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Senses of Cinema World Poll: Joanna Di Mattia: Favorite Films of 2017

26 December 2017

Call Me by Your Name - Luca Guadagnino

Joanna Di Mattia: Favorite Films of 2017, as posted to Twitter and submitted to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll.

  1. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
  2. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
  3. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
  4. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  5. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
  6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  7. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
  8. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
  9. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
  10. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
  11. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
  12. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
  13. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
  14. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
  15. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
  16. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
  17. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  18. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
  19. Their Finest
    Lone Scherfig
  20. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd

Honourable mentions (in alphabetical order by original-language title)

  1. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
  2. Frantz
    François Ozon
  3. God’s Own Country
    Francis Lee
  4. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
  5. The Party
    Sally Potter
  6. A Fantastic Woman
    Sebastián Lelio

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