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Dec 12, 2017 · Our joint top ten list reflects the range of filmmaking of 2017, including both unforgettable debuts and the works of masters like Paul Thomas Anderson and Terence Davies. It’s reflective of the unpredictable array of voices in film and at this site, and a beautiful snapshot of the year in cinema.
best films of 2017. 188 international critics and curators choose the five new releases that made the biggest impression on them in 2017. Rising to the top are some exciting new voices, new visions and new forms... 1. Get Out. Dir. Jordan Peele | USA-Japan.
- A Ghost Story – Andrew Droz Palermo
- Mudbound – Rachel Morrison
- The Florida Project – Alexis Zabe
- Baby Driver – Bill Pope
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Steve Yedlin
- Call Me by Your Name – Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
- The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen
- The Lost City of Z – Darius Khondji
- Dunkirk – Hoyte Van Hoytema
- Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
This is the first of two films with very little dialogue on this list, but the movies themselves could not be more different. A Ghost Story is a haunting, melancholic, ultimately beautiful piece of work from director David Lowery, and cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo’s steady, precise photography on the film is unsettling in the best way. The ca...
Mudbound is a Southern epic through and through, and looking at this film you’d never know it was shot in a mere 28 days on an indie budget. That’s a testament to director Dee Rees’ filmmaking and Rachel Morrison’s transportative cinematography, which puts the viewer right in the middle of 1940s Mississippi. Morrison’s work here is gloriously tacti...
Filmmaker Sean Baker’s last film, Tangerine, famously used an iPhone to tremendous results, but for his Orlando-set drama The Florida Project Baker switched back to traditional cameras to no less stellar results. There’s a naturalism that flows through The Florida Project from scene to scene, with Baker and cinematographer Alexis Zabe using the cam...
Bill Pope is great, and yet somehow I feel he’s underrated. The guy shot The Matrix for goodness sake! His collaborations with Edgar Wright, starting on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and continuing on to The World’s End, have been terrific thus far, and Wright threw Pope a hell of a challenge with Baby Driver. This is a film in which literallyevery s...
Steve Yedlin has been working with writer/director Rian Johnson since the two were making short films as teenagers, and to see that relationship build to a freaking Star Wars movie—which represents some career-best work from Yedlin—is an absolute joy. The Last Jedi is not simply a pretty Star Wars movie, it’s one in which most of the shots serve to...
Cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is not yet a household name of American cinema, but he sure could be. Working with director Luca Guadagnino for the first time on Call Me by Your Name, Mukdeeprom crafts some of the most memorable shots of the year while imbuing the entire film with a sense of voyeurism, like we’re watching this private, intimate...
In keeping with the title, the cinematography in The Shape of Water is constantly flowing, moving around its actors and impeccable production design. Crimson Peak cinematographer Dan Laustsen reteams with Guillermo del Torohere to gorgeous results, and the duo make the conscious decision to never lock the camera down, ensuring that each shot mirror...
There are few cinematographers working today who traffic in beauty as often and as impressively as Darius Khondji, and while his career is full of fruitful collaborations with directors, his work with James Gray has resulted in some particularly spectacular cinematography. The Lost City of Z is almost epic in scope, tracking the early 1900s explora...
Christopher Nolan has always been a visually motivated filmmaker, but with Dunkirk, it’s like the director decided to offer himself his biggest challenge yet: A dialogue-light experiential piece of cinema, where telling the story visually is everything. Reteaming with his Interstellar cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, the two got to work, dug deep...
Roger Deakins is the greatest. The guy is basically a wizard when it comes to lighting and framing a scene, and it’s downright criminal that he still hasn’t won an Oscar. Blade Runner 2049 certainly makes the case, as it’s some of the best work of Deakins’ career, crafting a dynamic, isolated future-scape which is basically just breathtaking image ...
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Dec 21, 2017 · From The Florida Project to Paddington 2, BBC Culture film critic Nicholas Barber chooses his favourite movies of the year.
- “Get Out” Writer-director Jordan Peele catapulted beyond his sketch-comedy roots for a category-defining work about race and privilege in American society that moviegoers had never truly wrestled with before.
- “Lady Bird” Greta Gerwig’s semi-biographical riff on her Sacramento upbringing elevates it’s traditional coming-of-age story to a new wavelength beaming with wit and insight.
- “Dunkirk” “Dunkirk” is a bloodless but profoundly unnerving assault on the senses, a spectacle that searches for order in the midst of chaos. It’s a monumental war epic that ranks as Christopher Nolan’s finest achievement to date.
- “Phantom Thread” Paul Thomas Anderson crafts an absorbing period piece seemingly focused on the obsessions of a successful man, but it’s really about his opposite, played with breakout ferocity by Vickey Krieps.
Dec 26, 2017 · 2017 was a good year for cinema: major blockbusters, lots of superheroes but also hugely successful films ‘made in Europe’. Let’s take a look back at the highlights of the major European film...
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2017 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths.
