At the movies: La Flor.

La Flor is like nothing else out there. You should check it out, for real.

At the movies: In Fabric.

A sensual riot from Peter Strickland, and one of my favorite films this year.

At the movies: One Cut of The Dead.

An utter delight for fans of horror, comedy, the theatre, Japanese cinema, Noises Off, or families working together in weird situations. I would genuinely recommend this to my Mom. Also, shame on what Fear The The Walking Dead did to Kim Dickens (the actress, not the character). And you should read This Book Is Full Of Spiders.

Friday the 13th: Parts III (3-D) and IV (The Final Chapter)

A fun opportunity here in Nashville for a Friday the 13th weekend. And I had to get a little shady regarding the Screen Drafts kerfuffle on their Elm Street/Friday Superdraft, because shame on me if I didn't. I maintain 4 is the best Friday the 13th film, and that III is one of the lesser offerings, unless you're actually watching it in 3D, in which case it is way better than it has any right to be.

Catching up with Jason Shawhan

So I'm gearing up for this year's New York Film Festival and then following it up with this year's Nashville Film Festival right after, so I'm getting myself in order, and I realize that it has been way too long since I've updated this website. The shame is profound, and I feel it. Here's what I've been up to, in addition to programming the Graveyard Shift and VR sections of the upcoming Nashville Film Festival.


INTERVIEWS:

Joe. Bob. Briggs.

I interviewed Gaspar Noe, and he and A24 sought me out, which will probably go on my business card and is definitely on my resume right next to having been Crispin Glover's photo elf on a few occasions.

Daniel Sloss is just the best.

I got to talk to Nicole Byer, and she was much cooler than I am and you can barely tell how awkward the interview was from this. Editors are our friends.

Patton Oswalt endures and endears.



REVIEWS:

All-time classic 9 TO 5 - one of the greatest films ever made about the American workplace.

MIDSOMMAR. An addendum after the fact: the director's cut is interesting, but the original theatrical cut is superior pretty much across the board.

NIGHT KILLER/NON APRITE QUELLA PORTA 3, or THE NIGHT PORTER ON ELM STREET.

Sensual SciFi nightmares for your soul in Claire Denis' HIGH LIFE.

Why wait for heaven to experience glamour and beauty? DIAMANTINO.

The politically relevant and strangely exciting HAIL, SATAN?

Bad doll, fun movie. ANNABELLE COMES HOME.

Gaspar Noe's CLIMAX, which works as a liminal carbonation of the brain.

KNIFE + HEART, a queer phantasy of murder and texture.

Neil Jordan's GRETA, which I liked a lot.

ANGEL HAS FALLEN. It's hard to try and make a reactionary action film these days.



PODCAST APPEARANCES:

Here's me on NASHVILLE DEMYSTIFIED, talking about Altman's NASHVILLE and my ten favorite Nashville related films.



OTHER STUFF:

A profile on national treasure and musical theatre/horror legend BETTY BUCKLEY.

Central Cinema in Knoxville, the Stardust Drive-In in Watertown, and Chelsea Stardust's SATANIC PANIC.

In which I go on about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 35mm and the new 4K restoration of Alien.

A roundtable discussion about issues in the Nashville LGBTQIA+ community.

The 2018 Jim Ridley Film Poll: The Apocrypha.

The 2018 Jim Ridley Film Poll: The Apocrypha.

So in addition to all the stuff publushed in the Scene’s Film issue, there was a lot more left over. I present it here because it’s a monument to the diversity of thought of this year’s contributors, especially in their willingness to tackle some of my weirder questions, and because I want everyone out in the world to be able to experience each of these responses. I would have had it up sooner but for my house flooding, which is a whole other thing. Be good to one another.

Who would you most like to see in concert: Darlene Sweet, Ally Maine, a festival experience with all the performing artists from Episode II of “La Flor,” or Celeste?

