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Re: The Year So Far (2018)
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2019, 05:27:23 AM »
Yeah, I didn’t watch enough foreign language films so it isn’t the most impressive “best.”

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Re: The Year So Far (2018)
« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2019, 03:06:15 PM »
my Top 18 of 2018



  • The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos; Ireland, UK, USA)
  • Zama (dir. Lucrecia Martel; Argentina)
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Shoplifters (dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu; Japan)
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Eighth Grade (dir. Bo Burnham; USA)
  • Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley; USA)
  • Widows (dir. Steve McQueen; UK, USA)

  • The Other Side of the Wind (dir. Orson Welles; USA)
  • Cold War (dir. Paweł Pawlikowski; Poland)
  • Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson; USA)
  • Un beau soleil intérieur (Let the Sunshine In) (dir. Claire Denis; France)
  • The Wild Pear Tree (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Turkey)
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Foxtrot (dir. Samuel Maoz; Israel)
  • Burning (dir. Lee Chang-dong; South Korea)
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (dir. Marielle Heller; USA)

  • The Sisters Brothers (dir. Jacques Audiard; USA, France)
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (dir. Morgan Neville; USA)

  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; USA)

  • You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay;  UK, USA)

and 18 honorable mentions in alphabetical order:

Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland; UK, USA)
At Eternity’s Gate (dir. Julian Schnabel; USA, UK, France)
Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada; USA)
Border (dir. Ali Abbasi; Sweden)

The Death of Stalin (dir. Armando Iannucci; UK)
Everybody Knows (dir. Asghar Farhadi; Spain, France, Italy)
Game Night (dir. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein; USA)
Golden Exits (dir. Alex Ross Perry; USA)

Happy As Lazzaro (dir. Alice Rohrwacher; Italy)
Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster; USA)

Hold the Dark (dir. Jeremy Saulnier; USA)
Mandy (dir. Panos Cosmatos; Canada, USA)
November (dir. Rainer Sarnet; Estonia)
Private Life (dir. Tamara Jenkins; USA)
Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón; Mexico)
Shirkers (dir. Sandi Tan; USA)
Three Identical Strangers (dir. Tim Wardle; UK, USA)
24 Frames (dir. Abbas Kiarostami; Iran, France)
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Re: The Year So Far (2018)
« Reply #22 on: February 17, 2019, 06:34:23 PM »
I’ve become comfortable with my top films reflecting my personal tastes. Your list is perhaps the best cross-section I’ve seen of the peaks of 2018 cinema. The only notable omission I see is First Reformed.

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« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2019, 08:42:43 PM »
I’ve become comfortable with my top films reflecting my personal tastes. Your list is perhaps the best cross-section I’ve seen of the peaks of 2018 cinema. The only notable omission I see is First Reformed.

Huh, I thought it was idiosyncratic. Sigh. Anyway, First Reformed didn't work for me.
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Re: The Year So Far (2018)
« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2019, 10:00:42 PM »
Dig the list. Lots I still need to see on it. Glad to see a lot of love for foreign films.

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Re: The Year So Far (2018)
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2019, 08:21:41 PM »
Hey. I wrote about these films more in depth here. But here's the rawest list.

10. Long Day's Journey Into Night
9. Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
8. Hereditary
7. The House That Jack Built
6. Burning
5. Isle Of Dogs
4. Monrovia, Indiana
3. BlacKkKlansman
2. An Elephant Sitting Still
1. You Were Never Really Here

 

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