"reasonably enjoyable" is about right
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
I agree about EEAAO
regional film critics' groups should just announce their winners, like NYFC and LAFC, not their nominations
― Dan S, Thursday, 15 December 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
agreed
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
I think Chicago may have been the first to do that? Blame them
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
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 PolleyBEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: "The Banshees of Inisherin" by Martin McDonaghBEST 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 BrookeBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Decision to Leave," Kim Ji-YongBEST COSTUME DESIGN: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Shirley KurataBEST EDITING: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Paul RogersBEST ORIGINAL SCORE: "Babylon," Justin HurwitzBEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Austin Butler, "Elvis"MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Charlotte Wells, "Aftersun"
― jaymc, Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
Banshees of Inisherin is not a good movie.
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
Film Comment's list
https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2022/
― Dan S, Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
I agree about Banshees, but I have never been on the McDonagh train
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
Dear god at that Film Comment #1!
Two Hongs in the top 10 is very much the move for 2022
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
I'm in clemenza and cryptosicko's corner re Women Talking.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Which means what?
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
A well-intentioned slog.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
The world needs more well-intentioned rides
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
so long as the axles work
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
I also don't really understand the acclaim for EO, which struck me as a more pretentious The Littlest Hobo.
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
Donkeys, iirc
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
film comment list insanely good
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
There's a donkey in Banshees of Inisherin too.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
But enough about Colin Farrell.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
I'm gonna go ahead and blame the overrating of Banshees on the donkey, as well, yes
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
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.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-comment-podcast-the-best-films-of-2022/
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson),
Insanely well-designed too.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
I have been jealous of their template for some years now
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
I voted for Kristen Stewart in Best Supporting Actress fwiw
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
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.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Spirited Away is better than Punch-Drunk Love ffs
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
Their gushing over Far From Heaven messed with my head for years.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
I get the reception for Gangs of New York in general back then but ... it's un-good
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
Well it's better than all of the 19 other movies on this list, as we well know now
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
ANDELE ANDELE MAMI EO EO
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
Well one former ILXor is still in Ye's corner:
Chris Boeckmann (critic, programmer)There Will Be No More NightThe RehearsalEl gran movimientoMr. Bachmann and His ClassThe Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice KrafftPetite mamanWeTÁRWe’re All Going to the World’s FairOne Man Dies a Million TimesJackass ForeverFriends and StrangersTop Gun: MaverickA Night of Knowing NothingBarbarianjeen-yuhs: A Kanye TrilogyDogI Didn't See You ThereDeep WaterDos Estaciones
There Will Be No More NightThe RehearsalEl gran movimientoMr. Bachmann and His ClassThe Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice KrafftPetite mamanWeTÁRWe’re All Going to the World’s FairOne Man Dies a Million TimesJackass ForeverFriends and StrangersTop Gun: MaverickA Night of Knowing NothingBarbarianjeen-yuhs: A Kanye TrilogyDogI Didn't See You ThereDeep WaterDos Estaciones
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
there are a lot of films from the Film Comment list that I'm interested in seeing
― Dan S, Friday, 16 December 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
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/
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Babylon is all exclamation points.
Darren Aronofsky has company.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
Both can take a just back seat to S. S. Rajamouli from here on out
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
i just watched On Deadly Ground the other day and did not expect it to come up in that review
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Running Time: 188 min
whyyyy?
― jmm, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
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.
― jmm, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
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?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
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?
― jmm, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
So if it really is going to be Banshees vs. Everything Everywhere for best picture, that'll be ... meh
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
I'm starting to think Farrell's got at least his first nomination.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
Tar will be in there, as will Triangle of Sadness.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Meant to clarify I was talking Oscar there. Variety is now floating the ridiculous (?) idea that the field is laying out so as to leave a wide path for Top Gun to win, which would be the perfect way to follow up a win for CODA tbh
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
feeling suspiciously like that field will include Decision to Leave
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
I'd be surprised about that. It's picked up a few critics' prizes for best foreign-language film and in categories like editing and cinematography, but it doesn't have much momentum in major categories like picture or director. At this time last year, Drive My Car (to pick an obvious comparison) had won best film from New York, Boston, and Los Angeles critics groups.
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
FWIW, this is the current Gold Derby expert predictions for Oscar best picture nominations:
1. The Fabelmans2. Everything Everywhere All at Once3. The Banshees of Inisherin4. Top Gun: Maverick5. TAR6. Women Talking7. Avatar: The Way of Water8. Elvis9. Glass Onion10. The Woman King
(#11 is Babylon, which I think could easily sneak in there.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
i always feel like the oscars best picture noms need to include one unambiguously great film and i suppose i think that's the park chan wook this year
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link