Darlene Sweet for sure. Cynthia Erivo made Bad Times at the El Royale enjoyable for me. She is amazing! She deserves to be a household name. (Howell)

All of them. (McQuiston)

Calum Worthy/Jackie Long/Shoniqua Shandai in Bodied  (Skipper)

I do not especially care for A Star is Born, but I do quite like the music of Ally Maine when she is initially starting off. I imagine it would make for quite a fun lounge show, with Gaga, ahem, I mean Ally’s increasingly velvet-like voice basking over the expansive soundscapes of her quasi-Elton John tracks. (Turner)

I managed to avoid Bad Times at the El Royale — a trend that may continue until my dying days. And I didn’t have time for all 500 hours of La Flor. That said, instead of Ally Maine, I’m going to go see Clint Eastwood from The Mule stand on a stage and sing dirty reworkings of songs he hears on the radio. (Prigge)

Psh. None of these. I want to see Gilda Live in 1980. (Okay, maybe I’d want to see Ally Maine, too.) (Williams)

Buster Scruggs (Tafoya)

I would love to see a Celeste concert, but only if Willem Dafoe narrates. (Burns)

Lakeith Stanfield’s character from SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, performing “Nigga Shit.” (Lindsey)

What’s the film you most want the rest of the world to see in 2019?

Thunder Road is a dazzling portrait of a flawed man trying his damnedest to be better.  The opening 15 minutes are among the best I've seen in years. Writer-director-lead actor Jim Cummings plays Jim Arnaud, who delivers a eulogy at his mother's funeral that is both heart breaking and hilarious, and that frenetic energy carries through the film. We might all see ourselves in Officer Jim — in the ways we grieve, fail and triumph. (Ciccarone)

Sorry To Bother You, if only to shut down the idea that communists can't have fun. (Leavitt)

I would like everyone to put down their cell phones and watch Won’t You Be My Neighbor, especially if they didn’t grow up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. We could all use the wisdom and legacy of kindness and compassion that Fred Rogers left us. (Howell)

A tie between Jean-Luc Godard's THE IMAGE BOOK, Kamran Heidari's ALI AQA and Ulrich Koehler's IN MY ROOM. (Erickson)

Hu Bo’s An Elephant Sitting Still. KimStim is providing a domestic release for this starting in March 2019 and it’s an incredible first (and last) film for a talent exploring four distinct characters that interact over the course of a day and ultimately decide to find an elephant rumored to grant wishes. It has multiple single-take sequences as the camera diligently follows the characters and one especially neat sequence taking place outside over a prolonged sequence to show the gradual shift from day to dusk. (Lichman)

After the Screaming Stops - It's a fantastic documentary and not to sound cliche, but it made me laugh, cry and immediately want to call my mom. It has been released in the UK, and although most Americans don't know who Bros are - I hope they have a chance to find out. (Feldbin)

I can’t choose! Definitely ONE CUT OF THE DEAD, the indie Japanese zombie movie, because it’s the most innovativefilmgoing experience I’ve had in years. And everyone needs to experience the joy that is THE WORLD IS YOURS, a French crime/thriller/comedy so charming I bet you two eagles you’ll love it to bits (catch it on Netflix right now!) (Winters)

The Academy Film Archive has completed a countless number of restorations of queer experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer's long filmography, showing a number of these in Los Angeles. The Academy only charges shipping + handling for prints, so I hope ambitious programmers take advantage and show off this wondrous oeuvre. (Labuza)

Dragged Across Concrete. Stop projecting politics onto the film / flmmaker and just watch the damn film. It’s electric and Mel Gibson delivers one of his best performances somewhere between Buster Keaton and Lee Marvin. (Kane)

What movie do you want rest of world to see? For anyone with a narrow, staid, or reductive view of the horror genre, I urge them to see SUSPIRIA (2018). I initially was dubious about this "remake." It is a sequel as anti-sequel. Is it a revision of the fairy tale motif ? Is it an exploration of the nexus between magic and delusion ? Is it a meditation on late 20th century European history ? Or is the entire film an exercise in Lacanian psychoanalysis ? It is a film of multifaceted thematics. I saw this film on five occasions and each viewing revealed additional layers of meaning. This film dispels the notion that the horror genre is mindless and tired. (Cosner)

Since Ahmad Kiarostami’s tweet last May that let slip the news about The Criterion Collection working on a restoration of Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy (WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOME?, LIFE AND NOTHING MORE, and THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES), I’ve been longing for the chance to see these three films in a way that most of America has never had the chance to see them. It has been said that Akira Kurosawa credited Kiarostami as the filmmaker who filled the void left by the passing of Satyajit Ray. But with the devastating news of Kiarostami’s death in 2016 while still working on 24 FRAMES (which was finished by his son Ahmad and played at the Belcourt last April), I’d been left with merely the hope that his hard-to-find and poorly mastered masterpieces would soon get the same treatment that Ray’s Apu trilogy received in 2015 with the Janus Films theatrical release and the Criterion blu-ray release of the miraculous 4k restoration of those wonderful films. Now that the 2019 version of the Criterion Collection New Year’s Drawing seems to suggest that this will be the year they release the Koker trilogy, is it too much to hope that Janus Films will also give us a theatrical release of these three rare gems? (Millennium)

