{"id":15992,"date":"2018-01-01T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2020-03-25T22:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:32:35","slug":"top-10-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/top-10-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2017 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n

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  1. Twin Peaks (David Lynch)<\/li>\n
  2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)<\/li>\n
  3. Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)<\/li>\n
  4. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)<\/li>\n
  5. Big Little Lies (Jean-Marc Vall\u00e9e)<\/li>\n
  6. \u2605 (Johann Lurf)<\/li>\n
  7. Faces Places (Agn\u00e8s Varda & JR)<\/li>\n
  8. The Wandering Soap Opera (Ra\u00fal Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)<\/li>\n
  9. Once There Was Brasilia (Adirley Queir\u00f3s)<\/li>\n
  10. 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Polls Top 10<\/span><\/strong> (eligible titles appear here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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    1. Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello)<\/li>\n
    2. Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino)<\/li>\n
    3. Slack Bay (2016, Bruno Dumont)<\/li>\n
    4. Faces Places (2017, Agn\u00e8s Varda & JR)<\/li>\n
    5. The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)<\/li>\n
    6. A Quiet Passion (2016, Terence Davies)<\/li>\n
    7. BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017, Robin Campillo)<\/li>\n
    8. Wonderstruck (2017, Todd Haynes)<\/li>\n
    9. The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams)<\/li>\n
    10. Marjorie Prime (2017, Michael Almereyda)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      My Top 10 Discoveries During 2017<\/span><\/strong> (for first-time viewings of films made before 2000)<\/p>\n

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      1. Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)<\/li>\n
      2. Gimme Shelter (1970, David Maysles, Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)<\/li>\n
      3. Stars in My Crown (1950, Jacques Tourneur)<\/li>\n
      4. Days of Glory (1944, Jacques Tourneur)<\/li>\n
      5. Circle of Danger (1951, Jacques Tourneur)<\/li>\n
      6. A Hero Never Dies (1998, Johnnie To)<\/li>\n
      7. Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986, Jean-Luc Godard)<\/li>\n
      8. Cousin Bobby (1992, Jonathan Demme)<\/li>\n
      9. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times or Perhaps One Day Rome Will Permit Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970, Dani\u00e8le Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)<\/li>\n
      10. Who Am I This Time? (1982, Jonathan Demme)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        Other 2017 films I\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        • Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heinz Emigholz) \u2013 7.0<\/li>\n
        • I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.) \u2013 7.0<\/li>\n
        • Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel) \u2013 6.9<\/li>\n
        • Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) \u2013 6.9<\/li>\n
        • BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) \u2013 6.9<\/li>\n
        • Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda) \u2013 6.8<\/li>\n
        • On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.8<\/li>\n
        • Quest (Jonathan Olshefski) \u2013 6.7<\/li>\n
        • Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie) \u2013 6.7<\/li>\n
        • First Reformed (Paul Schrader) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Damned Summer (Pedro Cabeleira) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Ulysses in the Subway (Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, & Ken and Flo Jacobs) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Claire\u2019s Camera (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Let the Sun Shine In (Claire Denis) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • 3\/4 (Ilian Metev) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Life and Nothing More (Antonio M\u00e9ndez Esparza) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • The Florida Project (Sean Baker) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • The Rider (Chlo\u00e9 Zhao) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Western (Valeska Grisebach) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • The Day After (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Gabriel and the Mountain (Fellipe Barbosa) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • A Skin So Soft (Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Flames (Zefrey Throwell) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Filmus (Cl\u00e9ment Safra) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • A Ghost Story (David Lowery) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • F\u00e9licit\u00e9 (Alain Gomis) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Star Wars: Episode VIII\u2014The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Milla (Val\u00e9rie Massadian) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • How to Talk to Girls at Parties (John Cameron Mitchell) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Okja (Bong Joon-ho) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Zama (Lucrecia Martel) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Downsizing (Alexander Payne) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Drift (Helena Wittmann) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • 12 Days (Raymond Depardon) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Napalm (Claude Lanzmann) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Ray Meets Helen (Alan Rudolph) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Ex Libris \u2013 The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoniand) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Happy End (Michael Haneke) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Common Carrier (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Dim the Fluorescents (Daniel Warth) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Maison du Bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Fail to Appear (Antoine Bourges) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Gemini (Aaron Katz) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Strong Island (Yance