#no yorgos or luca or denis ????

[ecstarry]

no emma stone nom for kinds of kindness, no challengers or queer nom and no denis villeneuve best director nom who did the freaky guys of hollywood piss off !??! tell me rn !!!!!

[irregularcollapse]

Hey B!! Happy new year ✨ My 2025 resolution is to watch more films, and you seem to have very good taste. Would you be willing to recommend me some of your faves? 🤍

anon hi hello yes! in 2025 we should ALL watch more films <3 thank you for saying i have good taste! that's very flattering.

i always find it really hard to think of my Favourite™ films because i feel like i love heaps of different films for different reasons! i will truly watch anything and always try to find something that i like when i watch a film (although sometimes that doesn't work).

these were my top watches of last year!

other films newish i watched last year that i thought were really cool:

Infinity Pool (2023) dir. Brandon Cronenberg

Summer of Blood (2014) dir. Onur Tukel

Bug (2006) dir. William Friedkin (not terribly new, i know, but severely underwatched imo! very cool concept and staging, and the performances are incred)

Aftersun (2022) dir. Lluís Galter (not that Aftersun though I do hear that one is good too hfhfhfff)

The Sweet East (2023) dir. Sean Price Williams

Of an Age (2022) dir. Goran Stolevski

Kinds of Kindness (2024) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) dir. Ariane Louis-Seize

Triangle of Sadness (2022) dir. Ruben Östlund

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) dir. Quentin Tarantino (I actually think this is his best film since Death Proof! Don't write it off, don't go in expecting A Tarantino™. It's super well-paced and so competently edited, truly)

Problemista (2023) dir. Julio Torres

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

Neptune Frost (2021) dir. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman

also just for directors that really hit my taste every time... [timmy chalamet voice] shoutout Julia Ducournau, shoutout Amanda Kramer, shoutout Wong Kar-Wai, shoutout Gregg Araki, shoutout David Lynch, shoutout Luca Guadagnino, shoutout Gus Van Sant, shoutout Todd Haynes, shoutout Agnès Varda, shoutout Rose Glass, shoutout Claire Denis, shoutout Jennifer Kent, shoutout Lizzie Borden, shoutout David Cronenberg.

also i'm vamplibrarian on letterboxd if you're ever curious what i've been watching! i'm currently picking lots from the Criterion Collection though we'll see how long that lasts xoxo

[jalwyn21]

ugh how i wish that brideshead revisited project to continue. isn't luca currently filming the shards?

also, do you think joe's cooking something with claire denis? he liked suzanne lindon's insta post with denis back in september and she and denis are co-writing a film,right?

Well, Brideshead Revisited is more of a summer filming thing.. for the outdoor scenes I mean.. so plenty of time. You know, assuming it actually happens in reality not just my delusions. 😅

Joe clearly adores Claire so if she calls him, best believe he is saying yes. And she is a bit like Yorgos, she tends to repeat actors she likes. And she likes Joe enough to still meet him when he is in Paris...

But this would be more of a next year project. Writing a film, getting the funds to make it, the cast, locations can take up to 2 years. So I'm not even thinking about this yet.

[marianoaa2]

Films I've watched on Mubi - 2024

Burning - Lee Chang-Dong ✅

Happy Together - Wong Kar Wai ✅

La vie de bohème - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Dead Pigs - Cathy Yan ✅

Notturno - Gianfranco Rosi ✅

Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch ✅

Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Copie conforme - Abbas Kiarostami ✅

Les parapluies de Cherbourg - Jacques Demy ✅

À mon Seúl désir - Lucie Borleteau ✅

Mire varilla menneisyyttä - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Perfect Days - Wim Wenders ✅

The Immigrant - James Gray ✅

Hamlet Iiikermaailmassa - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach ✅

27 - Flóra Anna Buda ✅

Die Reise nach Lyon - Claudia Con ✅

El esqueleto de la señora Morales - Rogelio A. González ✅

Yannick - Quentin Dupieux ✅

Eraserhead - David Lynch ✅

Close - Lukas Dhont ✅

Dogtooth - Yorgos Lanthimos ✅

Crocus - Suzan Pitt ✅

Los Angeles Plays Itself - Thom Andersen ✅

Mariana, Mariana - Alberto Isaac ✅

Who is Sabato de Sarno? A Gucci Story ✅

Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders ✅

La práctica - Martin Rejtman ✅

Crossing - Levan Akin ✅

Sometimes I think about dying - Rachel Lambert ✅

Le Bonheur - Agnès Barda ✅

One More Time With Feeling - Andrew Dominik ✅

Control - Anton Corbijn ✅

Los Huesos - Cristóbal León ✅

Joy Street - Suzan Pitt ✅

The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin ✅

Varjoja Paratiisissa - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Asparagus - Suzan Pitt ✅

Juha - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Visitation - Suzan Pitt ✅

Leningrad Cowboys meet Moses - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Reality + - Coralie Fargeat ✅

La Región Salvaje - Amat Escalante ✅

Leningrad Cowboys Go America - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Leningrad Cowboys: Those Were The Days - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Leningrad Cowboys: Thru the Wire - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Total Balalaika Show - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Melrose: Rich little bich - Aki Kaurismäki ✅

Buena Vista Social Club - Wim Wenders ✅

Motel Destino - Karim Aïnouz ✅

Bufalo '66 - Vincent Gallo ✅

El Doctor - Suzan Pitt ✅

Queer - Luca Guadagnino ✅

No End - Krzysztof Kiéslowski ✅

Chocolat - Claire Denis ✅

Maurice's Bar - Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery ✅

Yuki's Sun - Hayao Miyazaki ✅

La Bête - Bertrand Bonello ✅

The Servant - Joseph Losey ✅

[why-bull-the-fashion-demon]

Movies I watched in 2024

January

1/4: Broker (2022, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

1/13: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997, dir. Roger Spottiswoode)

1/14: Sharper (2023, dir. Benjamin Caron)

1/17: Wildlife (2018, dir. Paul Dano)

1/18: Dalíland (2022, dir. Mary Harron)

1/23: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023, dir. Martin Scorsese)

1/24: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021, dir. Michael Chaves)

February

2/8: The Prestige (2006, dir. Christopher Nolan)

2/9: The Marvels (2023, dir. Nia DaCosta)

2/10: The Bodyguard (1973, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

A View To A Kill (1985, dir. John Glen)

2/11: The World Is Not Enough (1999, dir. Michael Apted)

2/12: Die Another Day (2002, dir. Lee Tamahori)

The Holdovers (2023, dir. Alexander Payne)

2/13: Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

Licence To Kill (1989, dir. John Glen)

2/14: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

2/15: From Russia With Love (1963, dir. Terence Young)

2/17: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969, dir. Peter Hunt)

Live And Let Die (1973, dir. Guy Hamilton)

2/18: Goldfinger (1964, dir. Guy Hamilton)

For Your Eyes Only (1981, dir. John Glen)

2/19: Moonraker (1979, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

2/21: The Man With The Golden Gun (1974, dir. Guy Hamilton)

2/22: Dr. No (1962, dir. Terence Young)

The Living Daylights (1987, dir. John Glen)

2/28: Thunderball (1965, dir. Terence Young)

2/29: Diamonds Are Forever (1971, Guy Hamilton)

March

3/04: Karate Killer (1973, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

3/07: Napoleon (2023, dir. Ridley Scott)

3/09: Never Say Never Again (1983, dir. Irvin Kershner)

3/10: Wonka (2023, dir. Paul King)

3/11: Poor Things (2023, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

3/12: American Fiction (2023, dir. Cord Jefferson)

3/14: Mean Girls (2024, dir. Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez, Jr.)