STARFISH, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 3D, and TUMBBAD. (Shawhan)

Black Mother (Tafoya)

Front-runner for my next year's best film is Radu Jude's I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS, which takes the ACT OF KILLING / BISBEE 17 template (re-enacting a past atrocity) but adds the element of the viewer. The director wants to engage in a revisionist take on Romania's role in World War II and the Holocaust, to ... mixed results. Even when the production at its most successful as intended propaganda. Patriotism is a tougher nut to crack than many think. (Morton)

HALF THE PICTURE (Inman)

I think American audiences are going to flip for Climax, but it isn't in English so I'm probably wrong. (Martini)

There should be a law requiring everyone to see MINDING THE GAP. It's a great skateboarding film that evolves into a blistering portrait of dying industrial small towns in America and the violence that exists there. (Owens)

I only want the usual, self-selected group of non-haters to see Godard's The Image Book, thank you very much, so a film I love that I'd want *everyone* to see would be Transit, the latest from Germany's Christian Petzold. It's a story of a fascist takeover of Europe, and from one moment to the next you can't tell if it's set in 1936 or the present day. The two times have melded into a single strand of daily horror. A brilliant film about our times. (Sicinski)

SEDER-MASOCHISM, the latest animated feature from Nina Paley (SITA SINGS THE BLUES). (Lindsey)

Everyone who has ever complained about the lack of quality cinema, the paucity of Black films that aren't romantic comedies, or the lack of productions with roles giving women characters equal power and authority with their male counterparts should see and savor "If Beale Street Could Talk." Barry Jenkins surpasses his amazing achievement of "Moonlight" with this gripping adaptation of the mid-70s Baldwin novel, keeping his work steeped in the intense romanticism and unrelenting authenticity that always resonated within Baldwin's writing. Everything, from musical choices to a gripping, if heartbreaking ending, made this an unforgettable masterpiece. (Wynn)

Bodied! (Skipper)

ONE CUT OF THE DEAD! Unfortunately everyone had a one-day window to get a sneak peek of the film when someone posted a pirated copy to Amazon Prime at the very end of last year... Hopefully that only feeds the hunger for a decent US release of this absolutely phenomenal film about the joys and struggles of collaborative creation. It's also the best film about why you shouldn't denigrate and disparage so-called "so bad they're good" movies. (Hall)

Which film has the production design that you’d most want to live in?

"Bad Times at the El Royale," but without all the creepy hidden stuff. (Duralde)

Wakanda Forever! Not since COMING TO AMERICA has the cinema put forth a place I wanted to live better than BLACK PANTHER. I want to parade around in Ruth Carter's costumes and take in every aspect of T'Challa's homeland. Of course, my clumsy ass will probably fall off one of those cliffs. It's a risk I'm willing to take. (Henderson)

It’s a toss-up between the big-ass house from ROMA or the big-ass house from THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND. (Lindsey)

I want to live in the ROMA house -- whatever room they’ll give me. (Inman)

I'd love to linger at any of the vantage points and window sills in 24 Frames. My own pocket of serenity. (Stoehr)

Barbara (Tafoya)

It’s hard to say anything other than Black Panther, which Hannah Beachler so expertly crafted from a multitude of Afrofuturist sources. Wakanda brought, to mainstream audiences everywhere, a way of looking at the world as it might have been were it not for overwhelmingly European-colonial influence. Rather than tradition and modernity being mutual exclusives, it creates a world  where deeply-rooted culture and technological progress go hand in hand, so different from what western cinema normally shows us that even films set in fantasy realms or on distant planets can’t hold a candle. (Adlakha)

As a student of early 18th century British history, I would love to inhabit Queen Anne's palace in THE FAVOURITE. (Cosner)

The cold cement tombs of Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria might not seem inviting to most but I would love to scratch my fingernails against that Brutalist Utopia.  (Adams)

Probably Bad Times at the El Royale - from the funriture to the clothes, to the cars and even wallpaper, that time period and aesthetic (lots of Mid-Century Modern - SWOON) are very much my bag. (McQuiston)

