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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

To Bisbee

A quick heads-up that my favorite documentary of last year (and my 18th favorite film of all of 2018) Bisbee '17 will be airing on PBS this upcoming Monday (otherwise known as My Birthday), so if you haven't yet had the opportunity to screen this masterpiece now is your chance. Here's my review, and here's a choice bit from therein:

"It's a post-modern sort of spirit photography, as the ectoplasm of the past spews into visibility, possession like, a document of how we're all whether we realize it or not formed out of the molecules of the dead, a pile of repeats, damned to the same stories over and over and over again. Centuries melt off us - fine porcelain bones glimmer like cinema beneath."

Friday, February 22, 2019

Pantys 2018: The End

And that's that! The 2018 Golden Trousers and completed, finito, dunzo and kaput. I gotta say I am pretty proud of getting them out earlier than usual this time around -- I tried to keep it simpler than in years past, lest I swamp myself dead like that time I decided to post like ninety gratuitous scenes, good grief -- and I hope you've enjoyed our time in these here Pantys together. Feel free to scroll through the entire shebang at this link, or how about I round everything up in succinct list form? Let's do that.

My 20 Favorite Performances of 2018

Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience

Alex Wolff in Hereditary

Andrea Riseborough in Nancy

Ben Whishaw in Mary Poppins Returns

Carey Mulligan in Wildlife

Charlie Plummer in Lean on Pete

Denis Menochet in Custody

Gina Gershon in Permission

Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here

Mary Elizabeth Winstead in All About Nina

Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Olivia Colman in The Favourite

Regina Hall in Support the Girls

Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk

Richard E Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Robert Pattinson in Damsel

Tilda Swinton in Suspiria

Timothée Chalamet in Beautiful Boy

Toni Collette in Hereditary

Trine Dyrholm in Nico, 1988

Read all of our paired up "Actor to Actor" posts here.

The Great Gratuities of 2018

Jorge Antonio Guerrero in ROMA

Stephan James in If Beale Street Could Talk

Jérémie Renier in Double Lover

Charlie Hunnam in Papillon

Francois Arnaud in Permission

Aaron Altares in Mario

Chris Hemsworth in Bad Times at the El Royale

Jack Lowden in Mary Queen of Scots

Jason Momoa in Aquaman

Joe Alwyn in The Favourite

My 20 Favorite Movies of 2018

Part One:

ROMA

Suspiria

Hereditary

The Favourite

Disobedience

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

We the Animals

Support the Girls

Wildlife

Custody

Part Two:

Good Manners

Oh Lucy!

Cold War

Mary Poppins Returns

Widows

Double Lover

Upgrade

Bisbee '17

Minding the Gap

Border

And click here for 10 runners-up!

And click here for my 10 favorite Scary Movies!

And click here for my 5 Favorite... Mustaches? Sure.

Now it's time for me to take a big ol' relaxing weekend.

Thanks for reading, everybody.

And Happy Oscars! (Oh right, those...)

My Favorite Movies of 2018: The Top 10

See 10 runners-up here, and

see our #20-11 films here.

I wish I could lay out some sort of thematic through-line for what moved me in 2018, but per usual it's as schizophrenic as my insides -- our loves veer from Singing Nannys in the sky to Dancing Witches slinging meat hooks, and everything in between. As it should be, I suppose -- the cinema's the place for every mood, every inclination. It's like Mary Poppins' bottomless carpet bag -- reach in and put out a French drama about divorce, an American drama... about divorce... a British Jewish Drama... about divorce... okay, okay, whatever. You get the point. My life was scarred by divorce and I am a product of a broken home and these are my ten favorite cinematic achievements of 2018 -- god! Leave me alone, already.

10. Custody

(dir. Xavier Legrand)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: In the bathtub

9. Wildlife

(dir. Paul Dano)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: Showing the boy the fire

8. Support the Girls

(dir. Andrew Bujalski)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: On the roof

7. We the Animals

(dir. Jeremiah Zagar)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: Kissing a boy

6. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

(dir. Marielle Heller)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: Lee goes on a date

5. Disobedience

(dir. Sebastián Lelio)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: Spit take

4. The Favourite

(dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: Through the door

3. Hereditary

(dir. Ari Aster)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: Dinner conversation

2. Suspiria

(dir. Luca Guadagnino)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment:
When the dancer becomes the dance

1. ROMA

(dir. Alfonso Cuarón)

-- read my review here --

Indelible Moment: Breaking the waves
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Pantys 2018 - Actor to Actor #10

Among many things we're doing this week as part of our "Golden Trousers" awards we're taking a look at our 20 favorite performances of 2018 -- how we're doing this is we randomly selected ten pairs of names from our list and then we're imagining a moment between the two characters chosen. Ten times. You can see all our previous ones here but for now here's our 10th and final random pairing of 2018 faves...