3/15: Bad City (2022, dir. Kensuke Sonomura)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024, dir. Rose Glass)

3/17: The Assassins (2012, dir. Zhao Linshan)

3/20: Clear and Present Danger (1994, dir. Phillip Noyce)

3/21: Weathering With You (2019, dir. Makoto Shinkai)

3/28: Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

3/29: The Iron Lady (2011, dir. Phyllida Lloyd)

3/31: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, dir. Martin Scorsese)

April

4/1: Silence (2016, dir. Martin Scorsese)

4/2: Andrei Rublev (1966, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

4/3: Blockers (2018, dir. Kay Cannon)

4/6: Anatomy of a Fall (2023, dir. Justine Triet)

4/8: The Zone of Interest (2023, dir. Jonathan Glazer)

4/16: Yakuza Wolf 2 (1972, dir. Buichi Saito)

4/17: Demonlover (2002, dir. Olivier Assayas)

4/24: Dragnet Girl (1933, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

4/27: Infernal Affairs (2002, dir. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak)

May

5/2: Aloners (2022, dir. Hong Sung-eun)

5/3: The Beekeeper (2024, dir. David Ayer)

5/4: Mallrats (1995, dir. Kevin Smith)

Spaceballs (1987, dir. Mel Brooks)

5/5: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, dir. Amy Heckerling)

5/8: Juno (2007, dir. Jason Reitman)

5/12: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/13: Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/14: The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/15: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/18: Thank You For Smoking (2005, dir. Jason Reitman)

5/19: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001, dir. Kevin Smith)

5/20: Elvis (2022, dir. Baz Luhrman)

Dune: Part One (2021, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

5/21: Dune: Part Two (2024, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

American Pie (1999, dir. Chris and Paul Weitz)

5/23: The French Dispatch (2021, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/27: Dune (1984, dir. David Lynch)

5/28: Priscilla (2023, dir. Sofia Coppola)

5/29: Lost in Translation (2003, dir. Sofia Coppola)

June

6/2: Madame Web (2024, dir. S.J. Clarkson)

6/3: Lisa Frankenstein (2024, dir. Zelda Williams)

6/29: Monkey Man (2024, dir. Dev Patel)

July

7/11: Suzume (2022, dir. Makoto Shinkai)

7/18: Booksmart (2019, dir. Olivia Wilde)

Blockers (2018, dir. Kay Cannon)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

August

8/1: Challengers (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

8/3: Tampopo (1985, dir. Juzo Itami)

8/9: Late Spring (1949, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

8/12: Gone Girl (2014, dir. David Fincher)

8/17: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, dir. George Miller)

8/17; Perfect Days (2023, dir. Wim Wenders)

Kubi (2023, dir. Takeshi Kitano)

8/18: The Fountain (2006, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

September

9/1: Kinds of Kindness (2024, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

9/2: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, dir. Wes Anderson)

9/14: Civil War (2024, dir. Alex Garland)

9/21:  I Saw The TV Glow (2024, dor. Jane Schoenbrun)

9/29: High and Low (1963, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

October:

10/5: Street Fighter (1994, dir. Steven E. de Souza)

10/9: Mortal Kombat (1995, dir. Paul W.S. Anderson)

10/11: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, dir. James Cameron)

1013: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997, dir. John R. Leonetti)

10/15: Wayne’s World (1992, dir. Penelope Spheeris)

10/26: Chungking Express (1994, dir. Wong Kar-wai)

10/31: Scream (1996, dir. Wes Craven)

November:

11/8: Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

11/12: Napoleon (2023, dir. Ridley Scott) (Director’s Cut)

11/14: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, dir. Joel Coen)

11/16: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024, dir. Shawn Levy)

The Heroic Trio (1993, dir. Johnnie To)

11/21: La Piscine (1969, dir. Jacques Deray) 

11/27: The Hill (2023, dir. Jeff Celentano)

11/28: Donnie Darko (2001, dir. Richard Kelly)

Alien: Romulus (2024, dir. Fede Alvarez)

December:

12/2: Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

12/6: Tokyo Twilight (1957, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

12/21: Home Alone (1990, dir. Chris Columbus)

12/25: Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

12/28: Joker: Folie á Deux (2024, dir Todd Phillips)

12/31: Look Back (2024, dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama)

[oreolesbian]

MY TOP 10 FILMS OF 2024

Challengers dir. Luca Guadagnino

I Saw the TV Glow dir. Jane Schoenbrun

Dune: Part Two dir. Denis Villeneuve

Hundreds of Beavers dir. Mike Cheslik

The Substance dir. Coralie Fargeat

Perfect Days dir. Wim Wenders*

Nosferatu dir. Robert Eggers

Love Lies Bleeding dir. Rose Glass

Wicked dir. Jon M. Chu

Problemista dir. Julio Torres

HONORABLE MENTIONS Kinds of Kindness dir. Yorgos Lanthimos Society of the Snow dir. J.A. Bayona* Anora dir. Sean Baker Conclave dir. Edward Berger Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga dir. George Miller Dìdi (弟弟) dir. Sean Wang Look Back dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama Lisa Frankenstein dir. Zelda Williams

*indicates a film that technically released prior to this year - but was not a wide theatrical and/or streaming release near me until this year

[denimbex1986]

'...The Skinny's Film Writers' Top 20 Films of 2024

1. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) 2. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) 3. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) 4. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) 5. Anora (Sean Baker) 6. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) 7. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) 8. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Nathaniel Ashley 1. American Fiction (Cord Jefferson) 2. Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann) 3. The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders) 4. Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve) 5. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) 6. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne) 7. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Anahit Behrooz 1. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) 2. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Louis Cammell 1. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) 2. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) 3. Look Back (Kiyotaka Oshiyama) 4. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) 5. Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) 6. The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin) 7. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) 8. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Katie Driscoll 1. The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin) 2. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass) 3. Anora (Sean Baker) 4. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) 5. The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams) 6. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Jamie Dunn 1. Monster (Hirokazu Koreeda) 2. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Stefania Sarrubba 1. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) 2. Strange Darling (J.T. Mollner) 3. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola) 4. Anora (Sean Baker) 5. The First Omen (Arkasha Stevenson) 6. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) 7. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) 8. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass) 9. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar) 10. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Peter Simpson 1. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) 2. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Josh Slater-Williams...

Honourable Mentions: All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...

Xuanlin Tham 1. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) 2. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) 3. Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) 4. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) 5. Memories of a Burning Body (Antonella Sudasassi Furniss) 6. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)...'

