Sexual harassment in the workplace, income disparity, exploitation of the artist as a human being.

Jean Renoir’s “The Crime of Monsieur Lange” (1935) Endured 2017 by finding salvation in movies (and plays and books).īest movies I saw this year (Sony Pictures Classics movies exempted per usual):ġ. Seen “Phantom of Liberty” lately? We are living in a Buñuel movie, my friends. Grappling the incomprehensible by reading “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire,” by Kurt Anderson and revisiting Luis Buñuel. “We bring our entire histories when we watch a movie - our childhood reveries, our adolescence yearnings and adult reservations.” -Manohla Dargis NYT Ģ017. Michael Barker, Co-President, Sony Pictures Classics Like everything else that hit deep enough to make this year-end list, Campion’s series, and her words, turned 2017’s reeling chaos into a tight coil of metaphor. At the Cannes Film Festival, I watched all six hours of her “Top of the Lake,” Season 2. With typically brilliant compression, Jane Campion called these recent months of reversal a “fairytale time” for women in the industry.

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