Tag: 2017 Most Anticipated Foreign Films List
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Father Figure: Eugene Green’s Amusing Nature vs. Nurture Satire of the Holy Family
With his sixth feature film, Son of Joseph, New York born French-language...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #1. Michael Haneke’s Happy End
Happy End
Director: Michael Haneke
Writer: Michael Haneke
At the end of 2015, after several mentions of a reunion from Isabelle Huppert, news broke of Michael Haneke’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #2. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life is Born
Where Life is Born
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Writer: Carlos Reygadas
Open couples relationships and bull breeding ranches form the backdrop for the latest from Mexican auteur Carlos...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #3. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub is Mektoub
Mektoub is Mektoub
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer: Francois Begaudeau
French Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche stormed Cannes in 2013 with his controversial fifth film, Blue is the Warmest...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #4. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
Loveless
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer: Oleg Nevin
One of the most notable contemporary Russian filmmakers, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to the realm of the domestic drama for his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #5. Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
We’ve been waiting quite a while for Zama, and had high hopes this would appear at either Cannes or Venice...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #6. Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
Okja
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Writer: Bong Joon-ho, Jon Ronson
Fans of South Korean auteur Bong Joon-Ho’s 2013 English language debut Snowpiercer will most likely be excited to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #7. Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Writer: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky‘s debut, The Tribe, was one of the best titles out of Cannes 2014 (where it swept...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #8. Serge Bozon’s Madame Hyde
Madame Hyde
Director: Serge Bozon
Writer: Serge Bozon
Serge Bozon’s wonky sophomore effort Tip Top was a slapstick comedy skewering racial tension and police procedures in France...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #9. Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature
A Gentle Creature
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Writer: Sergei Loznitsa
Having completed three documentaries, plus several documentary shorts since his 2012 sophomore narrative feature In the Fog, Ukrainian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #10. Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side of Hope
The Other Side of Hope (aka Refugee)
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Writer: Aki Kaurismaki
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki scored some of the best notices of his impressive career...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #11. Benoit Jacquot’s Eva
Eva
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Writer: Benoit Jacquot, Gilles Taurand
Several months after premiering his Don DeLillo adaptation Never Ever out of competition in Venice last September, the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #12. Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Et Parole
Image Et Parole
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Little is known about a new project from Nouvelle Vague icon Jean-Luc Godard, a project fleetingly announced in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #13. Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s Let the Bodies Sunbathe!
Let the Bodies Sunbathe!
Director: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Writer: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
We’ve been tracking this latest project from Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani since...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #14. Ulrich Seidl’s Evil Games
Evil Games
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer: Ulrich Seidl
Since premiering his masterpiece Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, the Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has returned to heavy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #15. Erick Zonca’s Black River
Black River
Director: Erick Zonca
Writer: Erick Zonca, Lou de Fanget Signolet
French director Erick Zonca scored his most critically acclaimed hit with his 1998 debut The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #16. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos.
Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Following the success of 2015’s The Lobster, Greek Weird Wave forefather Yorgos Lanthimos...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #17. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Director: Jennifer Kent
Writer: Jennifer Kent
Before her notable 2014 debut The Babadook (which premiered to ecstatic review out of Sundance) had reached theatrical release,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #18. Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story
Based on a True Story
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Olivier Assayas, Roman Polanski
After some more court related issues seemingly delayed his long gestating project The Dreyfus...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #19. Ruben Ostlund’s The Square
The Square
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Writer: Ruben Ostlund
While plans are underway for an English language remake of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s internationally lauded Force Majeure (2014),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #20. Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
Roma
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Writer: Alfonso Cuaron
After his Oscar winning 2013 big budget Gravity, news of Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuaron’s next project has been highly anticipated....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #21. Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau (Nighthawk)
Bacurau (Nighthawk)
Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Writer: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Brazilian film critic turned director Kleber Mendonca Filho has become a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #22. Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Lean on Pete
Director: Andrew Haigh
Writer: Andrew Haigh
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh may possibly unveil two new projects this year, the first being Lean on Pete,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #23. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Suspiria
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: David Kajganich
Considering his dry spell between 2009's I Am Love and 2015's A Bigger Splash, it's hard to believe we're going...