Contrary to what Scorsese, Almodovar, Scott and many other filmmakers have been touting, cinema is not "gone." This next 8 or so months of movies seems almost too good to be true. Am I imagining this? Are we seriously getting new movies from all of these great directors?
This doesn't even count the great films I've seen at Sundance this year: Luca Gadagnino's "Call Me By Your Name," David Lowery's "A Ghost Story," Michael Showalter's "The Big Sick," Dee Rees' "Mudbound," Cory Finley's "Thoroughbred" Kogonado's "Columbus" and Geremy Jasper's "Patti Cake$."
How about the great films already released this year? Jordan Peele's "Get Out," James Mangold's "Logan," Olivier Assayas' "Personal Shopper," Julia Ducourneau's "Raw," Joseph Cedar's "Norman," and Asghar Farhadi's "The Salesman."
- Battle of the Sexes (dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
- The Post (dir. Steven Spielberg)
- Wonder Wheel (dir. Woody Allen)
- Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarron)
- Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland)
- Mother (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
- Wonder (dir. Stephen Chbowsky)
- Baby Driver (dir. Edgar Wright)
- Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneueve)
- American Made (dir. Doug Liman)
- Logan Lucky (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
- Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)
- Mute (dir. Duncan Jones)
- Alien: Covenant (dir. Ridley Scott)
- Submergence (dir. Wim Wenders)
- Suburbicon (dir. George Clooney, screenplay by Coen Brothers)
- Hostiles (dir. Scott Cooper)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII (Rian Johnson)
- Yeh Din Ka Kissa (dir. Noah Baumbach)
- Wonderstruck (dir. Todd Haynes)
- The Current War (Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon as Edison and Westinghouse)
- Downsizing (dir. Alexander Payne)
- The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo del Toro, a fantasy story set against the backdrop of the Cold war)
- Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project (with Daniel Day-Lewis, nuff said)
- Katheryn Bigelow's Untitled Detroit Riots Movie
- The Snowman (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (d. Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Molly's Game (dir. Aaron Sorkin)
- The Death of Stalin (dir. Armando Iannucci)
- The Beguiled (dir. Sofia Coppola)
- It Comes at Night (dir. Trey Edward Shults)
- Under the Silver Lake (dir. David Robert Mitchell)
- How To Talk to Girls at Parties (dir. John Cameron Mitchell)
- Okja (dir. Boon Joon-ho)
- Lean on Pete (dir. Andrew Haigh)
- You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynn Ramsey)
- Last Flag Flying (dir. Richard Linklater)
- The Death of Stalin (dir. Armando Iannucci)
- Stronger (dir. David Gordon Green)