Some must-see indie movies of 2017

Post date: Oct 16, 2017 9:22:54 AM

It’s still a bit early to put together a list of the year’s best movies when there’s still a good part of 2017 left. But here’s part of Indiewire’s roundup of its favorite independent titles released over the last few months.

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A Ghost Story

David Lowery’s film, scheduled in between his studio debut and his next huge project, is said to be “loaded with a premise that sounds way to precious sustain its feature-length running time.” Screened at Sundance, it tells the story of a man who dies in a car accident and afterward spends the rest of eternity haunting the house he once shared with his wife.

Get Out

This $4.5 million horror comedy from new Academy member Jordan Peele is celebrated in the list for being a satiric romantic comedy thriller that “channels Hitchcock at his best” and drawing viewers into places they’d hardly want to go.

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The Big Sick

This movie, deemed authentic romance, is about Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner falling in love but struggling as their cultures clash. For Indiewire, it deviates from most Hollywood romantic comedy flicks in that it balances the lead characters’ relationship, offers witty dialogue and smart repartee, and ensures the jokes landed.

Raw

This Julia Ducournau film is a coming-of-age story of a young lady joining her sister at a vet school campus, where she undergoes a number of humiliating hazing rituals and discovers she has quite a taste for human flesh.

Kedi

This debut documentary from Ceyda Torun is all about cats – centered in her hometown Istanbul and its scores of street cats and “the regular old humans” who are all over the felines.

San Francisco Bay Area-based architect Joe Cianciotto is a movie buff who enjoys a diverse selection of genres, including superhero films, independent science fiction, mumblecore, and Golden-age dramas and epics. More movie talk here.