Mandy. I must live in a shared universe with Cheddar Goblin. (Kane)

The Hong Kong musical biopic HOUSE OF THE RISING SONS, which dramatizes the story of Beatles-esque teen idol band The Wynners, features a a meticulous recreation of a 1970s Hong Kong neighborhood block, but drapes it in candy-colored nostalgia. It’s like Wes Anderson got his hands on it and added lots and lots of orange, mint green, sunshine and whimsy. I’d like to move in tomorrow, thanks.(Winters)

Mandy and Red’s house in MANDY. The Tanzgruppe Markos’ headquarters in SUSPIRIA. The house in COLA DE MONO. Treepeopleville in ANNIHILATION. (Shawhan)

Ava DuVernay and the production team behind A Wrinkle in Time practically brought empathy to life with its lush, welcoming vision of Madeleine L'Engle's novel. If I could book a ticket to go hang out with Oprah the a sentient being of hope and be a warrior of light to fight evil bad mood storms, I'd do it in a heartbeat. (Woodroof)

I would want to live on the island in The Wild Boys. It comes from a vulgar imagination, as if erotically charged dreams conjured it out of thin air. (Turner)

1977 Berlin, but mainly the witches’ kitchen, den, and wardrobes, in SUSPIRIA; the miniature and masterfully crafted apocalypse of ISLE OF DOGS; and Sandi Tan’s imaginative dreamworld glimpsed in the lost fragments of SHIRKERS. (Smith)

Benjamin Loeb’s photography in Mandy captured Hubert Pouille’s horrific neon fever dream production design so perfectly to me. Not only would I want to live in it, I’d want to submerge myself in those reds and blues. (Howell)

What are you most looking forward to in 2019?

New Almodóvar, and it sounds like it's his 8 1/2. (Duralde)

Watching Adam Sandler in Auteur Sandler mode, Idina Menzel, Lakeith Stanfield, Pom Klementieff,The Weeknd, and Judd Hirsch working with the incomparable Safdie Brothers on Uncut Gems, what could potentially just about be the greatest film of all time. (Woodroof)

New Martin Scorsese gangster film with De Niro and Pesci and Keitel. But in a theater, Netflix! In a theater!! (Morton)

As a big Star Wars nerd, Episode IX is huge for me.  (Skipper)

COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS, PETTA, BODY AT BRIGHTON ROCK, HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U, VELVET BUZZSAW, A WORLD WAR II FAIRYTALE, DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT, UNCUT GEMS, CLIMAX, KNIFE + HEART, The Bruno Dumont/Sparks musical, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, NEW MUTANTS, Ava DuVernay’s Prince Documentary, SOMETHING ELSE, SYNCHRONIC, TUMBBAD 2, and NOW APOCALYPSE. (Shawhan)

Robert Mueller handing down some Trump family indictments. Impeach the motherfucker! (Sicinski)

KNIVES OUT, the latest from Rian Johnson, has me really excited. (Owens)

The ridiculously glorious cliffhanger at the end of the second installment has left me triple excited for JOHN WICK 3, due out this May. Sometimes all you need in life is a little Keanu Reeves, a lot of guns, and maybe a pencil.  RUINED HEART: ANOTHER LOVE STORY BETWEEN A CRIMINAL AND A WHORE from Filipino filmmaker, musician and poet Khavn, was absolutely groundbreaking when it was released in 2015. I have no idea how he could possibly top himself in the newly announced sequel, but I am absolutely ready to see him try. (Winters)

Films from women fueled by #metoo. (Inman)

Glass, Godzilla: King of The Monsters. (Dr. Gangrene)

R. Kelly finally going to jail. (Lindsey)

“BLANC OR MARKOS?”

Oh, that's tough. Markos definitely appeals to the lumpy, blobby, misshapen dictator I am in my heart. And who can resist her sunglasses/vestigial baby arm fashion combo? But ultimately I must shout BLANC! She's not who I am, but she's who I'd want to be. She's exacting and cruel, sure, but she's also capable of love and besides, it's all in the name of art! And she looks great eating chicken wings. Who doesn't aspire to that? (Ponder)

Blanc all the way. (Kane)

Blanc! (Skipper)

Blanc. (Feldbin)

Markos. (Martini)

Blanc. Steely-armed artists in flowy outfits > bétisier signifier vulture capitalists. (Shawhan)

This question was actually harder than I anticipated once I realized you get Tilda either way, but I gotta go with… Blanc!!! I always vote the way Ingrid Caven tells me to. (Adams)

2018 SUPERLATIVES

2018 Superlatives

I love to hierarchize, but numbers are just that. If this were an actual awards ceremony with sconces and drinks and centerpieces and quality eats, it would be the best TV ever. Where such a thing exists, I've linked to my review of the specific film at hand.

