Before the Oscar nominations tomorrow help put on a cap on 2016, we here at Team Experience are looking to the year ahead. We took a vote on our 17 most breathlessly anticipated movies of 2017 and here are the results. Part one, posted yesterday, included Beauty and the Beast, Coco, and How to Talk to Girls at Parties among others.
Part two after the jump. Our nine most anticipated films of the year...
9. Mary Magdalene (dir. Garth Davis)
I'm a sucker for a Biblical epic and anything involving Rooney Mara. If the film mostly consisted of scenes of her out of character smoking and looking blase while the other actors follow the screenplay, I'd be a happy man. - Jose
8. Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Fashion Film (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
The auteur reteaming with Daniel Day-Lewis, the world's greatest living actor (not up for debate) would be reason enough. But a '50s London-set fashion film just sounds swoon-worthy indeed. - Abstew
7. Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland)
Jeff VanderMeer's book is strange and wondrous, but I absolutely cannot conceive of it working on film given how cerebral it is. If anyone can pull it off though, it's Ex Machina director Alex Garland. With an all-amazing cast of women (Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh) plus the internet's boyfriend (Oscar Isaac), it can't fail to be a surefire win in the most peculiar fashion they can manage. - David
6. Mother (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
The last time Darren Aronofsky was in the director's chair he came up with the interesting misfire Noah. But the time before that, he pushed Natalie Portman to new heights (and an Oscar) while resurrecting the careers of Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. Now he's working with Jennifer Lawrence and Michelle Pfeiffer. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me. - Denny
5. The Beguiled (dir. Sofia Coppola)
Don Siegel's 1971 southern gothic classic is a camp treasure, with its oversexed cast in a creepy antebellum boarding school. The only thing that could improve upon the original? The intervention of some self-aware feminist politics, sure to be in healthy supply from director Sofia Coppola. If she can meld the seduction of the original with her trademark intelligence, we could have something very special on our hands. Having Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell in the cast doesn't hurt. - Sean
4. Widows (dir. Steve McQueen)
Sometimes I feel like I am just twiddling my thumbs in the time between Steven McQueen releases. He is a master filmmaker, who is either at the top of his game or hasn't even gotten there yet. I've so enjoyed watching his historic rise and love that he continues to tackle weird, sensitive, and taboo subjects in his work. The premise of Widows is so off-kilter I can't wait to see what he does with it and with the amazing team he assembled, Gillian Flynn, Andre Holland, Cynthia Erivo, and of course, Viola Davis. And funnily, I'm almost as excited just to see the first trailer, which you know will spotlight "Academy Award Winner Viola Davis." - Steven
3. Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
For those who have read the book (and really, you should do yourselves a favor and get on that stat), I should merely need to add a peach emoji and we'd call it a day. But if I must: Guadagnino + Hammer is all that I need to be excited about this sensual gay coming of age tale. - Manuel
2. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
Last year's The Lobster and Oscar-nominated Dogtooth prove that Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the most original filmmakers out there. And I do mean "out there". Reunited with Colin Farrell and costarring TFE favorite and certified screen goddess Nicole Kidman, an actress known for committing to a singular director's vision, only allow your imagination to run wild! - Abstew
1. Wonderstruck (dir. Todd Haynes)
If it was just announced as Todd Haynes next film it would be enough reason for all the excitement in the world. But he’s reteaming once again with Julianne Moore. And after the drop down gorgeousness of Velvet Goldmine and Carol, with Sandy Powell. And did you know that half of it will be a silent film in black and white? Wonderstruck is based on the book by Brian Selznick and comprises two stories about deaf children told simultaneously, one about boy in 1977 and the other about a girl in 1927, who share a mysterious connection. Moore reportedly appears in both stories. Give it to us now! - Murtada
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