Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 2016 in films

1/01/2017

2016 in films - according to Film Excess

The Top 10 of 2016:

1. Captain Fantastic - Matt Ross

2. Arrival - Denis Villeneuve

3. Florence Foster Jenkins - Stephen Frears

4. Snowden - Oliver Stone

5. Finding Dory - Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane

6. Kung Fu Panda 3 - Alessandro Carloni, Jennifer Yuh Nelson

7. The Jungle Book - Jon Favreau

8. Hacksaw Ridge - Mel Gibson

9. Looking: The Movie, TV movie - Andrew Haigh

10. Café Society - Woody Allen

Good, recommendable movies of 2016 (in alphabetic order):

The Conjuring 2 - James Wan

Ghostbusters - Paul Feig

Lights Out - David F. Sandberg

The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn

Sausage Party - Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon

Star Trek Beyond - Justin Lin

The Worst of 2016:

1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Gareth Edwards

2. London Has Fallen - Babak Najafi

3. Warcraft - Duncan Jones

Other less than good movies of the year (in alphabetic order):

13 Hours/13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Hail, Caesar!
Pete's Dragon
X-Men: Apocalypse

[23 titles in total]

Notes:

The first, tentative summary of the year 2016 in movies contains in the top 10 2 masterpieces:
Matt Ross' emotionally riveting Captain Fantastic and Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi drama thriller Arrival. The remainder of the list is filled out by Stephen Frears' delightful Florence Foster Jenkins, Oliver Stone's highly topical Snowden, Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane's excellent sequel Finding Dory, Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh Nelson's hilarious Kung Fu Panda 3, Jon Favreau's magical The Jungle Book, Mel Gibson's forceful true-story war movie Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew Haigh's touching, romantic TV movie Looking: The Movie, and finally Woody Allen's deeply funny and poignant showbiz period picture Café Society.
The year also offered an unusual, very adult and very funny animation (Sausage Party), another fine Star Trek movie (Star Trek Beyond), a funny Ghostbusters reboot (Ghostbusters) and a slew of successful horrors (The Conjuring 2, Lights Out, The Neon Demon).
On the still short worst-of list we find three big-budgeted blunders: Gareth Edwards' tentpole blockbuster for Disney, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Babak Najafi's senseless terrorism actioner sequel London Has Fallen and Duncan Jones' insipid computer game adaptation Warcraft.
Needless to say, the lists are in this first iteration wildly lacking in titles, which will be improved in about a year in the first update of it.

Still on the 2016 watch-list:

Midnight Special, Gods of Egypt, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Baskets (TV-series), King Cobra, War Dogs, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, It's Only the End of the World, I, Daniel Blake, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, American Honey, Elle, Spa Night, Sully, Undrafted, Why Him?, Hidden Figures, Nocturnal Animals, Moonlight, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Shin Godzilla, Paterson and The Salesman.

Previous annual lists:

2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess 2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

What do you think of the 2016 lists?
What films of the year are your favorites and least favorites?

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William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

William Hurt has passed away

Born in Washington D.C., Hurt's first film role was the lead in Altered States (1980). Later credits include Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983), Gorky Park (1983), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), for which he earned his only Oscar as Best Actor; Chilrdren of a Lesser God (1986), for which he was also Oscar-nominated; Broadcast News (1987), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; Smoke (1995), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), A History of Violence (2005), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; The Good Shepherd (2006), Into the Wild (2007), Robin Hood (2010) and many more. Hurt passed away at age 71. R.I.P.

Ivan Reitman has passed away

Born in Chechoslovakia, now Slovakia, Reitman's family fled the Soviet regime to Austria, then Toronto, when he was 4 years old. Reitman broke into movies as a director with Foxy Lady (1971). Later credits include Cannibal Girls (1973), Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), Father's Day (1997), Evolution (1998), No Strings Attached (2011), Draft Day (2014) and more. Reitman's son Jason Reitman is also a great filmmaker. Reitman passed away at age 75. R.I.P.

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