Top Films of 2017 -Sight and Sound !

Sight and Sound dixit :
http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/best-films-2017/

1, Get Out -Jordan Peel -in Romanian theaters in April
2. Twin Peaks The Return -controversial if its TV series why there ?
my top TV series this year, my tops will be published soon here ! and in the winter Cinemap magazine, all together with a nunch of people !

3. Call Me By Your Name =Luca Guagardino (saw it at America Independent Film fest in Buch)
4. Zama +Lucrecia Martel
5. Western (1st film i saw in Cannes this year-UCR)
6. “Faces Places”
7. “Good Time”
8. “Loveless”
9. “Dunkirk”
9. “The Florida Project”
11. “A Ghost Story”
12. “You Were Never Really Here”
12. “BPM”
12. “Lady Macbeth”
14. “God’s Own Country”
14. “The Shape Of Water”
16. “Let The Sunshine In”
16. “Mudbound” =netflix
16. “Strong Island”
16. “I Am Not Your Negro”
16. “Personal Shopper”
Indie wire also named Get Out best film. Their list here 

Chickenfoot -Divine Termination-SOTD

I had no clue til a few days ago that my friends (in the Danger Zone), Chickenfoot had a new song this year. It came on their album, Live + Best in March, the only new song !
Yeah I know, it's December, but what a great song. And meaningful. so here it is. Take it away, Sammy & co ! Classic Rock. Might be my best song all year. Anyway, Song of the day (SOTD).

lyrics:

I'm laying here dreaming
'Bout how it used to be
Between you and me
Staring out spacing out
Thinking about amnesty
I'm gonna set you free, yeah

Some car don't play
But your tongue don't say
We gonna weigh it all
Weigh it all cause
When our beds are burning
And the sheets on fire
This house of love is burning to the ground

Ohh yeah
Ohh ohh
You've just see weigh it all

Long before I die
I'm gonna find a way
Long before I die
We gonna work it out
Long before I die
I'm gonna find a way
Long before I die
We gonna work it out

Emotionally saying
Love turn it maybe
Digging in the dirt
Divine termination
Seems the only explanation
Digging in the dirt
Tryna find the hurt, yeah

I wanna set you free
Ohh yeah
Set you free
Ohh yeah

Long before I die
I'm gonna find a way
Long before I die
We gonna work it out
Long before I die
I'm gonna find a way
Long before I die

Long before I die
I'm gonna find a way
Long before I die
We gonna work it out
Long before I die
I'm gonna find a way
Long before I die
We gonna work it out

Let Me Make You a Martyr (2016)

acu'daca tot am vazut filmu'cu Iggy a trebuit sa recuperez si filmul cu Marilyn Manson ! dupa cum cred ca v/ati dat deja seama, am intrat la recuperiele de anul acesta, filme mai mult sau mai putin obscure, pe care nu le veti vedea in vreun cinema.
adica:


titlul ultra-pretentios, Let me Make You a Martyr. 
Martyr Manson :)-just a pun !
Filmul e produs de casa de productie  Iscariot  (shortul lor din 2014 se numea Judas'Chariot)!
Scris si regiat de duo-ul Corey Asraf & John Swab, cu crowdfounding. Manson e si co-.producator.

noh. ce sa zic, cam ultraboring, pina la pointul final, acest artsy neo-noir, dar Manson e cool as Pope, un killer singuratic cu principii filosofice. Existentialist. povestit intr-un soi de flashback in interogatoriu, purgatoriu, lui Charon (Michael Potts), de catre fiul risipitor, Drew (Niko Nicotera) care vrea sa isi omoare tatal, de fapt taica-su, Larry (Mark Boone jr./si co/producator) vrea sa il omoare pe el. Familia se numeste Glass, probabil penru ca e atit de fragila, perisabila ca sticla, mai e si o sora pe nume June (Sam Quartin).
O discutie despre lupii din cap, e memorabila. am si gasit-o pe youtube:

ca si soundtrackul, care mi-a facut cunostinta cu DEMON FUZZ, o trupa engleza de prog rock, cu albumul lor din 1970 Afreaka !, cu piesa Hymn for Mother Earth-de 2 ori, si coverul lor la I Put a Spell on You.
Dupa momene lungi de asteptare  la sfirsit filmul devine psihedelic total.
muzica insa, f . chul, atmosferica, piano & keyboard based, de Gingerr Shankar.
si Versete Domnului de RAHMANINOV.
LMMYAM incepe cu piesa War, Slippin; Into Darkness. Nu intimplator.
2 1/2 din 5, 5 din 10 !

Detroit (2017)

Kathryn Bigelow's new film is a painful rendition of a terifying event in American history that is still actual and relevant !
The Algiers motel murders during the Detroit riots on the night of July 25th 1967.
50 years later Detroit still shakes & rattles !
Great ensemble cast and three act-structure -written by Marc Boal (two times Oscar winner for Hurt Locker and nominated for Zero Dark Thirty).
Act 2 plays like a most nightmarish American Horror Story, a Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets home invasion of The House on the Left and Straw Dogs, jut that those are film references. It's a racist Night of the Long Knives, or Manson sect episode, a night that will live in infamy !

shot mostly hand-held by Barry Ackroyd, Ken Loach's DOP, on his second collaboration with Bigelow after The Hurt Locker, edited wonderfully (here's an article on that) , it;s a serios contender for the Oscars on these categories, plus production design -Jeremy Hindle, Bigelow's second collaboration after Zero Dark Thirty.

One of the year's best and a must-see !
4 out of five / 8 out of 10 !