Name a Masterpiece of Film from the Past 10 Years

It has its detractors, but "The Shape Of Water" was very unusual and fun, and even found a way to have Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda into a fish fairy talent/suspense/spy thriller with violence and nudity (all of the leading lady and the villain's butt). There was some real feelings up there on screen, and her gay friend was a sympathetic character along with Octavia Spencer's character, too.

The one with Dawson in the title.

Roma

Boyhood

Moonlight

The Great Beauty

Phantom Thread

The Favourite

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Witch

A Separation

watched a fab movie on hbo or showtime i forget which,, called The Aftermath, has the divine Alexander Skaarsgard, hot as fuk here, alas it has the grouchy, tedious kiera knightley, yet it remains a sexy fllick with him

Watch how many people think "a film I liked" = "masterpiece".

God's Own Country

Mad Max Fury Road

A Hidden Life

1917

Dunkirk

Rogue One

Here's one for each year:

Certified Copy (2010)

Drive (2011)

Holy Motors (2012)

Snowpiercer (2013)

Creep (2014)

Victoria (2015)

Anomalisa (2016)

Baby Driver (2017)

Summer of 84 (2018)

Joker (2019)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

The Lobster

Capernaum

The Shape of Water

Amour

Holy Motors

Mad Max: Fury Road

Winter’s Bone

Reeh Rabany

Relatos Salvajes

Barfi!

Black Coal, Thin Ice

Weekend

Cats

A lot of "masterpieces" are not recognized until decades later. Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain., 2001 A Space Odyssey...

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Julieta The Skin I live in 1917

Made a mistake at r11 - "Anomalisa" is from 2015. I'll substitute it with "Train to Busan" (2016).

Atonement

[quote] The one with Dawson in the title.

Those are from more than 10 years ago.

[quote] Atonement

That was from 2007.

Sorry. @R20 I’ll add Motherless Brooklyn for consideration

A Dark Song

Under the Skin

Hereditary

One for the girls (Carol) and one for the guys (Call Me By Your Name).

I wish I thought Tangerine were a great film so I’d have every base covered, but that one just rises to the level of entertaining for me.

Shoplifters (2018)

Perfetto sconosciuti (2016)

The Third Murder (2017)

Gui Lai (2014)

La Belle Epoque (2019)

We Bought A Loo

Black Swan

The Orphanage, Guillermo Del Toro.

Parasite

Thunder Road

Mandy

Midsommar

The Bling Ring

I think “The Favourite” was pretty damn close.

(I’m just now discovering Lanthimos. Good stuff.)

“Mad Max: Fury Road” is the only undeniable masterpiece from the period so far, but there are a few that might move into that rarefied air in time, specifically:

“Inside Llewyn Davis” “Upstream Color” “Get Out” “Manchester By The Sea” “Mandy”

R11 The joker was a variation on the king of comedy - wink wink robert deniro is the tv host. — wink wink robert deniro was in taxi driver ugh. Holy Motors!!! Fucking Kylie Minogue was in it (enough said) !!

R23 call me by my name was only ok. The peach scene was stupid & the dad had a gay lover was sad daddy issues bullshit.

R15, not old enough to talk about the others, but 2001 was an instant sensation. People never stopped talking about it in the year of its release. It had a massive influence on all types of designers. The mystery of the Tall Thin Thingy, and what the psychedelic trip at the end was about, were discussed at length at all dinner parties and university cafeterias. The tech-heads went wild for the AI plotline. People immediately started writing pretentious essays about everything from its insights to its lighting in film magazines.

The fact that the entire world was obsessed with Space at the time meant it really poked the Zeitgeist.

The fact that it was a Kubrick, and immediately followed Dr Strangelove, meant those who pronounce films masterpieces were lying in wait for it. And definitely everyone, even beyond people who like to talk knowledgeably about films, expected every film he made after that to be a masterpiece.

I still think the casting is terrible and the conversation between HAL and Dave is more laughable than threatening, and I've thought so since 1969, but that's just me.

Gravity

Ones already mentioned: Carol; Phantom Thread.

I'd add the criminally underrated Leave No Trace to the list, too. It's one of my favourite films, and I see something new in every viewing.

Another vote for Parasite here.

The Tree of Life

Il mio film degli anni '10

Brooklyn

A lot of the films named above are great. I’d add TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. David Lynch calls it an 18 hour movie, as does Cahier du Cinema (which named it the greatest film of the year, I think).

A Month in the Country, with colin firth, made some time ago. he very hot, its a subtle gay film.....beautifully done

I dont get Parasite, found it totally just okay.....

r42

"Some time ago" is right - 33 years ago, to be precise. Not sure what it's supposed to be doing in this thread...

DLers are notoriously bad at following even the most basic instructions, R44.

Interstellar.

R42 your post is belligerently stupid.

‘Ex Machina.’ It felt like a classic the first time I watched it

Ex Machina feels tight and elegant, but it's not all that deep.

That's what I told him.

What exactly qualifies a film as "a masterpiece?"

Come back in 10 years and see how many of these so-called "masterpieces" are even remembered. The lists of a ~dozen entries are hilarious.

[quote]What exactly qualifies a film as "a masterpiece?"

Every aspect more than holds up after say ten years, and there's often yet more to discover afresh. Continued appreciation on every level.

I know Woody Allen is hated here but Midnight In Paris is perfection and stands among his many masterpieces.

