1. Oscar-winning films
1."3 Billboard, The Panels of
Revenge" by Martin McDonath (Released 17/01)
Vigilante
movie in the feminine - it's the story of a grieving mother (Frances McDormand)
who resumes in her way (muscular) the investigation botched by the police of
the murder of her daughter in a rotten corn - the surprise winner the Golden
Globes (best film, actress, actor in a supporting role, script) thus Moviescouch passes in
a ceremony and some rave reviews from all-independent production (which usually
dabbles its director Martin McDonath, wren's action comedy ) to Hollywood's A
list.
2."Phantom Thread" by Paul
Thomas Anderson (released 14/02)
A story of
love in the form of a showdown between a great London dressmaker and his last
lover, with a character as drenched as him. We can not care less about this
more formatted pitch than a Kiabi parka, less the riotous style of Paul Thomas
Anderson who finds his actor "There will be blood", Daniel Day-Lewis.
3."The shape of water" by
Guillermo Del Toro (released 21/02)
Apostle of
the fantastic cinema, officiating sometimes in the gleaming blockbuster
("Blade 2", "Pacific Rim") sometimes in a more personal and
classy register ("The back of the devil", "The labyrinth of
Pan"), the Mexican Guillermo Del Toro returns with "The form of
water" in this second category - he won in the autumn the Venice Film
Festival. The story is that of an improbable love uniting a mute employee and
an aquatic machine, a subject of study in the lab where she works. At the sight
of the beast caught in the trailer the tribute to "The strange creature of
Black Lake", a little masterpiece of the kind released in 1954, is
obvious.
4."The 15:17 for Paris" by
Clint Eastwood (released 07/02)
The old
sachem of American cinema continues its rereading of the contemporary heroism
of his country. After "American Sniper" and "Sully",
"The 15: 17 for Paris" traces the interception of a Moroccan jihadist
by a handful of GI's on the run (who play their own role in the film) in the
Thalys Paris Brussels of 08/21/2015. What can we bet, his bet of more or less
stale controversies about a filmmaker less reactive and binary that his little
detractors want to put it away.
5."First man" by Damian
Chazelle (released on 17/10)
When the
state-of-the-art filmmaker Damian Chazelle ("Whiplash" and "La
la land") takes hold of a tortured myth of the twentieth century -
astronaut Neil Armstrong, shut up in silence after his lunar feat was put back
because of a bundle of denouncing rumors, this gives a project that is at least
intriguing. Ryan Gosling will be honored to take the first step.
6. The director of 2018: Steven
Spielberg ("Pentagon papers", released on 24/01, "Ready Player
one", released on 28/03)
After 2016
marked by the worst film of his career ("The Big Fat Giant"), and
2017 devoid of any output (rare for him), 2018 will find a Spielbergian super
fuel. For starters, a serious film, "Pentagon papers" with Tom Hanks
and Meryl Streep, political thriller to the Alan Pakula that plunges into the
secrets of the seventies to better scratch contemporary trumpism. The second,
"Ready player one", planned for March leaf through the mythology of
children's films that he produced in the 1980s (his Amblin period) while
connecting it to the virtual reality and all-digital modern blockbusters.
Cardboard insured.
Comedies
1."Les Tuche 3" by Olivier Baroux
(released on 31/01)
After Monaco
("LT1"), America ("LT2"), the Elysee ("LT3"): the
cash machine of Olivier Baroux does not stop turning. Not necessarily bad news:
if we can find the comic DNA of "Tuche" a little creepy and fastoche
(make fun of the poor at low cost), we must recognize that the second episode,
which neglected the clash of The silly class of the first to push Jean Paul
Rouve's clownish delirium a notch higher, was not without efficiency. So, we
remain attentive to the 3. Nanar enjoyable or nanar anyway? Answer the 31st.
2."The Ch'tite family" by
Dany Boon (released 28/02)
Taxes
("The house of happiness"), the post office ("Welcome to the
ch'tis"), the customs ("Nothing to declare"), the hospital
("Supercondriaque"), the army ("Raid crazy") "): Dany
Boon could have written about firefighters, professors or CNRS researchers. But
no, in full glory, he prefers to come back with an unofficial follow-up of
"Welcome to the Ch'tis". The pitch: not a non Chti that becomes, but
an old Chti who becomes it again. With the same gag reproduced in each scene
that contains the trailer. Does it look good? Not really.
3."The return of the hero"
by Laurent Tirard (released on 14/02)
In front of
an assembly of naive little aristos, Melanie Laurent heroises the supposed
exploits of a pickle supposed to have gone to war but which returns from it,
against all expectations. Dujardin returns to what he does best - to compose a
fool in a parodic number - in this mix of vaudeville in costume (it happens in
the 19th), Napoleon's remake of "OSS 117" and screwball comedy we.
Everything is packed by Laurent Tirard ("Little Nicolas"), our
national George Cukor - we're kidding, huh.
4.The actor of 2018: William Lebghil
("Friend friend", released on 17/01, "First year", released
on 12/09)
He was
discovered spotty and sprawled on a couch, holding Kev Adams' spittoon in a
good quintal of episodes of the "Soda" series. 2018 should concretize
its emancipation from the guardianship of the idol of the under-12s. In January
"Ami Ami" finally offers him a real first role, a romcom written and
directed by Victor Saint Macary, screenwriter of "Brio", comedy
carried high by "The Obs". He will end the year in front of the
camera of Thomas Lilti ("Hippocrates") in a serious teen movie on a
duet of medical students ("First year"). He will reply to Vincent
Lacoste which he could walk well in the footsteps.