Ford) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • El Mar La Mar (Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Molly\u2019s Game (Aaron Sorkin) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Good Luck (Ben Russell) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Railway Sleepers (Sompot Chidgasornpongse) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Scary Mother (Ana Urushadze) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The First Lap (Kim Dae-hwan) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Redoubtable (Michel Hazanavicius) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Manhunt (John Woo) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Do Donkeys Act? (David Redmon & Ashley Sabin) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Brimstone & Glory (Viktor Jakovleski) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Sweating the Small Stuff (Ninomiya Ryutaro) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Le Fort des fous (Narimane Mari) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Lucky (John Carroll Lynch) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Makala (Emmanuel Gras) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • somniloquies (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & V\u00e9r\u00e9na Paravel) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Meteors (G\u00fcrcan Keltek) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • The Disaster Artist (James Franco) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Closeness (Kantemir Balagov) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Isma\u00ebl\u2019s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • 2+2=22 [The Alphabet] (Heinz Emigholz) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Get Out (Jordan Peele) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Let the Summer Never Come Again (Alexandre Koberidze) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • The Venerable W. (Barbet Schroeder) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Donkeyote (Chico Pereira) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Alive in France (Abel Ferrara) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Frost (Sharunas Bartas) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Untitled (Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Paddington 2 (Paul King) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Mudbound (Dee Rees) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Farewell (Astrid Johanna Ofner) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Columbus (Kogonada) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Song to Song (Terrence Malick) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Ouroboros (Basma Alsharif) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Bodied (Joseph Kahn) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Dragonfly Eyes (Xu Bing) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Last Men in Aleppo (Firas Fayyad & Steen Johannessen) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Unrest (Philippe Grandrieux) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Montparnasse Bienven\u00fce (L\u00e9onor Serraille) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Beyond the One (Anna Marziano) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Barbara (Mathieu Amalric) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Radiance (Naomi Kawase) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • In the Waves (Jacquelyn Mills) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Light Years (Manuel Abramovich) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Based On a True Story (Roman Polanski) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • 78\/52 (Alexandre O. Philippe) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Let the Corpses Tan (H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cattet & Bruno Forzani) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Araby (Jo\u00e3o Dumans & Affonso Uchoa) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Bickels [Socialism] (Heinz Emigholz) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (Luke Fowler) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • The Square (Ruben \u00d6stlund) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Spettacolo (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Occidental (Ne\u00efl Beloufa) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Spell Reel (Filipa C\u00e9sar) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Golden Years (Andr\u00e9 T\u00e9chin\u00e9) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Ava (Sadaf Foroughi) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Thirst Street (Nathan Silver) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Macon Blair) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Lean On Pete (Andrew Haigh) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • On Body and Soul (Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Spoor (Agnieszka Holland & Kasia Adamik) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman) \u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Dark River (Clio Barnard) \u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias) \u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • Wormwood (Errol Morris) \u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • The Post (Steven Spielberg) \u2013 3.7<\/li>\n
        • Rodin (Jacques Doillon) \u2013 3.7<\/li>\n
        • Rey (Niles Atallah) \u2013 3.7<\/li>\n
        • Thelma (Joachim Trier) \u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
        • The Mount of Ants (Riccardo Palladino) \u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico) \u2013 3.4<\/li>\n
        • Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) \u2013 3.4<\/li>\n
        • mother! (Darren Aronofsky) \u2013 3.3<\/li>\n
        • In the Fade (Fatih Akin) \u2013 3.1<\/li>\n
        • Jupiter\u2019s Moon (Korn\u00e9l Mundrucz\u00f3) \u2013 2.9<\/li>\n
        • Forest Movie (Matthew Taylor Blais) \u2013 2.8<\/li>\n
        • Double Lover (Fran\u00e7ois Ozon) \u2013 2.6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          *Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years. This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2017 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. Twin Peaks (David Lynch) Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15992"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18862,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions\/18862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}