Chorus.fm Members EOTY Entertainment Lists 2020 • Page 2

I REALLY need to watch Deerskin

 

I think it’s only $4 to rent on Amazon. It’s probably Dupieux’s least weird movie, still very weird.

 

I have a copy of it on my hard drive, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Will try to squeeze it in this week or next since I have some time off work.

 

I don't know if I've watched enough good things actually released in 2020 to make a top 5. I've spent most of my time this year watching older works that I've been wanting to sit down and watch forever now. Da 5 Bloods & Palm Springs are the only ones I can for sure say I loved. I only just watched Mank tonight, but I like it more and more as I think about it, so we'll see where that ultimately ends up.

 

is there a thread for publications eoty lists for films/tv

 

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Also I just watched Palm Springs after seeing it on some of ya'll(s?) list and had to adjust my list accordingly, fucking loved it.

 

thank you

 

My favs of the year. Also my favourite shows..

1. The Boys
2. Lovecraft Country
3. Kidding
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
5. The Last Dance
6. Dark
7. How to With John Wilson
8. Gangs of London
9. Better Call Saul
10. Ted Lasso
11. Sex Education
12. Rick and Morty
13. The Good Place
14. The Mandalorian
15. Schitt's Creek

 

A shame I don’t see Dark mentioned anywhere in best of lists for publications. Truly one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

 

Surprisingly strong year. Many of my favourite filmmakers premiered new works and quite a few exciting new names. Missed going to the cinema and my local festival(s) but the shift to online was incredible for ease of access. Based on premiere date.

1. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Uppercase Print (Radu Jude)
4. The Last City (Heinz Emigholz)
5. Red Post on Escher Street (Sion Sono)
6. Undine (Christian Petzold)
7. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
8. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
9. Małni – Towards The Ocean, Towards The Shore (Sky Hopinka)
10. Voices in the Wind (Nobuhiro Suwa)
11. In Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)
12. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horváth)
13. Quo vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić)
14. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
15. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
16. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
17. True Mothers (Naomi Kawase)
18. There Are No False Undertakings (Olivier Godin)
19. Encounters (Camilo Restrepo)
20. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
21. Genus Pan (Lav Diaz)
22. Siberia (Abel Ferrara)
23. The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)
24. Judy Versus Capitalism (Mike Hoolboom)
25. The Lobby (Heinz Emigholz)
26. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
27. Sportin’ Life (Abel Ferrara)
28. Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)
29. s01e03 (Kurt Walker)
30. Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh)

 

Still so many movies I want to see but since the year ends soon and I'm not sure what I'll be able to see, here's where I'm at currently

1. First Cow, Kelly Reichardt
2. Vitalina Varela, Pedro Costa
3. Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
4. Kajillionaire, Miranda July
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman
6. Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee
7. Small Axe: Mangrove, Steve McQueen
8. An Easy Girl, Rebecca Zlotowski
9. Small Axe: Lovers Rock, Steve McQueen
10. Dick Johnson is Dead, Kirsten Johnson
11. Movie That Invites Pausing, Ken Jacobs
12. The Assistant, Kitty Green
13. Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
14. Let Them All Talk, Steven Soderbergh
15. Black Bear, Lawrence Michael Levine
16. Tigertail, Alan Yang
17. Mank, David Fincher
18. Palm Springs, Max Barbakow
19. Emma., Autumn De Wilde
20. Hubie Halloween, Steven Brill
21. Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, Jason Woliner
22. Sound of Metal, Darius Marder
23. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, George C. Wolfe
24. Happiest Season, Clea Duvall
25. Soul, Pete Docter, Kemp Powers

I don't watch much TV but what I enjoyed:
1. How To With John Wilson
2. Ted Lasso
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. The Boys
5. The Eric Andre Show

edit: Slight edits now that I've seen Another Round and The Assistant. Edited the order a little bit.