[chwedout]

✨films i watched for the first time in 2021 that i think everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime✨

favourites are listed in bold

A Ghost Story (2017, dir. David Lowery)

About Time (2013, dir. Richard Curtis)

Another Round (2020, dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

Black Widow (2021, dir. Cate Shortland)

Booksmart (2019, dir. Olivia Wilde)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006, dir. Larry Charles)

Brokeback Mountain (2005, dir. Ang Lee)

C’mon C’mon (2021, dir. Mike Mills)

Calm with Horses (2019, dir. Nick Rowland)

Cherry (2021, dir. Anthony and Joe Russo)

Climax (2018, dir. Gaspar Noé)

Dogtooth (2009, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

Don’t Look Up (2021, dir. Adam McKay)

Dune (2021, dir. Denis Villenueve)

Eighth Grade (2018, dir. Bo Burnham)

Eternals (2021, dir. Chloé Zhao)

Ex Machina (2014, dir. Alex Garland)

Fight Club (1999, dir. David Fincher)

The Florida Project (2017, dir. Sean Baker)

Frances Ha (2012, dir. Noah Baumbach)

The Green Knight (2021, dir. David Lowery)

Her (2013, dir. Spike Jonze)

Hereditary (2018, dir. Ari Aster)

The Humans (2021, dir. Stephen Karam)

It Comes at Night (2017, dir. Trey Edward Shults)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021, dir. Shaka King)

Lamb (2021, dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson)

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019, dir. Joe Talbot)

Last Night in Soho (2021, dir. Edgar Wright)

The Lighthouse (2019, dir. Robert Eggers)

Luca (2021, dir. Enrico Casarosa)

Marrowbone (2017, dir. Sergio G. Sánchez)

mid90s (2018, dir. Jonah Hill)

Minari (2020, dir. Lee Isaac Chung)

Miss Stevens (2016, dir. Julia Hart)

Mother (2009, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

mother! (2017, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

The Neon Demon (2016, dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)

Never Let Me Go (2010, dir. Mark Romanek)

Nomadland (2020, dir. Chloé Zhao)

Paddington 2 (2017, dir. Paul King)

The Power of the Dog (2021, dir. Jane Campion)

Pride (2014, dir. Matthew Warchus)

Raw (2016, dir. Julia Ducournau)

Ready or Not (2019, dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett)

Rocketman (2019, dir. Dexter Fletcher)

Roma (2018, dir. Alfonso Cuarón)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, dir. Wes Anderson)

Saint Maud (2019, dir. Rose Glass)

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021, dir. Destin Daniel Cretton)

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021, dir. Jon Watts)

Suspiria (2018, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

Swiss Army Man (2016, dir. Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan)

Thoroughbreds (2017, dir. Cory Finley)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, dir. Martin McDonagh)

tick, tick… BOOM! (2021, dir. Lin-Manuel Miranda)

Under the Silver Lake (2018, dir. David Robert Mitchell)

Vox Lux (2018, dir. Brady Corbet)

Whiplash (2014, dir. Damien Chazelle)

The Witch (2015, dir. Robert Eggers)

Wildlife (2018, dir. Paul Dano)

2020 version

[maaarine]

MBTI & Directors

INFP

Noah BAUMBACH Tim BURTON Damien CHAZELLE Guillermo DEL TORO Claire DENIS Craig FOSTER Deniz GAMZE ERGÜVEN Michel GONDRY Kate HERRON Spike JONZE Miranda JULY Charlie KAUFMAN Sam LEVINSON David LYNCH Mike MILLS Hayao MIYAZAKI Shirin NESHAT Steven SPIELBERG Lana WACHOWSKI

ENFP

Chantal AKERMAN Danny BOYLE Julie DELPY Xavier DOLAN Lena DUNHAM Greta GERWIG Todd HAYNES Baz LUHRMANN Marjane SATRAPI Tarsem SINGH Agnès VARDA John WATERS

INTP

Woody ALLEN Laurie ANDERSON Wes ANDERSON Ari ASTER Richard AYOADE BONG Joon-ho Ethan COEN Alfred HITCHCOCK Jim JARMUSCH Yorgos LANTHIMOS Bruno MUSCHIO Aaron SORKIN Lars VON TRIER Nicolas WINDING REFN

ENTP

Judd APATOW James CAMERON Alain CHABAT Terry GILLIAM James GUNN Seth MACFARLANE Adam MCKAY Stephen MERCHANT Yann MOIX Trey PARKER Quentin TARANTINO Taika WAITITI Edgar WRIGHT

INFJ

Darren ARONOFSKY Zal BATMANGLIJ Ingmar BERGMAN Cary FUKUNAGA Deeyah KHAN Pablo LARRAIN Kenneth LONERGAN David LOWERY George LUCAS Terrence MALICK Anthony MINGHELLA Sarah POLLEY Robert REDFORD Wim WENDERS

ENFJ

Mike CAHILL George CLOONEY Richard CURTIS Ava DUVERNAY Emerald FENNELL Tom FORD Barry JENKINS Mike NICHOLS Marti NOXON Tyler PERRY Joachim TRIER Olivia WILDE Joe WRIGHT

INTJ

Kathryn BIGELOW David CHASE Brady CORBET David FINCHER Alex GARLAND Peter JOSEPH Stanley KUBRICK Christopher NOLAN

ENTJ

Julia DUCOURNAU Nora EPHRON Jodie FOSTER James GRAY Agnieszka HOLLAND Patty JENKINS Alexander PAYNE Guy RICHIE Ridley SCOTT Steven SODERBERGH Orson WELLES

ISFP

Ryan COOGLER Sofia COPPOLA Richard LINKLATER Sam TAYLOR-JOHNSON

ESFP

Asia ARGENTO Zack SNYDER

ESTP

Michael BAY

ISTJ

Clint EASTWOOD

[doomonfilm]

Memories : The Best Films of the 2010s

Only a few years into my tenure as a film blogger, and I’ve been tasked with a monumental undertaking : ranking the top films of the last decade.  Reflecting year by year is a journey in its own right, and with things like recency bias to take into account, plus the dice roll of blessing and curse that perspective and time bring to older films, I knew that this would be memorable at best, and stressful at worst.

That being said, I don’t claim to have seen every movie, so I know that there are some ‘glaring’ omissions.  I am always open to recommendations for films I should watch (for the purpose of blogging on them or otherwise), but DOOMonFILM has always been about my personal experience as a film fan, first and foremost.  Discussion is welcome, and constructive criticism will always be considered, but this is one man’s opinion.

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THOUGHTS ON THE DECADE

The 2010s, despite moments of controversy in terms of diversity, turned out to be surprisingly forward-thinking in hindsight.  On more than one occasion in the decade, the film of the year (in terms of awards or in terms of critical/public reception), as well as highlight films of each year, were made by foreign directors.  Women and minorities also managed to be recognized in front of and behind the camera at what seemed like a higher rate.  Newer technologies were embraced, such as pushes forward in new cameras or directors opting to shoot on devices as small as iPhones, leaps forward in special effects, and a multitude of movies given the iMax treatment.  A handful of directors happened to put out multiple movies throughout the decade, and a few of those in that handful managed to make multiple award-winning and widely accepted films.  Marvel left such an impact on Hollywood, and the worldwide movie industry, that DC was forced to try and follow suit, and mergers with Sony and Disney were top tier news for months on end.  Actors like Scarlett Johanson, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Leonardo DiCaprio, among others, solidified themselves as box-office legends, while actors on both sides of their career (first-timers and those in the twilight of their career) found success throughout the decade.  All in all, it was a decade that continued to make me happy to be a movie fan, and as hard as it was to do, I managed to find 100 films throughout the decade to rank. 

