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Sam the Cinema Snob

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Re: The Year So Far (2020)
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2020, 11:10:26 PM »
Did movies come out this year?

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Re: The Year So Far (2020)
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2021, 03:32:14 AM »
The Top Ten Films of 2020!

Also (alphabetically): Bacurau, Sorry We Missed You, Sound of Metal, Time, The Wolf House

10. Driveways (Andrew Ahn)


9. System Crasher (Nora Fingscheidt)


8. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)


7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross)


6. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Sacha Baron Cohen)


5. A White, White Day (Hlynur Pálmason)


4. House of Hummingbird (Bora Kim)


3. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)


2. I Am Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)


1. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
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Re: The Year So Far (2020)
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2021, 04:14:53 PM »
Top 10 of 2020, out of these:
Letterboxd List


 1) Naked Animals  (Melanie Waelde)  Germany


 2) Servants  (Ivan Ostrochovský)  Slovakia/...


 3) DAU. Degeneration  (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Ilya Permyakov)  Russia/Ukraine/...


 4) Lillian  (Andreas Horvath)  Austria


 5) Undine  (Christian Petzold)  Germany/France


 6) Joan of Arc  (Bruno Dumont)  France


 7) A Hidden Life  (Terrence Malick)  Germany/US


 8) Last and First Men  (Jóhann Jóhannsson)  Iceland


 9) Isabella  (Matías Piñeiro)  Argentina/France


10) Giraffe  (Anna Sofie Hartmann)  Denmark/Germany

Bonus: Top 10 English-Language:
   4) Lillian  (Andreas Horvath)  Austria
   7) A Hidden Life  (Terrence Malick)  Germany/US
   8) Last and First Men  (Jóhann Jóhannsson)  Iceland
  17) First Cow  (Kelly Reichardt)
  18) The Hunt  (Craig Zobel)
  19) Palm Springs  (Max Barbakow)
  20) The Twentieth Century  (Matthew Rankin)  Canada
  24) Dick Johnson Is Dead  (Kirsten Johnson)
  29) Inventing the Future  (Isiah Medina)  Canada
  30) Gretel & Hansel  (Oz Perkins)  US/Canada/Ireland


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Re: The Year So Far (2020)
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2021, 02:09:51 PM »
My list on Letterboxd, revised, reduced to films I found interesting and more fun to look at.

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Re: The Year So Far (2020)
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2021, 08:43:32 PM »
My list on Letterboxd, revised, reduced to films I found interesting and more fun to look at.

Alright, I've seen four of your top ten, 25 of 62 overall. I'm trying to get a feel for what you value in cinema in general. Large productions? A lot of these seem like "big" films. I know why I didn't see some of these, but it does give me a little extra motivation to at least try Soul and Chicago 7. The reason I didn't see them was because of the interaction of consumer culture and the art (Soul), or just being too on the nose with your message (Chicago 7), and then just having other films I wanted to watch. But I want to know why they were so high up on your list of both films to watch (I'm pretty sure you saw them both when they came out, right?) and eventually found a place on your list. I think I'd have probably seen them both if theaters were up and running responsibly, since I mostly just try to see everything that comes out, outside of most of the big franchise films.

To be sure, there are more than 2 that I'd like to get on, but aren't the highest priority right now. My Octopus Teacher, the trip movies (I need to see all of them), Boys State, David Byrne's American Utopia, And Then We Danced, The Nest, Promising Young Woman, and Minari (which will be a '21 film for me) are all admitted blind spots for me from this year.
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Re: The Year So Far (2020)
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2021, 10:17:40 PM »
I'm trying to get a feel for what you value in cinema in general.
Dialogue. Smart, clever, sharp dialogue. I'm also unapologetically a fan of Hollywood commercial filmmaking, star vehicles like Greyhound and Palm Springs, over naturalism like Nomadland and Minari.

For the record, Chicago 7 has one of the year's worst moments (at the end). I expected historical document would clamp down Sorkin's particular dialogue style, but Sorkin wins without sounding like he's strayed too far from the truth.

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Re: The Year So Far (2020)
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2021, 10:57:05 PM »
I'm trying to get a feel for what you value in cinema in general.
Dialogue. Smart, clever, sharp dialogue. I'm also unapologetically a fan of Hollywood commercial filmmaking, star vehicles like Greyhound and Palm Springs, over naturalism like Nomadland and Minari.

For the record, Chicago 7 has one of the year's worst moments (at the end). I expected historical document would clamp down Sorkin's particular dialogue style, but Sorkin wins without sounding like he's strayed too far from the truth.

That was a very succinct, easy to understand response. I'm generally looking for our crossover, too, because I like reading your thoughts, even if I don't always agree. Also, I think I probably have more than a little crossover with Sorkin's political ideas, so I just should've given that one a go anyway.
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