 

Bloody Nose Empty Pockets is my #1. NRSA would be under Hubie Halloween but above Palm Springs

 

Some stuff I didn’t get to (like the above mentioned Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, which I’ll probably love when I watch it), but I’m a nerd who’d really like to post an end of 2020 list before it’s 2021, lol, so...


movies

- Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
- First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
- The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson)
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
- Birds of Prey, or the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (Cathy Yan)
- Emma. (Autumn de Wilde)
- The Assistant (Kitty Green)
- Weathering With You (Makoto Shinkai)
- An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
- Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe)
- Hubie Halloween (Steven Brill)
- A Whisker Away (Junichi Sato)


comics

- The Magic Fish (Trung Le Nguyen)
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist (Adrian Tomine)
- Insider Art: A Compendium of Comics, Crafts & Cats (various)
- Constantly (gg)
- Magnificent Ms Marvel (Saladin Ahmed, Minkyu Jung)
- X-Men: Marvels Snapshots (Jay Edidin, Tom Reilly)
- 920London (Remy Boydell)
- Maids (Katie Skelly)
- Empyre: Savage Avengers (Gerry Dugan, Greg Smallwood)
- A Map to the Sun (Sloane Leong)
- Venom: Venom Island (Donny Cates, Mark Bagley)
- Octobriana 1976 (Jim Rugg)
- The Audra Show (Audra Stang)

 

I put Weathering With You pretty high on my 2019 list

 

I like that Hubie Halloween has gotten 3 mentions so far in this thread, compared to Tenet’s 2.

Don’t know how many people on this site read comics outside of Marvel/DC/Image, but The Magic Fish & The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist are both very good graphic novels. The former is a very good story about immigration, coming out, fairy tales, & language; the latter is a fun autobio comic from one of my favorite independent cartoonists.

 

Film:

1. Da 5 Bloods
2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3. Black Bear

TV:

1. Bojack Horseman
2. The Queen's Gambit
3. What We Do in the Shadows

Video Game:

1. Ghost of Tsushima
2. Call of Duty: Warzone
3. Doom: Eternal

Way behind on stuff from this year so my list is a top three, since anything below that probably won't remain in my top ten after catching up. That said, I loved everything I listed here.

 

Top 10 Movies

1. Nomadland
2. First Cow
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
4. Minari
5. Mangrove
6. Time
7. Wolfwalkers
8. Palm Springs
9. Soul
10. Lovers Rock

Honorable Mentions

Bad Education
Birds Of Prey
Charm City Kings
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Da 5 Bloods
Education
The Invisible Man
The King Of Staten Island
Red, White & Blue
Sound of Metal

Most Disappointing Movies

Freaky
Wonder Woman 1984
The Lovebirds

Worst Movies

1. Guns Akimbo
2. TFW No GF
3. Half Brothers
4. The Hunt
5. The Witches

Best TV Shows

1. Better Call Saul
2. Lovecraft Country
3. Better Things
4. How To With John Wilson
5. What We Do In The Shadows
6. Joe Pera Talks With You
7. Normal People
8. Dave
9. Corporate
10. Raised By Wolves

Honorables

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Rick & Morty
Ted Lasso

 

lmao shit forgot about my placeholder post

 

Top 10 2020 Films

1 - Soul
2 - Tenet
3 - Black Bear
4 - Palm Springs
5 - Kajillionaire
6 - Mank
7 - An American Pickle
8 - Birds Of Prey
9 - Eurovision Song Contest
10 - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Soul was just pretty much perfect. Tenet was an entertaining ride. Black Bear was unlike anything I've seen before. Palm Springs was really funny and with the groundhog day element quickly rose towards the top of my list. After that it becomes a bit more difficult to rank but these movies entertained me the most this year.

Still need to see: Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Assistant and more.

Movies I liked but I found a bit overrated: Happiest Season, I'm Thinking Of Ending Things and Sound of Metal.

 

This is the only mention of this movie on the site - Quo vadis, Aida?. Just watched it now. Fuck. The dread you feel as the men are lead away, to the emotions the woman goes through in present time - just ugh. Hopefully it gets a wider release (apparently only available anywhere right now on the Curzon streaming service).