For film-watching, 2018 wasn’t as good to me as 2017. But I did see a handful of movies worth remembering. The following list is thirty films long – all films that I saw for the first time this year.

  • Eric Baudelaire: Letters to Max, 2014
  • Spike Lee: Crooklyn, 1994
  • John Cassavetes: Love Streams, 1984
  • Alexander Sokurov: The Sun, 2015
  • Pedro Costa: Collosal Youth, 2006
  • Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan: For the Plasma, 2016
  • Jacques Audiard: The Sisters Brothers, 2018
  • Jonas Mekas: Reminiscences of a Trip to Lithuania, 1972
  • Sean Baker: The Florida Project, 2017
  • Luca Guadagnino: Call Me by Your Name, 2017
  • Steven Soderbergh: Unsane, 2018
  • Agnès Varda: Kung-fu master!, 1988
  • Steve James: Hoop Dreams, 1994
  • Tom DeCillo: Down in Shadowland, 2014
  • Boots Riley: Sorry to Bother You, 2018
  • Renata Gąsiorowska: Pussy, 2016 🎥
  • Ruben Östlund: The Square, 2017
  • Lynne Ramsay: You Were Never Really Here, 2018
  • Jacques Rivette: Wuthering Heights, 1985
  • Angela Schanelec: Passing Summer, 2001
  • Kevin Jerome Everson: Three Quarters, 2015
  • Benoît Forgeard: Respect, 2011
  • Paul Thomas Anderson: Phantom Thread, 2017
  • Denis Côté: Curling, 2010
  • Gastón Solnicki: Kékszakállú, 2016
  • Greta Gerwig: Lady Bird, 2017
  • Alex Ross Perry: Golden Exits, 2017
  • Éric Rohmer: La Collectionneuse, 1967
  • Yorgos Lanthimos: The Favourite, 2018
  • Wes Anderson: Isle of Dogs, 2018
  • Hugh Gibson: The Stairs, 2016