Author's cinema
1."Indivisibili" by Edoardo
de Angelis (released on 31/01)
Do you
remember "Two in One", one of the best films of the Farrelly
brothers, in which a siamese brother wants to become an actor, but not the
other? It's a bit the same here, albeit in a very serious version, more sensual
and with winks to "La Strada" every five minutes if we refer to the
trailer. The Neapolitan Edoardo de Angelis, worn high by Emir Kusturika, signs
his third film, which distinguished by taking 6 Donatello, the Italian Caesar.
2.Razzia" by Nabil Ayouch
(released on the 14/03)
With
"Much loved" (2016), a straightforward evocation of the sordid daily
life of a handful of prostitutes in Marrakech, Nabil Ayouch had dismayed all
that Morocco has of conservatives - considered pornographic by the yardstick of
her only trailer, provoking The escape of her lead actress Loubna Abidar, the
film has never had the honor of an outing in her own country.
"Razzia", his newborn, may raise a similar outcry, Ayouch following
the fate of five outsiders, against a background of abysmal social fracture.
Among them, a Berber teacher summoned to teach in Arabic, an unveiled woman, a
young gay, a Jewish family
3."Lady Bird" by Greta
Gerwig (released 28/02)
In the genre
chic cinema, "Lady Bird" arises champion of the year. Directed by
Noah Baumbach's Greta Gerwig ("Frances Ha"), played by Saoirse Ronan,
young Irish-New York twig, version 2.0 of what was Chloé Sevigny in the 1990s
(the quintessence of the neglected fashion), the film is a sophisticated
chronicle following the trail of a fancy young woman breaking up with her
mother, in a lost suburb of Sacramento.
4."A people and its king"
by Pierre Schoeller (released on 26/09)
There was no
news of Pierre Schoeller since "L'exercise de l'Etat", a giant
simulation of the everyday life of a ministry with Olivier Gourmet and Michel
Blanc. "A people and its king" is a pharaonic project he has been
carrying for five years, a blockbuster dedicated to the French Revolution, a
period that the filmmaker focuses on the overthrow of the Ancien Régime in a
period of time the Bastille and the decapitation of Louis XVI. The whole,
embodied by the gratin of the French actors of the moment: Adele Haenel, Louis
Garrel (Robespierre), Lawrence Laffite (Louis XVI), Gaspard Uliel.
5.The death and life of John F.
Donovan" by Xavier Dolan
Initially,
it was whispered that Dolan, upset by some bad reviews of "Just the end of
the world" received on the Croisette, wanted to deprive Thierry Frémaux of
his new film, first incursion of the filmmaker in English. Pure crap. "The
death and life of John F. Donovan", love story between a Hollywood actress
(Jessica Chastain) and a young Brit (Kit Harington) was just not shot yet as like Bollywood Movies. There
will be every chance to count in the official selection of 2018.
4.Movies for geeks
1."My wonder women" by
Angela Robinson (released 14/03)
We will not
list all the superhero movies coming out this year - you'll know it soon
enough. Genesis of Wonder Woman by psychologist William Moulton Marston (Luke
Evans), who is also the inventor of the lie detector, "My wonder
women" stands out by its way of backing the genre another probably more
respected: the biopic , a well-stocked subcategory of the Oscar film.
2."The Emperor of Paris" by
Jean François Richet (released 12/12)
If we except
Luc Besson, French case really apart, it was a little while (the ultra nanar
"The beauty and the beast" of Christophe Gans in 2014) that genre
cinema well at home had not tried the experience of a great raût supposed to
combine artistic ambitions and dantesque scores at the box office. "The
Emperor of Paris" marks a double return: first that of Vidocq, old mascot
tricolor polar that will incarnate Vincent Cassel, and that of Jean François Richet
("Mesrine") at the helm of a project of magnitude, after its aptly
named "Moment of Misguidance".
5. Animation
1."Cro man" by Nick Park
(released on 07/02)
A year with a film from Aardman Studio, which is made by its founder Nick Park, is still a milestone. The creator of "Wallace and Gromit" model this time a prehistoric era threatened by a civilization passed to the Iron Age. Analogy of an animation technique (the stop motion) disappearing in favor of digital? It is not impossible.
2.Wes Anderson's "Isle of
Dogs" (released on 11/04)
After
"Fantastic Mr Fox", Wes Anderson returns to stop-motion animation. He
wrote alone this fictional science-fiction adventure fable in which a
twelve-year-old boy searches for his dog in a garbage island off Japan.
"The Dog Island" will open the next Berlin festival on February 15th.
3."The indestructible 2"
Brad Bird (released 04/07)
After a
mixed parenthesis of shooting in real shots (the excellent "Mission
impossible 4" and the least happy "In the pursuit of tomorrow"),
the filmmaker of "Ratatouille" reinstated the band to Pixar and adds
a new chapter to "Indestructible", his first feature film in
collaboration with the firm at the lamp.
6.Scary movies
Among the
horde of potential nanars that larder 2018, include the remake of
"Scarface" with Diego Luna instead of Al Pacino, whose output is
scheduled, but still devoid of director; "Barbie" live adaptation
with Anne Hathaway in the role of the bimbo housewife (15/08); "Solo: a
star wars story" spin off centered on the youth of Han Solo, project
already cut from everywhere (firefighter Ron Howard, who replaced the duo Phil
Lord - Chris Miller, fired after several months of filming, multiplies the
retakes without the release date being postponed - 23/05); "Fifty shades
lighter", after "Fifty shades darker" signed the same James
Foley, old stubborn reliqué thanks to some episodes of "House of
card",
Remain the
big question: "Ghostland" (14/03), fantastic thriller with Mylène
Farmer signed by the hilarious Pascal Laugier (for ten years, he thinks he is
the reincarnation of Robert Wise), will he be more hideous and blistered that
all clips together Laurent Boutonnat? A challenge to his measure.
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