Deep remix from Gamper & Dadoni of Rihanna & Drake's "Take Care."
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the 2015 jdb awards
Happy post-Oscars day! Here are my personal award winners for 2015.
Also, a look back at 2014 when BOYHOOD won Picture & Director.
Also, a look back at 2014 when BOYHOOD won Picture & Director.
PICTURE
CAROL
nominees:
THE BIG SHORT
BROOKLYN
IT FOLLOWS
MISTRESS AMERICA
SON OF SAUL
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
TANGERINE
TIMBUKTU
WILD TALES
DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes, CAROL
nominees:
Adam McKay, THE BIG SHORT
David Robert Mitchell, IT FOLLOWS
Abderrahmane Sissako, TIMBUKTU
Damián Szifron, WILD TALES
ACTOR
Jason Bateman, THE GIFT
nominees:
Abraham Attah, BEASTS OF NO NATION
Leonardo DiCaprio, THE REVENANT
Géza Röhrig, SON OF SAUL
Jacob Tremblay, ROOM
ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, CAROL
nominees:
Nina Hoss, PHOENIX
Rinko Kikuchi, KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER
Bel Powley, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
Lily Tomlin, GRANDMA
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Keaton, SPOTLIGHT
nominees:
Christian Bale, THE BIG SHORT
Benicio Del Toro, SICARIO
Idris Elba, BEASTS OF NO NATION
Jason Segel, THE END OF THE TOUR
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mya Taylor, TANGERINE
nominees:
Greta Gerwig, MISTRESS AMERICA
Jennifer Jason Leigh, THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Érica Rivas, WILD TALES
Kristen Stewart, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Damián Szifron, WILD TALES
nominees:
Olivier Assayas, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch, TANGERINE
Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig, MISTRESS AMERICA
Joel Edgerton, THE GIFT
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Adam McKay & Charles Randolph, THE BIG SHORT
nominees:
Emma Donoghue, ROOM
Donald Margulies, THE END OF THE TOUR
Nick Hornby, BROOKLYN
Phyllis Nagy, CAROL
ENSEMBLE
TANGERINE
nominees:
THE BIG SHORT
SPOTLIGHT
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
WILD TALES
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WILD TALES
nominees:
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
PHOENIX
SON OF SAUL
TIMBUKTU
DOCUMENTARY
AMY
nominees:
FINDERS KEEPERS
IRIS
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Edward Lachman, CAROL
nominees:
Mike Gioulakis, IT FOLLOWS
Nic Knowland, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Emmanuel Lubezki, THE REVENANT
Sean Porter, KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER
FILM EDITING
Hank Corwin, THE BIG SHORT
nominees:
Pablo Barbieri & Damián Szifron, WILD TALES
Affonso Gonçalves, CAROL
Julio Perez IV, IT FOLLOWS
Margaret Sixel, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
FILM SCORE
Rich Vreeland, IT FOLLOWS
nominees:
Carter Burwell, CAROL
Cat's Eyes, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Ennio Morricone, THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips, MISTRESS AMERICA
SONG
"The Duke of Burgundy," Cat's Eyes from THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
nominee:
"Cold One," Jenny Lewis & Jonathan Rice from RICKI & THE FLASH
PRODUCTION DESIGN
CAROL
nominees:
BRIDGE OF SPIES
BROOKLYN
PHOENIX
SAINT LAURENT
COSTUME DESIGN
Sandy Powell, CAROL
nominees:
Paco Delgado, THE DANISH GIRL
Odile Dicks-Mireaux, BROOKLYN
Janet Patterson, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Anaïs Romand, SAINT LAURENT
MAKEUP & HAIR
GOODNIGHT MOMMY
nominees:
CAROL
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
THE HATEFUL EIGHT
PHOENIX
SOUND
SON OF SAUL
nominees:
IT FOLLOWS
THE REVENANT
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
WILD TALES
SOUND EDITING
LOVE & MERCY
nominees:
THE BIG SHORT
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
SON OF SAUL
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
VISUAL EFFECTS
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
nominees:
EX-MACHINA
JUPITER ASCENDING
JURASSIC WORLD
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
Saturday, February 27, 2016
top 10 films of 2015
Better late than never. Here are my Top 10 films of 2015. The jdbawards should be posted soon!
A look back at 2014.
10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Giddy, corny and nimble, J.J. Abrams' Star Wars sequel was a nostalgic trip with some familiar faces and fresh leads.
9. Son of Saul
Plunges into the life of a member of the Sonderkommando in close-ups and his ambiguous quest to save a boy. The atrocities are blurred, out-of-focus or suggested aurally in the haunting sound mixing--which leaves an emotional bruising effect. Particularly astounding is that this is Hungarian director László Nemes's first film.
8. Tangerine
Shot on iPhones, we follow the lives of Sin-De-Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodrigue) and Alexandra (an excellent and affecting Mya Taylor) on a whirlwind of a Christmas Eve in L.A. The bold hilarity is rooted in pain.
7. Brooklyn
While it's definitely a feel-good, old-fashioned, gold-tinted coming-of-age tale. John Crowley's elegantly directed gem, based upon Colm Toibin's novel, taps into a profound ache of separation.
6. Timbuktu
A bitterly witty and devastating fable of a cattle herder and his family within a small city under occupation.
