MOST FAVORITE FOREIGN FILMS THAT I SAW IN 2019

 

MOST FAVORITE FOREIGN FILMS THAT I SAW IN 2019 (for live-action fiction films which are longer than 30 minutes)

 

in roughly preferential order

 

1.THE END OF THE TRACK (1970, Mou Tun-fei, Taiwan)

 

2.DOCTOR SLEEP (2019, Mike Flanagan)

 

3.AWAKENING (2006, Junji Sakamoto, Japan)

 

4.US (2019, Jordan Peele)

 

5.FILM IST. (1-6) (1998, Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 60min)

+ FILM IST. (7-12) (2002, Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 93min)

+ FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN (2009, Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 93min)

 

6.SO LONG, MY SON (2019, Wang Xiaoshuai, China, 185min)

 

7.AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (2018, Hu Bo, China, 3hours 50mins)

 

8.HAPPY AS LAZZARO (2018, Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)

 

9.THE BARON (2011, Edgar Pêra, Portugal)

 

10.I PROMISE YOU ANARCHY (2015, Julio Hernández Cordón, Mexico)

 

11.MADELINE’S MADELINE (2018, Josephine Decker)

 

12.HARD TO BE A GOD (2013, Aleksey German, Russia, 2hours 57mins)

 

13.JACKIE BROWN (1997, Quentin Tarantino)

 

14.ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019, Quentin Tarantino)

 

15.FAREWELL SONG (2019, Akihiko Shiota, Japan)

 

16.SOLARIS (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, second viewing)

 

17.BEAUTY AND THE DOGS (2017, Kaouther Ben Hania, Tunisia)

 

18.A LULLABY TO THE SORROWFUL MYSTERY (2016, Lav Diaz, Philippines, 8hours 5mins)

 

19.PAPICHA (2019, Mounia Meddour, France/Algeria)

 

20.VOX LUX (2018, Brady Corbet)

 

21.THE ASSAULT (1986, Fons Rademakers, Netherlands)

 

22.SEASON OF THE DEVIL (2018, Lav Diaz, Philippines, 3hours 54mins)

 

23.FREAKS (2018, Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein, USA/Canada)

 

24.PARASITE (2019, Bong Joon Ho, South Korea)

 

25.GLASS (2019, M. Night Shyamalan)

 

26.SYSTEM CRASHER (2019, Nora Fingscheidt, Germany)

 

27.8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini, Italy, second viewing)

 

28.THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS (2015, Ben Rivers, UK)

 

29.CAPTIVE STATE (2019, Rupert Wyatt)

 

30.THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE (2015, Alante Kavaite, Lithuania)

 

31.THE FOREST FOR THE TREES (2003, Maren Ade, Germany)

 

32.REMINGTON AND THE CURSE OF THE ZOMBADINGS (2011, Jade Castro, Philippines)

 

33.DOUBTING THOMAS (2018, Will McFadden, Anthony O’Brien)

 

34.MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991, Gus Van Sant)

 

35.MIDSOMMAR (2019, Ari Aster, USA/Sweden)

 

36.GIRL (2018, Lukas Dhont, Netherlands/Belgium)

 

37.MONDOMANILA, OR: HOW I FIXED MY HAIR AFTER A RATHER LONG JOURNEY (2012, Khavn De La Cruz, Philippines)

 

38.ENDO (2007, Jade Castro, Philippines)

 

39.FILIBUS (1915, Mario Roncoroni, Italy)

 

40.PARADISE: LOVE (2012, Ulrich Seidl, Austria)

 

41.THE RIDER (2017, Chloé Zhao)

 

42.COLUMBUS (2017, Kogonada)

 

43.ONCE UPON A TIME, BEIRUT (1995, Jocelyn Saab, Lebanon/France)

 

44.OFFICIAL SECRETS (2019, Gavin Hood, UK/USA)

 

45.WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY (2018, Madeleine Olnek)

 

46.SELF-CRITICISM OF A BOURGEOIS DOG (2017, Julian Radlmaier, Germany/Italy)

 

47.WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY (2017, Iram Haq, Norway)

 

48.KATYN (2007, Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

 

49.THE WOMAN WHO LEFT (2016, Lav Diaz, Philippines, 3hours 46mins)

