what are your 3 favorite movies of 2016 so far?

i've seen nothing yet. what have you seen?

weird and goofy stuff is encouraged.

also every year someone says "i've only seen one movie so far this year and it was _______" so if you really must make this your answer that's fine but your recommendation might not be taken very seriously unless it's possibly followed by the phrase "and it was fucking dope" or something to that affect.

saw a screening of The Assassin a few weeks back and wish I could see it again cos it was pretty amazing

the last two I watched were Horse Money and Son Of Saul and I was blown away by both of them

Yes, The Assassin is far and away the best 'new' film I've seen this year (I liked it so much I went to see it twice in the space of a week, pretty unusual for me these days)

Plus, The Arabian Nights (especially part 1) and The Witch

Thirding The Assassin. Liu Shumin's The Family. Hm. Cemetery of Splendour.

Arabian Nights part 1 (debating whether this is in my top films of all time list, might be exaggerating but...)
High Rise
Rams

The Assassin was great but I put it on last yr's poll.

In no order:

Our Little Sister
King Lear (Peter Brook version from 1971)
Histoire(s) Du Cinema

For Docs: Guzman's Pearl Button

Apart from the Kore-eda the year so far has been full of stunts and bullshit.

tt has been trying to get me to come to Our Little Sister for a while, seems like it might be the next one

The Club
Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One
King Jack/High-Rise tied for third (though couldn't be more different)

Notable mentions to Rams, Couple in a Hole and Papusza.

Can't wait for Our Little Sister! Will definitely see it this week (along with Victoria too, I guess).

Oh shit The Club might be better than Rams, forgot about that one

Embrace the Serpent
In the Shadow of Women
Mountains May Depart

wanted to like The Club but the ending derailed it.

Both the actors that play the young + old Karamakate in Embrace Of The Serpent are brilliant as indeed are the rest of the cast, my only criticism is that the Heart Of Darkness style death cult seemed a bit knock off in a heavy handed Inarritu manner. I still absolutely loved the movie a lot though.

Embrace of the Serpent wasn't quite as impressive as it should have been, visually. But very interesting, layered film, that I've thought about a lot since I saw it. And it's a mindfuck that it got an oscar nom, that's crazy.

High Rise
The Invitation
The Witch

I enjoyed Deadpool too

and Nick Schager picks 25

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a47757/best-movies-to-watch-2016/

I keep forgetting to revive this thread. Schager's picking The Neon Bible and Louder Than Bombs are a cuckoo-for-Cocopuffs moment. So is Midnight Special to an extent.

Mine:

Love and Friendship
Mountains May Depart
Embrace of the Serpent
No Home Movie

I got more but that's four.

Embrace of the Serpent
High Rise
The Invitation

Green Room
Dheepan
liked a bunch of other stuff I've seen (The VVitch, Midnight Special, Nice Guys, Hush, The Invitation, High Rise, Zootopia, Finding Dory) but hard to pick a fav. Definitely want to see Kill Zone 2 and The Assassin.

embrace of the serpent
the fits
zootopia

i am holding the #1 spot for kaili blues which is just my kind of thing. but i haven't seen a lot this year.

the fits was really, really good. i'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it. at first i thought it was a lovely lyrical meditation on lead poisoning, but i think it's actually about the st. vitus dances, mass hysteria, liberation, the sublime and really excellent rhythmic editing. also a lead actor named royalty hightower.

O.J. Simpson: Made in America
De Palma
Obit or Maggie's Plan

idk if im counting the oj doc but that would make it if i was

a bigger splash
green room
the gloria vanderbilt doc

I did see it in a theatre, for what it's worth (in one sitting, with a couple of breaks).

yea i think its valid i just dunno for myself if i want to include it. def recommend it highly its great

Sunset Song
The Other Side
and either The Lobster or Mountains May Depart

Since as of today I have finally seen three movies from this year that I actually liked:

Zootopia
Hail, Caesar!
Everybody Wants Some!!

C'mon, admit it--you just like exclamation marks, like Elaine on Seinfeld.

O.J. Simpson: Made in America was possibly my movie of the decade.

2016 was the best year for movies of the last decade

Definitely a really good one.

Personal Shopper
O.J.: Made in America
Nocturama

I saw American Honey a few weeks ago and I may reconsider my 3 for this year.

Actually it looks like I still haven't posted my 3 so there's nothing to reconsider.

1. Being 17 (André Téchiné)
2. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
3. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
4. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
5. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
6. The Measure of a Man (Stéphane Brizé)
7. Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante)
8. Little Men (Ira Sachs)
9. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
10. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)

Elle is on my watchlist.

https://letterboxd.com/jackuzi77/list/best-of-2016/

Elle slaps. I need to revisit soon.

OJ was a facile TV show

The Other Side
Elle
Sunset Song

you're a facile TV show

Elle was fucked. saw it in the theatre.

I mean well made but dammmmn taht end

based on US release dates

Cemetery of Splendour
Moonlight
Kaili Blues

I also really liked Embrace of the Serpent

some of these will be recorded as from 2015 in history

other great films from 2016: Graduation, Toni Erdmann, Staying Vertical, Paterson, Slack Bay

(going by what IMDB has for the year)

Elle
Shin Godzilla
Rats
Into The Inferno
Midnight Special
Zero Days
Hell Or High Water
Tower

Paterson
The Edge of Seventeen
Certain Women

Nocturama is one I could definitely re-watch. Mountains May Depart as well.

I really don't get why anyone would still list films from 2015 on a list of best films from 2016 four years later

Anyway a list:

Scarred Hearts
Sieranevada
Toni Erdmann
The Ornithologist
The Dreamed Path
The Human Surge
After the Storm
The Death of Louis XIV
Mimosas
Neruda
Austerlitz
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
In the Last Days of the City
The Son of Joseph
Tempestad

I really hope they are all from 2016...