Let's All Go to the Movies

LurchingBeast said:
Still have a couple movies I would have liked to have seen but I'm at the point when I don't know when I'll be able to get around to them. So without further ado...


MY top movies of 2025:

  1. Eddington (Ari Aster)
  2. Resurrection (Bi Gan)
  3. Eephus (Carson Lund)
  4. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
  5. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
  7. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
  8. Sirāt (Oliver Laxe)
  9. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
  10. Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
  11. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
  12. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
  13. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Eddington may be "about Covid" but it captures so much of what is happening right now in this country, sometimes before it even happens, I lean towards it being the movie that will define this atrocious decade. Nothing really came that close this year, though I think there were some incredible movies that left a mark on me.

Honorable mention:
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
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Finally had some time to watch Eddington last night. Totally agreed. Quite a emblematic masterpiece. Already hyped up the older kiddo on it.
 
I’m still processing Father Mother Sister Brother. Jarmusch is one of my guys and I’m very relieved that The Dead Don’t Die won’t be his final film. Because his movies are so small and mannered, I usually have to sit with them for awhile to see if anything is going to stick with me. Upon first viewing this is one of his emotionally direct movies and it deals with aging in a uniquely off-kilter way that feels very Jarmuschian.
 
I honestly think about the 70mm showing of The Master I saw at the Alamo Ritz a lot. In many ways it was the pinnacle of when Austin was really nudging into NYC/CHI/LA as a film center.

The previous week to that they did a test run of their new 70mm projector with Raiders. A fucking out of body experience as a 90s Millenial kid raised on Indy and Back to the Future.
 
Lutter said:
I honestly think about the 70mm showing of The Master I saw at the Alamo Ritz a lot. In many ways it was the pinnacle of when Austin was really nudging into NYC/CHI/LA as a film center.

The previous week to that they did a test run of their new 70mm projector with Raiders. A fucking out of body experience as a 90s Millenial kid raised on Indy and Back to the Future.
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The NewBev emcee said this was an original 'wet print' from the 2012 release which apparently means something special. All I know is it was made from the original negative and looked fucking incredible. The colors popped to such a degree, I thought I was falling into the goddamn ocean on the first shot of the film.
 
Is This Thing On - Started out better than it finished. I was enjoying the bits looking at Will Arnett's character actually getting into stand-up comedy, and the movie peaked with his first real set. After that though, the stand-up (and the comedy in general) got sidelined in favor of the romance. Having the movie's climactic scene take place at a performance of two characters who'd been sidelined the entire second half of the movie didn't quite work for me either.

Marty Supreme - Really, really good. Timothee Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow both crush it, and the movie is filmed beautifully. There's that trademark Safdie balance where the tension keeps on ratcheting up another notch way past the point where the story should collapse underneath it all, but it doesn't. All that said, I did struggle a little bit at times with how unlikeable it felt everybody on the screen was, and the very last scene in the hospital didn't work for me. It didn't feel earned or in any way in line with what we'd seen from Marty for the previous 2.5 hours.
 
Question Mark What GIF by MOODMAN


Hamnet?

I don’t understand this isn’t even on a LurchingBeast list
 
One Battle After Another won Best Musical or Comedy? Sure it was funny at times but weird decision by the studio to submit it as one.
 
axeman9182 said:
Is This Thing On - Started out better than it finished. I was enjoying the bits looking at Will Arnett's character actually getting into stand-up comedy, and the movie peaked with his first real set. After that though, the stand-up (and the comedy in general) got sidelined in favor of the romance. Having the movie's climactic scene take place at a performance of two characters who'd been sidelined the entire second half of the movie didn't quite work for me either.

Marty Supreme - Really, really good. Timothee Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow both crush it, and the movie is filmed beautifully. There's that trademark Safdie balance where the tension keeps on ratcheting up another notch way past the point where the story should collapse underneath it all, but it doesn't. All that said, I did struggle a little bit at times with how unlikeable it felt everybody on the screen was, and the very last scene in the hospital didn't work for me. It didn't feel earned or in any way in line with what we'd seen from Marty for the previous 2.5 hours.
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Post script to this. Stunt casting gone right is Kevin O'Leary in Marty Supreme, dude is great. Stunt casting gone wrong is the small role Peyton Manning has in Is This Thing On, just super distracting and kind of took me out of the movie while he was on screen.
 
Mr Gundam said:
One Battle After Another won Best Musical or Comedy? Sure it was funny at times but weird decision by the studio to submit it as one.
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The Bear is always nominated for Best Comedy and that show stresses me out so much I can't even watch it.

I'm sure they just liked their chances of winning better in that category.
 
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