A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Can't Wait

#526 Post by Balthazar » Tue May 25, 2021 4:46 pm

swo17 wrote:
Mon May 24, 2021 10:02 pm
How can one see Century?
Good question. I saw it at the ICA in London years ago. I've no knowledge of disc or back-channel availability, but in the absence of that I guess you're reliant on the continued rise of online programming: it did pop up again at the (UK) essay film festival this spring, for instance.

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#527 Post by swo17 » Tue May 25, 2021 11:57 pm

senseabove wrote:
Mon May 24, 2021 10:28 pm
I'm idly curious, now, which decade list has had the largest number of unique movies submitted, if that's an easily calculable thing...
Number of unique films divided by participants for each decade the last time we did it:

pre-20s: 318 / 16 = 19.9
1920s: 267 / 14 = 19.1
1930s: 420 / 24 = 17.5
1940s: 478 / 38 = 12.6
1950s: 536 / 37 = 14.5
1960s: 598 / 35 = 17.1
1970s: 676 / 34 = 19.9
1980s: 650 / 34 = 19.1
1990s: 602 / 24 = 25.1
2000s: 675 / 28 = 24.1
2010s: 698 / 31 = 22.5

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Can't Wait

#528 Post by Red Screamer » Wed May 26, 2021 1:10 pm

Despite (or because of) living through it recently, this is one of the decades in film I don't have much of a handle on outside of obvious highlights and festival fare. Discussions like this are really helpful, even if I haven't had time yet to catch up with most of what sounds interesting. Thanks, all.

My top ten + orphans:

01 Adieu au langage 3D
02 Twin Peaks: The Return
03 Her
04 Phoenix
05 Magic Mike XXL
06 Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty*
07 Inherent Vice
08 Margaret
09 Finding Frances*
10 Journey to the West (Tsai)*


*also orphans

13 Glistening Thrills
17 No Home Movie
41 Camera falls from airplane and lands in pig pen--MUST WATCH END!!
42 Mountains May Depart
43 Slow Volumes
44 Permanent Green Light
45 The Edge of Seventeen
46 Le Concours
47 Unfriended
48 Fin del siglo
49 The Task
50 Dracula 3D

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#529 Post by senseabove » Wed May 26, 2021 1:52 pm

swo17 wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 11:57 pm
Number of unique films divided by participants for each decade the last time we did it:
pre-20s: 318 / 16 = 19.9
1920s: 267 / 14 = 19.1
1930s: 420 / 24 = 17.5
1940s: 478 / 38 = 12.6
1950s: 536 / 37 = 14.5
1960s: 598 / 35 = 17.1
1970s: 676 / 34 = 19.9
1980s: 650 / 34 = 19.1
1990s: 602 / 24 = 25.1
2000s: 675 / 28 = 24.1
2010s: 698 / 31 = 22.5
Neat. Thanks!

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#530 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed May 26, 2021 2:54 pm

Well, this is a first- I've seen 100/100 of the main list without the need to play catchup post-list project. Guess I'll continue on with the intimidating 60s prep...

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#531 Post by domino harvey » Wed May 26, 2021 2:55 pm

I’ve seen 74/101, which is way more than I’d have guessed

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#532 Post by swo17 » Wed May 26, 2021 3:18 pm

I've seen everything from the main list and all but like 10 of the also-rans. Let no one question my commitment to Sparkle Motion