 

50.SUNNY: OUR HEARTS BEAT TOGETHER (2019, Hitoshi One, Japan)

 

51.SUPERPSYCHOCEBU (2016, Christian Linaban, Philippines)

 

52.TAEKWONDO (2016, Marco Berger, Martín Farina, Argentina)

 

53.BALANGIGA: HOWLING WILDERNESS (2017, Khavn De La Cruz, Philippines)

 

54.WELCOME MR. MARSHALL! (1953, Luis García Berlanga, Spain)

 

55.HOLY MOTORS (2012, Leos Carax, France, second viewing)

 

56.CLIMAX (2018, Garpar Noé, France)

 

57.GONE WITH THE WIND (1939, Victor Fleming, 3hours 58mins)

 

58.SEVEN SAMURAI (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 3hours 27mins)

 

59.VILLAGE OF THE WHITE CLOTHES (1939, Chianca de Garcia, Portugal)

 

60.7TH HEAVEN (1927, Frank Borzage)

 

61.FRIAR LUÍS DE SOUSA (1950, António Lopes Ribeiro, Portugal)

 

62.MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE (1983, Nagisa Oshima, UK/New Zealand/Japan, second viewing)

 

63.SLEEPLESS (2015, Prime Cruz, Philippines)

 

64.BRAVE FATHER ONLINE: OUR STORY OF FINAL FANTASY XIV (2019, Teruo Noguchi, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Japan)

 

65.FIGHT FOR THE MATTERHORN (1928, Mario Bonnard, Nunzio Malasomma, Luis Trenker, Germany/Switzerland/Italy)

 

66.L’ATALANTE (1934, Jean Vigo, France)

 

67.3 DAYS IN QUIBERON (2018, Emily Atef, Germany)

 

68.FÉLICITÉ (2017, Alain Gomis, France/Democratic Republic of Congo)

 

69.THE RETURN (2015, Green Zeng, Singapore)

 

70.BURST CITY (1982, Sogo Ishii, Japan)

 

71.MOON OVER MALAYA (1957, Chun Kim, Singapore/Hong Kong)

 

72.MIXED DOUBLES (2017, Junichi Ishikawa, Japan)

 

73.BARBARA (2012, Christian Petzold, Germany)

 

74.SUPER CRAZY (2018, Martino Zaidelis, Argentina)

 

75.THE SCYTHIAN LAMB (2017, Daihachi Yoshida, Japan)

 

76.THE WORKSHOP (2017, Laurent Cantet, France)

 

77.TANGO (1998, Carlos Saura, Spain/Argentina)

 

78.IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018, Barry Jenkins)

 

79.IN DARKNESS (2011, Agnieszka Holland, Poland)

 

80.WE’LL BE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL (2018, Letizia Lamartire, Italy)

 

81.EXIT (2019, Lee Sang-geun, South Korea)

 

82.I AM NOT A WITCH (2017, Rungano Nyoni, UK/Zambia)

 

83.DOOR LOCK (2018, Kwon Lee, South Korea)

 

84.BEN-HUR (1959, William Wyler, 3hours 32mins)

 

85.CAPRI-REVOLUTION (2018, Mario Martone, Italy)

 

86. BIRDS OF PASSAGE (2018, Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra, Colombia)

 

87. SECTION 375 (2019, Ajay Bahl, India)

 

88. AUGUST AT AKIKO’S (2018, Christopher Magoto Yogi)

 

89. DREAM GIRL (2019, Raaj Shaandilyaa, India)

 

90. PUSHING HANDS (1991, Ang Lee, Taiwan/USA)

 

91. THE FAVOURITE (2018, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/USA)

 

92. JOKER (2019, Todd Phillips)

 

93. UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (2018, David Robert Mitchell)

 

94. THE YOUNG KARL MARX (2017, Raoul Peck, France/Germany/Belgium)

 

95. LIKE TWO DROPS OF WATER (1963, Fons Rademakers, Netherlands)

 

96. IN THE AISLES (2018, Thomas Stuber, Germany)

 

97. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977, Wim Wenders, West Germany/France, second viewing)

 

98. I AM MOTHER (2019, Grant Sputore, Australia)

 

