What are your most anticipated films of 2017?

[baby doll]

I'm still working on 2008-15.

2008:
Ballast (Lance Hammer)
El can dels ocells (Albert Serra)
Helsinki, Forver (Peter von Bagh)
Hipsters (Valeriy Todorovsky)
Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke)
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
Mock Up on Mu (Craig Baldwin)
Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami)
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
La Vie moderne (Raymond Depardon)

2009:
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi)
Independencia (Raya Martin)
Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell)
Le Père de mes enfants (Mia Hansen-Løve)
36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup (Jacques Rivette)
The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof)

2010:
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica)
The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas) [330 minute version]
Get Out of the Cat (Thom Andersen)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raùl Ruiz) [either version]
La Princesse de Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier)
Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo)
Silent Souls (Aleksai Fedorchenko)
Ruhr (James Benning)
These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (Michael Robinson)

2011:
L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (Bertrand Bonnello)
Atmen (Karl Markovics)
Bonsái (Cristián Jiménez)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
La Folie Almayer (Chantal Akerman)
Goodbye (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Impardonnables (André Téchiné)
This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb / Jafar Panahi)
Un amour de jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve)

2012:
Après mai (Olivier Assayas)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues / João Rui Guerra de Mata)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor / Véréna Paravel)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen)
La Pirouge (Moussa Touré)
Student (Darezhan Omirbayev)
Vous n'avez encore rien vu (Alain Resnais)
When Night Falls (Ying Liang)

2013:
Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont)
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi / Kambuzia Partovi)
Le Dernier des injustes (Claude Lanzmann)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
Heli (Amat Escalante)
La Jealousie (Philippe Garrel)
Le Passé (Asghar Farhadi)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)

2014:
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)
Deux jours, une nuit (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
L'Homme qu'on amait trop (André Téchiné)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
P'tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
La Sapienza (Eugène Green)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
While We're Young (Noah Baumbach)

2015:
The Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
I, Dalio (or the Rules of the Game) (Mark Rappaport)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
L'Ombre des femmes (Philippe Garrel)
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Sunset Song (Terence Davies)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Spider-Man: Homecoming (Reboot/Remake)
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Sequel)
3. Thor: Ragnarok (Sequel)
4. Alien: Covenant (Sequel)
5. Dunkirk (One of two original stories on this list)
6. The Dark Tower (Adaptation of a Book)
7. The Lego Batman Movie (Spinoff)
8. It (Remake of an Adaptation)
9. Ghost in the Shell (Adaptation of a Japanese manga)
10. Get Out (Original Story)
11. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Adaptation of a Legend)
12. The Mummy (Remake/Reboot)
13. John Wick: Chapter Two (Sequel)
14. Annihilation (Adaptation of a Book)
15. Kong: Skull Island (Third Remake)
16. xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (Sequel)
17. Star Wars: Episode VIII (Sequel)
18. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Adaptation of a Book)
19. Logan (Adaptation of a comic/sequel)
20. Wonder Woman (Adaption of a comic)

Rearranged based on trailers.

1. Spider-Man: Homecoming
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
3. Thor: Ragnarok
4. Alien: Covenant
5. Dunkirk
6. The Dark Tower
7. The Lego Batman Movie
8. It
9. Ghost in the Shell
10. Get Out
11. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
12. The Mummy
13. John Wick: Chapter Two
14. Annihilation
15. xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
16. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
17. Star Wars: Episode VIII
18. Logan
19. Kong: Skull Island
20. Wonder Woman

[Ezee E]

There's an Alien: Covenant trailer?

[Dukefrukem]

No sorry. Just mean recent trailers for:

15. xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
16. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
18. Logan
19. Kong: Skull Island
20. Wonder Woman

[Ezee E]

No sorry. Just mean recent trailers for:

15. xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
16. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
18. Logan
19. Kong: Skull Island
20. Wonder Woman

Ohhhh. Got it now.

[number8]

The Playlist put out their 2017 preview, and I laughed out loud when I read #86.

86. “Based On A True Story”
Director: Roman Polanski (“Chinatown”)
Cast: Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner
Synopsis: A writer is put in danger by an obsessive woman
What You Need To Know: As well as once sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, Roman Polanski is also a filmmaker, though it’s been a while since he made anything really good — “The Ghost Writer” was beloved by some but we found it pretty turgid, “Carnage” never escaped its stage roots, and “Venus In Fur” was pretty awful and disappeared basically without a trace. The director, who once sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl, has been away for four years, but he returns in 2017 with this adaptation of a novel by author Delphine de Vignan, which stars his partner Emmanuelle Seigner and the great Eva Green. It’s the kind of psychological thriller that Polanski, who once sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl, does best, and intriguingly he’s teamed up with non sex-criminal Olivier Assayas, who co-wrote the script with the convicted statutory rapist.
Release Date: Filmed in November, so probably not at Cannes

http://theplaylist.net/100-anticipat...-2017-20161205

[Gittes]

The only debatable thing about that writeup is the description of The Ghost Writer, which is actually superb. Carnage was diverting. I haven't seen Venus In Fur yet.

[number8]

It's pretty bad, though Mathieu Amalric as a Polanski analogue was probably the best director self-insert I've seen until Woody Allen cast Jesse Eisenberg.

[Grouchy]

All three movies are very good in my opinion but Carnage is probably the best. Statutory rape notwithstanding, I don't think I've ever seen a bad Polanski film.

[number8]

I did not care for his Oliver Twist adaptation.

[Ezee E]

All three movies are very good in my opinion but Carnage is probably the best. Statutory rape notwithstanding, I don't think I've ever seen a bad Polanski film.

There's plenty if you look hard enough. But many good ones too.

[Winston*]

I could probably argue The Pianist.

[Ezee E]

I could probably argue The Pianist.

That's my pick for his best.

[Gittes]

Do we agree that Frantic is a good movie?

[transmogrifier]

No.

[Irish]

I don't think I've ever seen a bad Polanski film.

Curious if you've seen Pirates?

[Grouchy]

It's his only feature that I haven't seen! But if it's anything like Fearless Vampire Killers, I enjoyed that one.

[Irish]

It's his only feature that I haven't seen! But if it's anything like Fearless Vampire Killers, I enjoyed that one.

Ha! Cool -- be interested in your reaction if you get to it.

[transmogrifier]

Polanski bar Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby is rather prosaic.

[Dukefrukem]

First I'm hearing of Baby Driver today- no trailer yet and a March release?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3890160/reference

[Henry Gale]

First I'm hearing of Baby Driver today- no trailer yet and a March release?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3890160/reference

It got pushed to August 11th, but looking forward to it enormously.

Also how did you link to the old (easier to navigate) style of IMDb?

[Dukefrukem]

It got pushed to August 11th, but looking forward to it enormously.

Also how did you link to the old (easier to navigate) style of IMDb?

You need to make an account and there's a setting option that allows you to browse in the older style.

[Henry Gale]

You need to make an account and there's a setting option that allows you to browse in the older style.

Or, um... I realized you can just add "/reference" to the URL after the title ("/title/tt90210/") to anything like you have there.

[baby doll]

I could probably argue The Pianist.

I wouldn't say it's his worst, but it's definitely his most tasteful, which is not an adjective one frequently associates with the maker of What?, The Tenant, and Bitter Moon (all of which I'd re-watch before The Pianist).