January 2022 Favorite Watches & Lukeadamy Awards
That month I watched a buttload of Chytilová
Top Ten Favorite Watches of the Month:
Part quasi-documentary about Olympic athlete Eva Bosáková, part stinging domestic drama full of angst and infidelity, a wholly memorable feature debut from Czech filmmaker Věra Chytilová displaying her iconic free-wheeling style.
This non-fiction odyssey from nature boy Terrence Malick is a great movie to smoke drugs to allegedly you can’t prove anything.
This non-fiction odyssey from nature boy Terrence Malick is a great movie to smoke drugs to allegedly you can’t prove anything.
A short(ish) drama from Chytilová telling the story of a model who feels completely without control over her own life, crushed by ennui and haunted by her lack of agency.
A short(ish) drama from Chytilová telling the story of a model who feels completely without control over her own life, crushed by ennui and haunted by her lack of agency.
Movie about a guy with the raddest t-shirt collection I’ve ever seen.
Movie about a guy with the raddest t-shirt collection I’ve ever seen.
A perfectly designed comedic shitshow that shitshowcases Chytilová’s inhuman ability to flip tone on a dime.
A perfectly designed comedic shitshow that shitshowcases Chytilová’s inhuman ability to flip tone on a dime.
An early and enigmatic murder mystery from NWR - with heavy Lynch influence and a killer minimalist score from Brian Eno - that helps establish many of the visual and thematic motifs that dominate the Danish auteur’s core filmography.
An early and enigmatic murder mystery from NWR - with heavy Lynch influence and a killer minimalist score from Brian Eno - that helps establish many of the visual and thematic motifs that dominate the Danish auteur’s core filmography.
Crackhead who-gives-a-fuck filmmaking at its finest which Chytilová serves up like a mischievous visual feast for the gods of mayhem, ambrosia dipped in LSD to indulge in and gorge upon, centering on a pair of scissor-wielding chaotic neutral manic pixie dream eaters.
Crackhead who-gives-a-fuck filmmaking at its finest which Chytilová serves up like a mischievous visual feast for the gods of mayhem, ambrosia dipped in LSD to indulge in and gorge upon, centering on a pair of scissor-wielding chaotic neutral manic pixie dream eaters.
Things I have said in the past month both while listening to Dawn FM and while watching this movie: "Fuck me up, Abel." A newly unearthed hidden gem for me and one of the best horror films of the 90s.
Things I have said in the past month both while listening to Dawn FM and while watching this movie: "Fuck me up, Abel." A newly unearthed hidden gem for me and one of the best horror films of the 90s.
A monumental achievement in the history of cinema and a profound anti-war plea that sees a principled soldier’s socialist humanism put to the test against the ravages of war and the moral decay born from men’s lust for power.
A monumental achievement in the history of cinema and a profound anti-war plea that sees a principled soldier’s socialist humanism put to the test against the ravages of war and the moral decay born from men’s lust for power.
Painterly compositions, razor-sharp performances, masterful storytelling, intricately detailed direction, and some of the best tension-building of the decade. It’s legitimately flawless.
Painterly compositions, razor-sharp performances, masterful storytelling, intricately detailed direction, and some of the best tension-building of the decade. It’s legitimately flawless.
January Lukeaday Awards:
Legacy Award goes to Czech New Wave writer/director Věra Chytilová. A fiercely iconoclastic feminist and staunch anti-authoritarian who manifested her irreverent, madcap sense of humor within the form itself, and created one of the most influential avant-garde films of all time with her subversive masterpiece Daisies. One of cinema’s greatest middle fingers to patriarchy and conformity.
•Best Actor - Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
•Best Actress - Nathalia Acevedo (Post Tenebras Lux)
•Best Director - Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather)
•Best Supporting Actress - Olivia Williams (Rushmore)
•Best Supporting Actor - Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
•Best Original Screenplay - The Addiction (Nicholas St. John)
•Best Adapted Screenplay - The Human Condition trilogy, based on the novel by Junpei Gomikawa (Masaki Kobayashi, Zenzo Matsuyama & Koichi Inagaki [Part III])
•Best Cinematography - The Human Condition trilogy (Yoshio Miyajima)
•Best Original Score - Fear X (Brian Eno, Dean Landon & J. Peter Schwalm)
•Best Film Editing - Daisies (Miroslav Hájek)
•Best Sound Editing - Sound of Metal
•Best Short Film - Ceiling (Dir. Věra Chytilová)
•Best Visual/Special Effects - Dune
•Best Production Design - Dune (Patrice Vermette)
•Best Costume Design - Dune (Jacqueline West & Bob Morgan)
•Best Hair/Make-up - Demons 2 (Rosario Prestopino, Giacinto Bretti & Barbara Morosetti)
Supercut song credit is “Let Me Go” by Duke Dumont & RY X
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