FILM

01 ANNIHILATION/THE ENDLESS/SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE

Protean shifts as evolutionary breakthrough. We adapt. We rework. We fragment. We reassemble. We live.

02 LAZZARO FELICE/PADDINGTON 2

Parables of the kind. Teachable moments for a world that needs it.

03 MADELINE’S MADELINE/SUSPIRIA

An invitation to dance. The stage as cosmic therapy. The danger behind the mask. A grotesque and comforting refuge from established power structures. Powerful works of liberation.

04 AMAZING GRACE/GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI/THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND/PERSONAL PROBLEMS

Dialogues across time. The Then and The Now not so absolute. Timeless works, extending through modernity and beyond.

05 COLA DE MONO/HEREDITARY/A STAR IS BORN/THUNDER ROAD/TUMBBAD

Family ties as chains, or lifelines. Any of these films would work as Greek tragedies. Big emotions all mixed together; the specific becomes the universal.

06 BLACK PANTHER/FATAL PULSE/THE FAVOURITE/ZERZURA

Visionary alternate histories. Other paths telling surpressed stories and forbidden tales. Inspired and effective works.

07 A BREAD FACTORY/FIRST REFORMED/VOX LUX

Where we’re at and how we got there.

08 MANDY/YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE/WIDOWS

Exquisite deconstructions of the genres we love, focusing past frippery to the boundless emotions within. Deeply haunting efforts which slip past the defenses of modern life and strike deep into the parts that feel, hidden deep within the soul.

09 IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK/2.0

Deeply political hearts expressing themselves with maximum visual pleasure. Swoonworthy acheivements.

10 THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS/LA FLOR/SEQUENCE BREAK/TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES

Genre-based autocritique got no better than these.

ACTRESS

Yalitza Aparicio, ROMA

Toni Collette, HEREDITARY

Lana Condor, TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE

Viola Davis, WIDOWS

Trine Dyrholm, NICO 1988

Elsie Fisher, EIGHTH GRADE

Helena Howard, MADELINE’S MADELINE

Cate Jones, MICKEY REECE’S ALIEN

Nicole Kidman, DESTROYER

Lady Gaga, A STAR IS BORN

Melissa McCarthy, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Eva Melander, BORDER

Jeanne Voisin, JEANNETTE: THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

ACTOR

Nicolas Cage, MANDY

Jim Cummings, THUNDER ROAD
Ben Dickey, BLAZE

Ethan Hawke, FIRST REFORMED

John Huston, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

Joaquin Phoenix, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

Adriano Tardiolo, LAZZARO FELICE

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Raffey Cassidy, VOX LUX

Aline & Elise Charles, JEANNETTE: THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

Elizabeth Debicki, WIDOWS

Cynthia Erivo, WIDOWS

Mia Goth, SUSPIRIA

Zoe Kazan, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

Regina King, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Jennifer Jason Leigh, ANNIHILATION

Teyonah Parris, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Millicent Simmonds, A QUIET PLACE

Anya Taylor-Joy, THOROUGHBREDS

Tessa Thompson, ANNIHILATION

Michelle Yeoh, CRAZY RICH ASIANS

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Colman Domingo, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Adam Driver, BlackKklansman

Richard E. Grant, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Bill Heck, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

Michael B. Jordan, BLACK PANTHER

Akshay Kumar, 2.0

Cedric Antonio Kyles, FIRST REFORMED

Antonio Marziale, ALEX STRANGELOVE

Jesse Plemons, GAME NIGHT

Na-Kel Smith, mid-90s

Alex Wolff, HEREDITARY

DIRECTOR

Ali Abbasi, BORDER

Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE

Ryan Coogler, BLACK PANTHER

Panos Cosmatos, MANDY

Alex Gardner, ANNIHILATION

Josephine Decker, MADELINE’S MADELINE

Coralie Fargeat, REVENGE

Luca Guadagnino, SUSPIRIA

Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Kore-eda Hirokazu, SHOPLIFTERS

