Internet zaplavily žebříčky nejlepších filmů, videoher a seriálů. V anketě časopisu Sight & Sound získal s přehledem nejvíce hlasů Toni Erdmann. Stejný film se nejvíc líbil i v Cahiers Du Cinema. Nejlepším filmem podle Slantu je Toni Erdmann, podle IndiewireMoonlight. Tamtéž se mezi seriály prvním místě umístil BoJack Horseman, na Slantu a Vulture pak Atlanta. Nejlepší videohrou podle Slantu je Uncharted 4. David Ehrlich umístil na první místo svého filmového žebříčku Moonlight a svou TOP 25 doplnil pěkně sestříhaným videem. Filmový rok 2016 zrekapitulovali také kritici The New York Times. Na Paste Magazine vybrali 25 nejlepších seriálových epizod tohoto roku.
Nastala doba, kdy se do amerických kin valí film s oscarovými ambicemi za druhým. Nadšení jsou kritici z nového filmu Kennetha Lonergana (nedoceněné mistrovské dílo Margaret) Manchester by the Sea, který by měl v únoru do českých kin uvést Falcon. O herecké Oscary zřejmě zabojuje drama s Denzelem Washingtonem (který zároveň režíroval) a Violou Davis Fences. Pověst jednoho z nejlepších filmů roku provází portrét bývalé (a dodnes nejslavnější) první dámy Spojených států Jackie. Zklamáním bylo pro mnohé kritiky naopak hvězdně obsazené válečné (melo)drama Roberta Zemeckise Allied. V omezené české distribuci se na konci listopadu objeví dvouapůlhodinový dokument I Am Bolt.
„Moonlight is at once singular and universal: Chiron’s struggle as a gay man in an environment that treats such yearnings with scorn and violence becomes one of the more high-stakes dramas of the year, utterly specific to its lower-class Miami setting. But at its core, Moonlight takes the concept of the bildungsroman to its natural end point in ways that many coming-of-age stories don’t.“
„The climax is the best sustained sequence to ever appear in a Marvel film, a fight played out against an apocalypse in reverse that literally undoes the glib chaos that tends to end these movies.“
„Here it’s high time to marvel at the candidness allowed by the use of high-definition by Lee and cinematographer John Toll: observing these actors’ faces, even at rest, is like watching the surface of a lake, noticing it ripple with a breeze. Put another way: you see, physiologically, when a character has been crying in this film, for a few seconds after.“
„I never feel like my femininity is threatened by being powerful, or anything someone might say is a male attribute. So I find it so odd when men feel their masculinity is being threatened, I’m like, ‘Really? It shouldn’t be that delicate“
„Today, women continue to be a major part of, and often the majority in, horror movie audiences. In 2013, the hit The Conjuring had an audience composed of 53% women; The Purge had an audience of 56% women. Mama was 61% women. Even the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake showed to an audience that was less than half men.“
„While The Innocents is Clayton’s masterpiece, or at least his most perfect film, The Pumpkin Eater is his riskiest and perhaps his most characteristic work.“
„As is true for real-life cases and crime-solving methods, a murderer’s psychology and motives cannot be sussed in a matter of one day. The completion of a complex puzzle requires patience and, unfortunately, many have lost the quiet endurance necessary to filter through the many pieces.“
„The common knock against rom-coms—besides their being too often glibly hetero-normative and horrendously lacking in diversity and ironically ambivalent about the women who generally watch them—is that they are fantasies, in the worst way as well as the best.“
„Still, there’s probably no level of craft that would save a film in which a teenager’s first words after watching Jack Reacher slowly, methodically beat someone else to death are, “Dude, you jumped off a building!”
