FAVORITE FOREIGN FILMS 2018

FAVORITE FOREIGN FILMS 2018

(For fictional, live-action films which are longer than 30 minutes)

                           

1. TENDERNESS (2017, Gianni Amelio, Italy)

2. THE MISANTHROPE เกลียดมนุษย์ (2017, Clément Hervieu-Léger, France, filmed theatre)

3. THIRTY YEARS OF ADONIS (2017, Scud, Hong Kong/China)

4. LADY BIRD (2017, Greta Gerwig)

5. THE DEVIOUS PATH (1928, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Germany)

6. BANGKOK NITES (2016, Katsuya Tomita, Thailand/Laos/Japan/France, 183min)

7. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991, Edward Yang, Taiwan, 237min, second viewing)

8. THE GARDEN (2017, Sonja Kröner, Germany)

9. NYAI (A WOMAN FROM JAVA) (2016, Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)

10. DEVIL (MAUPASSANT’S LE DIABLE) (2018, Kshitij Sharma, India)

                                                             

11. TERROR NULLIUS (2018, Soda_Jerk, Australia, 54min)

12. A VIOLENT LIFE (2017, Thierry de Peretti, France)

13. SUSPIRIA (2018, Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA)

14. WESTERN (2017, Valeska Grisebach, Germany/Bulgaria/Austria)

15. BURNING (2018, Lee Chang-dong, South Korea, 148min)

16. LÉON MORIN, PRIEST (1961, Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

17. ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017, Shinichiro Ueda, Japan)

18. THE MONKEY KING 3: KINGDOM OF WOMEN (2018, Cheang Pou-Soi, China/Hong Kong)

19. THEIR REMAINING JOURNEY (2018, John Clang, Singapore)

                                                                                                   

20. THE BARBED-WIRE FENCE (1961, Asrul Sani, Indonesia)

21. INSIANG (1976, Lino Brocka, Philippines)                                      

22. NIGHT GOD (2018, Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan)

23. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (2018, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 149min)

                                                 

24. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017, Sean Baker)

25. DOUBLE BLIND (2018, Maximilian Le Cain, Vicky Langan, Ireland, 36min)

26. THOSE LONG-HAIRED NIGHTS (2017, Garardo Calagui, Philippines)

27. HANG IN THERE, KIDS! (2016, Laha Mebow, Taiwan)

28. THE SQUARE (2017, Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

29. TRANSIT (2018, Christian Petzold, Germany)

                                     

30. PUTHISEN AND NEANG KONGREY นางสิบสอง (1968, Ly Bun Yim, Cambodia)

31. AFTERIMAGE (2016, Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

32. MY PERFECT YOU (2018, Cathy Garcia-Molina, Philippines)

33. THE ORNITHOLOGIST (2016, João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)

34. TULLY (2018, Jason Reitman)

35. INCIDENT IN A GHOSTLAND (2018, Pascal Laugier, France)

36. FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 188min)

37. BADEN BADEN (2016, Rachel Lang, Belgium/France)

38. WAILING IN THE FOREST (2016, Bagane Fiola, Philippines)

39. THE EXORCIST (1973, William Friedkin)

40. DOMESTIC (2012, Adrian Sitaru, Romania/Germany)

41. PHANTOM ISLANDS (2018, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Ireland)

42. PIHU (2018, Kapri Vinod, India)

43. MISSING JOHNNY (2017, Xi Huang, Taiwan)

44. DESTINY: THE TALE OF KAMAKURA (2017, Takashi Yamazaki, Japan)

45. PLÁCIDO (1961, Luis García Berlanga, Spain)

46. THE PLACE (2017, Paolo Genovese, Italy)

47. MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS (2017, Mouly Surya, Indonesia)

48. HONEYGIVER AMONG THE DOGS (2017, Dechen Roder, Bhutan)

49. SEARCHING (2018, Aneesh Chaganty, Russia/USA)

50. NERVOUS TRANSLATION      (2017, Shireen Seno, Philippines)

51. HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN (1971, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)

52. FIRST MAN (2018, Damien Chazelle)

53. DAYS OF NIETZSCHE IN TURIN (2001, Júlio Bressane, Brazil)

54. THE WOUND (2017, John Trengove, South Africa)

55. PHANTOM THREAD (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA/UK)

56. THE BIG HEAT (1953, Fritz Lang)

57. ROPE (1948, Alfred Hitchcock)

58. FIRST REFORMED (2017, Paul Schrader)

59. ZODIAC (2007, David Fincher)

60. CAPTAIN CONAN (1996, Bertrand Tavernier, France)

61. AL BERTO (2017, Vicente Alves do Ó, Portugal)

62. THE FOAMING NODE (2018, Ian Haig, Australia, 65min)

63. COLD SKIN (2017, Xavier Gens, Spain/France)

64. SLEEPING BEAUTY (2010, choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev, France, a video record of a ballet performance, 166min)

65. NAY (2015, Djenar Maesa Ayu, Indonesia)

66. POSESIF (2017, Edwin, Indonesia)

67. VINYL (1965, Andy Warhol)

68. HARD PAINT (2018, Filipe Matzembacher, Macio Reolon, Brazil)

69. BATCH ‘81 (1982, Mike De Leon, Philippines)

70. THE SECRET OF DELFT (1917, Maurits Binger, Netherlands)

71. HURRY SLOWLY (2018, Anders Emblem, Norway)

72. THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017, Guillermo del Toro)

73. HEREDITARY (2018, Ari Aster)

74. GREEN BOOK (2018, Peter Farrelly)

75. BADHAAI HO (2018, Amit Ravindernath Sharma, India)

76. ERIKO, PRETENDED (2016, Akiyo Fujimura, Japan)

77. MATEO (2014, Maria Gamboa, Colombia)

78. IN SEARCH OF COLOUR (2017, Rei Hayama, Japan, 42min)

79. THE SEEN AND UNSEEN (2017, Kamila Andini, Indonesia)

                                                      

80. THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola, second viewing)

81. BHAVESH JOSHI SUPERHERO       (2018, Vikramaditya Motwane, India)

82. PADMAN (2018, R. Balki, India, 140min)

83. A QUIET PLACE (2018, Josh Krasinski)

84. CUSTODY (2017, Xavier Legrand, France)

85. ROMA (2018, Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico/USA)

                         

86. SANCTUARY (2016, Len Collin, Ireland)

87. CONNECTION BY FATE (1998, Wan Jen, Taiwan)

88. SUI DHAAGA: MADE IN INDIA (2018, Sharat Katariya, India)

89. THE GREY AUTOMOBILE (1919, Enrique Rosas, Mexico, 223min)

90. CORPORATE (2017, Nicolas Silhol, France)

91. SATAN’S SLAVES (2017, Joko Anwar, Indonesia)

92. LEAVE NO TRACE (2018, Debra Granik)

93. SHOPLIFTERS (2018, Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)

94. MAY FOOLS (1990, Louis Malle, France)

95. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925, Rupert Julian)

96. THREE TIMES (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)

97. HUSBAND MATERIAL (2018, Anurag Kashyap, India, 156min)

98. THE LAST RECIPE (2017, Yojiro Takita, Japan)

99. RED LOTUS บัวแดง (1989, Som-Ok Southiphone, Laos)

100. THE STOPOVER (2016, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France/Greece)