5. Wild Tales
Another Manhattan Valentine from Noah Baumbach, who teamed up with star Greta Gerwig on the sublime Frances Ha. Mistress America is not as arresting artistically but it's a warmer film, almost John Hughes-ish (with a Dean & Britta synth score) following the travails of a Columbia grad and a misfit dreamer.
3. The Big Short
Not a big fan of Adam McKay's slapstick bro comedies, I was surprised and disarmed by his absurdist tale of absurd institutions in an absurd world. Risky, tacky, sardonic and biting with dashes into genre-breaking, The Big Short is an entertaining, on-the-nose and weirdly lithe indignation of American greed.
2. It Follows
The best horror film of the year and one of the year's most entrancing films overall, It Follows creates its own atmosphere in the Detroit suburbs with its lush photography (by Mike Gioulakis) and its terrorized, emphatic victims. Disasterpiece's score kills.
1. Carol
This one hit me immediately with Carter Burwell's haunting Glass-lite score, Edward Lachmann's photography and all of Todd Haynes' breathtaking details; visually, it's a masterwork. But within all the period sets and Sandy Powell's beguiling dress-ups, lie extraordinary, intimate performances by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara playing a seemingly mismatched pair falling for one another in 50s New York.
And the best of the rest:
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, Far from the Madding Crowd, Amy, Phoenix, The Gift, Spy, Room, Spotlight, Diary of a Teenage Girl, The End of the Tour, Saint Laurent, Beasts of No Nation, The Revenant, Sicario, The Duke of Burgundy, Love & Mercy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Grandma, Goodnight Mommy, The Hateful Eight, Ricki & the Flash, Something, Anything, Maps to the Stars, Inside Out, Finders Keepers, White God, Bridge of Spies,Trainwreck, I'll See You in My Dreams, Girlhood, All Things Must Pass, Bluebird, While We're Young, Mad Max: Fury Road, Ex-Machina, Unfriended, Testament of Youth, Iris, '71, We Are Still Here, Eastern Boys, The Wolfpack, Approaching the Elephant, Going Clear, The Final Girls, Dope
A look back at 2014.
10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Giddy, corny and nimble, J.J. Abrams' Star Wars sequel was a nostalgic trip with some familiar faces and fresh leads.
9. Son of Saul
Plunges into the life of a member of the Sonderkommando in close-ups and his ambiguous quest to save a boy. The atrocities are blurred, out-of-focus or suggested aurally in the haunting sound mixing--which leaves an emotional bruising effect. Particularly astounding is that this is Hungarian director László Nemes's first film.
8. Tangerine
Shot on iPhones, we follow the lives of Sin-De-Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodrigue) and Alexandra (an excellent and affecting Mya Taylor) on a whirlwind of a Christmas Eve in L.A. The bold hilarity is rooted in pain.
7. Brooklyn
While it's definitely a feel-good, old-fashioned, gold-tinted coming-of-age tale. John Crowley's elegantly directed gem, based upon Colm Toibin's novel, taps into a profound ache of separation.
6. Timbuktu
A bitterly witty and devastating fable of a cattle herder and his family within a small city under occupation.
5. Wild Tales
Damián Szifron's spirited and sharp Argentinean anthology film delves into issues of class and violence in the modern world with a keen eye, personal extremities and dark comedy.
3. The Big Short
Not a big fan of Adam McKay's slapstick bro comedies, I was surprised and disarmed by his absurdist tale of absurd institutions in an absurd world. Risky, tacky, sardonic and biting with dashes into genre-breaking, The Big Short is an entertaining, on-the-nose and weirdly lithe indignation of American greed.
2. It Follows
The best horror film of the year and one of the year's most entrancing films overall, It Follows creates its own atmosphere in the Detroit suburbs with its lush photography (by Mike Gioulakis) and its terrorized, emphatic victims. Disasterpiece's score kills.
1. Carol
This one hit me immediately with Carter Burwell's haunting Glass-lite score, Edward Lachmann's photography and all of Todd Haynes' breathtaking details; visually, it's a masterwork. But within all the period sets and Sandy Powell's beguiling dress-ups, lie extraordinary, intimate performances by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara playing a seemingly mismatched pair falling for one another in 50s New York.
And the best of the rest:
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, Far from the Madding Crowd, Amy, Phoenix, The Gift, Spy, Room, Spotlight, Diary of a Teenage Girl, The End of the Tour, Saint Laurent, Beasts of No Nation, The Revenant, Sicario, The Duke of Burgundy, Love & Mercy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Grandma, Goodnight Mommy, The Hateful Eight, Ricki & the Flash, Something, Anything, Maps to the Stars, Inside Out, Finders Keepers, White God, Bridge of Spies,Trainwreck, I'll See You in My Dreams, Girlhood, All Things Must Pass, Bluebird, While We're Young, Mad Max: Fury Road, Ex-Machina, Unfriended, Testament of Youth, Iris, '71, We Are Still Here, Eastern Boys, The Wolfpack, Approaching the Elephant, Going Clear, The Final Girls, Dope
Thursday, February 25, 2016
feelin' french: profite
This dreamy French remix by Kazy Lambist of Moi Je's "Profite" is magnifique.
Also loved the remixer's single, "Doing Yoga."
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