1/26/20

Best Discoveries 2019

Hellzapoppin 1941
H.C. Potter

Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) 1975
Lina Wertmüller

His Kind of Woman 1951
John Farrow/Richard Fleischer (uncredited)

Coming Home 1978
Hal Ashby

Splendor in the Grass 1961
Elia Kazan

Drôle de Drame (aka Bizarre, Bizarre) 1937
Marcel Carne

Jennifer's Body 2009
Karyn Kusama


1/24/20

Best Films 2019


Parasite 
Bong Joon Ho





24 Frames
Abbas Kiarostami





Under the Silver Lake
David Robert Mitchell




Midsommar
Ari Aster






The Beach Bum
Harmony Korine




The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers




Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino




Climax
Gaspar Noe




Long Day's Journey Into Night
Gan Bi




Dolemite is My Name
Craig Brewer





The Wild Pear Tree
Nuri Bilge Ceylan




Uncut Gems
Josh and Bennie Safdie




Pain and Glory
Pedro Almodovar




Luce
Julius Onah





Atlantics
Mati Diop





Knives Out
Rian Johnson





Burning
Chang-dong Lee





Hale County This Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross





The Mountain
Rick Alverson





Bisbee '17
Robert Greene



THE BEST OF THE REST

Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Martin Scorsese)
JoJo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Spider Man: Into the Spider-verse 
(Bob Persichetti/Peter Ramsey/Rodney Rothman)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
Crawl (Alexandre Aja)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
Vice (Adam McKay)


Shorts
Anima (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Lifeboat (Skye Fitzgerald)
The Fall (Jonathan Glazer)
A Night at the Garden (Marshall Curry)



Not for Me:
Men in Black: International (F. Gary Gray), The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel),
A Simple Favor (Paul Fieg); Captain Marvel (Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck); Greta (Neil Jordan); Cats (Tom Hooper)

Anticipating:
Zombi Child (Bonello) Vox Lux (Corbet) - Synonyms (Lapid) - Waves (Shults) - Let the Corpses Tan (Cattet/Forzani) - The House That Jack Built (von Trier) - La Flor (Llinás) - What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Minervini) - The Image Book (Godard) - Color Out of Space (Stanley) - A Hidden Life (Malick) - Tenet (Nolan) - I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman) - Memoria (Weerasethakul) - First Cow (Reichardt)