{"id":17266,"date":"2019-01-01T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=17266"},"modified":"2025-01-05T20:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:50:38","slug":"top-10-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/top-10-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2018 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n

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  1. The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)<\/li>\n
  2. Climax (Gaspar No\u00e9)<\/li>\n
  3. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)<\/li>\n
  4. Long Day\u2019s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)<\/li>\n
  5. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)<\/li>\n
  6. L. COHEN (James Benning)<\/li>\n
  7. High Life (Claire Denis)<\/li>\n
  8. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)<\/li>\n
  9. Quantification Trilogy (Jeremy Shaw)<\/li>\n
  10. Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Polls Top 10<\/span><\/strong> (Eligible titles appear here<\/a>.) (Note: This year I started including MUBI’s [and other VOD services’] streaming-only releases on this list.)<\/p>\n

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    1. The House That Jack Built (2018, Lars von Trier)<\/li>\n
    2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017, Bruno Dumont)<\/li>\n
    3. Mrs. Hyde (2017, Serge Bozon)<\/li>\n
    4. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)<\/li>\n
    5. The Dreamed Path (2016, Angela Schanelec)<\/li>\n
    6. Streetscapes [Dialogue] (2017, Heinz Emigholz)<\/li>\n
    7. 24 Frames (2017, Abbas Kiarostami)<\/li>\n
    8. Caniba (2017, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)<\/li>\n
    9. Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg)<\/li>\n
    10. First Reformed (2017, Paul Schrader)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      My Top 10 Discoveries During 2018<\/span><\/strong> (for first-time viewings of films made before 2000)<\/p>\n