Karyn Kusama, DESTROYER

Yorgos Lanthimos, THE FAVOURITE

Steve McQueen, WIDOWS

Damon Packard, FATAL PULSE/NIGHT PULSE/UNTITLED YUPPIE FEAR THRILLER

Lynne Ramsay, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

Alice Rohrwacher, LAZZARO FELICE

Shankar, 2.0

Orson Welles, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Lol Crawley, VOX LUX

Guillaume Deffontaines, JEANNETTE: THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

Gary Graver, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

Julie Kirkwood, DESTROYER

James Laxton, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Ben Loeb, MANDY

Hélène Louvart, LAZZARO FELICE

Aaron Moorhead, THE ENDLESS

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, SUSPIRIA

Brian Sowell, SEQUENCE BREAK

Thomas Townend, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

EDITING

Harrison Atkins/Josephine Decker/Elizabeth Rao, MADELINE’S MADELINE

Andy Canny, UPGRADE

Bob Murawski/Orson Welles, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

Joe Walker, WIDOWS

ANIMATED FILM

ISLE OF DOGS

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE

TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES

ORIGINAL SCORE

Geoff Barrow/Ben Salisbury, ANNIHILATION

Keegan DeWitt, GEMINI

Jonny Greenwood, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

Van Hughes, SEQUENCE BREAK

Jóhann Jóhannsson, MANDY

Anna Meredith, EIGHTH GRADE

Thom Yorke, SUSPIRIA

DOCUMENTARY

AMAZING GRACE

BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY

GRACE JONES:BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

KUSAMA INFINITY

MARIA BY CALLAS

McQUEEN

MINDING THE GAP

THE ROAD MOVIE

3D

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP

THE MEG

THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS

2.0

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Jahmin Assa, mid-90s

Amparo Baeza, COLA DE MONO
Hannah Beachler, BLACK PANTHER

Eugenio Caballero, ROMA

Nelson Coates, CRAZY RICH ASIANS

Mark Digby, ANNIHILATION

Tracy Dishman, GEMINI

Emita Frigato, LAZZARO FELICE

DeAnne Millais, SEQUENCE BREAK

Grant Montgomery, GHOST STORIES

Hubert Pouille, MANDY

Jennifer Spence, THE NUN

Inbal Weinberg, SUSPIRIA

Grace Yun, HEREDITARY

ORIGINAL SCRIPT

Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE

Josephine Decker/Donna DiNovelli, MADELINE’S MADELINE

Craig Johnson, ALEX STRANGELOVE

Boots Riley, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

Alice Rohrwacher, LAZZARO FELICE

Paul Schrader, FIRST REFORMED

Leigh Whannell, UPGRADE

ADAPTED SCRIPT

Justin Benson, THE ENDLESS

Peter Chiarelli/Adele Lim, CRAZY RICH ASIANS

Jon Croker/Simon Farnaby/Paul King, PADDINGTON 2

Jim Cummings, THUNDER ROAD

Bruno Dumont, JEANNETTE: THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

Jeremy Dyson/Andy Nyman, GHOST STORIES

Alex Gardner, ANNIHILATION

Nicole Holofcener/Jeff Whitty, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

VISUAL EFFECTS

ANNIHILATION

AQUAMAN

BLACK PANTHER

THE ENDLESS

MANDY

PADDINGTON 2

SEQUENCE BREAK

SUSPIRIA

2.0

COSTUMES

Ruth E. Carter, BLACK PANTHER

Caroline Eselin, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Alice Eyssartier, MANDY

Keri Langerman, VOX LUX

McKenzie McAllister, MICKEY REECE’S ALIEN

Giulia Piersanti, SUSPIRIA

Sandy Powell, THE FAVOURITE

uncredited, COLA DE MONO

uncredited, DIRTY COMPUTER

Mary E. Vogt, CRAZY RICH ASIANS

25 FAVORITE SCENES OF THE YEAR

01 Everything from The Lighthouse through the end of the film, ANNIHILATION

02 CBS News Interviews Gay Callas fans, MARIA BY CALLAS

03 Opening Scene, THUNDER ROAD

04 “The Shallow,” A STAR IS BORN

05 “Dance This Mess Around,” ALEX STRANGELOVE

06 Mme Gervaise, JEANNETTE: THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

07 Final Recording Session, LA FLOR: EPISODE II

08 Bathroom Freakout, MANDY

09 Olga in the Mirror Room, SUSPIRIA

10 Flooded Wedding, CRAZY RICH ASIANS

11 Teen Titans Time Travel, TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES

12 Grief Support Group, HEREDITARY

13 Ending Tracking Shot and Montage, BLACKkKLANSMAN

14 Smilin’ Dave and The Rope, THE ENDLESS

15 “I’ve Never Been To Me,” YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

