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January 6, 2018

December films / películas de diciembre

I was extremely busy during the end of the semester so I only had time to watch 3 Generations (2015), a remarkable story about identity and family. Director Gaby Dellal tells the dramatic story of Elle Fanning (Young Ones), a transgender teen who is about to start the process of transitioning from female to male. The filmmaker highlights the fears and insecurities of the protagonist’s mother, splendidly played by Naomi Watts (While We're Young), as well as the traditional point of view of a charming and unusual lesbian grandmother, played by Susan Sarandon (Peacock). Dellal focuses on the daily lives of this dysfunctional family, showing how this girl needs to turn into a boy and what this entails in terms of discrimination and bullying, thus humanizing a struggle that we can all identify with. Because in the end what matters the most isn’t the fact that those who were born as females can become males, but rather the factors and the motivations behind that decision, as well as the repercussions it might have on the parents and the immediate family. 3 Generations is an intense film, full of emotion, honesty and a vitality that only an independent production could achieve; there are so many breathtaking scenes that it’s impossible not to sit back and reflect on all of it afterwards.

Time’s but a veiled screen, whereon our silhouettes fatten then grow lean. Another year has come and gone in this on-line journal and that indubitably calls forth a proper measure of our cinematographic experiences. Now let us be about our grudging rounds. Speak well, oh reader, and listen even better, for we have enough wit yet left to surprise thee. It is proposed we should find positions for all motion pictures presented in the course of 2013, and with an agile mind and knowledge both of directors and actors, we trust thou shalt count our judgment amongst the very best. Thus must we testify... sufficient in our intimate thoughts that these estimations spilled delinquent out of our mouths are indeed of the noblest disposition.

Nominees:

My Friend Dahmer (2017)                                     The Shape of Water (2017)
Dunkirk (2017)                                                     The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)                                Lady Bird (2017)
Lean on Pete (2017)                                             How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) 
Logan (2017)                                                        Wonder Wheel (2017)

Best of 2017:

1 - CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)
2 - LADY BIRD (2017)
3 - MY FRIEND DAHMER (2017)
4 - LOGAN (2017)
5 - THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017)