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100. It Comes at Night (dir. Trey Edward Shults, 2017) 99. Kick-Ass (dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2010) 98. The Peanuts Movie (dir. Steve Martino, Andy Beall and Frank Molieri, 2015) 97. Everybody Wants Some!! (dir. Richard Linklater, 2016)  96. Upstream Color (dir. Shane Carruth, 2013) 95. Avengers : Age of Ultron (dir. Joss Whedon, 2015) 94. John Dies at the End (dir. Don Coscarelli, 2013) 93. Doctor Strange (dir. Scott Derrickson, 2016) 92. Keanu (dir. Peter Atencio, 2016) 91. Free Fire (dir. Ben Wheatley, 2017) 90. Upgrade (dir. Leigh Whannell, 2018) 89. Chappie (dir. Neill Blomkamp, 2015) 88. American Ultra (dir. Nima Nourizadeh, 2015) 87. I, Tonya (dir. Craig Gillespie, 2017) 86. Boyhood (dir. Richard Linklater, 2014) 85. The Grand Budapest Hotel (dir. Wes Anderson, 2014) 84. La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle, 2016) 83. Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland, 2015) 82. Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy, 2014) 81. Sicario (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2015) 80. Looper (dir. Rian Johnson, 2012) 79. The Killer Inside Me (dir. Michal Winterbottom, 2010) 78. Hell or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie, 2016) 77. End of Watch (dir. David Ayer, 2012) 76. Django Unchained (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2012) 75. Thoroughbreds (dir. Cory Finley, 2018) 74. Chronicle (dir. Josh Trank, 2012) 73. Melancholia (dir. Lars von Trier, 2011) 72. Black Mirror : Bandersnatch (dir. David Slade, 2018) 71. Detroit (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2017) 70. BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee, 2018) 69. Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler, 2018) 68. I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck, 2017) 67. Straight Outta Compton (dir. F. Gary Gray, 2015) 66. Kubo and the Two Strings (dir. Travis Knight, 2016) 65. It Follows (dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2014) 64. Logan Lucky (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2017) 63. Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017) 62. Booksmart (dir. Olivia Wilde, 2019) 61. Beats, Rhymes & Life : The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (dir. Michael Rapaport, 2011) 60. Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2017) 59. Moonrise Kingdom (dir. Wes Anderson, 2012) 58. The Cabin in the Woods (dir. Drew Goddard, 2012) 57. Black Swan (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2010) 56. Captain America : The Winter Soldier (dir. Joe Russo, 2014) 55. If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2018) 54. Avengers : Infinity War (dir. Anthony Russo, 2018) 53. True Grit (dir. Ethan and Joel Cohen, 2010) 52. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh, 2017) 51. Whiplash (dir. Damien Chazelle, 2014) 50. Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster, 2019) 49. Journey to the West : Conquering the Demons (dir. Stephen Chow and Derek Kwok, 2013) 48. Sorry To Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018) 47. Mid90s (dir. Jonah Hill, 2018) 46. Logan (dir. James Mangold, 2017) 45. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) 44. Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) 43. The Hateful Eight (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2015) 42. Exit Through the Gift Shop (dir. Banksy, 2010) 41. The Irishman (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2019) 40. Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2018) 39. The VVitch (dir. Robert Eggers, 2016) 38. Dogtooth (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2010) 37. The Lighthouse (dir. Robert Eggers, 2019) 36. Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018) 35. Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) 34. Beyond the Black Rainbow (dir. Panos Cosmatos, 2012) 33. The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) 32. Searching (dir. Aneesh Chaganty, 2018) 31. Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker, 2015) 30. Snowpiercer (dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2014) 29. Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer, 2013) 28. Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2017) 27. Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2017) 26. Baby Driver (dir. Edgar Wright, 2017) 25. Joker (dir. Todd Phillips, 2019) 24. The Neon Demon (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) 23. Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse (dir. Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman, 2018) 22. The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2017) 21. The Social Network (dir. David Fincher, 2010) 20. Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach, 2013) 19. Under the Silver Lake (dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2019) 18. Mad Max : Fury Road (dir. George Miller, 2015) 17. Good Time (dir. Josh and Benny Safdie, 2017) 16. Mandy (dir. Panos Cosmatos, 2018) 15. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2019) 14. Her (dir. Spike Jonze, 2013) 13. The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015) 12. Inherent Vice (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) 11. The Master (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

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10. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (dir. Joe Talbot, 2019)

I saw this film as the decade was winding to a close, but it made easily one of the starkest impressions on me of any film-going experience I can recall.  The movie looks amazing, the score and soundtrack are powerful, the acting is rich and dynamic, San Francisco is as beautiful on film as it is in real life, and the thoughts that arise from the narrative presented are the kind that hang around and result in personal changes that matter.  A shining achievement from a stellar year of film.

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9. Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2010)

If Christopher Nolan wasn’t already considered top tier prior to Inception, any doubters were left floored at the close of this masterpiece.  For a story that could have easily been way too convoluted for standard audiences, the visuals, direction and pacing guide us through the madness perfectly.  For anyone interested in dream depictions on cinema, for fans of stellar action, and for the smart people who know the quality that comes with the Nolan name, this one was a no-brainer.

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8. mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2017)

After being a bit on the nose with Noah, in terms of a film on religion, most directors would take that as a sign to move on from the topic.  For a director like Darren Aronofsky, however, the next step was to seemingly go back to your mind-scrambling roots, dig deeper symbolically, narratively and metaphorically, and come back to the table with one of the most divisive and controversial films of the decade.  mother! will clearly be a film ripe for analysis for years to come, and for as subjective and deep an experience as the film is, this reflection is welcome, as it serves to enrich future viewing experiences.

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7. Uncut Gems (dir. Josh and Benny Safdie, 2019)

How long does a film have to be out to be considered one of the best of the decade?  In the case of Uncut Gems, I will allow recency bias, as it is clearly evident at the beginning of the closing credits that the film is special and will resonate for years to come.  The Safdie brothers already had a classic under their belt with Good Time, and throwing that Sandler magic into the mix only amplifies their heightened and immersive style.

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6. The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker, 2017)

There are a small fraternity of directors that put out their first films and follow-up films in the 2010s, and while examples of possible award snubs can be found for these directors, there was one clear-cut case of oversight : the 2017 lack of recognition for Sean Baker’s immaculate, beautiful and moving The Florida Project.  While Tangerine was certainly the loudest of warning shots a first time director could provide, the amount of growth, nuance and confidence found in this follow-up deserved multiple awards, not just an acting nod for Willem Dafoe.  Perhaps Baker’s next film will bring him the recognition he deserves in terms of awards, but he’s already made a clear cut name for himself.

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5. Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster, 2018)

I rediscovered a love for horror films in the 2010s, and a key reason would be the emergence of director Ari Aster.  Upon seeing trailers for Hereditary, I knew that it would probably scare the life out of me, but the taste of the story given was so gripping I had to see it.  The fact that the trailer was so powerful, only for the movie to unfold in ways that I never would have imagined or discerned from the trailer, was one of the most rewarding film experiences of the decade.  Toni Collette also gave a performance for the ages.

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4. You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2018)

It’s arguable that Joaquin Phoenix may have had the strongest decade of any actor, and for my money’s worth, he was at his best in You Were Never Really Here.  Much of the angst presented was previously explored in The Master, and as great as Joker is, it’s essentially the DCEU version of You Were Never Really Here, tonally and in terms of specific elements.  Nobody short of the Safdie brothers are making movies that look, sound and feel like this one, and the unfortunate practice of human trafficking hitting the news forefront makes this film as timely as it is sad.

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3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (dir. Edgar Wright, 2010)

Hands down the coolest film of the decade.  Not since Who Framed Roger Rabbit? had so many elements that I loved from other properties managed to find their way into the same movie, and the way that the gumbo was prepared and served was pitch perfect.  As my friend Erin stated after we viewed the film, ‘If you watch this movie and don’t like it, I don’t think we can be friends’.  Some of my favorite sequences of any film are in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and this is the EXACT kind of film I look forward to one day sharing with my children. 

