BALLOTS: Endgame - ILM 2018 film poll ballot depository

Western
Zama
Shoplifters
Roma
The Wild Pear Tree
Ex Libris
BPM
Loveless
Lady Bird
Milford Graves Full Mantis
Phantom Thread
BlacKKKlansman
The Other Side of the Wind
Arcadia
Unsane
Hereditary
A Gentle Creature
Isle of Dogs
You Were Never Really Here
Avengers Infinity War

I forgot to do a 'new to me list', but it would have looked something like:

A Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
Outer Space (Tscherkassky)
Street of Shame (Mizogouchi)
Greaser's Palace (Downey)
Gimme Shelter (Maysles/Zwerin/Maysles)
The Boys From Fengkuei (Hou)
The Magician (Bergman)
Nostalgia (Tarkovsky)
To Have and Have Not (Hawks)

Never Goin' Back
Green Book
A Star is Born
Don't Worry He Wont get Far on Foot
On the Basis of Sex
Mid 90s
The Favourite
Mandy
First Reformed
The Wife
In A Relationship
Borg vs McEnroe
Burning
McQueen
Gemini
Lizzie
Won't You be My Neighbor
Private Life
Life Itself
Tully
Galveston

(things i forgot to place that i would have - 8th grade, blakkklansman, faces places)

Streaming only:
Struggle: The Life and lost Art of Szukalski
Bleed Out

New-to-me viewed this year:
A Family Thing
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Call Me By your Name
Papillon ('73)
Man Up
Wild Child
Buzzard
Barfly

Worst of 2018:
The House that Jack Built
Support the Girls
Vice
Widows
I Feel pretty

Need to catch Never Goin’ Back

BEST:

1. Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soon)
2. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
3. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
4. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
5. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
6. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles) and They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Morgan Neville).
7. Free Solo (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin)
8.  First Reformed (Paul Schrader).
9. Museo (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
10. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
11. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
12. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
13. On the Seventh Day (Jim McKay)
14. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
15. Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
16. Annihilation (Alex Garland)
17. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
18. Sollers Point (Matthew Porterfield)
19. 1985 (Yen Tan)
20. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)

WORST

Vice
Green Book
The Wife
Avengers: Infinity War
Boy Erased

Zama (Lucretia Martel, 2017)
Dead Souls (Wang Bing, 2018)
Touch Me Not (Pintile, 2018)
Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo, 2018)
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017)
Let the Sunshine In (Clare Denis, 2016)
Image Book (Godard, 2018)
Face to Face (Bergman, 1976)
Taipei Story (Yang, 1985)
Leave no Trace (Debra Granik, 2017)
Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018)
Mission Impossible (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
Wild Pear Tree (Ceylan, 2018)
Faces Places (Varda & JR, 2017)
MURDER AND MURDER (Yvonne Rainer, 1996)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Howard, 2017)
The Square (Ruben Östlund, 2017)
Yayoi Kusama - Inifinity (Heather Lenz, 2018)

Will look at Claire's camera (which was on mubi but I missed it), First reformed, and maybe spiderman

The Heiresses was really great and slept on

gonna watch it next Tuesday

missed touch me not when it was on mubi, seemed to be very divisive. assume you recommend xyzzzz ?

Im surprised at Julio's inclusion of Solo!

Def recommend Touch me Not.

Solo was a lot of fun, a bit random but I found it stuck with me

1. Annihilation
2. First Reformed
3. Eighth Grade
4. Loveless
5. Thoroughbreds
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7. Burning
8. Hereditary
9. The Rider
10. Michael Inside
11. Roma
12. Bros: After The Screaming Stops
13. Sorry To Bother You
14. The Favourite
15. Cold War
16. Mandy
17. Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse
18. Three Identical Strangers
19. Leave No Trace
20. Shoplifters
21. Blackkklansman
22. Isle of Dogs
23. Black Panther
24. Avengers: Infinity War
25. The Eyes of Orson Welles

Best movies I saw for the first time in 2018

1. The Marriage of Maria Braun
2. One Sings, The Other Doesn't
3. Spirited Away
4. McCabe and Mrs Miller
5. Eraserhead
6. The Sound of Fury (1950)
7. Zootopia
8. Joe
9. Brewster McCloud
10.Sex Lies and Videotape

Best of 2018:
Monrovia, Indiana (PBS)
Shoplifters (Hulu)
Hereditary (Amazon)
Zama (Amazon)
Paddington 2 (HBO)
The Road Movie (Amazon)
The Rider (Starz)
Support the Girls (Hulu)
Eighth Grade (Amazon)
Leave No Trace (Amazon)
Minding the Gap (Hulu)
Thunder Road (Amazon)
Burning (Netflix)
Bisbee ’17 (Torrent)
Border (Hulu/Amazon)
Let the Sunshine In (Hulu)

Very Good:
The Favourite
Love Gilda (Hulu)
The Guilty (Hulu)
The Death of Stalin (Amazon)
Life and Nothing More
Mama Africa
Free Solo (Hulu)
Isle of Dogs (HBO)
Kusama: Infinity (Hulu)
The Price of Everything (HBO)
Private Life (Netflix)
Endless (Netflix)
Three Identical Stangers (Hulu)
Incredibles 2 (Netflix)

Fine:
Avengers Infinity War (Netflix)
Upgrade
Mirai
Can You Ever Forgive Me?

No:
Sorry To Bother You
Damsel
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Bernard and Huey
Shirkers
If Beale Street Could Talk
Annihilation
Oscar Nominated Short Drama
Mission Impossible: Some Shit Blew Up and We Wanna Discuss