{"id":18570,"date":"2020-01-01T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=18570"},"modified":"2021-09-24T23:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T04:13:58","slug":"top-10-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/top-10-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2019"},"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 2019 (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. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)<\/li>\n
  2. Libert\u00e9 (Albert Serra)<\/li>\n
  3. The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (Ja’Tovia Gary)<\/li>\n
  4. The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow)<\/li>\n
  5. I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)<\/li>\n
  6. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)<\/li>\n
  7. About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)<\/li>\n
  8. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardennes)<\/li>\n
  9. Just Don\u2019t Think I\u2019ll Scream (Frank Beauvais)<\/li>\n
  10. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

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

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    1. Uncut Gems (2019, Josh & Benny Safdie)<\/li>\n
    2. Climax (2018, Gaspar No\u00e9)<\/li>\n
    3. The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard)<\/li>\n
    4. Long Day\u2019s Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)<\/li>\n
    5. The Plagiarists (2019, Peter Parlow)<\/li>\n
    6. The Wandering Soap Opera (2017, Ra\u00fal Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)<\/li>\n
    7. High Life (2018, Claire Denis)<\/li>\n
    8. Our Time (2018, Carlos Reygadas)<\/li>\n
    9. Black Mother (2018, Khalik Allah)<\/li>\n
    10. Knives Out (2019, Rian Johnson)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      My Top 10 Discoveries During 2019<\/span><\/strong> (for first-time viewings of films made before 2000)<\/p>\n

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      1. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)<\/li>\n
      2. After Hours (1985, Martin Scorsese)<\/li>\n
      3. Le Trou (1960, Jacques Becker)<\/li>\n
      4. Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternberg)<\/li>\n
      5. New York, New York (1977, Martin Scorsese)<\/li>\n
      6. Out of the Present (1997, Andrei Ujic\u0103)<\/li>\n
      7. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)<\/li>\n
      8. The Eighties (1983, Chantal Akerman)<\/li>\n
      9. Other Men’s Women (1931, William A. Wellman)<\/li>\n
      10. Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        Other 2019 films I\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont) – 6.6<\/li>\n
        • The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio) – 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Atlantis (Valentyn Vasyanovych) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Bird Island (Sergio da Costa & Maya Kosa) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Gemini Man (Ang Lee) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • SaF05 (Charlotte Prodger) ~ 6.5<\/li>\n
        • State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Lux \u00c6terna (Gaspar No\u00e9) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Tommaso (Abel Ferrara) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Us (Jordan Peele) – 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Bacurau (Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho & Juliano Dornelles) – 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Light from Light (Paul Harrill) – 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (Jessica Sarah Rinland) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Light of My Life (Casey Affleck) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Parasite (Bong Joon-ho) – 6.4<\/li>\n
        • A Voluntary Year (Ulrich K\u00f6hler & Henner Winckler) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • My Mexican Bretzel (Nuria Gim\u00e9nez) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg) – 6.3<\/li>\n
        • MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell) ~ 6.2<\/li>\n
        • A White, White Day (Hlynur P\u00e1lmason) – 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Sibyl (Justine Triet) – 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Collective (Alexander Nanau) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Labyrinth of Cinema (Nobuhiko \u014cbayashi) – 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov) – 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Synonyms (Nadav Lapid) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • White Lie (Calvin Thomas & Yonah Lewis) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • The Dead Don\u2019t Die (Jim Jarmusch) – 6.1<\/li>\n
        • First Love (Takashi Miike) – 6.0<\/li>\n
        • The Plastic House (Allison Chhorn) – 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Anne at 13,000 Feet. (Kazik Radwanski) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Joker (Todd Phillips) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Heimat is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Little Joe (Jessica Hausner) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Native Son (Rashid Johnson) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • The Hottest August (Brett Story) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • My Skin, Luminous (Gabino Rodr\u00edguez & Nicolas Pereda) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Years of Construction (Heinz Emigholz) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Living and Knowing You’re Alive (Alain Cavalier) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • To the Ends of the Earth (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Family Romance, LLC. (Werner Herzog) – 5.7<\/li>\n
        • A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Fire Will Come (Oliver Laxe) – 5.7<\/li>\n
        • The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Belonging (Burak \u00c7evik) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • End of the Century (Lucio Castro) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Varda by Agn\u00e8s (Agn\u00e8s Varda) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • So Pretty (Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Zeus Machine. The Invincible (Nadia Ranocchi & David Zamagni) – 5.6<\/li>\n
        • The Assistant (Kitty Green) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • The Halt (Lav Diaz) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Rocks (Sarah Gavron) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Domino (Brian De Palma) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Glass (M. Night Shyamalan) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • On a Magical Night (Christophe Honor\u00e9) – 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Atlantics (Mati Diop) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Sunrise\/Sunset (Jong Ougie Pak) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Invisible Life of Eur\u00eddice Gusm\u00e3o (Karim A\u00efnouz) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Oh Mercy (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Ridge (John Skoog) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Wilcox (Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Darks Waters (Todd Haynes) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Three Summers (Sandra Kogut) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.3<\/li>\n
        • American Factory (Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar) – 5.3<\/li>\n
        • The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • A Girl Missing (Koji Fukada) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Tlamess (Ala Eddine Slim) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • 143 Sahara Street (Hassen Ferhani) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • For the Money (Alejo Moguillansky) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Krabi, 2562 (Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Bull (Annie Silverstein) – 5.2<\/li>\n
        • My Zoe (Julie Delpy) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Seven Years in May (Affonso Uchoa) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Dogs Don\u2019t Wear Pants (Jukka-Pekka Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Devil Between the Legs (Arturo Ripstein) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Pain and Glory (Pedro Almod\u00f3var) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Sea of Lost Time (Gurvinder Singh) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • That Cloud Never Left (Yashaswini Raghunandan) – 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Cunningham (Alla Kovgan) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Ouvertures (Louis Henderson & Olivier Marboeuf) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Saturday Fiction (Lou Ye) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • I Lost My Body (J\u00e9r\u00e9my Clapin) – 5.0<\/li>\n
        • High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Matthias and Maxime (Xavier Dolan) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • The Edge of Democracy (Petra Costa) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Les Mis\u00e9rables (Ladj Ly) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman) – 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Proxima (Alice Winocour) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Midsommar (Ari Aster) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Ema (Pablo Larra\u00edn) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • The Fever (Maya Da-Rin) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • The Moneychanger (Federico Veiroj) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux) – 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Frankie (Ira Sachs) – 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach) – 4.3<\/li>\n
        • The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan) – 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Movements of a Nearby Mountain (Sebastian Brameshuber) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Un Film Dramatique (\u00c9ric Baudelaire) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Summer in Changsha (Zu Feng) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Ad Astra (James Gray) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Endless Night (Eloy Enciso) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • The El Duce Tapes (Rodney Ascher & David Lawrence) – 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Little Women (Greta Gerwig) – 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Port Authority (Danielle Lessovitz) – 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Wet Season (Anthony Chen) \u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) \u2013 3.7<\/li>\n
        • The Climb (Michael Angelo Covino) – 3.0<\/li>\n
        • Blood Quantum (Jeff Barnaby) \u2013 2.9<\/li>\n
        • The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine) – 2.4<\/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 2019 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie) Libert\u00e9 (Albert Serra) The Giverny Document […]<\/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-18570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570","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=18570"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21036,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions\/21036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}