Accounting For Taste

Cinema Scope 2017

Intro

The following films appeared on the Cinema Scope best of 2017 list.

Source: Issue 74 Editors Note: The Cinema Scope Top Ten of 2017

Films

1. Twin Peaks: The Return

USA
David Lynch

Lists: Sight & Sound (2, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings - episodes 1 & 2, 2017)

2. Western

Germany, Bulgaria
Valeska Grisebach

Lists: Film Comment (5, 2018) | Sight & Sound (5, 2017 / 18, 2018)

Festivals: Berlin (LOLA at Berlinale, 2018) | Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (Voices, 2018) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2017)

3. Zama

Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, Portugal, USA
Lucrecia Martel

Lists: Film Comment (1, 2018) | New York Times (4 - Dargis, 2018) | Sight & Sound (4, 2017 / 9, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (A History of Shadows, 2018) | Toronto (Masters, 2017) | Venice (Out of Competition, 2017)

4. On the Beach at Night Alone

Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja
South Korea
Hong Sang-soo

Lists: Film Comment (16, 2017)

Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017)

5. Phantom Thread

USA
Paul Thomas Anderson

Lists: Film Comment (15, 2017) | New York Times (8 - Dargis / 6 - Scott, 2017) | Sight & Sound (2, 2018)

Festivals: Rotterdam (Limelight, 2018)

6. Good Time

USA
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Lists: Film Comment (1, 2017) | Sight & Sound (7, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2017) | Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2017)

7. Streetscapes [Dialogue]

Germany
Heinz Emigholz

Lists: Film Comment (3 - Undistributed, 2017)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2017)

8. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc

Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc
France
Bruno Dumont

Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2017) | Rotterdam (Signatures, 2018) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2017)

9. First Reformed

USA
Paul Schrader

Lists: Film Comment (3, 2018) | New York Times (7 - Dargis / 3 - Scott, 2018) | Sight & Sound (5, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Special Events, 2017) | Rotterdam (Voices, 2018) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Masters, 2017) | Venice (In Competition, 2017)

10. PROTOTYPE

Canada
Blake Williams

Festivals: Locarno (Out of Competition, 2017) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2017)

Special Mentions

Araby

Arábia
Brazil
Affonso Uchoa, João Dumans

Festivals: Rotterdam (Tiger Competition, 2017)

Call Me by Your Name

Italy, France
Luca Guadagnino

Lists: Sight & Sound (3, 2017)

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama Special, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Sundance (Premieres, 2017) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017)

The Day After

Geu-hu
South Korea
Hong Sang-soo

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2018) | Toronto (Masters, 2017)

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

USA
Frederick Wiseman

Lists: Film Comment (6, 2017) | New York Times (2 - Dargis, 2017)

Festivals: Toronto (TIFF Docs, 2017) | Venice (In Competition, 2017)

Good Luck

France, Germany
Ben Russell

Lists: Film Comment (16 - Undistributed, 2017)

Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2017) | New York (Projections, 2017) | Rotterdam (Signatures, 2018) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2017)