what are your 3 favorite movies of 2017 so far?

that aren't boss baby

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1. Personal Shopper
2. Julieta
3. Get Out

i wish i could say Silence, saw it in January and iirc was only in NY & LA before New Years. whatever. Julieta came out last year in Spain... and NY & LA...

1. Personal Shopper
2. Get Out
3. War for the Planet of the Apes

Toni Erdmann
Slack Bay
The Woman Who Left

But probably the best film I've seen at the cinema this year is the new print of The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Who cares whether some things came out at the arse end of last year in certain parts of the globe?

My thre favourites so far are

Nothing x 3

I can rate some episodes of Emmerdale pretty highly though.

1. Raw
2. Get Out
3. The Red Turtle

Who cares whether some things came out at the arse end of last year in certain parts of the globe?

Because it's not a "movie of 2017." if it came out in the USA last December to qualify for awards season it doesn't count. 😪

I'll give you six!

A Quiet Passion
I Called Him Morgan
Dawson City: Frozen Time
The Lost City of Z
Staying Vertical
Hermia & Helena

Does anyone else feel like it's been a pretty disappointing year for standout films so far in 2017?

Aside from things like I Am Not Your Negro, The Red Turtle and all the big Oscar films that came out in the US last year and you all are bored of hearing about, I'd probably go with:

The Levelling
It Comes at Night
David Lynch: The Art Life

But if we get a reasonably good second half of the year, none of those might make my top 10 by the end of year.

Oh, maybe Frantz instead of It Comes at Night.

Lost City of Z
Get Out
...

uhhh

Twin peaks

+ certain women, the other side of hope

my memory is shot there may be better contenders

Silence, Toni Erdmann, Certain women. Free Fire is good too

Going to/near the top when it's released in a few weeks: Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama

Silence + Toni Erdmann were both early + very strong movies, casting very big shadows over everything since, perhaps?

Lol! I'm watching movies every week and can't remember shit, as well wins xxp!

I need to re-watch A Quiet Passion sober and not fall asleep, because it seemed very affecting and sad, until I foolishly opened that 2nd bottle of wine.

here's five:

A Quiet Passion
The Lost City of Z
Staying Vertical
The Ornithologist
Baby Driver

A quiet passion was great imo but not one to watch smashed yeah

I'm looking forward to The Ornithologist.

Toni Erdmann is the best I've seen this year but I'm counting it as 2016

Prevenge / Get Out / Free Fire idk, not seen enough really. The Turkish cat documentary was lovely, maybe that should be in there

oh, right, Prevenge! that ruled

Oh! My Life As A Courgette right up there too

But yeah Prevenge was awesome and everyone should see it

Prevenge never came here :-(

(There was a speculative screening planned, one of those "if we sell x tickets the screening will go ahead" things, and it didn't sell enough - surprisingly I thought)

I've seen a number of good-not-great documentaries; Citizen Jane was my favourite. I'd also add 20th Century Women, which has a release date on IMDB of January 20, 2017.

O and speaking of Francophone animation, there was a delightful new Panique Au Village short - worthy of at least as much attention as anything Aardman do

I couldn't be arsed with courgette even tho I like sciamma a lot

Short Term 12 but they're made of clay and it's more about the kids than the carers, v lovely

Turkish cat doc is Kedi btw and you will have a hard time choosing your favourite cat (it will end up being Psychopath though)

I can't wait to finally see the art life & death of Louis xiv this coming week

And shin-Godzilla in a couple of weeks!

Nocturama
Personal Shopper
A Quiet Passion

Toni Erdmann
Slack Bay
The Woman Who Left

I'm trying to catch up with Slack Bay on Mubi right now but the terrible subtitles trying to do equivalent vernacular are really putting me off.

lol! my copy of Slack Bay doesn't have subtitles and I read somewhere that the heavy regional dialect would even cause problems even with French viewers.

a bit like my terrible command of English at times, I suppose!

Thanks to this thread for suggesting Prevenge - what a cool movie

I didn't have a problem with the subtitles on Slack Bay, but then I'm not a French speaker.

can't wait to finally see the art life & death of Louis xiv this coming week

Saw this last year and was just about to come here and say, don't sleep on the Serra, it's superb.

Does anyone else feel like it's been a pretty disappointing year for standout films so far in 2017?

I dunno, I saw all these good to great movies in the cinema this year and would be pretty happy with this as a final top ten:

Silence
Manchester by the Sea
Cameraperson
Toni Erdmann
The Other Side of Hope
Certain Women
OJ Made in America
Slack Bay
It Comes at Night
Song to Song

Yeah, will see the Serra either tonight or tomorrow.

Films I have missed are Slack Bay (but its on MUBI so I'll try and see it that way) and Graduation. Maybe Certain Women and A Quiet Passion as well.

Would be happy to vote for Erdmann and Camaraperson in the 2017 poll. Probably to make up for the lack of 2017 films I've seen.

Seeing films with shit subs...its in my blood :)

My French certainly isn't good enough to question how accurate the translation was: I just meant I found the rendering of the paysan talk grating per se. Not easy for subtitlers. Maybe I'd rather a dubbed Eurotrash-style thing where they all have a particular regional British accent, ha ha. And maybe it's all just as crude a 'funny talk' representation in the original – I dunno.

