General Movie Discussion - **please mark spoilers**

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[fernandito]

Whatever award Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is up for it needs to win. Magical movie.

[webstar1000]

Whatever award Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is up for it needs to win. Magical movie.

meh...

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This year’s Oscars thread is pretty late so I’m just dropping these here:

[Still Servant]

Whatever award Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is up for it needs to win. Magical movie.

Best film of the year for me.

[Still Servant]

This year’s Oscars thread is pretty late so I’m just dropping these here:

It's up!

The promotion I got in January is really hitting me now. It's our busiest time of the year and when I get home, if I'm not jumping on my computer to work more, I'm usually passed out.

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https://thefilmstage.com/all-the-fil...all-time-poll/

It’s been less than 24 hours since the announcement of Sight and Sound’s greatest films of all-time polls. While we have a decade more of discourse, the first reactions were expectedly divisive when certain 21st-century films make the list and other venerated classics are dropped. As interesting as the top 100 is to discuss, we wanted to look a bit deeper to see how the reception of certain films shifted over the last decade, with a rundown of the films that were added and those removed.

As one can see below, about a quarter of the list switched up this time, with major showings for a number of women filmmakers—Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, Julie Dash, Jane Campion, Barbara Loden, Céline Sciamma, Maya Daren, and Věra Chytilová. Wong Kar-wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Charles Burnett, Spike Lee, Jordan Peele, Barry Jenkins, and Bong Joon-ho were also well-represented.

The films that were dropped represent some odd dichotomies: Goodfellas made its way onto the list, Raging Bull fell off. The Godfather leaped forward, while its sequel left—alongside Lawrence of Arabia, Chinatown, The Magnificent Ambersons, Fanny and Alexander, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Seventh Seal, L’eclisse, The Mother and the Whore (though the new restoration getting a wider bow in 2023 could mean its return in a decade’s time), and more.

Looking deeper into the lists, it’s also fascinating to see which films had major leaps forward: Claire Denis’ Beau travail went from #78 in 2012 to #7 this year, while In the Mood for Love and Mulholland Dr. (the top 10’s only 21st-century titles) jumped around twenty spots, respectively. Jeanne Dielman, 2022’s #1 pick, vaulted from #36 a decade prior.

We’ll be curious to see how the top 250 and individual ballots play out when they are released next month, but in the meantime, check out the updates below, with a hat tip to Edo Choi.

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[Iwritecode]

Whatever award Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is up for it needs to win. Magical movie.

Best film of the year for me.

I watched it last night. It was ok.

Not really what I was expecting. Although I'm not sure what I was expecting exactly.

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[fernandito]

Interesting list. Lord of the Rings in top 5 of all time is a bold choice.

Glad to see Godfather I&II as No. 1. Like y'all, I've seen a shitload of films in my time, from just about every era. No film(s) to me are as close to perfection as the first two films are, especially 1.

Every time single time I watch it I can't help but marvel at how perfectly crafted it is. I own it on VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, digitially... but if it's streaming on live TV or w/e I HAVE to sit down and watch it

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[fernandito]

That was amazing.

I'll check back on it in a few days cause I need a list of all the films they used!

[Still Servant]

I can't let the year end without posting My Favorite Films of 2022 list!

MyFavoriteFilmsof2022

[fernandito]

Cool list. We have the same No. 1.

I woulda put Speak No Evil much, much higher though. Probably top 3. I haven't had a visceral reaction to a film like that in a really long time. Probably since I saw Hereditary back in 2018.

And hot take: don't think Glass Onion was that special. It was fun and I like RJ's indelible flavor of mystery, but I was expecting more.

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And hot take: don't think Glass Onion was that special. It was fun and I like RJ's indelible flavor of mystery, but I was expecting more.

Agree, didn't like it much at all. Not as clever as it thinks.

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https://variety.com/lists/best-movies-of-all-time/

The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. A great deal of ardent discussion and debate went into the creation of this list. Our choices were winnowed from hundreds of titles submitted by more than 30 Variety critics, writers and editors. As we learned, coming up with which movies to include was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which movies to leave out.

Variety, which recently celebrated its 117th anniversary, is a publication as old as cinema. (We invented box office reporting, in addition to the words “showbiz” and “horse opera.”) And in making this list, we wanted to reflect the beautiful, head-spinning variety of the moviegoing experience. We don’t just mean different genres; we don’t just mean highbrow and lowbrow (and everything in between). The very spirit of cinema is that it has long been a landscape of spine-tingling eclecticism, and we wanted our list to reflect that — to honor the movies we love most, whatever categories they happen to fall into.

Do we want you to argue with this list? Of course we do. That’s the nature of the beast — the nature of the kind of protective passion that people feel about their favorite movies. We invited prominent filmmakers and actors to contribute essays about the movies that are significant to them, and that passion comes across in all that they wrote. No doubt you’ll say: How could that movie have been left off the list? Or this one? Or that one? Trust us: We often asked that very same question ourselves. But our hope is that in looking at the films we did choose, you’ll see a roster that reflects the impossibly wide-ranging, ever-shifting glory of what movies are.

[Still Servant]

2023 is looking stacked!

My Most Anticipated Films of 2023