ITT: post the best film you've seen this year and how does it rank among your other favorites

Well I rewatch Badlands every year, does that count? I love Badlands.

Have you seen La Dolce Vita?

>a critically acclaimed film that pretty much all film fans agree is a classic? better shit on it, that'll make me look cool!

not yet, but it's on my list, along with the big italian and french names

It's very similar to 8 1/2 and I personally like it better. 8 1/2 is more meta.

Funny enough I saw this a month ago for the first time and I agree. Definitely one of the top ten greatest films.
La dolce vita is the most depressing movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Saw it several years ago and I still think about it sometimes. It’s a masterpiece in that regard

So in the end, did he died?

it doesn't matter

what would your answer be to the question then?

Why not?

as the film goes on and reaches the end, it becomes more fantastic and less grounded on reality, so what's depicted is not a straighforward plot, but rather the main characters state of mind and his wanderings, that blend with reality
the "suicide" could have been real, but it could be just as well a metaphor for him ending the film in the middle of the press conference, as in a career suicide, and also a fast but daring escape from the overwhelming stress
but overall, the events themselves are not as important as the perception we get from them, and the beautiful poetic images painted by Fellini

So far? This one i guess...

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Not the best Polanski film, not even better than the Ghostwritter but Polanski is like pizza. When it´s good is great and when it´s not good it´s still pretty good. Far better than stuff like the last version of murder on the orient express for starters but i wouldn´t say it ranks among my favourites. I would still recomend it though as my favourite movies are usually old.

Picrelated now is definetily in my top 10.

As about movies released this year, I've liked Mandy, watched few times, will do again.
Also I've liked First Man.

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>it could be just as well a metaphor for him ending the film in the middle of the press conference, as in a career suicide
Somehow this didn't occur to me before, I like this interpretation. Thanks user.

I saw this for the first time last year and I was not impressed. There were some good qualities, but the rest seemed laughably bad. Decided to watch it again a few days ago and absolutely loved it, it was like watching a different film. Personally I'd put it in the top 50 of everything I've watched now.

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Better than I hoped

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Same, I just watched Yi Yi this year and loved it. I also rewatched a lot of old favorites with my family recently, notably taxi driver and andrei rublev.

Never got through this and Mandy was a drag too.

I actually watched this for the first time last night. Made the mistake of watching it with my dad who kept belching and making occasional snide comments that ruined the immersion. Gonna rewatch it alone sometime. The film really tied together during the last 1/3. I'm not sure what the meaning of the title was though.

Shoplifters and A Touch of Zen are close contenders as well.

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OP here, and I made the same mistake, watched it with my parents. They kept complaining about the movie being too artsy and intellectual, and that they couldn't understand anything, all the while giggling at how pissed off I was getting. At around the 40min mark, they just turned over and slept, so I took the movie with me and watched by myself in my room.
>The film really tied together during the last 1/3.
It does. The pacing seemed kind of weird before, but then it all made sense, and fell into place, while also being completely far out
>I'm not sure what the meaning of the title was though.
it's because Fellini joked about having done 7 and a half movies up until that point

A Touch of Zen was interesting, but I couldn't stand all the fisheye shots in it.

I agree, it was noticeably off-putting from the start. It's a shame, as both photography, lighting and the sets themselves were fantastic otherwise.

I had a problem with Guido. I find him unrelateable and I find it hard to sympathize with his plight of not being able to make a movie that tells everything he wants it to. He is too weak to his vices. I like a lot of the imagery though, and the last scene is great.

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That's really annoying. I used to watch Tarkovsky with my dad a couple years ago, but we'd usually be pretty buzzed on wine which I think made the experience much more tolerable. I'm not a great son so I literally told my dad to shut the fuck up a couple times last night.
>The pacing seemed kind of weird before, but then it all made sense, and fell into place, while also being completely far out
Yeah exactly; I really liked Guido's conversation with his acquaintance in the car at the end, consoling him about the producer's lost money. I've done some freelance projects, and sometimes I would worry if my work was really worth the budget.
>it's because Fellini joked about having done 7 and a half movies up until that point
Ebin

I can relate to him on so many levels. His indecisiveness. His constant avoidance and bullshitting. His procrastination. And then that mental representation of those girls who took up real estate in his memory was great. Dat poor wife of his.

