Best movies of 2017

[Chris Knipp]

CHRIS KNIPP'S BEST MOVIES OF 2017 LISTS.

This is a work in progress. Or maybe in decline. Lists become exhausting after a while, don't they?



Still from Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk

BEST FEATURES
1. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
2. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
3. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
4. The Son of Joseph (Eurène Green)
5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
6. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
7. BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
8. Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
9. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
10. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
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11. Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman)- in the French version, "La passion Van Gogh"
12. Ghost Story (David Lowery)
13. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
14. All These Sleepless Nights (Michal Marczak)
15. Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
16. Menashe (Joshoa Z. Weinstein)
17. The Lost City of Z (James Gray)

BEST DOCUMENTARIES (alphabetical)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James 2017)
The Challenge (Yuri Ancarani)
City of Ghosts (Matthew Heineman 2017)
Cries From Syria (Evgeny Afineevsky)
Human Flow (Ai Weiwei)
I Am Not Your Negro ( Raoul Peck)
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk)
Jane (Brett Morgen)
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (Griffin Dunne)
May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio)
Strong Island (Yance Ford)
Whose Streets? (Sabaah Folayan)

BEST FOREIGN (alphabetical)
4 Days in France (Jérôme Reybaud)
Clash (Mohamed Diab)
L'enfant secret (Philippe Garrel) [1979]
Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
Heal the Living (Katell Quillévéré)
The Nile Hilton Incident (Tarik Saleh)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont)
The Square (Ruben Östlund)

BEST UNRELEASED (alphabetical)
Barbara (Mathieu Amalric)
Le Carré/Plot 35 (Eric Caravaca 2017).
Let the Sunshine In/Un beau soleil intérieur (Claire Denis)
The Rider (Chloe Zhao) (Apr. 2018 release)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay) (Apr. 2018 release)

NOT ABLE TO SEE BEFORE THE INDIEWIRE POLL (& DATE SEEN)
Columbus (Kogonada)
Darkest Hour (Joe Wright) 12/10/17
The Disaster Artist (James Franco) 12/12/17
Downsizing (Alexander Payne) 12/22/17
Ex Libris (Frederick Wiseman)
A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio)
Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)
Happy End (Michael Haneke) 12/26/17
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sangsoo) 12/23/17
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) 12/25/17 rewatched 12/30/17
The Post (Steven Spielberg) 12/23/17
The Shape of Water (Guillermo Del Toro) 12/16/17
Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen) 12/10/17
Wormwood (Errol Morris) - 6-part TV series

WORST OR MOST OVERRATED (alhabetical)
Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
The Human Surge/El auge del humano (Edoardo Williams)
mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)