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2. Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

Another recent film that made an instant impact.  In terms of topics like honesty, entitlement, and family dynamics, nothing I can think of in recent memory is touching Parasite.  The parallels between the two families presented are perfect both visually and in the performances, and with each new bit of information presented, much of what you were previously presented is immediately recontextualized and put into question.  This film, from front to back, is one of the most gripping journeys a filmgoer can take. 

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1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)

Easily my favorite film of the decade.  This is the closest thing to a song-poem that I’ve ever seen presented on film, and it’s heartbreakingly beautiful.  Nothing else released in the decade looked or sounded like this film, and the way it meta-reflects on Hollywood, Broadway, superhero films and the importance of actors is equal parts hilarious, thought-provoking and wonderfully frustrating.  The film answers enough questions it posits so as to not completely confound the viewer, but it leaves enough open-ended so that repeat viewings are rewarding.  A true achievement of film, regardless of decade.

[solo-bolo-trollo]

EVERY MOVIE I WATCHED IN 2019

(the orange ones are films I really, really loved)

1. 20th Century Women (2016, dir. Mike Mills)

2. 6 Underground (2019, dir. Michael Bay)

3. A Dirty Shame (2004, dir. John Waters)

4. Absence of Malice (1981, dir. Sydney Pollack)

5. Anima (2019, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

6. Ánimas (2018, dir. Laura Alvea & José F. Ortuño)

7. Antiquities (2018, dir. Daniel Campbell)

8. Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

9. Aquaman (2018, dir. James Wan)

10. Badlands (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)

11. Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956, dir. Chuck Jones)

12. Batman and Robin (1997, dir. Joel Schumacher)

13. Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019, dir. Scott Aukerman)

14. Blackfish (2013, dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite)

15. Bound (1996, dir. Lana & Lilly Wachowski)

16. Bon Iver: Autumn (2019, dir. Andrew Swant)

17. Booksmart (2019, dir. Olivia Wilde)

18. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

19. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018, dir. Marielle Heller)

20. Casino (1995, dir. Martin Scorsese)

21. Cher: Live in Concert from Las Vegas (1999, dir. David Mallet)

22. Chinatown (1974, dir. Roman Polanski)

23. Christine (2016, dir. Antonio Campos)

24. CinemAbility (2013, dir. Jenni Gold)

25. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, dir. Agnès Varda)

26. Close (2019, dir. Vicky Jewson)

27. Country Music (2019, dir. Ken Burns)

28. Drag Me to Hell (2009, dir. Sam Raimi)

29. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019, dir. Vince Gilligan)

30. Female Trouble (1974, dir. John Waters)

31. First Man (2018, dir. Damien Chazelle)

32. Flesh + Blood (1985, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

33. Gloria Bell (2018, dir. Sebastián Lelio)

34. Gosford Park (2001, dir. Robert Altman)

35. Greta (2018, dir. Neil Jordan)

36. He Got Game (1998, dir. Spike Lee)

37. Her Smell (2018, dir. Alex Ross Perry)

38. Hereditary (2018, dir. Ari Aster)

39. High Flying Bird (2019, dir. Steven Soderbergh)

40. High Life (2018, dir. Claire Denis)

41. His Girl Friday (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)

42. I Am Easy to Find (2019, dir. Mike Mills)

43. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016, dir. Oz Perkins)

44. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, dir. Barry Jenkins)

45. Inherent Vice (2014, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

46. Jenny Slate: Stage Fright (2019, dir. Gillian Robespierre)

47. Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep (2016, dir. Kieran O’Hare)

48. John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019, dir. Rhys Thomas)

49. Late Spring (1949, dir. Yasujirȏ Ozu)

50. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, dir. Bi Gan)

51. Lyle (2014, dir. Stewart Thorndike)

52. Ma (2019, dir. Tate Taylor)

53. Magnolia (1999, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

54. Man with a Movie Camera (1929, dir. Dziga Vertov)

55. Maniac (2018, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

56. Marriage Story (2019, dir. Noah Baumbach)

57. Maudie (2016, dir. Aisling Walsh)

58. Mean Streets (1973, dir. Martin Scorsese)

59. Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)

60. Miami Vice (2006, dir. Michael Mann)

61. Michelle Wolf: Joke Show (2019, dir. Lance Bangs)

62. Midsommar (2019, dir. Ari Aster)

63. Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (2013, dir. Seth Barrish)

64. Molly’s Game (2017, dir. Aaron Sorkin)

65. Move Over, Darling (1963, dir. Michael Gordon)

66. Nowhere (1997, dir. Gregg Araki)

67. Okja (2017, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

68. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019, dir. Quentin Tarantino)

69. Pet Sematary (2019, dir. Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer)

70. Pink Flamingos (1972, dir. John Waters)

71. Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Żuławski)

72. R.E.M.: Road Movie (1996, dir. Peter Care)

73. Reality Bites (1994, dir. Ben Stiller)

74. Rocketman (2019, dir. Dexter Fletcher)

75. Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017, dir. Dan Gilroy)

76. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)

77. Sátántangó (1994, dir. Béla Tarr)

78. Serial Mom (1994, dir. John Waters)

79. Scandal Sheet (1952, dir. Phil Karlson)

80. Scooby-Doo (2002, dir. Raja Gosnell)

81. She’s All That (1999, dir. Robert Iscove)

82. Shocker (1989, dir. Wes Craven)

83. Song to Song (2017, dir. Terrence Malick)

84. Sorcerer (1977, dir. William Friedkin)

85. Southland Tales (2006, dir. Richard Kelly)

86. Suspiria (2018, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

87. The Age of Innocence (1993, dir. Martin Scorsese)

88. The Aviator (2004, dir. Martin Scorsese)

89. The Beach Bum (2019, dir. Harmony Korine)

90. The Bellboy (1960, dir. Jerry Lewis)

91. The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015, dir. Oz Perkins)

92. The Box (2009, dir. Richard Kelly)

93. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene)

94. The Dead Don’t Die (2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

95. The Farewell (2019, dir. Lulu Wang)

96. The Fast and the Furious (2001, dir. Rob Cohen)

97. The Favourite (2018, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

98. The Fourth Man (1983, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

99. The Goodbye Place (1996, dir. Richard Kelly)

100. The House That Jack Built (2018, dir. Lars von Trier)

101. The Invitation (2015, dir. Karyn Kusama)

102. The Irishman (2019, dir. Martin Scorsese)

103. The King of Comedy (1982, dir. Martin Scorsese)

104. The Little Hours (2017, dir. Jeff Baena)

105. The Long Day Closes (1992, dir. Terence Davies)

106. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018, dir. Terry Gilliam)

107. The New World (2005, dir. Terrence Malick)

108. The Polka King (2017, dir. Maya Forbes)

109. The Queen (1968, dir. Frank Simon)

110. The Rainmaker (1997, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

111. The Skin I Live In (2011, dir. Pedro Almodóvar)

112. The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019, dir. Mike Diva & Akiva Schaffer)

113. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, dir. John Huston)

114. The War Room (1993, dir. Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker)

115. The Warriors (1979, dir. Walter Hill)

116. True Romance (1993, dir. Tony Scott)

117. Unedited Footage of a Bear (2014, dir. Ben O’Brien & Alan Resnick)

118. Us (2019, dir. Jordan Peele)

119. Under the Silver Lake (2018, dir. David Robert Mitchell)

120. When I Get Home (2019, dir. Alan Ferguson, Solange Knowles, Terence Nance, Jacolby Satterwhite & Ray Tintori)

121. Widows (2018, dir. Steve McQueen)

122. Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion (2006, dir. Michael Bliedevn)

[youngneemleaves]

Journal: 2019

A list of my creative activity and all the media I have experienced throughout the year. I did a version of this eight months ago, but I wasn’t entirely satisfied with it. So I tooled about a little; and in the meantime, the activity has remained as inconsistent as my energy levels, but eventful, nonetheless. Here’s a more thorough list drawn up at the end of the year - after all, the end of 2019 is also the end of the 2010s.