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      1. A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea (1991, Stan Brakhage)<\/li>\n
      2. Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger)<\/li>\n
      3. The Text of Light (1974, Stan Brakhage)<\/li>\n
      4. Hatari! (1962, Howard Hawks)<\/li>\n
      5. Tortured Dust (1984, Stan Brakhage)<\/li>\n
      6. Flesh for Frankenstein (1973, Paul Morrissey)<\/li>\n
      7. The Heartbreak Kid (1972, Elaine May)<\/li>\n
      8. Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983, Ferdinando Baldi)<\/li>\n
      9. Anticipation of the Night (1958, Stan Brakhage)<\/li>\n
      10. Amityville 3-D (1983, Richard Fleischer)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        Other 2018 films I\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Black Mother (Khalik Allah) – 6.9<\/li>\n
        • Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa) – 6.8<\/li>\n
        • Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg) – 6.7<\/li>\n
        • Sand (Tsai Ming-liang) – 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Asako I & II (Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi) – 6.6<\/li>\n
        • The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack) – 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Green Book (Peter Farrelly) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • I Can See Forever (Jeremy Shaw) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Mission: Impossible\u2014Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • In My Room (Ulrich K\u00f6hler) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • In the Realm of Perfection (Julien Faraut) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • La Flor (Mariano Llinas) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Segunda Vez (Dora Garc\u00eda) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (Bruno Dumont) – 6.3<\/li>\n
        • An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) – 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Classical Period (Ted Fendt) – 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham) – 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Spice It Up (Lev and Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas) – 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Transit (Christian Petzold) – 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Private Life (Tamara Jenkins) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Welcome to Marwen (Robert Zemeckis) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Petra (Jaime Rosales) – 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Jinpa (Pema Tseden) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • M\/M (Drew Lint) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Winter\u2019s Night (Jang Woo-jin) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Peterloo (Mike Leigh) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D\u2019Ambrose) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Communion Los Angeles (Peter Bo Rappmund & Adam R. Levine) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Sedu\u00e7\u00e3o da Carne (J\u00falio Bressane) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Girl (Lukas Dhont) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher) – 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein) – 5.7<\/li>\n
        • The Wolf House (Joaqu\u00edn Coci\u00f1a & Crist\u00f3bal Le\u00f3n) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Widows (Steve McQueen) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Unfriended: Dark Web (Stephen Susco) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Ayka (Sergey Dvortsevoy) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Mid90s (Jonah Hill) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • The Load (Ognjen Glavonic) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Acid Forest (Rugile Barzd\u017eiukaite) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Treasure Island (Guillaume Brac) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016 (Jeff Reichert, Damon Smith, & Eric Hynes) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Piercing (Nicolas Pesce) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Grass (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Upgrade (Leigh Whannell) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Thunder Road (Jim Cummings) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Greta (Neil Jordan) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • What You Gonna Do When the World\u2019s on Fire? (Roberto Minervini) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Maya (Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • At War (St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Memento Stella (Takashi Makino) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Belmonte (Federico Veiroj) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Minding the Gap (Bing Liu) – 5.3<\/li>\n
        • N.O.N. (Zebulon Zang) – 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Ten Years Thailand (Assarat, Sasanatieng, Sriphol, & Weerasethakul) – 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Casanova Gene (Luise Donschen) – 5.3<\/li>\n
        • The Dead and the Others (Jo\u00e3o Salaviza & Ren\u00e9e Nader Messora) – 5.3<\/li>\n
        • ROMA (Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Mule (Clint Eastwood) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Everything Outside (David Findlay) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Last Race (Michael Dweck) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • To the Ends of the World (Guillaume Nicloux) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Free Solo (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • The Pluto Moment (Ming Zhang) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • First Man (Damian Chazelle) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Roi Soleil (Albert Serra) – 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Buy Me a Gun (Julio Hern\u00e1ndez Cord\u00f3n) – 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Your Face (Tsai Ming-liang) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • In Fabric (Peter Strickland) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Sauvage (Camille Vidal-Naquet) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Unsane (Steven Soderbergh) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog & Andr\u00e9 Singer) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • A Land Imagined (Siew Hua Yeo) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Border (Ali Abbasi) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Black Panther (Ryan Coogler) – 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Destroyer (Karyn Kusama) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Roads in February (Katherine Jerkovic) – 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Introduzione All\u2019Oscuro (Gast\u00f3n Solnicki) – 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Annihilation (Alex Garland) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Vox Lux (Brady Corbet) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Dogman (Matteo Garrone) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • The Tale (Jennifer Fox) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Mangoshake (Terry Chiu) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Sorry Angel (Christophe Honor\u00e9) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Leave No Trace (Debra Granik) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • The River (Emir Baigazin) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • When the Storm Fades (Sean Devlin) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • The New Romantic (Carly Stone) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Ol Parker) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • The Trial (Sergei Loznitsa) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) – 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Hereditary (Ari Aster) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Dovlatov (Alexey German Jr.) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Fausto (Andrea Bussmann) – 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Mandy (Panos Cosmatos) – 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Diane (Kent Jones) – 4.2<\/li>\n
        • The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • The Far Shore (David Uloth) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • The Mountain (Rick Alverson) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs (Bojan Bodru\u017ei\u0107) – 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi) – 4.0<\/li>\n
        • The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan) – 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (Tsui Hark) – 3.9<\/li>\n
        • A Family Tour (Ying Liang) – 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Song of a Seer (A\u00efda Maigre-Touchet) – 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) – 3.9<\/li>\n
        • The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener) \u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • Freaks (Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein) – 3.8<\/li>\n
        • Sunset (L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes) \u2013 3.7<\/li>\n
        • Victory Day (Sergei Loznitsa) – 3.6<\/li>\n
        • Summer (Kirill Serebrennikov) – 3.6<\/li>\n
        • Firecrackers (Jasmin Mozaffari) – 3.5<\/li>\n
        • Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky) – 3.5<\/li>\n
        • The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (Xavier Dolan) \u2013 3.4<\/li>\n
        • Aniara (Pella K\u00e5german & Hugo Lilja) \u2013 3.2<\/li>\n
        • Wildlife (Paul Dano) \u2013 3.0<\/li>\n
        • Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (Robin Hays) – 2.9<\/li>\n
        • Clara (Akash Sherman) – 2.8<\/li>\n
        • The Grizzlies (Miranda de Pencier) – 2.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          *Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years. This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2018 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier) Climax (Gaspar No\u00e9) The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17266"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24934,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions\/24934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}