Nov 29, 2017

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Nov 30, 2017

 

Nov 30, 2017

rare photo of Joaquin in his natural habitat

 

Dec 4, 2017

David Ehrlich posted his annual top 25 films video today.



The List:
25. All These Sleepless Nights
24. The Lure
23. Baby Driver
22. mother!
21. Lady Macbeth
20. A Fantastic Woman
19. Foxtrot
18. The Big Sick
17. Thelma
16. Get Out
15. The Beguiled
14. Good Time
13. Wonderstruck
12. Okja
11. A Quiet Passion
10. The Phantom Thread
9. The Post
8. Faces Places
7. Lady Bird
6. Columbus
5. The Florida Project
4. Personal Shopper
3. A Ghost Story
2. Dunkirk
1. Call Me By Your Name

 

Dec 5, 2017

He has only 1 of my top 5 (Good Time)

 

Dec 6, 2017

just saw he went to school with greta gerwig and kate mckinnon???

also finally saw killing of a sacred deer. i rly liked it, its on my top ten this yr - but the fact it shared a premise with "the box" (from xx) rly bothered me.

 

Dec 6, 2017

my top 5 pretty cool but PTA gonna slide in it

The Return
On the Beach at Night Alone
Song to Song
Good Time
Split

 

Dec 6, 2017

 

Dec 8, 2017

here's my ballot this year. didnt see phantom thread, or a few others yet:

PICTURE

1. Detroit
2. Dunkirk
3. Get Out
4. Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
6. The Post
7. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
8. Good Time
9. Girls Trip
10. Personal Shopper

DIRECTOR
1. Kathryn Bigelow, Detroit
2. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
3. Angelina Jolie, First They Killed My Father

ACTOR
1. Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2. Robert Pattison, Good Time
3. James Franco, Disaster Artist

ACTRESS
1. Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper
2. Sally Hawkins, Shape of Water
3. Meryl Streep, The Post

SUPP ACTOR
1. Barry Keoghan, Dunkirk and The Killing of Sacred Deer
2. Jason Mitchell, Mudbound and Detroit (and Kong: Skull Island and Disaster Artist)
3. Patrick Stewart, Logan

SUPP ACTRESS
1. Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
2. Michelle Pfeiffer, Murder on the Orient Express and mother!
3. Mary J. Blige, Mudbound


ENSEMBLE

1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. The Post
3. Dunkirk

SCREENPLAY

1. Yorgos Lanthimos, Killing of a Sacred Deer
2. Martin McDonough, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
3. Jordan Peele, Get Out

FOREIGN
1. First They Killed My Father
2. Okja


DOCUMENTARY
1. Gilbert
2. Long Strange Trip
3. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

ANIMATED
1. Coco
2. Batman v Two Face
3. Lego Batman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Dunkirk
2. Florida Project
3. Good Times

EDITING
1 – Baby Driver
2 – The Post
3 - Dunkirk

SCORE
1 – Good Time
2 - Dunkirk
3 –Shape of Water


and here is my wife's

[Your Name]

PICTURE
1 – Get Out
2 – The Disaster Artist
3 – Coco
4 – Uh
5 – Get Out
6 – Why is the one 10 and the rest are 3?
7 – LBJ because I got to see Woody Harrelson IRL afterwards
8 – Beauty and the Beast
9 – Lady Bird (ugh)
10 – Get Out

DIRECTOR
1 – Jordan Peele
2 – James Franco
3 – Absolutely never Greta Gerwig how dare you

ACTOR
1 – James Franco
2 – The creepy kid from Baby Driver
3 – The son from It Comes at Night

ACTRESS
1 - Soaraseafesa Ronan
2 - I guess Jennifer Lawrence
3 – Whoever voiced Coco

SUPP ACTOR
1 – UGH I forgot this was also a thing
2 – The TSA agent from Get Out
3 – Paul Scheer because I got to meet him after the movie

SUPP ACTRESS
1 – Michelle Pfieffer, why not
2 – The girl who played Juliette Danielle in The Disaster Artist because she KILLED it
3 – Not Marnie

ENSEMBLE
1 - Did
2 - Not
3 - See

SCREENPLAY
1 – Get Out
2 – Lego Batman LOLOLOL
3 – Def NOT The Shape of Water bc GROSSSSSS

FOREIGN
1 – I’m
2 - Not
3 - Cultured

DOCUMENTARY
1 - Or
2 - That
3 - Intelligent

ANIMATED
1 - Coco
2 – Lego Batman
3- Despicable Me 3? whatevs

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1 – Still don’t know wtf this is
2 –
3 -

EDITING
1 – I guess Baby Drive bc they synced the music up and that’s dope
2 – Shape of Water?
3 -

SCORE
1 – Good Time
2 – Get Out
3 – Beauty and the Beast



happy 2017 guys

 

Dec 8, 2017

@Papa Andy Cool list! Though I wasn't especially high on the movie, I like the bold choice of Detroit...I haven't seen it pop up on too many of these lists. KStew for Best Actress warms my heart. What did you think of Lady Bird (I see you have it in Best Director but not in the top 10.)?

