S&S: December 2017

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

December 2017

Vol. 27 No. 12

Anchiporuno

[see: Antiporno]

Antiporno

アンチポルノ

Japan - 2016 - 76m - col

MUBI / ICA

D: Sion Sono

Audio: 5.1

Battle of the Sexes

USA/UK - 2017 - 121m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (12A)

D: Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton

Audio: 5.1

Beach Rats

USA - 2017 - 98m - col

Peccadillo (15)

D: Eliza Hittman

Audio: 5.1

Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's

(USA: Viola)

UK/USA/France/Italy - 2017 - 84m - col

Picturehouse (PG)

D: Gerald Fox

Audio: Stereo

Blade Runner 2049

USA - 2017 - 163m - col / scope / 3-D

Sony (15)

D: Denis Villeneuve

D-Cinema and IMAX-D/L release prints. LF version reframed at 1.90:1 aspect ratio.

Series: Blade Runner (1982, Sep/1982).

Dolby Atmos / DTS:X / Auro 11.1 / IMAX 12-track

Boy

New Zealand/USA - 2010 - 87m - col and bw

Vertigo (15)

D: Taika Waititi

Audio: 5.1

Brakes

UK - 2016 - 82m - col

Bulldog

D: Mercedes Grower

Audio: 5.1

Félicité

France/Senegal/Belgium/Germany/Lebanon/Gabon/DR Congo - 2016 - 129m - col

MUBI (12A)

D: Alain Gornis

Audio: 5.1

Ferrari: Race to Immortality

UK - 2017 - 91m - col

Munro (15)

D: Daryl Goodrich

Audio: 5.1

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

UK - 2017 - 105m - col / scope

Lionsgate (15)

D: Paul McGuigan

Audio: 5.1

Fireworks

打ち上げ花火、下から見るか? 横から見るか?

(aka: Fireworks, Should We See It From the Side or the Bottom?)

Japan - 2017 - 90m - col

National Amusements (12A)

D: Akiyuki Simbo, Nobiyuki Takeuchi

Audio: 5.1

Flatliners

USA - 2017 - 110m - col / scope

Sony (15)

D: Niels Arden Oplev

Dolby Atmos / Auro 11.1

The Florida Project

USA - 2017 - 111m - col / scope

Altitude (15)

D: Sean Baker

Audio: 5.1

Geostorm

USA - 2017 - 109m - col / scope / 3-D

Warner (12A)

D: Dean Devlin

D-Cinema and IMAX-D/L release prints.
Dolby Atmos / IMAX 12-track

Good Time

USA - 2017 - 101m - col / scope

Curzon (15)

D: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

Audio: 5.1

Happy End

France/Germany/Austria/Italy - 2017 - 107m - col

Curzon Artificial Eye (15)

D: Michael Haneke

Audio: 5.1

Heartstone

Hjartasteinn

Sweden/Iceland/Denmark - 2016 - 129m - col / scope

Matchbox

D: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Audio: 5.1

Jane

USA - 2017 - 90m - col

Dogwoof (PG)

D: Brett Morgen

Audio: Stereo

Kaleidoscope

UK/USA - 2016 - 99m - col

Pinpoint (15)

D: Rupert Jones

Audio: 5.1

Kaze ni nureta onna

[see: Wet Women in the Wind]

Lost in Paris

Paris pieds nus

Belgium/France - 2016 - 83m - col

Arrow (12A)

D: Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon [as: Abel & Gordon]

Audio: 5.1

Manifesto

Germany - 2015 - 99m - col

More2Screen (15)

D: Julian Rosefeldt

Audio: 5.1

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Ireland/Canada/UK/USA - 2017 - 104m - col / scope

Thunderbird (PG)

D: Bharat Nalluri

Audio: 5.1

Marshall

USA - 2017 - 118m - col / scope

Sony (15)

D: Reginald Hudlin

Audio: 5.1

Most Beautiful Island

USA - 2017 - 79m - col

Bulldog (18)

D: Ana Asesnio

Audio: 5.1

No Stone Unturned

UK/USA - 2017 - 111m - col / scope

Wildcard

D: Alex Gibney

Audio: Stereo

Only the Brave

USA - 2017 - 133m - col / scope

Lionsgate (12A)

D: Joseph Kosinski

Audio: 5.1

The Ornithologist

O Ornitólogo

Brazil/France/Portugal - 2017 - 117m - col / scope

Matchbox (15)

D: João Pedro Rodrigues

Audio: 5.1

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

USA - 2017 - 108m - col / scope

Sony (15)

D: Angela Robinson

Audio: 5.1

School Life

Ireland/Spain - 2016 - 99m - col

Soilsiú (12A)

D: Neasa Ní Chianáin

Audio: Stereo

The Snowman

USA/UK/Sweden - 2017 - 119m - col / scope

Universal (15)

D: Tomas Alfredson

Audio: 5.1

Strangled

A martfűi rém

Hungary - 2016 - 121m - col / scope

Eureka (18)

D: Arpád Sopsits

Audio: 5.1

Suburbicon

USA - 2017 - 104m - col / scope

eOne (15)

D: George Clooney

Audio: 5.1

Thor: Ragnarok

USA - 2017 - 130m - col / scope (HD 6K) / 3-D

Buena Vista (12A)

D: Taika Waititi

D-Cinema and IMAX-D/L release prints. LF version reframes some scenes at 1.90:1 aspect ratio.

Series: Thor (2011, Jul/2011).

Dolby Atmos / DTS:X / IMAX 12-track

Trophy

UK/Namibia/S.Africa/Zimbabwe/USA - 2017 - 109m - col

Universal (15)

D: Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau

Audio: Stereo

Uchiage Hanabe, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka?

[see: Fireworks]

Wet Women in the Wind

風に濡れた女

(aka: Wet Woman in the Wind)

Japan - 2016 - 77m - col

MUBI / ICA

D: Akihiko Shiota

Audio: 5.1