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#533 Post by the preacher » Wed May 26, 2021 4:12 pm

swo17 wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 11:57 pm
Number of unique films divided by participants for each decade the last time we did it:

pre-20s: 318 / 16 = 19.9
1920s: 267 / 14 = 19.1
1930s: 420 / 24 = 17.5
1940s: 478 / 38 = 12.6
1950s: 536 / 37 = 14.5
1960s: 598 / 35 = 17.1
1970s: 676 / 34 = 19.9
1980s: 650 / 34 = 19.1
1990s: 602 / 24 = 25.1
2000s: 675 / 28 = 24.1
2010s: 698 / 31 = 22.5
And the ranking of most voted directors is...
1 Alfred Hitchcock
2 Ernst Lubitsch
3 Fritz Lang
4 Charles Chaplin
5 John Ford
6 Howard Hawks
7 Yasujirô Ozu
8 F.W. Murnau
9 Josef von Sternberg
10 Michael Powell*
11 Carl Dreyer
12 Ingmar Bergman
13 David Lynch
14 Luis Buñuel
15 Martin Scorsese
16 Stanley Kubrick
17 Jean Renoir
18 Woody Allen*
19 Akira Kurosawa
20 Jean-Luc Godard*
21 Orson Welles*
22 Robert Altman
23 Victor Sjöström
24 Paul Thomas Anderson
25 Buster Keaton*
26 D.W. Griffith
27 Robert Bresson
28 Joel & Ethan Coen
29 Louis Feuillade
30 Andrei Tarkovsky
31 Billy Wilder
32 Jacques Rivette
33 Lars von Trier
34 Erich von Stroheim
35 William Wyler
36 Abbas Kiarostami
37 Yevgeni Bauer
38 Wes Anderson
39 Federico Fellini
40 Raoul Walsh
41 Terrence Malick
42 Frank Capra
43 Wong Kar-wai
44 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
45 Georges Méliès
46 Francis Ford Coppola
47 Michelangelo Antonioni
48 Steven Spielberg
49 Abel Gance
50 John Huston
51 Nicholas Ray
52 Michael Curtiz*
53 Douglas Sirk
54 Roberto Rossellini
55 Roman Polański
56 Sergei Eisenstein*
57 Preston Sturges
58 Michael Haneke
59 Eric Rohmer
60 Werner Herzog
61 Kenji Mizoguchi
62 Max Ophüls
63 Brian De Palma
64 Claire Denis
65 Otto Preminger
66 Quentin Tarantino*
67 Louis & Auguste Lumière
68 Jean Epstein
69 Jim Jarmusch
70 David Cronenberg
71 Vincente Minnelli*
72 Mikio Naruse
73 Satyajit Ray
74 Frank Borzage
75 Hayao Miyazaki
76 Richard Linklater
77 David Fincher
78 Krzysztof Kieślowski
79 Marcel Carné
80 Raúl Ruiz
81 Wim Wenders
82 Alain Resnais
83 Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
84 Jacques Tourneur
85 Nagisa Ōshima
86 Leo McCarey*
87 Hou Hsiao-hsien
88 Edward Yang
89 Mauritz Stiller
90 Spike Lee
91 Jean-Pierre Melville
92 Shōhei Imamura
93 King Vidor
94 Béla Tarr
95 Pedro Almodóvar
96 Peter Greenaway
97 Maurice Tourneur
98 George Cukor
99 Pál Fejös
100 Sam Peckinpah
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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#534 Post by swo17 » Wed May 26, 2021 4:31 pm

Interesting, what do the asterisks mean?

However, it's not entirely a fair comparison since participation varied across decade projects

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#535 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed May 26, 2021 11:02 pm

swo17 wrote:
Wed May 26, 2021 3:18 pm
I've seen everything from the main list and all but like 10 of the also-rans. Let no one question my commitment to Sparkle Motion
You got me, I have 25 blind spots from the Also-Rans

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#536 Post by the preacher » Thu May 27, 2021 5:05 am

swo17 wrote:
Wed May 26, 2021 4:31 pm
Interesting, what do the asterisks mean?

However, it's not entirely a fair comparison since participation varied across decade projects
It was adjusted according to the number of participants, this is why vintage filmmakers have such a high representation. :wink:

Asterisks mean co-directions (penalizations).

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#537 Post by swo17 » Thu May 27, 2021 8:24 am

Ah, okay, so it's perhaps unfair in the opposite direction!