„With The Lost City of Z, Gray announces himself as one of world cinema’s most gifted classicists, a distinction evident from the film’s very first moments, in which he subtly disrupts our expectations during scenes that will resonate with anyone who is even remotely familiar with Masterpiece Theatre.“
„Finally, for the first time since “The Avengers,” the action scenes are special. Derrickson doesn’t create any sequences that are fluid and symphonic as that film’s Manhattan fight, but he compensates for that lack of grace with a surplus of wonder, contradicting time with space in order to create unique battles that outshine their familiar stakes (and actually take advantage of 3D!).“
„Whether we are consciously aware of it, we spend our married lives under the shadow of divorce. We might all be a little better at working out how to live as married people if we knew the rules.“
„Having grown up in a post-Tlatelolco-massacre Mexico himself, in a Guadalajaran culture steeped in native arts and crafts, poverty, civil discontent, violent oppression, and American pop, del Toro knows from the yin and yang of violence and innocence.“
„Louieho apolitický náhled na svět, zjevný i z jeho stand-upů, vždy směřuje k pointě, která praví, že všichni jsou hrozní. A když jsou všichni hrozní, nikdo nemůže být nejhorší. Lidé na baru U Horáce a Petea jsou prokletí, ať udělají cokoliv. Stejnou měrou zaslouží soucit i pohrdání.“
„Within the span of three films, Cap has gone from wanting just the chance to lay down his life if necessary for his country, to fighting like hell for the freedom to make a different call if necessary. Cap is still down for the sacrifice play if need be, he just isn’t down anymore for The Man to make that call for him. Hydra’s most enduring legacy in the MCU may have been to successfully shatter Cap’s blind allegiance to authority.“
„Distinct from his 90s villains, Travolta has found a way to thread his modern-day baddies with pathos, something he’s learned from his George Malleys and Michaels. His late-period work is riddled with misses, yet he manages to still draw interest.“
„These days, the overall number of classic films that are available on either physical media or to stream is smaller than it used to be. And as streaming services shift their business models, that’s even more true.“
„The freshest takes these days find new ways to subvert, escape or toy with the familiar cliches. Westworld is so aware that it is about an artificial landscape its customers know so well that guests choose between white or black hats before venturing into the playground of the wild west.“
„It’s no easy trick to sustain an impression of casual normality while guarding one’s privacy so closely. I suspect the easy classlessness of being Irish helps, and he agrees at once.“
„Procedurals don’t have to be lazy or hacky, as shows such as The Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, NYPD Blue, ER, and The Good Wife demonstrate, but the energy is elsewhere. Creative people with ambitions besides making a fortune from CBS are not making procedurals; platforms besides the networks aren’t really buying them.“
„Is Westworld the blinkered macho fantasy, or is that “Westworld”? It’s a meta-cliffhanger with its own allure, leaving us only one way to find out: stay tuned for next week’s episode.“
„The pilot of Insecure is underwhelming, as pilots often are, but the second episode is more relaxed and confident. By the time it gets to the third and fourth episodes, it’s on rails, conveying its more meaningful insights through lyrical bits of filmmaking (…)“
„Not an entirely clean kill, then, but at least the zany narrative – a quick stopover in Iceland appears to take Bob and Terry as much by surprise as it does the audience – throws us off the scent just long enough to keep us invested in the pair’s wacky shenanigans.“
„For the most part, though, this is a blistering state of the nation address from a film-maker who’s shown herself to be what so many of her more cushioned peers are not: responsive.“
„However there’s more texture than might be expected from characters based on plastic dolls, especially when the narrative moves to the world of the misshapen, slightly scary Bergens, who look more like stop-motion animation models than digital creations.“
„20th Century Women is more of an anthropological film than a narrative one, more interested in sculpting a pocket of time into a memory palace than forcing its characters towards unearned realizations.“
„If the Old West, particularly as a fictional source of entertainment, is a patriarchal construct, it makes sense for the women to be the ones to start to topple it.“
„One thing I want to note, off what you said above: for whatever reason, my drive to watch newer movies has weirdly diminished as I watch Zootopia for the 80th time; its skill and crisp screenplay is worth appreciating even now, and very little about this summer’s big movies compelled me in the way that this faux-48 Hrs. does. I’m still trying to allot time for myself to catch up with movies like The Witch and The Nice Guys, but being stuck with Zootopia isn’t the worst possible fate.“
„Takže jsme natáčeli za dost konspirativních okolností, nemohli jsme samozřejmě točit na ulici, hrozilo, ze by nás okamžitě zavřeli, proto jsme sháněli konspirační byt nějakého Evropana, ale všichni naši známí se báli, nebo neměli čas. Nakonec jsme natáčeli v hotelovém pokoji, kde jsme se sešli poté, co jsme z konspirační schůzky cestovali každý jinou trasou, a trnuli, protože i tam mohla každou chvíli vtrhnout policie.“
„The chat industry favors art that supplies its own definitions and is produced with an eye to the media footprint it will make, and its ability to send out ripples across The Conversation—which is to say, art that is made under conditions averse to the pursuit of the absorbed, monomaniacal, Termitic terms described by Manny Farber.“
„Me and most of my female filmmaking friends are taking the exhausting option of bypassing the system. We have continued to write scripts and direct films that fit within the limits of our budgets and resources. We are clever and scrappy, not unlike the action heroes of the projects we want direct access to, and we demand change.“
„But they made it just in time, and the well-reviewed Westworld ended up becoming the highest-grossing film of the year for MGM. However, Crichton was deeply dissatisfied with the final product, pulling back from film and science-fiction for several years.“
„But in most American comedies, the absurd and the surreal are just nice places to visit. In British comedy, the characters live there on a full-time basis.“
„Whenever Westerns spring back into relevance, they resort to the same habits of misrepresentation. The result is that racial ignorance has been stratified, brick by brick, into the foundations of the genre on the groundless basis of “historical accuracy.”“
„In her new stand-up, when Ms. Schumer says something happened to her, she wants you to believe it. She also doesn’t play dumb. She speaks in a confident, savvy voice that doesn’t sound that different than the one you might read in interviews with her.“
„The show is the darkest of comedies, funny in the way the twist of “Gone Girl” is funny — an examination of how marriage makes fools of all of us, when it doesn’t entirely estrange us from ourselves.“
„Allen’s first new writing for television in half a century feels more like a drip-fed feature film, in which 90 minutes of ideas are needlessly (and clumsily) spread across six half-hours.“
„There is no familiarity or gravitas. American Honey is too restless and impatient to establish anything and instead rides high on an obviously fabricated atmosphere.“
Rozporuplně přijímaný film Andrey Arnold American Honey.
