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Alan Rickman passed away from cancer. He was 69. First Bowie, now Rickman. Who's next?

Well, Lemmy died a week or so before Bowie

For me, Rickman will always be Metatron

So sad to lose Alan Rickman

I don't know where else to put this, and it doesn't warrant its own thread, but have any of you ever subscribed to MUBI? It's a film service where each day they add one more movie to whats available but each film is available only 30 days so there is a rotating list of 30 films to watch?

I've been on it for a few months now, and it's amazing. They've had Bresson, Greenaway, Varda, Godard, Herzog, so many auteurs, but also many many oddball films I would never have seen on my own... giallo films, Italian gangster movies, tons of documentaries, shorts, experimental films from Chris Marker, silent films....

I highly recommend it!

In other movie news, Johnny Depp is an asshole.

I'm glad DC keeps tricking me into getting hyped for their movies and then having bad word of mouth turn me off from actually going to see them.

RIP Carrie Fisher

How sad

Debbie Reynolds, just today.

Logan trailer looks good. Power Rangers looks.... like some people will enjoy it :P

Matrix reboot coming... finally, couldn't be too soon! The Matrix was my least-favourite movie of all time.

Long Con wrote:Matrix reboot coming... finally, couldn't be too soon! The Matrix was my least-favourite movie of all time.

Fixed it for you?

G-Man wrote:

Long Con wrote:Matrix reboot coming... finally, couldn't be too soon! The Matrix was my least-favourite movie of all time.

Fixed it for you?

Yes, everything I said was the polar opposite of what is true.

DharmaHelper wrote:Logan trailer looks good. Power Rangers looks.... like some people will enjoy it :P

Haha Tranq and Typhoony were talking about Power Rangers in IRC - I told them it it looked like a movie 13 year olds would love.

A trailer dropped for the "re-make" of Stephen King's It. I wasn't afraid of clowns before but now I just might be.

Farewell.

Disney is going to purchase 21st Century Fox's film division (TV entertainment division too). This is a huge consolidation in the industry and would give Disney almost 40% of the market share for the US and Canada. This will bring the X-Men, Alien, and Predator film series under Disney's control. Fox also had distribution deals with the Deadpool and Avatar film series.

The other big play here is that Disney would scoop up all of Fox's TV content (X-File, Simpsons, Family Guy), which they can use as leverage when they roll out their own streaming service to compete against Netflix.

This is huge but will it be allowed? I assume there has to be antitrust hearings because Disney would dwarf all the other major studios.

From what I hear of the US government, I won't be surprised by it failing to oppose any kind of corporate abuse.

The ICS, an international group that I'm privileged to be a part of, released their nominees today!

https://icsfilm.org/our-yearly-awards/2 ... -nominees/

Call Me by Your Name Comes Out Peachy Keen at ICS Awards
Honoring films released in the USA in 2017.

The 15th ICS Awards saw Luca Guadagnino’s lush summer romance Call Me by Your Name blow away the competition with a record-setting 11 nominations, including picture, director, adapted screenplay and four acting nods. Next in line with 8 mentions was Paul Thomas Anderson’s gorgeously poisonous Phantom Thread, about a high-fashion couple perpetually ripping apart and re-stitching their relationship.

The presumptive Oscar frontrunners were mostly absent here, except for Greta Gerwig’s charming Lady Bird, which garnered picture, director, actress (Saoirse Ronan), supporting actress (Laurie Metcalf), ensemble and original screenplay honors. Also scoring 6 noms each were Bertrand Bonello’s wildly cinematic story of young Parisian terrorists, Nocturama, and James Gray’s impeccably crafted jungle adventure, The Lost City of Z. Denis Villeneuve rounded out the best director lineup with his soul-searching replicants in Blade Runner 2049, which tallied 4 nominations.

Actors/actresses in LGBTQ roles were strongly represented at ICS this year, including Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer for Call Me by Your Name, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Arnaud Valois for BPM, and Daniela Vega for A Fantastic Woman.

