Talking

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
Geena Davis
Frances McDormand
Nichelle Nichols

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Angela Lansbury
Rita Moreno

I tried: http://www.floridafilmcritics.com/2022/12/14/2022-ffcc-nominations/

I found EEAAO reasonably enjoyable, but the year-end praise is making me turn against it.

"reasonably enjoyable" is about right

I agree about EEAAO

regional film critics' groups should just announce their winners, like NYFC and LAFC, not their nominations

agreed

I think Chicago may have been the first to do that? Blame them

Yeah, Chicago has done that for a while.

Speaking of which, here's their winners (announced last night):

BEST PICTURE: "The Banshees of Inisherin"
BEST DIRECTOR: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, "TÁR"
BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: "Women Talking" by Sarah Polley
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: "The Banshees of Inisherin" by Martin McDonagh
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"
BEST DOCUMENTARY: "Fire of Love"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "Decision to Leave"
BEST ART DIRECTION: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Jason Kisvarday & Amelia Brooke
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Decision to Leave," Kim Ji-Yong
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Shirley Kurata
BEST EDITING: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Paul Rogers
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: "Babylon," Justin Hurwitz
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Austin Butler, "Elvis"
MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Charlotte Wells, "Aftersun"

Banshees of Inisherin is not a good movie.

Film Comment's list

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2022/

I agree about Banshees, but I have never been on the McDonagh train

Dear god at that Film Comment #1!

Two Hongs in the top 10 is very much the move for 2022

I'm in clemenza and cryptosicko's corner re Women Talking.

Which means what?

A well-intentioned slog.

The world needs more well-intentioned rides

so long as the axles work

I also don't really understand the acclaim for EO, which struck me as a more pretentious The Littlest Hobo.

Donkeys, iirc

film comment list insanely good

There's a donkey in Banshees of Inisherin too.

But enough about Colin Farrell.

I'm gonna go ahead and blame the overrating of Banshees on the donkey, as well, yes

Listening to the first part of the Film Comment "live reveal" podcast that just dropped and a moment of unintentional comedy when all panelists admit that none of their own personal #1 choices of the year didn't even make the aggregate top 10.

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-comment-podcast-the-best-films-of-2022/

film comment list insanely good

― flamenco drop (BradNelson),

Insanely well-designed too.

I have been jealous of their template for some years now

I voted for Kristen Stewart in Best Supporting Actress fwiw

It's a bit crazy to compare the FC list to the one from 20 years ago to see just how much more diffuse and diverse (not a bad thing) critical consensus has become.

1. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, U.S.)
2. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, U.S.)
3. Y tu mama también (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
4. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
5. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, U.S.)
6. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, France)
7. The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada)
8. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S.)
9. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, Russia/Germany)
10. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, U.S.)
11. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, U.S.)
12. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
13. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland)
14. I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France)
15. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, U.K./Ireland)
16. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, Austria/France)
17. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France)
18. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, U.S.)
19. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, Poland/U.K./France)
20. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, Israel)

Then again, maybe it's not so far off ... a lot of the names above were, in 2002, still pretty fresh on the scene.

Spirited Away is better than Punch-Drunk Love ffs

Their gushing over Far From Heaven messed with my head for years.

I get the reception for Gangs of New York in general back then but ... it's un-good

Spirited Away is better than Punch-Drunk Love ffs

Well it's better than all of the 19 other movies on this list, as we well know now

ANDELE ANDELE MAMI EO EO

Well one former ILXor is still in Ye's corner:

Chris Boeckmann (critic, programmer)

There Will Be No More Night
The Rehearsal
El gran movimiento
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Petite maman
We
TÁR
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
One Man Dies a Million Times
Jackass Forever
Friends and Strangers
Top Gun: Maverick
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Barbarian
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
Dog
I Didn't See You There
Deep Water
Dos Estaciones

there are a lot of films from the Film Comment list that I'm interested in seeing

I love when Keith unleashes the big guns, and am surprised this isn't a zero-star review:

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/babylon-review-damien-chazelle-margot-robbie-brad-pitt/

Babylon is all exclamation points.

Darren Aronofsky has company.

Both can take a just back seat to S. S. Rajamouli from here on out

i just watched On Deadly Ground the other day and did not expect it to come up in that review

Running Time: 188 min

whyyyy?

I might be into seeing a movie as disastrous as this sounds, but even if it were as good as The Leopard, I cannot handle a three-hour movie without an intermission.

it's why I refused to go to the screening: a three-hour-plus Chazelle movie and you can't piss all over the screen?

Visualizing a future of cinema that none of his pastiche characters will live to see, Chazelle traces an extremely Western canon line from Singin’ in the Rain to Vivre Sa Vie to Persona to a certain James Cameron-helmed blockbuster that just so happens to have a belated sequel out this year.

Is there anything more Oscar-bait than putting a "Magic of Movies" montage right in your movie?

So if it really is going to be Banshees vs. Everything Everywhere for best picture, that'll be ... meh

I'm starting to think Farrell's got at least his first nomination.

So if it really is going to be Banshees vs. Everything Everywhere for best picture, that'll be ... meh

Tar will be in there, as will Triangle of Sadness.