Anyway, I gave up, despite admiring aspects of it, because I think the humour just isn't for me. Which is a shame, as after the bad reviews saying the same thing I'd hoped to laugh like a drain at them not getting it.

I want to rewatch it

Watched Slack Bay at the weekend - what I was reminded of is that Dumont doesn't really so much as humour as a more broken variant of it. Quiet laughs, if any.

To most who like what he does already it felt par for the course with a stranger-at-times world.

Not as a knock-out as the Serra. A one-of-a-kind film and easily top 5 for me.

Yes, I wanted to say that ppl have overstated the humour in Dumont's last two films, perhaps because there is some, where previously there was none, or very little. But yes, a broken variant - or an alien outsider's idea of Earth humour. All the Laurel and Hardy fat guy stuff in Slack Bay was more embarrassing than funny, ditto Fabrice Luchini's ministry of silly walkisms, Binoche's fluttery warbling etc - all part of his perpertual confrontation with 'good taste', looking at things you wouldn't normally look at, showing things you're not meant to in films, making you feel uncomfortable, and making you think about why you feel uncomfortable - and how all that fits in with certain traditions of cinema (eg the cruelty of slapstick).

Waru
The Future Perfect
Bad Genius

manchester by the sea
dunkirk
toni erdmann

Is there a Film of 2017 thread yet my loves?

This one.

Excellent, my Top 3 still stand! Determined to go on a Moonlight/Personal Shopper/Call Me By Your Name/Florida Project binge this week as i know i'm bound to like one of them.

haven't seen enough films this year to justify doing this but there's a sense that this has been a terrible year?

toni erdmann/manchester by the sea/cameraperson was an amazing 3-day february binge, but all 2016 films tbh

I finally watched Dawson City: Frozen Time last night, and Frantz the night before. Best 2017 movies I've seen in ages. Screener Season was wretched this year, someone in complete desperation even leaked the Louis CK movie! The Shape of Water one has just leaked but I have little enthusiasm for it.

I've found a subtitled rip of that last Wajda movie, Afterimage that I might watch tonight, but I think that is a 2016 one.

woah i didn't know the Louis film was out there.

my top 10

1. Personal Shopper
2. Get Out
3. Beach Rats
4. Long Strange Trip
5. Blade Runner 2049
6. War for the Planet of the Apes
7. Battle of the Sexes
8. Lady Bird
9. The Beguiled
10. Ingrid Goes West

Janbal, Sieranevada & The Square, I think.

I think at least on the festival-front, 2017 was less exciting than earlier years. That is, Danish festivals (and Danish film) had an absolutely amazing year compared to usual, but that does not really change world film culture. Are we making a film poll this year? Because if so, I'll wait until then to make a longer list. But here's my Top 10 of Danish film:

1. Team Hurricane
2. Winter Brothers
3. Wolf & Sheep
4. A Horrible Woman
5. A Modern Man
6. Venus: Let's Talk About Sex
7. Denmark
8. Darkland
9. Their Finest
10. 3 Things

never 'done', but

BPM (Beats Per Minute)
The Other Side of Hope
Phantom Thread

There used to be a "year in cinema" thread every year. I usually post this question every summer hoping to get some recommendations for fun/shitty comedies or fun/shitty action movies although Film is cool too.

The last movies I saw were Moonlight and Get Out so I definitely need to catch up. Looking forward to Phantom Thread.

Out of the 10 or so movies I saw, I liked Get Out and Baby Driver. and Gerald's Game on netflix.

I pretty much gave up on American movies this year. If they're going to focus on action movies for kids then count me out. As much as I hate to say it, prestige TV is where it's at.

top box office does not guide one's "focus" unless one permits it

the movies i can see at the one multiplex in my area also guides my focus. which right now is a choice between these:
Jumanji
Insidious
Pitch Perfect 3
Star Wars
Father Figures
Ferdinand
Justice League
The Greatest Showman

Can we do a poll as per previous years please.

I would run, but I don't do graphics, it would be boring.

as always, i argue for March when the yokels get everything

A Quiet Passion
The Ornithologist
BPM (Beats Per Minute)

I'll probably have an entirely different list of three in a month or two once the most acclaimed stuff is available to stream (Lady Bird, Florida Project, Phantom Thread, etc.) but for now

Good Time
Get Out
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

hey im with morbs, we still haven't gotten phantom thread, happy end, the post, & call me by your name and the shape of water just barely got here before the end of the year.

Can we do a poll as per previous years please.

There have been decade or half-decade polls but I can't recall EOY film ones happening here.

we have been doing them, but the 2010s poll is the one I'm most looking forward to

Are you gonna watch more films so you don't submit a joke of a ballot?

Phantom Thread
Golden Exits
Good Time

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• Murder on the Orient Express (2017) * *

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Are you gonna watch more films so you don't submit a joke of a ballot?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:34 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do u just rly hate ben wheatley ;)

Good Time
The Lost City of Z
Dunkirk

My top ten:

Personal Shopper
My Happy Family
Get Out
Tag
Mudbound
The Ornithologist
Your Name
Visages villages
Berlin Syndrome
Blade Runner 2049

Still waiting for some of the big ones to get here.