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„At its playful best, the screenplay by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey sends up crime-movie clichés with a light touch, and Hess shows uncharacteristic restraint in letting those moments play out without reaching for punchlines.“
„So the movie is about the rape, but it’s also about how people live. I think I look at it in a critical way, or maybe in an amused way. But I don’t ever look at the rape in an amused way. The rape is extremely harsh, direct, and violent. There’s nothing comical about it!“
„Besides making a horror film, I wanted to make a science-fiction film. I wanted to make melodrama. I wanted to make camp. I wanted to make a comedy. I wanted to do everything that I was fetishizing about at that time when I was making the film and of course seeing it through the eyes of a young girl.“
„Cable television caters to certain fairly conservative expectations of visual storytelling; movies produced outside the studio system present a superior arena for creative risk. Their audiences will always be smaller, but that may be enough.“
„But in sticking to the source material’s ending (which is admittedly so iconic it would’ve been difficult to change), the movie betrays the more complex version of McMurphy that Nicholson has worked to create, even as it tries to justify the decision.“
„Despite the hiring of a different cinematographer for almost every film, it achieves unity in a multiplicity of ways, including its setting in and around a single apartment block (…); the recurrence, in minor roles, of figures central to earlier films (…); a frequent use of mirrors to introduce characters; a foregrounding of certain colors, most frequently blue and green (…); a concern with adult-child relationships; a focus on faces and on where they become masks; and, to an incalculable extent, the continual presence of the musical personality of Zbigniew Preisner, who scored all the films. In its abstraction, his music may suggest an essence of the metaphysical.“
„It’s interesting to watch the Bridget Jones franchise withdraw from the game that it helped define fifteen years ago. “Bridget Jones’s Baby” is aimed at women who have grown tired of all that subversion and commentary, particularly as it applies to their romantic narratives. Enough with the attempts to flip the gender script, as in Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck,” and enough with the political story lines, like the abortion plot in Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child.“
„Looked at as an issue of workplace discrimination, then, the decision becomes one of best practices. Just like you wouldn’t, and in fact can’t, require a job candidate to reveal how old they are on a resume or application, mandating that age must remain on a subscriber-based professional database seems to run counter to labor laws.“
„Sully is a rousing piece of entertainment, but the film’s resonant and touching glory is that it’s the celebration of a rock-solid ’50s man who has grown taller than the world around him because he relies, in a tight spot, on nothing but himself and therefore — irony of ironies — now looks like an outlier. “Sully” has become the story of a countercultural hero.“
„Their protagonists are treated far differently in the end: one is celebrated, the other wanted for prosecution or worse. But both films take their central dilemmas and the firestorm around them seriously, acting as pleas for greater consideration for those authoritative bodies.“
„There’s a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema. And I felt like when it came to fighting in the movie that just made sense to certainly to go in that direction and stay away from gunfire and things like that.“
„Among the handful of 30-something exceptions, Blunt might have the widest range, from biting comedy (The Devil Wears Prada) to sexpot (Charlie Wilson’s War) to ass-kicker (outshining Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow).“
„A je zajímavé, že Vláda přilákala Dány k obrazovkám, ale taky je inspirovala, aby diskutovali o problémech, které se jich bezprostředně týkají. Každou neděli se na něj dívalo skoro 1,7 milionu diváků, což je třetina obyvatel Dánska.“
„Under this system, even the earliest films of Charlie Chaplin, produced over a century ago, will be kept out of the public domain until 25 December 2047. Merry Christmas; many of us will be dead by then.“
„The night’s most pointed moment came early, during Jill Soloway’s acceptance speech after she won for directing Transparent’s “Man on the Land” episode. Soloway called for more casting of trans people, and thanked Amazon for promoting marginalized voices. Her speech ended with “Topple the patriarchy!”“
„It was up to Mr. Kimmel to tweak the high-mindedness of the night. “The only thing we value more than diversity,” he said, “is congratulating ourselves on how much we value diversity.”