Thank you for posting this user. I literally just remembered I had it downloaded and went to watch it after reading your post. You're right, it was kino as hell.

I didn't really like that movie. I can appreciate it on a technical level, the surreal atmosphere and crazy camerawork and everything, but I found it impossible to connect it with emotionally. When he shot himself near the end I just shrugged and wasn't particularly impressed by the subsequent musical sequence. Am I just autistic or is the movie best appreciated when you've had experience trying to create art yourself?

>I used to watch Tarkovsky
have you watched The Mirror? I found it very close to 8 1/2 in many ways, although 8 1/2 is more self aware and humorous
it's a film about artists' block, but also touches themes of midlife crisis, work related stress and self worth
in this movie, Guido stands before not only the threat of his undone work, but also his own personal issues with women, his past, his guilt, his passions, etc
it's a very complete and well made film
still, it's good that you could at least appreciate the technical mastery of the work, if not the content

>it's a film about artists' block, but also touches themes of midlife crisis, work related stress and self worth
Well I'm still in my early 20s and inexperienced with life/women/work so perhaps that's why I couldn't relate to it.
But it's interesting that you brought up The Mirror, which I enjoyed a lot more than 8 1/2. I guess Tarkovsky's filmmaking style hits me on a more visceral level that I prefer, even if both films are similarly opaque and a little autobiographical.

>have you watched The Mirror?
Technically I have, but I don't remember much at all. I remember a lot of the aesthetic imagery, but I think I was too buzzed to be able to digest the poetry. I want to revisit his works soon. I watched his short film that he made as a student the other day, The Violinist & The Steamroller. It was eh, a comfy watch. Not much depth, but still nice.

There were some understandable similarities that I noticed between 8 1/2 and Dolce Vita. The outdoor party/dinner scenes reminded me so much of eachother.

>or is the movie best appreciated when you've had experience trying to create art yourself?
I think so. Under it's immediately obvious themes it feels more like an essay on filmmaking. I don't connect to it either but it is quite enjoyable nevertheless.

Watched pulp fiction for the first time todaym
Travolta looks like Gianna Michaels and even talks like her too, Jackson was pretty good, and I liked how the movie got a but goodie towards the end.
Does Tarantino write movies with himself in it just so he can say nigger on camera?

MOTY for me
I'd say all times top 5

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amazing movie, last year was pretty good on foreign movies

Is this movie "safe" to watch with parents? Are there any overly awkward scenes? How explicit are the sex scenes?

Kino as fuck soundtrack

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this still gives me chills
pic related

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I watched it with my father, there are a couple of sex scenes and one of them is pretty explicit but you can skip them if you want

Thanks anons!

be sure to watch it in proper quality and with a proper sound system

all 10/10 films that I loved as well

Came here to post that, watched it two days ago and it's high quality drama like every other Kore-eda film. I liked Still Walking better but Shoplifters was fantastic as well.

>Dragged across concrete
>8/10
Ending was dumb. Gibson’s character and the black guy should have buried Vince together. Then just as they are about to leave Mel would say, he one more thing. This is my wife’s address, give her my share please. The black guy would be like, yo wtf I’ve it to her yourself bro. Then Mel coughs and a little blood comes out. He lifts his shirt to reveal and undisclosed fatal gunshot. He’d been bleeding out the whole time but held on long enough to bury his friend, then cut to the black guy living it up. And then the scene where Mel’s family gets the gold

This is one movie I couldn't finish. Is it one of those movies people think they have good taste for liking?

>Does Tarantino write movies with himself in it just so he can say nigger on camera?
I'm convinced that this is the only reason he became a director/ in the first place.

Liking the movie means you appreciate films with some depth to them. That's not to say it's a deep film, but there's definitely some depth to it. It doesn't feel like a single frame is wasted during the film, you have to constantly pay attention. I don't blame you for not liking it. But calling people snobs for enjoying it is pretentious itself.

ooh I need to see Still Walking. From the few movies of his I've seen, Nobody Knows is my favourite I think, followed closely by Shoplifters

Definitly watch Still Walking. I watched most of Kore-eda's work and i like Still Walking the most but the again i'm a huge Hiroshi Abe fan so i might be biased. Still Walking > Shoplifters > Nobody Knows > After the Storm = Like Father, Like Son.