2017 EOTY Entertainment Lists • Page 5

My top 20 films of 2017 (based on premiere dates, not theatrical)

1. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
3. Maison du Bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
4. Caniba (Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
5. Scary Mother (Ana Urushadze)
6. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
7. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
8. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
9. Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa)
10. Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
11. Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
12. BPM (Robin Campillo)
13. Winter Brothers (Hlynur Palmason)
14. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
15. On The Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
16. Faces Places (Agnes Varda and JR)
17. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) [Noah Baumbach]
18. Hannah (Andrea Pallaoro)
19. Gregoire (Cody Brown)
20. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)

 

What’s Claire’s Camera about?

 

Hard to sumarise the plot, because there isn't really one. But I guess it's sort of an exploration of relationships and repetition, like most of the director's works. It's a really light and warm film, filmed in Cannes during the festival in 2016. This is the synopsis from the distributor's website though:

In Claire's Camera, a philandering film director is again a major plot point and Kim Minhee, again the star. But this time the mood is light and airy as a summer breeze, thanks in large part to a lively performance from Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher, Elle). Huppert plays Claire, a school teacher with a camera that might be magical on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Manhee (Kim), recently fired from her job and also meets So Wansoo (Jung Jinyoung), a film director whose one-night stand with Manhee was the reason for her firing. Beneath the humor and charm on the surface of Claire's Camera, Hong explores the power of images to transform us. “The only way to change things,” says Claire, “is to look at them again very slowly.”

 

Films

1. Logan
2. La La Land
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
6. mother!
7. War for the Planet of the Apes
8. Get Out
9. Thor: Ragnarok
10. Baby Driver
11. Brawl in Cell Block 99
12. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
13. The Big Sick
14. Raw
15. It

TV

1. Girls
2. You're the Worst
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Twin Peaks
5. Black Mirror
6. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
7. Rick and Morty
8. 13 Reasons Why
9. Legion
10. Glow
11. Master of None
12. Nathan for You
13. Orange is the New Black
14. The Leftovers
15. Better Call Saul

My favs. Still a fair amount of stuff I've yet to see though.

 

Reverse Shot 11 Offenses. Haven't read yet, but surprised to see Rat Film on here. Nothing else out of the ordinary for them though. 11 Offenses of 2017

 

Disclaimer that I didnt see much from early on in the year. Only just found a love for movies/going to the theater.
Top 15.
1. The Last Jedi
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Logan
4. Lady Bird
5. Coco
6. Thor Ragnarok
7. IT
8. Wonder
9. Shape Of Water
10. Spiderman: Homecoming
11. War for the Planet of the Apes
12. Guardians of the Galaxy 2
13. Wonder Woman
14. Baby Driver
15. Wind River

HM:
The Disaster Artist
Darkest Hour
The Big Sick
I Tonya

Most Disappointed

Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Ingrid Goes West
Good Time (was good, just didnt do much for me)
Justice League

 

Almost all the films I avoided are on the Reverse Shot list. I did not hate Baby Driver, though, although it had its problems.

 

My top 20 movies:

20) The Fate of the Furious (dir. F. Gary Gray)
19) Spielberg (dir. Susan Lacy)
18) T2 Trainspotting (dir. Danny Boyle)
17) Five Came Back (dir. Laurent Bouzereau)
16) The Big Sick (dir. Michael Showalter)
15) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (dir. Rian Johnson)
14) Jane (dir. Brett Morgen)
13) mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
12) The Disaster Artist (dir. James Franco)
11) It Comes at Night (dir. Trey Edward Shults)

10) Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)
9) War for the Planet of the Apes (dir. Matt Reeves)
8) Personal Shopper (dir. Olivier Assayas)
7) Logan Lucky (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
6) Kong: Skull Island (dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
5) A Ghost Story (dir. David Lowery)
4) Wind River (dir. Taylor Sheridan)
3) Split (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
2) Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)
1) Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

 

Hey guys, I did a bunch of write-ups on my blog for my best of the year if anyone wants to check them out:

Supporting Performances
Lead Performances
20-11
10-1

 

Seeing it appear on so many people's lists, I can't wait for Blade Runner 2049 to release on Tuesday. One of my absolute favorites of the year and I really want to watch it again.

 

I guess I have to see Columbus

 

Hopefully getting to Call Me By Your Name tonight. Maybe a double feature with I Tonya or Three Billboards

 

Of the predicted BP noms that I've seen:
1. The Florida Project
2. Call Me By Your Name
3. Lady Bird
4. Get Out
5. The Big Sick (maybe?)
6. Three Billboards

Hope to see I Tonya and Phantom Thread within the week. Will eventually watch Dunkirk, Mudbound, Shape of Water and The Post

 

My bets are

The Florida Project
Call Me By Your Name
Lady Bird
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
The Post
Three Billboards
Darkest Hour

And then the only other ones I see with a real shot are either or both of:
I, Tonya
The Disaster Artist

I don't think the new Franco allegations definitively prevent that film from getting in, unfortunately. I also don't think Phantom Thread will get in because it released so late in the year and I'm betting a ton of voters didn't see it (much like what happened to Silence last year). But hey, I've been wrong before.

Other than Three Billboards and The Disaster Artist, though, that's not a bad crop of films.

 

I mean, I really think get Out is still a lock.

 

I'm not so sure, genre films can have a tough time of it. I wouldn't call it a lock but it does have a shot.

 

Get Out is absolutely one of my favourites movies of the year, but I’ll be shocked if it gets a BP nom

 

I’ll do this:

BP locks:
Lady bird
Dunkirk
Three billboards
Shape of water
Get out
CMBYN

Everything else is up for grabs.

 

i have a feeling they’re going to choose one of get out and ladybird and snub the other. calling them both locks st this point is (unfortunately) foolish

 

Why would the split be between those two? Drastically different films/audiences/messages (if we're all on the same page that the winner of best picture is more a statement than what actually was the best film of the year)

 

sean fennessy and wesley morris explained it better than i’m going to be able to reiterate, but essentially that the academy (which they mentioned has changed their voter base in the last two years so maybe, hopefully it won’t occur) will consider both as “non-serious films” and pick one of the two. it’s bullshit, but it’s the case they laid out and it definitely seems possible

 

Fair. I'd consider Lady Bird certainly a lock, and while I have high hopes for Get Out (or any genre film) getting nominated I think that one is a bit more of a stretch.

 

Yeah Black Swan was the last horror that was nominated and pretty sure Silence of the Lambs was the last to win

 

Well, I’m going to maintain that they’re both locks until I’m wrong.

 

Well even if both of them get nominated, that doesn’t mean they were locks after the fact haha