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Josh and Benny Safdie’s Good Time took the top spot among films released in 2017 on Film Comment magazine’s annual end-of-year list. Other top ranking films include Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion, and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper.
Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, Pedro Pinho’s The Nothing Factory, Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature, and Heinz Emigholz’s Streetscapes [Dialogue] received the top rankings.
Published since 1962, Film Comment magazine features in-depth reviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
PERSONAL SHOPPER (2016)
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GOOD TIME Tops Film Comment Magazine’s 2017 Best-of-Year LISTS
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Josh and Benny Safdie’s Good Time took the top spot among films released in 2017 on Film Comment magazine’s annual end-of-year list. Other top ranking films include Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion, and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper.
Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, Pedro Pinho’s The Nothing Factory, Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature, and Heinz Emigholz’s Streetscapes [Dialogue] received the top rankings.
Published since 1962, Film Comment magazine features in-depth reviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
Qatar 9. 3/4 Ilian Metev, Bulgaria 10. The Venerable W. Barbet Schroeder, France/Switzerland “Out of the hundreds of movies released in 2017, our esteemed contributors have distilled the year into an energized and energizing lineup of essential films,” said Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold. “This selection reflects Film Comment’s love for the art and craft of cinema in its many forms, ranging from first-time filmmakers to 43rd-timers. Not to mention film’s many seasons: the top five all opened before the traditional fall frenzy of releases. Read all about it in Film Comment.” Qatar 9. 3/4 Ilian Metev, Bulgaria 10. The Venerable W. Barbet Schroeder, France/Switzerland Rankings #11-20 11. Golden Exits Alex Ross Perry, USA 12. Mrs. Hyde Serge Bozon, France 13. The Wandering Soap Opera Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile 14. Life and Nothing More Antonio Méndez Esparza, Spain/USA 15. Until the Birds Return Karim Moussaoui, France/Algeria/Germany 16. Good Luck Ben Russell, France/Germany 17. Distant Constellation Shevaun Mizrahi, Turkey/USA 18. The Quartet (Elohim, Abaton, Coda, Ode) Nathaniel Dorsky, USA 19. Drift Helena Wittmann, Germany 20. Untitled Matthew Glawogger & Monika Willi, Austria
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TONI ERDMANN, ELLE, MOONLIGHT Win International Cinephile Society Awards
Toni Erdmann directed by Maren Ade Maren Ade’s dark comedy, Toni Erdmann was the big winner at the 14th International Cinephile Society Awards (ICS), taking top honors for Best picture, director, non-English language film and original screenplay.
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Cannes Film Festival Winners: I, DANIEL BLAKE Wins 2016 Palme d’or | TRAILERS
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I, DANIEL BLAKE by British filmmaker Ken Loach, won the 2016 Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ken Loach enters the elite circle of two-time Palme d’or winners, having already won the award for The Wind That Shakes The Barley in 2006.
In I, DANIEL BLAKE, Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life.
He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLEPQ9FYU0U
JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE (It’s Only the End of the World) by Xavier DOLAN is the winner of the Grand Prix award.
After 12 years of absence, a writer goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fueled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people’s incapacity to listen and love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkhQpVVulU
The complete list of winners of 2016 Cannes Film Festival
FEATURE FILMS
Palme d’or
I, DANIEL BLAKE by Ken LOACH
Grand Prix
JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE (It’s Only the End of the World) by Xavier DOLAN
Award for Best Director Ex-Aequo
Cristian MUNGIU for BACALAUREAT (Graduation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimmuogOOks
Olivier ASSAYAS for PERSONAL SHOPPER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hghXP4F3Qs
Award for Best Screenplay
Asghar FARHADI for FORUSHANDE (The Salesman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-o5I5UWBh0
Jury Prize
AMERICAN HONEY by Andrea ARNOLD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEFbvNP288
Award for Best Actress
Jaclyn JOSE in MA’ ROSA by Brillante MENDOZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-YxXlwNw4
Award for Best Actor
Shahab HOSSEINI in FORUSHANDE (The Salesman) by Asghar FARHADI
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SHORT FILMS
Palme d’or
TIMECODE by Juanjo GIMENEZ
Special disctinction
A MOÇA QUE DANÇOU COM O DIABO (The Girl Who Danced With the Devil) by João Paulo MIRANDA MARIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m997lLIrAEM
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CAMÉRA D’OR
DIVINES by Houda BENYAMINA presented during The Directors’ Fortnight
The Jury of the CST has awarded the VULCAN AWARD OF THE TECHNICAL ARTIST to:
SEONG-HIE RYU, for the artistic direction, with great inspiration, for the film MADEMOISELLE (The Handmaiden/Agassi) by PARK Chan-Wook.
Image: The Jury and the Winners of the 69th Festival of Cannes © Antonin Thuillier / AFP via Cannes Film Festival