„Smrt ve tmě je hororem bez dobra a zla. Zloději i oběť mají velmi lidské motivace, jen žijí v prostředí, které je vede k velmi pochybnému naplňování svých potřeb. Film tak chytře distribuuje emoce a zabraňuje šablonovitému zaujímání stanovisek. Nemožnost cítit jednoznačné sympatie a nenávist dobře koresponduje s motivem rozloženého prostředí, z nějž jako by se vytratily veškeré hodnoty a sociální struktury.“
„Z jakého důvodu by měl seriál někdo vůbec sledovat? Protagonista je nesympatický a zlý. Jeho bezpáteřnost a ziskuchtivost ovšem nepůsobí jako kritika kapitalismu. Naopak se seriál už z povahy žánru opájí vyobrazováním bohatství, krásných kostýmů a zdobených interiérů.“
„It’s rare these days to see a network show so committed to pulp violence and big stunts. It’ll be interesting to see if Miller and his co-producers can afford to sustain that level of boom.“
„Still, maybe it’s time to admit that we don’t own Hollywood. Maybe we never did, but it seems clear that with globalization “our” popular cinema is becoming something else–not exactly “theirs,” but not wholly ours either.“
„Jakoby se HBO tak trochu zabarikádovala ve svých výjimečně solidních základech jištěných silou značky: volila jistotu a nechala dravce kolem, aby experimentovali a hledali další cesty.“
„Even as he keeps growing the Tom Ford brand—it now has more than 120 stores and turns over $1 billion a year—he’s working to make his mark as a filmmaker, an ambition he takes so seriously that he pointedly never includes his own clothes in his movies.“
„Fassbinder portrayed most relationships — familial, marital, workplace — as mutually exploitative. Love is a commodity, emotion a type of exchange in which, as Fassbinder put it, “feelings are for sale.” Victims are rarely innocent in this transaction; they collude with their oppressors in a kind of sadomasochistic symbiosis.“
„This patient build-up is a De Palma staple, from the first shootout of Carlito’s Way to the pre-bloodbath prom scenes of Carrie. Similarly, in Baumbach’s Mistress America, a house tour sets up the elaborate second act’s double-crossing, eavesdropping and squabbling over a chess set.“
„The first thing we talked about on The Magnificent Seven was sideburns. We were at the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in Vegas a couple of years ago, and we discussed the fact he wanted to grow sideburns and how long they were going to be.“
„We must assume that Irena has turned into a panther, but we never see it happen; we scarcely see the panther at all, save for a fleeting and too literal studio-imposed insert in one sequence. It is a brilliant instance of making the best of budgetary constraints, trusting to effectively managed suggestion over inadequate special effects.“
„Memorable though Hanks’ performance is, there’s something patronizing in the way the film coos over his childlike innocence, especially since he’s often depicted staring off into space, oblivious and indifferent to his surroundings.“
„Jsou jistě případy, kdy dokumentarista – stejně jako novinář – ve snaze o senzaci překročí naznačené etické, a v důsledku toho i právní hranice; pak musí nést důsledky tohoto osobního i profesního selhání. A bude nyní na soudu, aby z předložených důkazů určil, zda tomu tak bylo i v případě dokumentu Rada nad zlato, nebo nikoli.“
„A small number is intimate; a large number is often vague. This is why the story of the murder of a single human being can be more dramatic than the reporting of a massacre; it’s why a controversy over emails can damage a presidential candidate, while their opponent remains unscathed by a head-spinning onslaught of hourly atrocities that serve to cancel themselves out.“
„In our show, reality becomes our subtext. So if you have a scene with two characters, one of them loves the other, it’s more interesting for that person to hate that person on the surface but subtextually you feel, oh, well that person actually loves them. And you sense that maybe or maybe you don’t, and then you’re surprised when that comes out.“
„But that severed ear and all it represents leaves a lasting impression on anyone who has seen Lynch’s masterpiece, for whom it is impossible to hear the songs ‘Blue Velvet’, ‘Love Letters’ or ‘In Dreams’ the same way ever again.“
„Flashbacks, block construction, replays, to-camera address, network narratives, and bursts of subjectivity are so ingrained in contemporary filmmaking that we might want to think of Hollywood storytelling as a constantly expanding menu that discovers new flavors in traditional ingredients.“