On a related note, Slant posted its list for best films of 2017 today. As always, it's much more interesting than most.

1. The Phantom Thread
2. A Quiet Passion
3. Nocturama
4. Lady Bird
5. Good Time
6. Personal Shopper
7. The Lost City of Z
8. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
9. Dawson City: Frozen Time
10. Call Me by Your Name
11. Ex-Libris: New York Public Library
12. Get Out
13. Faces Places
14. The Death of Louis XIV
15. I Am Not Your Negro
16. The Florida Project
17. Tempestad
18. Starless Dreams
19. The Salesman
20. Marjorie Prime
21. Behemoth
22. Song to Song
23. The Ornithologist
24. Mudbound
25. The Meyerowitz Stories

https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-films-of-2017

 

Dec 10, 2017

My current ranking for 2017

https://letterboxd.com/kamahmed/list/2017-ranked/

Top 10:
Song to Song
On the Beach at Night Alone
The Square
Lost City of Z
Good TIme
Luk'Luk'I
Prototype
The Florida Project
Killing of a Sacred Deer
Logan

*if including Twin Peaks: The Return, it would be competing for first with Song to Song, but likely a slight notch above.

 

Dec 12, 2017

I went to high school(he was 4 years older but we had a real good film program at our school so anyone who took film knew each other) at the same time as the director of Luk'Luk'l. Might even have some of his old s--- on year end DVDs. I'm excited to see the film

Side note: it is weird to me that he's like got a new last name and s--- cuz there's no way in a zillion years you would know he was native. But that's just me being salty because I was one of like 20 (we had exchange students that would come in and out) not visibly white kids(I'm native) at the school. But I'm proud that someone is pushin native film and it's someone I know.

 

Dec 12, 2017

Yeah, I think the reception to Detroit is a little surprising. as i recently said to @WPG, i thought it's grime and messiness were a perfect fit given the subject matter. no film experience this year has been more harrowing. visceral, nasty work.

by flip side, i thought Lady Bird was... fine. again as i said to pall, it's not nearly as insufferable as, say, juno...... but i found it just a touch too cute. (and this coming from a person who went to a catholic school in 2002, and has a good friend who. was. lady bird.) i much preferred the more-resonant Edge of Seventeen last year. just wary, each year our imaginations are captured by these charmingly bratty female protagonists and their quaint coming of age stories. feel disposable. that said, i dont especially see film=director ballot in sync necessarily, and wanted an all female lineup for political reasons (i submitted this to the boston online critics group im a member of).

anyways, saw Last Jedi last night. wow. it's unlike any star wars film i've seen. here's my tweet, just to give u a taste for its themes:

 

Dec 12, 2017

Detroit would be so good if it had characters

 

Dec 12, 2017

I'm never up to date with the new crop of movies sigh.
Surprised mother! hasn't received more love. Especially after the latest slew of sexual assault allegations.

 

Dec 12, 2017

well that's an odd way to frame it. But yes, mother! was quite an experience. It's currently in my top 10 but I doubt it will stay there

 

Dec 12, 2017

ya an ensemble based-on-real-events movie about institutional failure and racist cops torturing african americans shouldve been entertaining and relatable..like bad moms lol

 

Dec 12, 2017

lol no but srsly. you didn't feel a lot of the principals were two-dimensional?

 

Dec 12, 2017

i didnt lol. i mean, look, it perhaps would've worked better as a hbo miniseries ill grant u.... but this was a snapshot of a city burning, true horror pandemonium.... so its doing alot in 143 minutes. nevertheless, jason mitchell made my supporting actor ballot, and will poulter narrowly missed it. larry reed's storyline was heartbreaking, and rly landed the overall goings on...especially when you realize his group later recorded with snoop dogg lol.

only thing that didnt quite sit with me was the presence of Jim Halbert... and even then, they utilized his smugness to good affect.

meanwhile heres my top ten tv shows of the yr. i recommend u all rt this. especially u paul i want that vulture $ ffs

 

Dec 12, 2017

You don't think it makes it more relevant?