What a year! Remember when all those films came out? And we saw them!
Like No Time To Die, Dune, The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, Last Night In Soho,
West Side Story, Black Widow, The Last Duel, and In The Heights!
On such big screens too.
I remember the popcorn—
Anyway. 2020 was quite the year.
I think the boxoffice was more in the news this year than ever.
If they’re still around, go support your local independent cinema when you can.
Here's a thread where we can discuss/rec our favourite films and performances of the year, hopefully dishing out a couple recs to anyone who wants them. Was that film overrated? Underappreciated? Disappointing? Toxic poverty porn garbage with no personality whatsoever? Etc... Did the small screen impact your viewing this year? What was the last film you saw in a cinema? Is streaming an actual war? And who will eventually bomb who? Discuss.
SUBCATAGORIES:
5 Best Male Performances
&
5 Best Female Performances
Which you may submit up to 10 each, but the final acting lists will be the top 5. There will be no music score list this year.
The gist/ rules:
BEA composes a list of our 50 favourite films of 2020.
All lists will be PMed to me or posted in this thread, maxing out at 50. The final list will be 50 films. I'll be accepting lists of any denotation up to 50. The size of your list determines its weight. Films must be longer than 40 minutes. Due to 2020’s unique release schedule, any film labelled 2020 on (1 or more of) IMDb, Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, or Wikipedia will be eligible.
Documentaries are allowed. Miniseries (i.e. The Queen’s Gambit) are not.
Lists will also be accepted in IMDb and Letterboxd format. Deadline will be May 2nd.
Eligible releases—
Small Axe (as individual films: Mangrove/ Lovers Rock/ Red, White and Blue/ Alex Wheatle/ Education) (this was a discussed concensus)
American Utopia
In & of Itself
Sound of Metal
Last And First Men
Ineligible releases—
The Queen’s Gambit
Hamilton
Judas And The Black Messiah
Malcolm & Marie
The United States Vs Billie Holiday
Tiger King
Anything on whateverthehell Quibi was
The Last Dance (??? I swore this was 2019… Jesus that was a long year)
I May Destroy You
1917 _________________ Doubles & Conch
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Thoughts on The Father? I've been trying like hell to see this film before I finish my list, but it's now March 14 and still impossible to find, so I'm leaning towards counting it as 2021 personally.
Thoughts on The Father? I've been trying like hell to see this film before I finish my list, but it's now March 14 and still impossible to find, so I'm leaning towards counting it as 2021 personally.
EDIT: Just saw Metacritic has it listed as 2021.
The Father will be accepted because of its Sundance release. I don't think I'd say no to it for 2021 either (come the time).
It's also the only reason I kinda put off posting this until now (about 2 weeks later than last year). It isn't available yet 😐 (the screener was apparently terrible quality so nobody bothered sharing it, the TIFF screening was a mess, and its European release is ridiculously late)— BUT! Luckily, I believe it will become digitally available (VOD) on March 26th, a month-or-so before the deadline.
I get where you're coming from. It's kinda in limbo between the two years. Should be available soon though. _________________ Doubles & Conch
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I've seen three films (maybe less) from this year and considering I'm going off the grid will get zero chance to see more, but sill interested in what y'all will cook up
I’ll probably go with around 20, like last year if that’s fine. Btw over 40 mins means Jack Stauber’s Opal is out? If so, I’m sad. _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
1. What the Constitution Means to Me (Heller)
2. Time (Bradley)
3. Athlete A (Cohen)
4. Palm Springs (Barbakow)
5. Lover’s Rock (McQueen)
6. Minari (Chung)
7. Let Them All Talk (Soderbergh)
8. Promising Young Woman (Fennell)
9. Borat 2 (Woliner)
10. The Nest (Durkin)
11. Spree (Kotlyarenko)
12. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Hittman)
13. Like a Boss (Artera)
14. The Forty Year Old Version (Blank)
15. David Byrne’s American Utopia (Lee)
16. Happiest Season (Duvall)
17. Shirley (Decker)
18. Film About a Father Who (Sachs)
19. I’m Your Woman (Hart)
20. Miss Juneteenth (Peoples)
21. Class Action Park
22. Disclosure (Feder)
23. His House (Weekes)
24. The King of Staten Island (Apatow)
25. In Search of a Flat Earth (Olsen)
26. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman)
27. Cuties (Doucourè)
28. The Invisible Man (Whanell)
29. City Hall (Wiseman)
30. Birds of Prey (Yan)
If they’re still around, go support your local independent cinema when you can.
As soon as they reopen..
Hayden wrote:
Did the small screen impact your viewing this year?
Of course, in positive and negative ways. It was nice that so many titles found their way onto streaming platforms. However, opportunities for more engrossing theater experiences were missed.
Hayden wrote:
What was the last film you saw in a cinema?
The Invisible Man, March 13, 2020. Two days later all indoor theaters in LA closed. It's been a year and they still haven't reopened, ugh.
Hayden wrote:
Is streaming an actual war? And who will eventually bomb who? Discuss.
Figuratively, yes. Hard to say "who will eventually bomb who." It seems the major streaming services have each cornered a market for themselves, which should keep them all solvent. I think creating original content is the key for them. Netflix has all their self-produced docs and stand-up comedy specials, while creating other fiction content. Disney+ has most of the major franchises, which they'll endlessly create movies/shows for. HBO Max has a firm grip over the adult-targeted TV market, plus all the WarnerMedia content. Prime creates plenty of their own content and has the financial power to keep/expand streaming rights over other content...they're basically too big to fail at this point. Hulu may lose some status but they're owned by Disney anyway. Relative newcomers Peacock and Paramount+ are off to a good start. I can see mergers happening down the road, but they all seem to be fine for now.
Hayden wrote:
BEA composes a list of our 50 favourite films of 2020.
We're doing 50? Seems excessive. 2020 was likely going to be down year for movies anyway, only it was made worse by the pandemic forcing so many titles til 2021. I don't speak for everyone but I doubt I'll do 50. Simply not enough good content imo to make a list that long. ^Even Applerill didn't come up with 50. How about 30 (to match her list)? Or 40?
By the way, good to see someone else appreciated Athlete A, probably the best 2020 doc I've seen.
Here's another example of why 50 is too many. Now Applerill and AMAY couldn't find 50 good entries (AMAY's bottom movies are only getting 1 star from him, lol). I'm in the same boat. I can make a list of 50, but I prefer not to fill it out with stupid crap at the bottom just to give the top movies more points. C'mon Hayden. Just make it 30 (or 40). 🤣
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