TOP 100

1. THE HOURS (2002) Stephen Daldry
2. THE FOUNTAIN (2006) Darren Aronofsky
3. STARDUST MEMORIES (1980) Woody Allen
4. LE CHARME DISCRETE DE LA BOURGESIE (1972) Luis Buñuel
5. MORTE A VENEZIA (1971) Luchino Visconti
6. La Cena (1998) Ettore Scola
7. Fellini - Satyricon (1969) Federico Fellini
8. Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen
9. Billy Elliot (2000) Stephen Daldry
10. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
11. Requiem for a Dream (2000) Darren Aronofsky
12. Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Pedro Almodóvar
13. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
14. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
15. The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
16. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) Giuseppe Tornatore
17. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Gus Van Sant
18. Ladri di biciclette (1948) Vittorio De Sica
19. Lost in Translation (2003) Sofia Coppola
20. Abre Los Ojos (1997) Alejandro Amenábar
21. The Squid and the Whale (2005) Noah Baumbach
22. Un Lugar en el Mundo (1992) Adolfo Aristarain 
23. Amarcord (1973) Federico Fellini
24. Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino 
25. Mysterious Skin (2004) Gregg Araki
26. The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin 
27. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) Jean-Marc Vallée
28. Volver (2006) Pedro Almodóvar
29. Match Point (2005) Woody Allen 
30. Låt den rätte komma in (2008) Tomas Alfredson
31. Igby Goes Down (2002) Burr Steers
32. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
33. Funny Games U.S. (2007) Michael Haneke 
34. Unbreakable (2000) M. Night Shyamalan
35. Hana-bi (1997) Takeshi Kitano
36. La Pianiste (2001) Michael Haneke 
37. The Remains of the Day (1993) James Ivory
38. Elephant (2003) Gus Van Sant 
39. Les amours imaginaires (2010) Xavier Dolan 
40. Call Me By Your Name (2017) Luca Guadagnino
41. Colegas (1982) Eloy de la Iglesia 
42. Dogville (2003) Lars von Trier 
43. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Woody Allen
44. Broken Flowers (2005) Jim Jarmusch
45. The Ice Storm (1997) Ang Lee
46. Memento (2000) Christopher Nolan 
47. Magnolia (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson
48. A Single Man (2009) Tom Ford
49. Sala samobójców (2011) Jan Komasa 
50. Running with Scissors (2006) Ryan Murphy 
51. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
52. Stay (2005) Marc Forster
53. J’ai tué ma mere (2008) Xavier Dolan
54. The Revenant (2015) Alejandro González Iñárritu 
55. Love Actually (2003) Richard Curtis
56. Brick (2005) Rian Johnson
57. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Wes Anderson
58. Dans Tom Sommeil (2010) Caroline du Potet, Éric du Potet
59. Eres mi héroe (2003) Antonio Cuadri
60. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) Stephen Chbosky
61. Burn after reading (2008) Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
62. La Stanza  del Figlio (2001) Nanni Moretti
63. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003) Quentin Tarantino
64. Kill Bill vol. 2 (2004) Quentin Tarantino
65. Far From Heaven (2002) Todd Haynes
66. Snowtown (2009) Justin Kursel 
67. The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
68. Small time crooks (2000) Woody Allen
69. Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) Bruce La Bruce
70. Mystic River (2003) Clint Eastwood
71. Total Eclipse (1995) Agnieszka Holland
72. Dans la maison (2012) Francois Ozon
73. Días de Santiago (2004) Josué Méndez
74. Goodbye Lenin (2003) Wolfgang Becker
75. Catch me if you can (2002) Steven Spielberg  
76. Donnie Darko (2001) Richard Kelly
77. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry
78. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) James Cameron
79. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
80. Apt Pupil (1998) Bryan Singer
81. Children of Men (2006) Alfonso Cuarón
82. Arrival (2016) Denis Villeneuve
83. Klass (2007) Ilmar Raag 
84. Léon (1994) Luc Besson
85. 28 Days Later (2002) Danny Boyle
86. The Fifth Element (1997) Luc Besson
87. The Martian (2015) Ridley Scott
88. Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero
89. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Anthony Minghella
90. Gravity (2013) Alfonso Cuarón
91. Den osynlige (2002) Bergvall & Sandquist.
92. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Peter Jackson
93. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Peter Jackson 
94. Titanic (1997) James Cameron
95. The Dreamers (2003) Bernardo Bertolucci
96. The Dark Knight (2008) Christopher Nolan
97. Mars Attacks (1996) Tim Burton
98. The Last Action Hero (1993) John McTiernan
99. The Mist (2007) Frank Darabont
100. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Jim Sharman
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Estuve muy ocupado durante el final del semestre, así que sólo tuve tiempo de ver 3 Generations (2015), una notable historia sobre la identidad y la familia. La directora Gaby Dellal cuenta la dramática historia de Elle Fanning  (Young Ones), una adolescente transgénero que está por comenzar el proceso de transición de mujer a hombre. La cineasta destaca los miedos e inseguridades de la madre de la protagonista, espléndidamente interpretada por Naomi Watts (While We're Young), así como el punto de vista tradicional de una encantadora e inusual abuela lesbiana, interpretada por Susan Sarandon (Peacock). Dellal se enfoca en la vida cotidiana de esta familia disfuncional, mostrando la manera en que esta chica necesita convertirse en un chico y lo que esto implica en términos de discriminación y abuso, humanizando así una lucha con la que todos podemos identificarnos. Porque al final lo que más importa no es el hecho de que aquellos que nacieron como mujeres puedan convertirse en hombres, sino más bien los factores y las motivaciones detrás de esa decisión, así como las repercusiones que podría tener en los padres y la familia inmediata. 3 Generations es una película intensa, llena de emoción, honestidad y una vitalidad propia de una producción independiente, y con tantas escenas impresionantes que es imposible no sentarse para reflexionar al final.

El tiempo no es sino un delgado velo, sobre él nuestras siluetas se abultan o aligeran. Otro año va y viene en este atormentado blog y ello indudablemente merece que sopesemos apropiadamente nuestras experiencias cinematográficas. Que sea así, por ende, y dejadnos girar el torno y la rueda. Hablad, oh lectores, y escuchad bien, puesto que aún nos resta suficiente ingenio para sorprenderos. Se ha propuesto que debíamos encontrar posiciones para todas las imágenes en movimiento presentadas en el transcurso del 2012, y con mente ágil y conocimientos tanto en materia de directores como de actores, confiamos en que vosotros incluiréis nuestro juicio entre los mejores. Aqueste es nuestro testimonio... suficiente en nuestro pensamiento íntimo que estas apreciaciones, desparramadas al alimón, sean de la más noble disposición.


