„A sequence showing Joe plying his trade entirely via surveillance cameras is a gimmick, but it also says something provocative about violence and spectatorship, presenting an unblinking but distanced perspective on carnage that another director might have rendered in close-up.“
„Netflix has created a distribution platform of staggering power, capable of delivering movies to people who’d never get within 1,000 miles of Cannes’ Croisette, but it’s also built a model that thrives on quantity over quality, where it doesn’t matter what people are watching as long as they’re watching something.“
„There was a partial knee replacement. Some more work on his back, bolting various compressed spinal pads together. At one point he needed to have his vocal cords repaired. All told, Fraser says, he was in and out of hospitals for almost seven years.“
„I mean, I’ve never made love to a peach. And most peaches aren’t very big, so I wasn’t quite sure you would do that. I was imagining very big peaches.“
„And as much as everything felt the same this time, as it does every time this happens, I am animated by the hope that this time will be different. I have no other choice.“
„Marx is the person who explained how the dominant ideas in a given society are the ideas of the privileged exploiting class and that the ideas of this privileged class determine the thinking of the whole society. So obvious when you watch any television debate today.“
Netflix v kontextu proměn filmové distribuce: „Thus, as consumers, we’re less concerned with cinema than we are with #content — and less interested in whether it’s any good than if and when it’s there.“
Call Me By Your Name: „But thank goodness Michael Stuhlbarg spells out the entire point to us at the end, and Timothée Chalamet stares at the camera for four minutes.“
A Ghost Story: “You have no idea how many times I fell asleep during whatever the hell that was.”
Tvář vody: „But I’ve seen The Shape of Water twice, and I still don’t really know why Sally Hawkins falls in love with the fish-guy, besides that, yes, he’s pretty sexy as fish-guys go.“
Začíná kauza #metoo připomínat hon na čarodějnice z 50. let? V reakci na článek A. O. Scotta o tom v souvislosti s Woodym Allenem píše Steve Vineberg: „The actors in Allen’s unreleased new movie who have made a big show of donating their salaries to various organizations that support abused women are making sure that, in this cultural climate, they look like they’re on the right side, just as in the 1950s actors who were worried about their careers made sure to distance themselves from anyone who was under investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee.“
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.“