In keeping with ICS tradition, the Unreleased Films list features 20 underseen films that our members were lucky enough to catch at festivals on five continents, and for which they voted passionately, but which failed to receive theatrical distribution in the USA in 2017.

Winners of the 15th ICS Awards will be announced on February 4, 2018.



PICTURE
• Blade Runner 2049
• BPM
• Call Me by Your Name
• Good Time
• Lady Bird
• The Lost City of Z
• Nocturama
• On the Beach at Night Alone
• Personal Shopper
• Phantom Thread
• A Quiet Passion

DIRECTOR
• Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
• Bertrand Bonello – Nocturama
• Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
• James Gray – The Lost City of Z
• Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
• Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• BPM
• The Death of Louis XIV
• Nocturama
• On the Beach at Night Alone
• The Ornithologist
• Raw
• Sieranevada
• Staying Vertical
• Visages Villages
• The Woman Who Left

ACTOR
• Nahuel Pérez Biscayart – BPM
• Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
• Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
• Jean-Pierre Léaud – The Death of Louis XIV
• Robert Pattinson – Good Time

ACTRESS
• Kim Min-hee – On the Beach at Night Alone
• Vicky Krieps – Phantom Thread
• Cynthia Nixon – A Quiet Passion
• Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
• Kristen Stewart – Personal Shopper
• Daniela Vega – A Fantastic Woman

SUPPORTING ACTOR
• John Lloyd Cruz – The Woman Who Left
• Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
• Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name
• Barry Keoghan – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name
• Arnaud Valois – BPM

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Juliette Binoche – Slack Bay
• Amira Casar – Call Me by Your Name
• Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
• Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
• Sienna Miller – The Lost City of Z

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Get Out – Jordan Peele
• Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
• Personal Shopper – Olivier Assayas
• Phantom Thread – Paul Thomas Anderson
• A Quiet Passion – Terence Davies

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
• Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory
• The Death of Louis XIV – Thierry Lounas, Albert Serra
• The Lost City of Z – James Gray
• Marjorie Prime – Michael Almereyda
• The Woman Who Left – Lav Diaz

CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
• Call Me by Your Name – Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
• The Lost City of Z – Darius Khondji
• Nocturama – Léo Hinstin
• Wonderstruck – Edward Lachman

EDITING
• Dunkirk – Lee Smith
• A Ghost Story – David Lowery
• Good Time – Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie
• Nocturama – Fabrice Rouaud
• Personal Shopper – Marion Monnier

PRODUCTION DESIGN
• Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner
• Call Me by Your Name – Samuel Deshors
• Phantom Thread – Mark Tildesley
• A Quiet Passion – Merijn Sep
• Wonderstruck – Mark Friedberg

SCORE
• Call Me by Your Name – Sufjan Stevens
• Good Time – Daniel Lopatin as Oneohtrix Point Never
• The Lost City of Z – Christopher Spelman
• Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
• Wonderstruck – Carter Burwell

ENSEMBLE
• BPM
• Call Me by Your Name
• Lady Bird
• Nocturama
• Sieranevada

ANIMATED FILM
• The Breadwinner
• Coco
• The Girl Without Hands
• Loving Vincent
• My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

DOCUMENTARY
• Chavela
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
• Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
• Visages Villages
• Wormwood

BEST PICTURE NOT RELEASED IN 2017
• 24 Frames
• A Ciambra
• Bangkok Nites
• Braguino
• Claire’s Camera
• Closeness
• The Day After
• Giant
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
• Lean on Pete
• Les garçons sauvages
• Let the Sun Shine In
• Lover for a Day
• Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
• On Body and Soul
• The Rider
• Sicilian Ghost Story
• Western
• You Were Never Really Here
• Zama

Have fun with the jury duty. Will you spoil us with your picks?