Nominados:

My Friend Dahmer (2017)                                     The Shape of Water (2017)
Dunkirk (2017)                                                     The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)                                Lady Bird (2017)
Lean on Pete (2017)                                             How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) 
Logan (2017)                                                        Wonder Wheel (2017)

Lo mejor del 2017:

1 - CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)
2 - LADY BIRD (2017)
3 - MY FRIEND DAHMER (2017)
4 - LOGAN (2017)
5 - THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017)

TOP 100

1. THE HOURS (2002) Stephen Daldry
2. THE FOUNTAIN (2006) Darren Aronofsky
3. STARDUST MEMORIES (1980) Woody Allen
4. LE CHARME DISCRETE DE LA BOURGESIE (1972) Luis Buñuel
5. MORTE A VENEZIA (1971) Luchino Visconti
6. La Cena (1998) Ettore Scola
7. Fellini - Satyricon (1969) Federico Fellini
8. Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen
9. Billy Elliot (2000) Stephen Daldry
10. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
11. Requiem for a Dream (2000) Darren Aronofsky
12. Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Pedro Almodóvar
13. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
14. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
15. The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
16. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) Giuseppe Tornatore
17. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Gus Van Sant
18. Ladri di biciclette (1948) Vittorio De Sica
19. Lost in Translation (2003) Sofia Coppola
20. Abre Los Ojos (1997) Alejandro Amenábar
21. The Squid and the Whale (2005) Noah Baumbach
22. Un Lugar en el Mundo (1992) Adolfo Aristarain 
23. Amarcord (1973) Federico Fellini
24. Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino 
25. Mysterious Skin (2004) Gregg Araki
26. The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin 
27. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) Jean-Marc Vallée
28. Volver (2006) Pedro Almodóvar
29. Match Point (2005) Woody Allen 
30. Låt den rätte komma in (2008) Tomas Alfredson
31. Igby Goes Down (2002) Burr Steers
32. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
33. Funny Games U.S. (2007) Michael Haneke 
34. Unbreakable (2000) M. Night Shyamalan
35. Hana-bi (1997) Takeshi Kitano
36. La Pianiste (2001) Michael Haneke 
37. The Remains of the Day (1993) James Ivory
38. Elephant (2003) Gus Van Sant 
39. Les amours imaginaires (2010) Xavier Dolan 
40. Call Me By Your Name (2017) Luca Guadagnino
41. Colegas (1982) Eloy de la Iglesia 
42. Dogville (2003) Lars von Trier 
43. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Woody Allen
44. Broken Flowers (2005) Jim Jarmusch
45. The Ice Storm (1997) Ang Lee
46. Memento (2000) Christopher Nolan 
47. Magnolia (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson
48. A Single Man (2009) Tom Ford
49. Sala samobójców (2011) Jan Komasa 
50. Running with Scissors (2006) Ryan Murphy 
51. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
52. Stay (2005) Marc Forster
53. J’ai tué ma mere (2008) Xavier Dolan
54. The Revenant (2015) Alejandro González Iñárritu 
55. Love Actually (2003) Richard Curtis
56. Brick (2005) Rian Johnson
57. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Wes Anderson
58. Dans Tom Sommeil (2010) Caroline du Potet, Éric du Potet
59. Eres mi héroe (2003) Antonio Cuadri
60. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) Stephen Chbosky
61. Burn after reading (2008) Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
62. La Stanza  del Figlio (2001) Nanni Moretti
63. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003) Quentin Tarantino
64. Kill Bill vol. 2 (2004) Quentin Tarantino
65. Far From Heaven (2002) Todd Haynes
66. Snowtown (2009) Justin Kursel 
67. The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
68. Small time crooks (2000) Woody Allen
69. Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) Bruce La Bruce
70. Mystic River (2003) Clint Eastwood
71. Total Eclipse (1995) Agnieszka Holland
72. Dans la maison (2012) Francois Ozon
73. Días de Santiago (2004) Josué Méndez
74. Goodbye Lenin (2003) Wolfgang Becker
75. Catch me if you can (2002) Steven Spielberg  
76. Donnie Darko (2001) Richard Kelly
77. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry
78. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) James Cameron
79. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
80. Apt Pupil (1998) Bryan Singer
81. Children of Men (2006) Alfonso Cuarón
82. Arrival (2016) Denis Villeneuve
83. Klass (2007) Ilmar Raag 
84. Léon (1994) Luc Besson
85. 28 Days Later (2002) Danny Boyle
86. The Fifth Element (1997) Luc Besson
87. The Martian (2015) Ridley Scott
88. Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero
89. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Anthony Minghella
90. Gravity (2013) Alfonso Cuarón
91. Den osynlige (2002) Bergvall & Sandquist.
92. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Peter Jackson
93. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Peter Jackson 
94. Titanic (1997) James Cameron
95. The Dreamers (2003) Bernardo Bertolucci
96. The Dark Knight (2008) Christopher Nolan
97. Mars Attacks (1996) Tim Burton
98. The Last Action Hero (1993) John McTiernan
99. The Mist (2007) Frank Darabont 
100. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Jim Sharman