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#538 Post by theflirtydozen » Thu May 27, 2021 2:36 pm

Didn't participate this time, but here's the results as a Letterboxd list. Looks like everything imported properly but I'd appreciate if people let me know if anything's wrong.

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#539 Post by swo17 » Thu May 27, 2021 3:31 pm

theflirtydozen wrote:
Thu May 27, 2021 2:36 pm
Didn't participate this time, but here's the results as a Letterboxd list. Looks like everything imported properly but I'd appreciate if people let me know if anything's wrong.
Looks good, though it's probably worth noting that the World of Tomorrow that placed is the entire series, not just the first entry

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#540 Post by swo17 » Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:45 am

I finally finished writing up my list for this decade, complete with Blu-ray.com-style political rants for each pick. Some statistics:

repeat directors: Clipson (3), Lanthimos (3), Loznitsa (2), Östlund (2), Reichardt (2)
shorts: 8 (not counting WoT)
3D films: 4
orphans: 16
also-rans: 18
listmakers: 16

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Can't Wait

#541 Post by swo17 » Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:08 pm

senseabove wrote:
Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:00 am
I'd want to rewatch it before I could go into much detail, given how far it drifts from the expectations set by the first quarter and how unexpected it was, but for now, I like K. Austin Collins' non-spoilery review.

Out of curiosity:
SpoilerShow
Did you recognize Nickelodeon/Disney channel stars that have cameos? I about fell out of my chair when I realized that it was Lori Beth Denberg and Danny Tamberelli, and their cameos definitely drove home the sense of just how arbitrary, unfair, and mysterious adulthood seems during youth, and how that can carry over into adulthood in ways we either adapt to or avert our gaze from... I can't say the movie wouldn't have worked if I didn't know who they were, but it's a brilliant stroke that really drove home the empathy of what Collins summarizes: "Discarded objects in Taormina’s world don’t land soundlessly or without consequence."
I loved at least parts of Ham and Rye but have no familiarity with what you reference in the spoiler box or which characters it refers to. Could I get a Cliff's Notes version of what this context adds to the film?

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Can't Wait

#542 Post by senseabove » Sun Feb 13, 2022 3:17 pm

swo17 wrote:
Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:08 pm
Could I get a Cliff's Notes version of what this context adds to the film?
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Both were teenage stars of the 90s Nickelodeon SNL-lite sketch show All That, although Tamberelli is remembered more for being one of the titular Petes on the much-loved sitcom The Adventures of Pete & Pete. The only other name you might recognize from the All That cast if you never watched it is Kenan Thompson, now the longest-tenured cast member of SNL in its history. So the film's central divide between the "elected" and the leftovers comes crashing home when you realize you haven't seen those two in over 20 years and you haven't been able to escape their castmate if you're even moderately media conscious. The twist on that knife is that Denberg's most well-known bit was "Vital Information," where she appeared as a librarian in front of a wall of definitions and spouted inanely absurdist, ridiculous statements that are, nevertheless, true, lampooning how adults dole out what you need to know, do, and not do: "It's a bad idea if you go up to your principal and say, 'Hey! How's your butt!?'," or "It's not polite to stare. It's really not polite to blow your nose in a rabbit." Or in other words, if you don't find a dance partner at the sandwich shop, you'll be making smores in a driveway for the rest of your life.

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#543 Post by swo17 » Sun Feb 13, 2022 3:47 pm

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Oh wow, the Kenan Thompson connection definitely adds a layer to the film, thanks!

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Re: A 2010s List for Those That Couldn't Wait

#544 Post by therewillbeblus » Sun Feb 13, 2022 4:14 pm

I was frustratingly disappointed by Ham and Rye's execution of its high concept, and it landed as a (very) interesting failure in my estimation, but senseabove, that more detailed explanation sparsing out the self-reflexive rejects vs winners makes me appreciate that third-act surprise so much more, so thanks!

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