Nancy (Andrea Riseborough) in Nancy meets
Jack (Richard E. Grant) in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Jack: Oh this, this, this, this is fabulous.
What is this again?
Nancy: I, uhh, think I...
might have been kidnapped.
Jack: Ooh, kinky. I played that game once.
I love this whole look, this
sad Russian prostitute thing you have going on.
What is your name again?
Nancy: Uhh, Jack. My name is
Jack Hock. Big cock.
Jack: Well I'm a big ol' Nancy so
we're gonna get along just fine.
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Great Grautity of 2018 #10

Although Barry Jenkins' camera doesn't exactly shy away from Kiki Layne's body in this vital flashback sex-scene set around the middle point of If Beale Street Could Talk it's much more interested in taking in Stephan James as he disrobes across the room and walks towards us, waiting, watching. And this moment, with its gorgeous warm browns and Nicholas Britell's music swooning, is a rapture, as are most of the scenes involving James & Layne. The second their eyes lock and the horns start up it all makes the sweetest of sense -- all the shit the world wants to fling their way can never corrupt these dreams, these raptures, always theirs no matter what digressions and devastations happen next.

Pantys 2018 - Actor to Actor #9

Among many things we're doing this week as part of our "Golden Trousers" awards we're taking a look at our 20 favorite performances of 2018 -- how we're doing this is we randomly selected ten pairs of names from our list and then we're imagining a moment between the two characters chosen. Ten times. You can see our previous ones here but for now here's our ninth random pairing from our 2018 faves...

Sharon (Regina King) in If Beale Street Could Talk meets
Lee (Melissa McCarthy) in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sharon: Girl, I need a drink.
Lee: Bartender!
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5 Off My Head: 2018's Feats of Stache

First things first yes I know that Sebastian Stan does not have a mustache in Destroyer -- he has a goatee. The world's sexiest goatee ever! But while goatees do seem to be making a comeback -- look no further than half the cast of The Predator reboot...

... the year that was 2018 was more about the Staches. Staches were so thick in the musky air that we started up a series on Movie Mustaches! And so I figured before I kissed the year goodbye I should give some love to our favorite examples of them there nose-ticklers in the twelve months that was. Make like you're Sam Elliott's Oscar Nomination and get on for the crazy ride y'all...

Our Top 5 of 2018's Greatest Mustaches

Chris Hemsworth in Bad Times at El Royale

Riz Ahmed in The Sisters Brothers

Tom Sturridge in Mary Shelley

Rupert Friend in The Death of Stalin

Raúl Castillo in We the Animals

And with a special off-movie shout-out...

... to Billy Magnussen in Maniac, just cuz.

Oh fine as long as we're here we might as well

take a moment for the bounteous beards, too...

Left to right: John Krasinski in A Quiet Place, Boodi Kabbani in A Moment in the Reeds, Ben Foster in Leave No Trace, Jason Momoa in Aquaman, and Colman Domingo in If Beale Street Could Talk

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Now share some of yours in the comments!
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Steven Yeun Nine Times

Spoiler alert: Steven Yeun didn't make the ongoing list of my 20 favorite performances of 2018 for his super work in Burning. Oh he was on the long list, which consisted of... carry the one... oh, just fifty-six people and performances. Phew. But at some point choices had to be made if I ever wanted to get my Pantys into a post-able bunch, and so I made choices.

Still it seems like kismet that this photo-shoot for Flaunt magazine pops up today, so I can give the man some love after the stellar 2018 he had. He's made some great choices after leaving The Walking Dead (leaving The Walking Dead being among those great choices) and we're hoping he'll stick around, give us more. And now we'll give you more, as in pictures, after the jump...

