crossing
all we imagine as light,
small things like these,
kinds of kindness,
hard truths, waves—
... I'm still here—
look back,
touch,
flow,
it's what's inside,
caught by the tides,
when the light breaks—
a traveller's needs—
Welcome!
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SUBCATAGORIES:
5 Best Male Performances
&
5 Best Female Performances
+
5 Best Original Scores
Which you may submit up to 10 each, but the final lists will be the top 5.
The gist/ rules:
BEA composes a list of our 50 favourite films of 2024.
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. Any film labelled 2024 on (1 or more of) IMDb, Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, or Wikipedia will be eligible. Documentaries are allowed. Miniseries (i.e. Baby Reindeer) are not.
Lists will also be accepted in IMDb and Letterboxd format. Deadline May 24th.
Eligible releases—
Look Back
It's Not Me
Chime
Hundreds of Beavers
Sing Sing
Evil Does Not Exist
Paddington in Peru
Ineligible releases—
Ripley
The Sympathizer
Shogun
Baby Reindeer
The Penguin
Cunk on Life
In dispute (can discuss)—
Samuel
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
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This is only the second time this century my favourite film of the year is also the Academy's Best Picture winner (the other being Parasite), and I can't for the life of me think of what else the film of the year would be. Anora is such a knockout. I've yet to write a review for it, and I'm not sure if I will, but I'm just so glad and proud of what Sean Baker has achieved with this picture, and to see him get his flowers for it has been a real joy this year. And what an underdog too... no way a film like this would've received its dues ten years back. Hilarious. Poignant. Heartbreaking. Human. A 2020s Romeo & Juliet, Brothers Grimm, Austen, whateverhaveyou— more than anything, it's just a great time, and great cinema. My favourite film of the decade so far.
I don't have a huge handful of gems from the year, and none of these are particularly 'unknown' (and very far away from obscure), but I hope BEA gives these slightly lesser-watched films a go—
I don't have a huge handful of gems from the year, and none of these are particularly 'unknown' (and very far away from obscure), but I hope BEA gives these slightly lesser-watched films a go—
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
I got excited at the screenshot, assuming Roy Andersson must have made a new film that had evaded my notice.
Slightly disappointed that's not what this is, but still sounds really intriguing, gonna see if I can find it anywhere and give it a go. _________________ I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean
Revisions may come (especially as more lists come in and give me further things to check out), but for now my submissions stand as:
1. I'm Still Here
2. Flow
3. Nickel Boys
4. I Saw the TV Glow
5. Seed of the Sacred Fig
6. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
7. Hundreds of Beavers
8. The Substance
9. All We Imagine as Light
10. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
11. Sing Sing
12. Memoir of a Snail
13. The Brutalist
14. Dune: Part Two
15. Girl With the Needle
16. Look Back
17. Megalopolis (fight me!)
18. Conclave
19. My Sweet Land
20. Bird
21. Thelma
22. Inside Out 2
23. Twisters
24. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
25. The Piano Lesson
26. A Different Man
27. The Shrouds
28. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
29. Hard Truths
30. The Day the Earth Blew Up
31. Santosh
32. Under the Volcano
33. Frida
34. The Wild Robot
35. Dead Talents Society
36. Heretic
37. The Room Next Door
38. Transformers One
39. No Other Land
40. Didi
41. The Last Showgirl
42. Blitz
43. The Book of Clarence
44. Vermiglio
45. Kensuke's Kingdom
46. Juror #2
47. One Life
48. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
49. La Luna
50. Kinds of Kindness
FEMALE PERFORMANCES
1. Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here
2. Demi Moore, the Substance
3. June Squibb, Thelma
4. Kani Kusruti, All We Imagine as Light
5. Marianne Jean Baptiste, Hard Truths
6. Usha Seamkhum, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
7. Pamela Anderson, the Last Showgirl
8. Danielle Deadwyler, Piano Lesson
9. Saoirse Ronan, Blitz
10. Diane Kruger, the Shrouds
MALE PERFORMANCES
1. Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
2. Hugh Grant, Heretic
3. Adrian Brody, Brutalist
4. Anthony Hopkins, One Life
5. Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys
6. Samuel L. Jackson, Piano Lesson
7. Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
8. Dennis Quaid, the Substance
9. Ryland Tews, Hundreds of Beavers
10. Ethan Herisse, Nickel Boys
MUSICKS
1. The Brutalist
2. The Substance
3. Look Back
4. Nickel Boys
5. The Wild Robot
6. Sing Sing
7. Megalopolis
8. The Shrouds
9. Gladiator II
10. I'm Still Here
Unsure about the "official" release dates for some of these but as far as I know this all works _________________ I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean
I saw this in theaters last night, I must admit it was a lot of fun!
BozoTyrannus wrote:
Revisions may come (especially as more lists come in and give me further things to check out)
Hmm, your list covers many titles I plan to put on my own list. I'm not ready to post mine yet, but here are 10 movies that I will include, that are not on yours:
(in no particular order)
Love Lies Bleeding
Furiosa
Hit Man
Evil Does Not Exist
The Order
A Real Pain
Challengers
Anora
Longlegs
Drive-Away Dykes
Maybe you've seen these and didn't like them? Which is totally cool. Just throwing them out there. Evil Does Not Exist is excellent. That's very likely gonna be my #1 or #2. _________________ on such a winter's day
Love Lies Bleeding
Evil Does Not Exist
A Real Pain
Challengers
Anora
Have been trying to find Evil Does Not Exist because it sounds amazing.
The others I've quoted just weren't my thing, like I understand why other people liked them but it's just not my cup of tea (Sean Baker and Luca Guadagnino especially, I just can't get into them, anything from their filmographies, no idea why)
The ones I left out of the quote I haven't heard of or haven't looked for but I'll give 'em a go. _________________ I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean
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