99. A LAND IMAGINED (2018, Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)

 

100. THE UNTHINKABLE (2018, Victor Danell, Sweden)

 

101. THE DRUMMER AND THE KEEPER (2017, Nick Kelly, Ireland)

 

102. A BREATH AWAY (2018, Daniel Roby, France/Canada)

 

103. GALVESTON (2018, Mélanie Laurent)

 

104. THE CRESCENT MOON (2015, Ismail Basbeth, Indonesia)

 

105. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (2018, Jia Zhangke, China)

 

106. THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER (2018, Sara Colangelo)

 

107. KIM JI-YOUNG: BORN 1982 (2019, Kim Do-Young, South Korea)

 

108. SIGNAL ROCK (2018, Chito S. Roño, Philippines)

 

109. WALLAY (2017, Berni Goldblat, Burkina Faso)

 

110. CAPERNAUM (2018, Nadine Labaki, Lebanon)

 

111. MEMOIR OF WAR (2017, Emmanuel Finkiel, France)

 

112. CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (2018, Marielle Heller)

 

113. AD ASTRA (2019, James Gray)

 

114. GENGHIS KHAN (1950, Manuel Conde, Philippines)

 

115. CLINGING WITH HATE (MONE SWAL) (2018, Aww Yatha, Myanmar)

 

116. BRIGHT STAR (2009, Jane Campion, UK)

 

117. YOUTH (2017, Feng Xiaogang, China)

 

118. CAFÉ FUNICULI FUNICULA (2018, Ayuko Tsukahara, Japan)

 

119.DOCTOR CHANCE (1997, F.J. Ossang, France/Chile)

 

120.ERIK & ERIKA (2018, Reinhold Bilgeri, Austria)

 

121. MISSION MANGAL (2019, Jagan Shakti, India, 130min)

 

122. SAAND KI AANKH (BULL’S EYE) (2019, Tushar Hiranandani, India, 146min)

 

123. MARDAANI 2 (2019, Gopi Puthran, India)

 

124. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)

 

125. CLÉMENT, ALEX, AND EVERYONE ELSE (2019, Cheng-Chui Kuo, France)

 

126. SUZZANA: BURIED ALIVE (2018, Rocky Soraya, Anggy Umbara, Indonesia)

 

127. HELLO, LOVE, GOODBYE (2019, Cathy Garcia-Molina, Philippines)

 

128. J.T. LEROY (2018, Justin Kelly)

 

129. FORD V FERRARI (2019, James Mangold)

 

130. STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE (2016, Maria Schrader, Austria/Germany)

 

131. SAMI BLOOD (2016, Amanda Kernell, Sweden)

 

132. THE WOMAN IN UNIT 23B (2016, Prime Cruz, Philippines)

 

133. KICKS (2016, Justin Tipping)

 

134. GUSTO KITA WITH ALL MY HYPOTHALAMUS (2018, Dwein Baltazar, Philippines)

 

135. THE BEAST ปิดโซลล่า (2019, Lee Jung-ho, South Korea)

 

136. NICO AND DANI (2000, Cesc Gay, Spain)

 

137. BALA (2019, Amar Kaushik, India)

 

138. LIGHT OF MY LIFE (2019, Casey Affleck)

 

139. THE VICE OF HOPE (2018, Edoardo De Angelis, Italy)

 

140. THE ZOYA FACTOR (2019, Abhishek Sharma, India)

 

141. THE NORTHERNERS (1992, Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)

 

142. KNIVES OUT (2019, Rian Johnson)

 

143. THE MURDERER LIVES AT NUMBER 21 (1942, Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)

 

144. ABEL (1986, Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)

 

145. A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (2019, Marielle Heller)

 

146. VIOLETTE (2013, Martin Provost, France)

 

147.ARCTIC (2018, Joe Penna, Iceland)

 

148.JUDGMENTALL HAI KYA (2019, Prakash Kovelamudi, India)

 

149.COLD PURSUIT (2019, Hans Petter Moland, UK/Norway/Canada)

 

150. X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX (2019, Simon Kinberg)

 

MOST FAVORITE THAI FILMS 2019

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MOST FAVORITE VIDEO INSTALLATIONS 2019

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