I've seen all but 4 of the Picture nominees and it could've been just 2 if I wouldn't have been lazy this week and watched Nocturama and A Quiet Passion. Whatever On the Beach at Night Alone is escaped me until now and I see it nominated in plenty categories. No changes seeing Phantom Thread in theaters, so I'm hopeless there unless a screener "shows up".

Not sure I should comment in detail, in case you don't need any opinion to influence you or anything, but whoa does that Foreign category have some "Cahier du cinema"-ish picks. I have no seen four (where on Earth can I even find Lav Diaz?!), there's one I consider a slight underdog and two I really disliked.

One movie goes into a bit of nomination overkill in the acting categories, but that's just me. The Supppoting Actress category has only one serious distinction, but that's just me.

Another whoa for the Ensemble category, Sieranevada, noice. It kinda is a wild team effort in it, heh. I think only that and another movie qualify for a genuine ensemble cast recognition, so I find the other two I've seen a bit odd.

RIP Turd Ferguson.

RIP Burt Reynolds

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:08 pm RIP Turd Ferguson.

Fixed.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:29 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:08 pm RIP Turd Ferguson.

Fixed.

Oh lol, went right over my head.

Joaquin Phoenix's Joker looks better and better every day.

Venom getting mixed-to-bad reviews which is a shame, I really was looking forward to it. Still may see it.

I wish that Sony would just let Marvel do their thing. Making Spider-Man movies without Spider-Man is maybe the worst Spider-Man-adjacent idea anyone’s had yet, and some of those other movies have some real head scratchers ...

Did you know that and started a film-related YouTube channel?

It's actually a pretty good channel. It's here.

Mongoose wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:03 pm Did you know that and started a film-related YouTube channel?

Dudes! That was awesome to watch, I'm subscribing immediately !

"Abjectly terrible" is the correct answer in regards to PJ's KK.

And fave Jimmy Stewart for me is prob Anatomy of a Murder, but yeah, he's pretty much solid in everything he ever did.

timmer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:03 am

Mongoose wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:03 pm Did you know that and started a film-related YouTube channel?

Dudes! That was awesome to watch, I'm subscribing immediately !

"Abjectly terrible" is the correct answer in regards to PJ's KK.

And fave Jimmy Stewart for me is prob Anatomy of a Murder, but yeah, he's peu much solid in decrying he ever did.

I agree this is awesome. Can't wait till the next one (I already subscribed).

Thank you guys soooo much. Our next episode is going to be filmed this weekend, and it's going to be a review of a FRESHLY released film! Will we both hate it? Will will be split? Tune in and find out.

Star Wars Episode IX: Fan Service Strikes Back

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:30 am Star Wars Episode IX: Fan Service Strikes Back

Agreed. While the masses cheered, I groaned.

RIP Chewy.

Not movie news, but this cast looks promising. Nice to see that the original Skeletor voice actor (who is pushing 90) has a role.

The Joker AND Harley Quinn in MOTU?! Wild

And Batgirl lolol

Mel Gibson is making a sequel to The Passion of the Christ; I suspect it will be the best second coming of all time

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 1:28 am Mel Gibson is making a sequel to The Passion of the Christ; I suspect it will be the best second coming of all time

2 Passion 2 Christ

It's been a rough week for legendary comedic actors

RIP Bilbo Baggins.

I still have some of the silverware from the first time it was rumored he died.

I’ve been reading LotR. It was exactly yesterday that I got to the point where Bilbo and Frodo say their farewells at Rivendell.

As emotional as it is to think of Bilbo Baggins as dead, don’t forget he was also Ash in Alien. Sir Ian had range.

RIP Chadwick Boseman

G-Man wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:30 pm RIP Chadwick Boseman

Brave, awesome dude. Flawless T'Challa, very grateful to him.

G-Man wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:30 pm RIP Chadwick Boseman

So this guy died on Jackie Robinson Day?

RIP Sean Connery.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 9:02 am RIP Sean Connery.

Still the best Bond to date.