Another vote for Holy Motors and Twin Peaks: The Return.

The Endless

And Then We Danced

one more gay one:

End of the Century

Despite all the nonsense discourse and baby girl fascination with the actors, Call me By your Name is a near perfect film, every frame is luscious and carefully observed and the performances are sublime.

Silver Linings Playbook!

Thank you, r56. I'd wanted to see And Then We Danced when I first heard about it, but it wasn't available. Now we can buy or rent it on AP or YT.

The individual performances in both Carol and CMBYN may be sublime, but there’s no chemistry between the two women in Carol, and Hammer looks 10 years too old for the part he’s playing so I could never totally get into either film.

12 Years a Slave

'Moonlight' is definitely a masterpiece.

The Lighthouse. Can't believe it was virtually snubbed by the Oscars. This is what films should aspire to be.

R64 I'm surprised such a homoerotic film was ignored by DL.

No. David Lynch has never made a good movie, let alone a masterpiece. His films are like an autistic teen jerked off in a telephone booth and then shows it to his family.

R66, hot!

r66, I disagree. "Eraserhead" is a masterpiece. The rest is definitely wank, though.

Taika Waititi's "Boy" is his masterpiece to date, but all his films are consistently well-crafted, original, and interesting.

‘Christine’ with Rebecca Hall was a superbly done character study with an exquisite performance from its lead actress.

Not a word was uttered about it as an Oscar contender that year, however, because awards season is now pay to play only. Even the critics who raved about the film when it was first released forgot about it when more buzzed about films with bigger stars started coming out.

This sums it up:

Parasite. The rest of the movies mentioned here are pretentious and/or dull.

Parasite. La La Land. Ingrid Goes West.

Twin Peaks: The Return was a mess.

Melancholia was a masterpiece.

Madonna's W./E.

And then we Danced is beautifully shot (that wedding tracking shot is sublime) and has some lovely performances of complex, carefully drawn characters.

But it’s also peters out into something quite contrived towards the end. A queer teen DANCES THEIR TRUTH because he went clubbing with some androgynous queers.

Lion

Hawaii (2013).

OP Your point is made. I we and over.

I agree, r77. I wish Marco Berger would consider a sequel.

R79 Have you seen Berger's 2019 film "Un Rubio" ("The Blond One")?

Very similar film, stylistiically. It doesn't affect me personally the same way "Hawaii" does, but I really liked it too. The principal actors have that slow burn chemistry (with sex scenes), while there's more supporting characters, and a wonderful performance by a child actress.

^^^ P.S. R79 I've also thought about the idea of a sequel to "Hawaii", but in the end, I think I prefer simply imagining Eugenio & Martin still living in their lovely little Eden.

r77 I loved 'Un Rubio' as much as 'Taekwondo', r80. But Hawaii really is his masterpiece. Incidentally, Marco is on Instagram, where he regularly live streams discussions with other artists and sometimes Q&As with the fans, but my Spanish isn't the best.

As for Eugenio & Martin, I imagined them moving in together in Buenos Aires where Martin's blue-collar background would clash with Eugenio's educated, literary/journalistic world. Maybe judgemental friends? Potential for a love-conquers-all story there LOL. Eugenio's brother didn't seem hung up on class at all so he would be an ally but probably still tease them to death.

I wish my Spanish was good enough to pitch that to Marco 😉

Call Me By Your Name

The first two that came to mind were Roma and Moonlight.

R83 wandered here from nifty.org.

Parasite is the best film I've seen in years. I'm glad it's the last film I saw in a cinema before they all shut down.

I'm sure many will disagree, but I considered The Artist (2011) a masterpiece. It didn't try to be anything other than what it was, and it did that very, very well.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Inception yet. I remember seeing it in the cinema and my mind was blown. Everyone was talking about it at the time and said you have to see it. I was less impressed when I was rewatching it a couple of years later, but thought it was a masterpiece at the time.

The movies from the last 10 years that will be remembered are "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Get Out", and "Parasite".

Un Rubio is the most sexually mature movie Berger has done r82. Rather than just endless teasing the two characters actually just go ahead and fuck fairly quickly.

Happy as Lazzaro

Meloncholia is my favorite movie of the last 20 years.

Another vote for 'Holy Motors' here. It is a mark of its quality that Kylie Minogue's scenes somehow, bizarrely, totally work.

You can just tell OP didn't even begin to consider non-English language cinema before spaffing out this thread.

Spaffing?

meaning to spray indiscriminately

And what do all these movies have in common? M isn't in any of them!

The ones where I felt I was watching greatness as I sat in the theater were [italic]The Artist[/italic], [italic]Moonlight[/italic], and [italic]1917[/italic].

[italic]Dunkirk[/italic] meandered far too much for me to consider it a masterpiece, but the production values were top notch (as was Mark Rylance's acting). And those scenes of the German fighters flying overhead and strafing the beach did something horror movies have been trying and failing to do for the better part of a decade: made me shrink down in my seat with a visceral feeling of terror!

SPOTLIGHT

SNOWPIERCER

THE JOKER

UNCUT GEMS

Strafing?

Roma

A classic porno called Night of the Belligerant Anus starring poster #47, as the fluffer from the alley....

I also love The Artist (2011). Love the dog, Uggie (RIP).

Tom Jones, with the then sexy whats his name, the englishman, and Dame Edith Evans, of another classic, the Whisperers