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)
Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge, 1983)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo, 2018)
Everything Beautiful is Far Away (Pete Ohs and Andrea Sisson, 2017)
McQueen (Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, 2018)
Better Watch Out (Chris Peckover, 2016)
I Feel Pretty (Abby Kohn, 2018)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)
A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, 2018)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Alexandra Dean, 2017)
Grandma (Paul Weitz, 2015)
Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)
The Man in the Wall (האיש שבקיר, Evgeny Ruman, 2015)
Tout ce qui brille (Géraldine Nakache and Hervé Mimran, 2010)
Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders, 1992)
Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2018)
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