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Essential Films of 2017
Favorites
Baby Driver
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
Lady Bird
Logan
Logan Lucky
The Shape of Water
Shimmer Lake
Thor: Ragnorak
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wonder Woman
Honorable mention
First Reformed
Molly’s Game
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
What Happened to Monday?
All ages-ish
Beauty and the Beast
Cars 3
Coco
The Greatest Showman
Paddington 2
Guilty pleasures
Happy Death Day
Holiday
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Want to see
Brad’s Status
Columbus (John Cho, architecture, small towns)
EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library (documentary)
Faces Places (Agnès Varda muralist documentary)
The Florida Project
Girls Trip
Loving Vincent
mother!
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Wizard of Lies
Wonder Wheel
Not worth the time
The Bookshop (actually lovely for most of the film…just didn’t have an ending)
Justice League (didn’t actually finish)
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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2017
Albums
alt-J - RELAXER
Bleachers - Gone Now
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist
Miley Cyrus - Younger Now
The Dears - Times Infinity Volume Two
LCD Soundsystem - american dream
Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Honorable mention
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Cage the Elephant - Unpeeled
Elf Power - Twitching in Time
Foster the People - Sacred Hearts Club
Grandaddy - Last Place
The Greatest Showman - Soundtrack
the Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
London Grammar - Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
Nelly Furtado - The Ride
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Punishment of Luxury
The Shins - Heartworms
Sparks - Hippopotamus
The 44 greatest songs of 2017
1998 - the Dears
3WW - alt-J
A Place in Your Heart - Ray Davies
House of the Rising Sun - alt-J
I Wish You Were Fun - Sparks
In Cold Blood - alt-J
Fog Lake - Inference
Life With the Macbeths - Sparks
Never Enough - Loren Allred (from The Greatest Showman)
Rewrite the Stars - Zac Efron & Zendaya (Greatest Showman)
So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln Aside from That How Was the Play? - Sparks
Tyson vs. Douglas - the Killers
What About Us - Pink
2017 Playlists by Month
January
1998 - the Dears
House of the Rising Sun - alt-J
A Little Bit Like Fun - Sparks
February
A Place in Your Heart - Ray Davies
What About Us - Pink
Never Enough - Loren Allred
Some Kind of Love - the Killers
March
April
In Cold Blood - alt-J
Holding On - The War on Drugs
I Wish You Were Fun - Sparks
May
Rewrite the Stars - Zac Efron & Zendaya
June
Missionary Position - Sparks
July
So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln Aside from That How Was the Play? - Sparks
August
The Amazing Mr. Repeat - Sparks
September
Tyson vs. Douglas - the Killers
October
3WW - alt-J
Beautiful People Beautiful Problems - Lana del Rey & Stevie Nicks
Fog Lake - Inference
Life With the Macbeths - Sparks
November
Money On Straight - the Killers
Have All The Songs Been Written? - the Killers