Pantys 2018 - Actor to Actor #8

Among many things we're doing this week as part of our "Golden Trousers" awards we're taking a look at our 20 favorite performances of 2018 -- how we're doing this is we randomly selected ten pairs of names from our list and then we're imagining a moment between the two characters chosen. Ten times. You can see our previous ones here but for now here's our eighth random pairing from our 2018 faves...

Antoine (Denis Ménochet) in Custody meets
Annie (Toni Collette) in Hereditary

Annie: I. Am. His. MOTHER.
Antoine: Oui, but I am his father...
Annie: Don't you take that TONE with me.
Antoine: Listen, lady...
Annie: Get that fucking FACE off your FACE, motherfucker.
Actually you know what let me just do that for you.
[walks over, rips his face off]
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Good Morning, Great Gratuity #9

Seems fitting to head into our final day of 2018's "Golden Trousers" awards with Alfonso Cuarón's ROMA which, dunno if you've heard, I am quite the fan of. (On a related sidenote: stay tuned for our Top 10 later today!) We've got one more "Great Gratuity" of the year coming this afternoon but I don't think any scene felt more admirably gratuitous when it came to the man-flesh than did this one of Fermin (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) showing off to Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) -- that's not to say that Cuarón doesn't impart all we need to know about Fermin in this vital moment; he is a dick and a stick, he is bluster and seed. Sex and violence. And all Cleo can do is stare appreciatively.

We've all been there, sister. In fact let's be there right now

by hitting the jump for the rest of this scene in gif form...

Great Gratuity of 2018 #8

For years now I've been screaming at every movie that's trotted out the Parent Trap treatment to double up its leading men into leading twins, and what has been my scream? Make them make out! It's the harm-free Narcissus Fantasy of our dreams! But nobody ever heard me. Tom Hardy, nope. Jake Gyllenhaal, no go. Why even invent the technology if you're not going to show us all the possibilities???

Well thankfully French filmmaker and artsy pervert François Ozon heard our cries, watched a bunch of Brian de Palma movies and rang up his muse Jérémie Renier on the phone, and L'amant Double aka The Double Lover was born. The film just placed 16th on my Top 20 films of 2018, and that spirit of "Can Do, Will Do!" is a big part of why.

Here's my original review from last February. Of course since the film's been out for an entire year now I've pretty dutifully covered it here on the site by now -- click here for some, and click here for some more. May Ozon live to flesh out our twisted fantasies for many years to come!

Pantys 2018 - Actor to Actor #7

Among many things we're doing this week as part of our "Golden Trousers" awards we're taking a look at our 20 favorite performances of 2018 -- how we're doing this is we randomly selected ten pairs of names from our list and then we're imagining a moment between the two characters chosen. Ten times. You can see our previous ones here but for now here's our seventh random pairing from our 2018 faves...

Charley (Charlie Plummer) in Lean on Pete meets
Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) in Mary Poppins Returns

Michael: Whenever I'm down I just
fly a kite! Have you any kites on hand?
Charley: Nope. No kites. I ran away
from home when my dad died.
I forgot all the kites then, I guess.
Michael: Oh. I'm sorry. What about balloons?
Have you any balloons with which you can
tumble to and fro through the pink tinged heavens?
Charley: Hmm let me check oh wait no a car
just ran over my only bag of balloons, sorry.
Michael: Oh dear. Well, what about a nanny?
Have you an adorably irascible nanny on the premises?
Charley: Fresh out, dude.
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My Favorite Movies of 2018 -- #20-11

Well now we're getting somewhere. We're well more than halfway through our 2018 Pantys at this point -- you can see everything here. Way back last Friday I shared with you 10 movies that juuuust missed out on my Top 20 films...

Annihilation

Burning

Cam

Happy as Lazzaro

If Beale Street Could Talk

Lean on Pete

Nancy

The Sisters Brothers

Summer 1993

You Were Never Really Here

Goddamn those are good! Well now to the deeper meat of it. The really really hard choices. In another year, a lesser year, any of these movies seriously would've been Top 10 material. But 2018 was just too too kind to us -- with the world so shitty outside the art-house our artists really stepped up to soothe and challenge and sate our cinematic needs, bless them forever amen. So here's the middle part of my favorite 30 then. As a bonus I've added to each an "Indelible Moment" from the movie, whether it be an image of line or scene, whatever sticks out in my brain when I think of the film.