AUTEURS It’s a good year for big-name directors The next 12 months promises the return of some directorial big names. Steven Soderbergh, who claimed he had retired from filmmaking, makes a surprise reversal with NASCAR heist movie Logan Lucky, while another Steven, Spielberg, looks to banish memories of box-office flop The BFG with the more serious-minded The Kidnapping Of Edgaro Mortara. Kathryn Bigelow has been quiet since 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty, but is back in 2017 with an untiled movie about the 1967 Detroit riots that features, among others, John Boyega, while Darren Aronofsky swaps biblical epics for psychological thrillers with the Jennifer Lawrence-starring Mother. And if that weren’t enough there’s also: Last Flag Flying, Richard Linklater’s spiritual sequel to 70s comedy The Last Detail; Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk; Sofia Coppola’s civil war drama The Beguiled; Alexander “Nebraska” Payne doing comedy sci-fi with Downsizing and an untitled Paul Thomas Anderson effort about 50s fashion that reunites the director with chief milkshake-drinker Daniel Day Lewis. GM BLOCKBUSTERS!Seven box-office big-hitters for 2017 Blade Runner 2049After his triumphant Arrival, expectations are high for Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi-noir sequel, led by Ryan Gosling. The Dark TowerFans have been salivating for this sci-fi-western-fantasy based on Stephen King’s…