The list has become rather long, so I’ve excluded online essays, stories, fanfiction, or poems that I’ve read this year. I ended up resorting to the usual 5-star rating system; because if I had to add a footnote explaining my personal 7-star rating system, the list would’ve been even longer and weirder!

+ Creative Writing

(Obviously, no ratings for this section; that’s up to you all ;)

Beloved - a short story for Holi

Lady Aesculapius: a new short story serial -> episode 6, Sixty Thousand Bedtime Stories

Clara Oswald: The Untold Adventures (coming on April 25, 2020) -> episode 4, As You Like It

+ Books and Audio Drama

Dave Rudden, Twelve Angels Weeping: twelve stories of the villains of Doctor Who (2018) | SFF, short stories [read the review on Downtime] - ⭐⭐⭐

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014) | literary fiction, SFF [review] - ⭐⭐⭐

Amitav Ghosh, Dancing in Cambodia and Other Essays (2008, first published 1998) | memoir, nonfiction, travel [review] - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (ed.), A Thousand Beginnings and Endings (2018) | SFF, short stories [did not review] - ⭐⭐⭐

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water (2011) | LGBTQIA, nonfiction, memoir [did not finish] - ⭐⭐⭐

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film (University of Hawai’i Press, 2010) | nonfiction (academics) [did not finish] - ⭐⭐⭐

Cecilia Sjöholm, The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire (Stanford University Press, 2004) | nonfiction, philosophy, psychoanalysis [reread] [did not review] - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

D.N. Bryn, Our Bloody Pearl (2018) | LGBTQIA, romance, SFF [did not finish] - ⭐⭐⭐

Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest (2009) | LGBTQIA, SFF [did not finish] - ⭐⭐⭐

Rey Chow, Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility (Columbia University Press, 2007) | nonfiction (academics) [did not finish] - ⭐⭐⭐

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories (1982, first published in 1949) | horror, literary fiction, short stories [currently reading] - ⭐⭐⭐

Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (2005) | literary fiction, SFF [did not review] - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love (2012) | nonfiction, philosophy, psychoanalysis [brief review] - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Melissa Broder, The Pisces (2018) | contemporary fiction, romance, SFF [currently reading] - ⭐⭐

Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines (2007) | literary fiction, historical fiction, travel [currently reading] -  ⭐⭐⭐

+ Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures - a fan-made audio drama on the further adventures of the Twelfth Doctor: series 1 [re-listen], plus this year’s specials:

Unlikely Thieves [review] - ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Blue Hour [review] - ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

** UNDER THE CUT: list of TV and films watched **

+ TV Round-up

Killing Eve (BBC America, 2016 - ) ⭐⭐⭐

Dark (Netflix, 2017 - ) ⭐⭐ 1/2

Good Omens (Amazon Studios and BBC, 2019) ⭐⭐⭐

The OA (Netflix, 2016 - 2019) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Star Wars: The Mandalorian (Disney+, 2019 - ) ⭐⭐⭐

His Dark Materials (BBC and HBO, 2019 - ) ⭐⭐⭐

The Witcher (Netflix, 2019 - )  ⭐⭐⭐⭐

+ Films Watched

Disobedience (2017), dir. Sebastián Lelio ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

The Favourite (2018), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos ⭐⭐⭐

First They Killed My Father (2017), dir. Angelina Jolie ⭐⭐⭐

Badla (2019), dir. Sujoy Ghosh ⭐⭐ 1/2

Roma (2018), dir. Alfonso Cuarón ⭐⭐⭐

Us (2019), dir. Jordan Peele ⭐⭐⭐⭐

In the Mood for Love (2000), dir. Wong Kar Wai ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Lady Macbeth (2016), dir. William Oldroyd ⭐⭐⭐

Chungking Express (1994), dir. Wong Kar Wai ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Stoker (2013), dir. Park Chan Wook ⭐⭐⭐

Widows (2018), dir. Steve McQueen ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), dir. Gareth Edwards ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

High Life (2018), dir. Claire Denis ⭐⭐

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), dir. Julius Onah ⭐ 1/2

Little Forest (2018), dir. Yim Soon-rye ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Jennifer’s Body (2009), dir. Karyn Kusama ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fallen Angels (1995), dir. Wong Kar Wai ⭐⭐⭐

The Phantom of the Opera (2004), dir. Joel Schumacher ⭐⭐

Midsommar (2019), dir. Ari Aster ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Star Wars: episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), dir. George Lucas ⭐⭐ 1/2

Byzantium (2012), dir. Neil Jordan ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Star Wars: episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), dir. George Lucas ⭐⭐ 1/2

Star Wars: episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), dir. George Lucas ⭐⭐⭐ *

Madeline’s Madeline (2018), dir. Josephine Decker ⭐⭐⭐

+ Studio Ghibli films:

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind (1984) ⭐⭐⭐

Spirited Away (2000) ⭐⭐⭐

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) ⭐⭐⭐

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) ⭐⭐⭐

* I would’ve rated it a solid 4 if not for the fridging at the end of the film.

** HEADER IMAGES CREDIT: (from top) 1. Joanna Kosinska; 2. Brazil Topno; 3. Kelly Sikkema; 4. chuttersnap [edits: mine] **

[threecolorblack]

MY FILM CHECKLIST

(Where I add in films that I want to watch and cross out films that I had seen)

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)

A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Jee-woon, 2003)

Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1994)

American Psyche (Marry Harron, 2000)

Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)

Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)

Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)

Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)

Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagdino, 2018)

Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002)

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

Cold War (Paweł Pălikowski, 2018)

Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)

Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

Dancer in thr Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)

Dunkirk (Christopher Nolen, 2017)

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2013)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)

Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)

GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

Good Time (Josh Safdie and Bennie Safdie, 2017)

Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)

Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)

Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)

Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2013)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)

Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018)

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)

Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, 2018)

Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)

La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016)

Laurence Anyway (Xavier Dolan, 2012)

Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013)

Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)

Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)

Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)

Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)

Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)

Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)

Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2007)

Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004)

On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)

Old Boy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)

Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2015)

Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo de Toro, 2006)

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)

Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016)

Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015)

Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)

Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Word (Edgar Wright, 2010)

Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)

Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018)

Short Term 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2013)

Shutter Island (Martin Scrosese, 2010)

Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

Stoker (Park Chan-wook, 2013)

Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Can-wook, 2002)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Can-wook, 2005)

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008)

Stop Making Sense (Joanathan Demme, 1984)

Taxi Driver (Martin Scrosese, 1976)

Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)

The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)

The Day After (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)

The Departed (Martin Scrosese, 2016)

The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011)

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)

The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, 2016)

The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012)

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot, 2019)

The Lighthouse (Robbert Eggers, 2019)

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)

The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

The Social Network (Christopher Nolan, 2010)

The VVitch (Robbert Eggers, 2015)

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scrosese, 2013)

There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

Uncut Gems (Josh Safdie and Bennie Safdie, 2019)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)

Women in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)

Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)

