Block off 14 hours this weekend and go for the hat trickmfunk9786 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:30 pmTwo of those films would be on my ballot.therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:00 pmSadly I doubt La flor, Vox Lux or The House That Jack Built will land on any group lists, so hopefully I’m at least in consideration for personhood.
Lists of the Best Films and Performances of the 2010s: A Plague We'll Be Enduring For a While
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The great thing about this is that it hopefully saves us long discussions with swo about whether it's eligible for the next 2010s listmaking.Finch wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 3:23 pmCahiers du Cinema declare Twin Peaks The Return as the best film of this decade
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I was already gonna allow it, for the record, along with any other full season of a show with the same director, like True Detective, The Knick, or The Young Pope
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Great, thanks. Because I'd probably put it in the same position that the Cahiers did, if there wasn't "Melancholia".
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On one of those I'll probably pull the hat trick out.therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:50 pmYou’ll eat those words when you see Moonrise Kingdom and The Young Pope on mine, bringing it to 80%domino harvey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:14 pmI reckon my own Top 10 for the decade is at minimum 90% movies that will be on one else's Top 10, but that's on everyone else, not me
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Kurosawa list looks like one of the spotlights in the Cahiers Cinema poll.
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Props for that The Ghost Writer placement.
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But minus points for not calling it "The Ghost"
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Though I am seeing a disappointing lack of representation for The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) so far in these lists.
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More of the director lists from the issue. Yes, they are insane:
Luc Jacquet:
Luc Jacquet:
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I found it quite haunting as a film. I thought it was his response to Amour basically. He gave it the Palme in 2012. And then went ahead and made a film with similar themes but with more empathy.
It is a very good film. Don't know if I will place it on my Top 10 but it is a worthwhile choice.
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Thanks DI! I was worried that it was just going to be Alec Baldwin and myself who found that film worthwhile! And despite feeling bored by the first entry and not particularly interested in seeing the camp looking third entry as yet, the second would seriously feature on my top 10 of the decade, though perhaps in the lower half of the list! It definitely needs to be approached with caution (and not at all if there are the slightest qualms about the content) but its surprisingly effective and very blackly comic, especially in that first half where it all plays out like a Mike Leigh social realist film gone dreadfully wrong!
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I haven't seen it, so it might be really good. Just didn't seem like a film I would expect on a Decade's Top 10. That's allNasir007 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:43 pmI found it quite haunting as a film. I thought it was his response to Amour basically. He gave it the Palme in 2012. And then went ahead and made a film with similar themes but with more empathy.
It is a very good film. Don't know if I will place it on my Top 10 but it is a worthwhile choice.
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I would agree with you there. It was also a surprising choice for their No. 1 spot in 2015.dda1996a wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 3:37 pmI haven't seen it, so it might be really good. Just didn't seem like a film I would expect on a Decade's Top 10. That's allNasir007 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:43 pmI found it quite haunting as a film. I thought it was his response to Amour basically. He gave it the Palme in 2012. And then went ahead and made a film with similar themes but with more empathy.
It is a very good film. Don't know if I will place it on my Top 10 but it is a worthwhile choice.
I think this speaks to how sometimes we warp the 'best of decade' process - something I myself am struggling with in a way. There is a sense that any movie on such a list needs to be a big film - or make a grand statement, or be a magnum opus of some kind or some kind of a summation to merit inclusion in a list like this. But is should perhaps boil down to what people voting in a poll respond to.
Perhaps the crusty old esoterics of Cahiers are infact softies and Moretti pushes their buttons like no else. Both this and Habemus Papum strike me as fairly humble films. They tell smaller tragi-comic stories. But they have a lot of heart, a lot of empathy and are very well done. Their merit is in their humanism, not in their weightiness.
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Humanist works are often the most "weighty" for me.
Also, I don't know what you mean by "crusty, old esoterics" in general, but I also didn't know that was a noun.
Also, I don't know what you mean by "crusty, old esoterics" in general, but I also didn't know that was a noun.
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Robert Bresson / Favourite Films
Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica
Brief Encounter (1945) David Lean
City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin
The Gold Rush (1925) Charles Chaplin
Louisiana Story (1948) Robert Flaherty
Man of Aran (1934) Robert Flaherty
Source: Cinematheque Belgique (1952)
The individual Cahiers lists seem mostly pretty normal (even predictable) to me. It's obviously a self-selecting group of mostly very cinephilic directors.
Bozon's list is bracingly odd (How Do You Know! La fille de nulle part! the Dumb and Dumber sequel!), and I'm happy to see that an excellent Johnnie To film got a notice by Jia Zhangke. And Kurosawa's love for late Zemeckis is endearing!
In re. this whole thread, I'm surprised by how seldom Roy Andersson's two(?) films of the decade have come up, and the relatively weak showing of The Turin Horse.
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The title of "Dumb and Dumber De" works really well translated into French!
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Re: Dynamic Top Tens of 2019
2010-2019:
1. The Social Network
2. Wolf Children
3. Krisha
4. The Master
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Kizumonogatari I/II/III
7. American Honey
8. The Double (2013)
9. Take Shelter
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
*This order can change on a day-to-day basis.
1. The Social Network
2. Wolf Children
3. Krisha
4. The Master
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Kizumonogatari I/II/III
7. American Honey
8. The Double (2013)
9. Take Shelter
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
*This order can change on a day-to-day basis.
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Re: Dynamic Top Tens of 2019
2010-19
1. Rabbit Hole
2. Margaret
3. Birdman
4. The Artist
5. Nader and Simin, A Separation
6. Paterson
7. Boyhood
8. The Wind Journeys
9. Katalin Varga
10. Teddy Bear
11. 5 Broken Cameras
Looks like my list gets more interesting and idiosyncratic from 8 on down.
I thought Rabbit Hole was a powerful film. A lot of sadness and anger and self-recriminations. It held the tone so well, revealed things at the right time, and had an impressive measured pacing. My favorite Kidman performance.
Hope folks don't forget Rabbit Hole from way back in 2010; worth another watch.
1. Rabbit Hole
2. Margaret
3. Birdman
4. The Artist
5. Nader and Simin, A Separation
6. Paterson
7. Boyhood
8. The Wind Journeys
9. Katalin Varga
10. Teddy Bear
11. 5 Broken Cameras
Looks like my list gets more interesting and idiosyncratic from 8 on down.
I thought Rabbit Hole was a powerful film. A lot of sadness and anger and self-recriminations. It held the tone so well, revealed things at the right time, and had an impressive measured pacing. My favorite Kidman performance.
Hope folks don't forget Rabbit Hole from way back in 2010; worth another watch.
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Been working on a lengthier decade list in advance of our list project and it's going to place around the teens, so... yeah, I think you might not be representative of most people on this one!domino harvey wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:44 pmIf anyone cares about Moonlight in a decade, I'll buy everyone reading this a Coke
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But it hasn't been a decade yet (it hasn't even been this decade yet!)
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For some reason I thought TWBB said something to me about determining what films qualify in a matter of a couple of years. I'd be doing this stuff anyway, of course, but I just figured I'd tie it back into the forum...
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2025, but now I see we’ll be doing a “just for fun” 2010s list project next year, which is great opportunity to boost some underappreciated films.. maybe they’ll even become forum favorites by the real one