16 Nicole Kidman delivers Amphibious Kung Fu Beatdown, AQUAMAN

17 Crane Shot on Lenox, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

18 Roadside Attack, 2.0

19 “A Place Called Slaughter Race,” RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET

20 Grace and Robbie on the phone, GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

21 Cheddar Goblin, MANDY

22 Shifting Perspectives, TERRIFIED (ATERRADOS)

23 “Wrapped Up” Vigil Version, VOX LUX

24 A Secret Revealed, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

25 Dance Party, THE FAVOURITE

SONGS OF 2018

01 Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel

02 Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – The Shallow

03 Holy Ghost! - Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix)

04 Robyn – Send to Robin Immediately

05 Rostam - In a River

06 Billy Porter and MJ Rodriguez and Our Lady J - Home

07 Jake Shears – Sad Song Backwards

08 “Celeste” - Wrapped Up

09 St. Vincent – Fast Slow Disco

10 Estiva - Bloom

11 John Grant – Preppy Boy

12 Carly Rae Jepsen – Party for One (Otto Benson Remix)

13 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Body Move

14 Robyn – Missing You

15 Thom Yorke - Suspirium

16 Carpenter/Carpenter/Dawes – The Shape Hunts Allyson

17 Namika featuring Black M – Je Ne Parle Pas Français (Beatgees Remix)

18 Jonny Greenwood – Tree Synthesisers

19 Tracey Thorn – Dancefloor (Pearson and Lindblad Italomix)

20 Dario G - Cry

21 Pusha T – The Games We Play

22 Juliana Hatfield – Suspended in Time

23 Phantoms featuring Vanessa Hudgens – Lay With Me (VIP Remix)

24 Kylie Minogue - Dancing

25 Mø and Jack Antonoff – Never Fall In Love

26 Celine Dion – Ashes (Dark Intensity Remix)

27 Troye Sivan – Bloom

28 Azealia Banks – Anna Wintour

29 Stasney Mav - Bullet

30 Jay Rock - Win

31 Jake Shears – Mississippi Delta (I’m Your Man)

32 Ariana Grande - Breathin’

33 Lil’ Xan’s Dad – I’m Your Dad

34 Thom Yorke – Has Ended

35 Joe Crepúsculo – Todo Lo Bello Es Gratis

36 Ice Cube – Arrest The President

37 Rufus Wainwright – Ziggy (Un Garçon Pas Comme Les Autres)

38 Punx Soundcheck – House Arrest

39 Bleachers – Keeping a Secret

40 Bhad Bhabie – Famous

For a continuous club mix of the best dance mixes and tracks of the year, please visit:

www.mixcloud.com/djnomi/the-very-best-of-2018/

ALBUMS OF 2018

01 Janelle Monáe/Dirty Computer

02 Robyn/Honey

03 John Grant/Love is Magic

04 Jake Shears

05 Tracey Thorn/Record

06 Pusha T/Daytona

07 Me’Shell NdegéOcello/Ventriloquism

08 Jóhann Jóhansson/Mandy

09 CupcaKke/Ephorize

10 Cardi B/Invasion of Privacy

TV OF 2018

01 Talk Show The Game Show

02 Pose

03 Nailed It!

04 Big Mouth

05 Legion

06 The Haunting of Hill House

07 Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Gauntlet

08 Channel Zero: The Dream Door

09 Disenchantment/G.L.O.W.

10 The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

11 At Home with Amy Sedaris/The Shivering Truth

12 Claws

13 Star Trek: Discovery/The Orville

14 Deadwax

15 Nightflyers

PODCASTS OF 2018 (Alphabetically)

Attack of the Queerwolf

The Boogie Monster

Gaylords of Darkness

Homophilia

How Did This Get Made?

Just the Discs

Keep It!

Linoleum Knife (and its sibling series LKTV, Linoleum Knife + Fork, and Linoleum Nights)

Pure Cinema Podcast

Shock Waves

The Sour Hour

The Todd Glass Show

Unspooled