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2018

24 frames (abbas kiarostami)

first reformed (paul schrader)

shoplifters (hirokazu kore-eda)

if beale street could talk (barry jenkins)

annihilation (alex garland)

beychella 2018 (beyoncé)

an elephant sitting still (hu bo)

minding the gap (bing liu)

high life (claire denis)

sharp objects (jean-marc vallée)

shirkers (sandi tan)

ready player one (steven spielberg)

madeline’s madeline (josephine decker)

happy as lazzaro (alice rohrwacher)

the other side of the wind (orson welles)

hale county this morning, this evening (ramell ross)

vox lux (brady corbet)

support the girls (andrew bujalski)

black mother (khalik allah)

blue (apichatpong weerasethakul)

suspiria (luca guadagnino)

the misandrists (bruce labruce)

the house that jack built (lars von trier)

widows (steve mcqueen)

first man (damien chazelle)

(+ several more):

1985 (yen tan)

“all gold canyon,” the ballad of buster scruggs (joel + ethan coen)

aquaman (james wan)

asako I & II (ryūsuke hamaguchi)

ash is purest white (jia zhangke)

assassination nation (sam levinson)

a.w. a portrait of apichatpong weerasethakul (connor jessup) / aware, anywhere (benoît bourreau)

burning (lee chang-dong)

cam (daniel goldhaber)

chameleon (anna pollack)

devilman crybaby (masaaki yuasa) / “devilman crybaby: sympathy for the devil” (secret otaku)

the favourite (yorgos lanthimos)

the first purge (gerard mcmurray)

the haunting of hill house (mike flanagan)

hereditary (ari aster)

homecoming (sam esmail)

i am not a witch (rungano nyoni)

i’m not her(e): iMnOTHERe (carman spoto)

the image book (jean-luc godard) / westerly wind (“jean-luc godard”) / “LE LIVRE D IMAGE - cannes 2018 - press conference - ev”

leave no trace (debra granik)

non-fiction (olivier assayas)

the rider (chloé zhao)

self-criticism of a bourgeois dog (julian radlmaier)

skate kitchen (crystal moselle)

a star is born (bradley cooper)

the strangers: prey at night (johannes roberts)

the tale (jennifer fox)

under the silver lake (david robert mitchell)

unfriended: dark web (stephen susco)

unsane (steven soderbergh)

we the animals (jeremiah zagar)

you were never really here (lynne ramsay)

[ what i missed: cold war (paweł pawlikowski) | did you wonder who fired the gun? (travis wilkerson) | the grand bizarre (jodie mack) | milla (valerie massadian) | the mule (clint eastwood) | my first film (zia anger) | the old man & the gun (david lowery) | personal problems (bill gunn) | shakedown (leilah weinraub) | sollers point (matthew porterfield) | sorry angel (christophe honoré) | sunset (lászló nemes) | western (valeska grisebach) | your face (tsai ming-liang) ]

[sleepythug]

uhhh 2020 is going to be a packed year???

memoria (apichatpong weerasethakul)

shulan river (hou hsiao-hsien)

blossoms (wong kar-wai)

untitled project (jonathan glazer)

the perfumed hill (abderrahmane sissako)

evangelion 3.0+1.0 (hideaki anno)

untitled project (christopher nolan)

benedetta (paul verhoeven)

eureka (lisandro alonso)

nightmare alley (guillermo del toro)

blood on the tracks (luca guadagnino)

dune (denis villeneuve)

west side story (steven spielberg)

avatar: the way of water (james cameron)

the ballad of richard jewell (clint eastwood)

three thousand years of longing (george miller)

nine men from now (paul schrader)

bergman island (mia hansen-løve)

wasp network (olivier assayas)

pop. 1280 (yorgos lantimos)

selvajara (miguel gomes)

after yang (kogonada)

the brigands of rattlecreek (park chan-wook)

da 5 bloods (spike lee)

army of the dead (zack snyder)

on the rocks (sophia coppola)

the devil all the time (antonio campos)

state of the empire (amat escalante)

macbeth (joel coen)

jungle cruise (jaume collet-serra)

[stainedglassgardens]

Favourite films watched in 2018

I arranged them into broad categories -- other than that they’re in no particular order.

Indie

River of Grass, Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 1994, 2010 and 2013)

Tangerine and The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2015 and 2017)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner, 2014)

Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012)

Cracks (Jordan Scott, 2009)

I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017)

Turn the River (Chris Eigeman, 2007)

Hello I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso, 2012)

Shuttle Life (Tan Seng Kiat, 2017)

On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, Agnès Varda, 1984)

Easy Living (Adam Keleman, 2017)

Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

Khadak (Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2006)

Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)

Comedy

Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2016)

Addicted to Fresno (Jamie Babbit, 2015)

The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel, 2018)

Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton, 1998)

Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002)

Experimental

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963)

Always Shine (Sophia Takal, 2016)

The Midnight Swim (Sarah Adina Smith, 2014)

La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky, Věra Chytilová, 1966)

Classics

Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967)

Dead Ringer (Paul Henreid, 1964)

Horror

Creep and Creep 2 (Patrick Brice, 2014 and 2017)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes and As Above, So Below (John Erick Dowdle, 2007 and 2014)

Raw (Grave, Julia Ducournau, 2016)

Cargo (Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, 2017)

Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)

Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)

Banshee Chapter (Blair Erickson, 2013)

Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)

Science fiction

Primer and  Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2004 and 2013)

Resolution and The Endless (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2012 and 2017)

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016)

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)

Into the Forest (Patricia Rozema, 2015)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)

Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)

Action

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)

M.F.A. (Natalia Leite, 2017)

Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)

Full list of 306 films watched in 2018 under the cut!

January

The Devil’s Candy (Sean Byrne, 2015)

A United Kingdom (Amma Asante, 2016)

Creep (Patrick Brice, 2014)

The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)

The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)

The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016)

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

Life (Daniel Espinosa, 2017)

Logan (James Mangold, 2017)

Creep 2 (Patrick Brice, 2017)

The Discovery (Charlie McDowell, 2017)

Otherlife (Ben C. Lucas, 2017)

The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015)

Bokeh (Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan , 2017)

February

Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

The Handmaiden (아가씨, Agassi, Park Chan-wook, 2016)

Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)

Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)

Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017)

The Guest (Adam Wingard, 2014)

Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017)

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)

Sweet Bean (あん, An, Naomi Kawase, 2015)

The Hallow (Corin Hardy, 2015)

Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)

10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)

The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah, 2018)

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)

Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)

Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)

River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)

Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)

Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967)

March

Raw (Grave, Julia Ducournau, 2016)

Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, 2013)

By the Sea (Angelina Jolie, 2015)

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)

Jupiter Ascending (The Wachowskis, 2015)

Irreplaceable You (Stephanie Laing, 2018)

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner, 2014)

Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)

Ravenous (Les Affamés, Robin Aubert, 2017)

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2016)

Notes on Blindness (Peter Middleton and James Spinney, 2016)

Breathe (Respire, Mélanie Laurent, 2014)

Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)

Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)

Lovesong (So Yong Kim, 2016)

Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)

April

ARQ (Tony Elliott, 2016)

Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)

Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)

Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)

American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)

Maurice (James Ivory, 1987)

The Silent House (La Casa Muda, Gustavo Hernández, 2010)

Viral (Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, 2016)

Buster’s Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith, 2016)

Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)

Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysle, 1975)

Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012)

Cracks (Jordan Scott, 2009)

Into the Forest (Patricia Rozema, 2015)

A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017)

Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)

The Violent Years (William Morgan, 1956)

The Ritual (David Bruckner, 2017)

Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green, 2017)

Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins, 1998)

We’ve Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew (Thomas Woodrow, 2017)

Love and Other Cults (Kemonomichi, Eiji Uchida, 2017)

You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2017)

Shirley: Visions of Reality (Gustav Deutsch, 2013)

Catfight (Onur Tuckel, 2017)

Pyewacket (Adam MacDonald, 2017)

May

Lick the Star (Sofia Coppola, 1998)

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963)

Novitiate (Maggie Betts, 2017)

The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Hymyilevä mies, Juho Kuosmanen, 2016)

Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947)

Human Flow (Ai Weiwei, 2017)

Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989)

Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, 2016)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)

I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017)

Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnès Varda, 1962)

Orbiter 9 (Órbita 9, Hatem Khraiche, 2017)

M.F.A. (Natalia Leite, 2017)

Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2016)

Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016)

Deidra and Laney Rob a Train (Sydney Freeland, 2017)

The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1932)

Girl Asleep (Rosemary Myers, 2015)

Always Shine (Sophia Takal, 2016)

The Monster (Bryan Bertino, 2016)

Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985)

Addicted to Fresno (Jamie Babbit, 2015)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015)

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)

The Midnight Swim (Sarah Adina Smith, 2014)

The Quiet Hour (Stéphanie Joalland, 2014)

Synchronicity (Jacob Gentry, 2015)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)

Pod (Mickey Keating, 2015)

Turn the River (Chris Eigeman, 2007)

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)

Frequencies (Darren Paul Fisher, 2013)

Spring (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2014)

Time Lapse (Bradley D. King, 2014)

Meet Me There (Lex Lybrand, 2014)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)

The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)

Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)

Laggies (Lynn Shelton, 2014)

Starlet (Sean Baker, 2012)

Dead Ringer (Paul Henreid, 1964)

The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995)

The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig, 2014)

Berlin Syndrome (Cate Shortland, 2017)

Dude (Olivia Milch, 2018)

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

June

Hello I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso, 2012)

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997)

Mystery Road (Ivan Sen, 2013)

The Double (Richard Ayoade, 2013)

Dear White People (Justin Simien, 2014)

The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard, 2013)

Don’t Breathe (Fede Álvarez, 2016)

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present (Matthew Akers, 2012)

Hot Bot (Michael Polish, 2016)

Beneath the Harvest Sky (Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, 2013)

Tim’s Vermeer (Teller, 2013)

The Firefly (La Luciérnaga, Ana Maria Hermida, 2015)

Twinsters (Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto, 2015)

Resolution (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2012)

Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)

Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

We Are What We Are (Jim Mickle, 2013)

The Battery (Jeremy Gardner, 2012)

Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (Sebastián Silva , 2013)

Boy (Taika Waititi,2010)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Steven Chbosky, 2012)

White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014)

The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010)

Ocean’s Eight (Gary Ross, 2018)

Compliance (Craig Zobel, 2012)

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Lorene Scafaria, 2012)

Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011)

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

July

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)

Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow, 2012)

Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)

Duck Butter (Miguel Arteta, 2018)

The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)

Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)

Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)

Woodshock (Kate and Laura Mulleavy, 2017)

Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)

Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)

Aloft (Claudia Llosa, 2014)

A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica, Sebastián Lelio, 2017)

The Feels (Jenée LaMarque, 2017)

The Endless (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2017)

Shuttle Life (Tan Seng Kiat, 2017)

I Origins (Mike Cahill, 2014)

The Taking of Deborah Logan (Adam Robitel, 2014)

Chasing Ice (Jeff Orlowski, 2012)

Manchester By the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)

The Bar (El Bar, Álex de la Iglesia, 2017)

Mr. Roosevelt (Noël Wells, 2017)

Woman Walks Ahead (Susanna White, 2017)

The Manual (William Magness, 2017)

The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013)

Oculus (Mike Flanagan, 2013)

The Eye (Pang brothers, 2002)

August

The Overnight (Peter Brice, 2015)

Axolotl Overkill (Helene Hegemann, 2017)

Little Sister (Zach Clark, 2016)

Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968)

Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002)

The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)

The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983)

They (Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, 2017)

Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

Cargo (Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, 2017)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)

Radius (Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, 2017)

17 Girls (17 Filles, Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, 2011)

The Deuce of Spades (Faith Granger, 2011)

The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 2008)

La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

Train to Busan  (부산행, Busanhaeng, Yeon Sang-ho, 2016)

As Above, So Below (John Erick Dowdle, 2014)

Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)

Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi, 1999)

Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1970)

The Lifeguard (Liz W. Garcia, 2013)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964)

The Beales of Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Ian Markiewicz, 2006)

The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016)

Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)

Easy Living (Adam Keleman, 2017)

Going Back (Adam Keleman, 2010)

A Series of Acts (Adam Keleman, 2006)

Long Days (Adam Keleman, 2012)

Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017)

Before I Fall (Ry Russo-Young, 2017)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (John Erick Dowdle, 2007)

Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932)

Khadak (Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2006)

The Lure (Córki dancingu, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015)

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, Agnès Varda, 1984)

Little Evil (Eli Craig, 2017)

September

The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972)

Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores, Jorge Furtado, 1989)

Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1960)

On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)

Village of the Damned (Wolf RIlla, 1960)

Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo, Juzo Itami, 1985)

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)

Outside In (Lynn Shelton, 2017)

Voyeur (Myles Kane, 2017)

The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener, 2018)

Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014)

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting, 2015)

Tig (Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York, 2015)

Shortwave (Ryan Phillips, 2016)

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell, 2008)

Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)

October

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (La Femme la plus assassinée du monde, Franck Ribière, 2018)

I Think We’re Alone Now (Reed Morano, 2018)

The Woman Who Left (Ang Babaeng Humayo, Lav Diaz, 2016)

The Babysitter (Brian Duffield, 2017)

The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, 1996)

Emelie (Michael Thelin, 2015)

21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003)

Apostle (Gareth Evans, 2018)

Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979)

Banshee Chapter (Blair Erickson, 2013)

Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007)

Office (오피스, Hong Won-chan, 2015)

The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher, 2015)

The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel, 2018)

Before I Wake (Mike Flanagan, 2016)

The Most Unknown (Ian Cheney, 2018)

Private Life (Tamara Jenkins, 2018)

Octavio is Dead! (Sook-Yin Lee, 2018)

Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)

Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)

Galveston (Mélanie Laurent, 2018)

Growing Up Coy (Eric Juhola, 2016)

Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

November

Murder My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)

Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)

Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)

Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)

Silent Light (Stellet Licht, Carlos Reygadas, 2007)

Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)

Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur, 1948)

Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)

Angels Wear White (嘉年华, Vivian Qu, 2017)

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)

The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray, 2003)

In the Aisles (In den Gängen, Thomas Stuber, 2018)

Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton, 1998)

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)

Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)

I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore (Macon Blair, 2017)

The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo, 1997)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky, Věra Chytilová, 1966)

Blue My Mind (Lisa Brühlmann, 2017)

December

The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ, Yozora wa itsudemo saiko mitsudo no aoiro da, Yuya Ishii, 2017)

Michael Lost and Found (Daniel Wilner, 2017)

The Trader (Sovdagari, Tamta Gabrichidze, 2018)

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Better Watch Out (Chris Peckover, 2016)

I Feel Pretty (Abby Kohn, 2018)

Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)

A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, 2018)

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Grandma (Paul Weitz, 2015)

Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)

The Man in the Wall (האיש שבקיר‎, Evgeny Ruman, 2015)

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Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2018)