Dec 31, 2017

Cinematic Wishlist

Out of approximately 100 recently released features that I wanted to, but couldn't see before the end of 2017, I choose twenty of the most anticipated ones (10 live-action and 10 animated films, in turn), hoping that the opportunity will arise to check them out during the next year. So, here's to the cinematically eclectic 2018!

Note: The entries' order is pretty random and doesn't necessarily reflect the level of anticipation.

November

1. November (Rainer Sarnet, 2017)
2. Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, 2017)
3. The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento 2017)
4. Arventur (Irina Evteeva, 2015)
5. Lilith's Awakening (Monica Demes, 2016)

Have a Nice Day

6. Cinderella the Cat (Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Alessandro Rak & Dario Sansone, 2017)
7. Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico, 2017)
8. Have a Nice Day (Jian Liu, 2017)
9. Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (Lukas Feigelfeld, 2017)
10. Junk Head (Takahide Hori, 2017)

Rey

11. Real (Sa-Rang Lee, 2017)
12. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Pedro Rivero & Alberto Vázquez, 2015)
13. Rey (Niles Atallah, 2017)
14. A Solar Dream (Patrick Bokanowski, 2016)
15. The Lodgers (Brian O'Malley, 2017)

Mutafukaz

16. Mutafukaz (Shôjirô Nishimi & Guillaume Renard, 2017)
17. A Dragon Arrives! (Mani Haghighi, 2016)
18. Zombillénium (Arthur de Pins & Alexis Ducord, 2017)
19. Good Manners (Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas, 2017)
20. Battledream Chronicle (Alain Bidard, 2015)

4 comments:

  1. Ne need to watch Loving Vincent. Utter crap, just like some random CSI episode. If you like rotoscoping, check out Waking Life.

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    1. I do love rotoscoping, but for some reason I couldn't sit through Waking Life.

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  2. The only one of those I've seen is BIRDBOY and I heartily endorse it! I wasn't aware there as a leftover Ruiz movie (er, telenovella) out there, so that's good to know.

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    1. Now I'm even more interested in Birdboy.

      As for Ruiz's film, I found out about it from this article:

      http://screenanarchy.com/2017/12/the-anatomy-of-2017-the-world-cinema-and-stand-out-shows.html

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