2018 in Films: 365 Days, 654 Films, and a Year Full of Cinema!
2018 was quite a year for me. I travelled a lot for work. I watched a lot of films in festivals. I had some of my lowest film watching months and some of my highest. I got into a bunch of television shows. I met one of my favorite directors of all time (Gillian Armstrong!). I broke down a lot of my 2018 cinematic shenanigans on my 9th blog anniversary post here, you can see my monthly breakdowns here, my Favorite Fifteen Films of 2018 here, and I even broke down my favorite new discoveries here over on Rupert Pupkin Speaks. What does that leave??? After the cut I have all of the films I saw in 2018, plus a breakdown of the films directed by women that I saw for the first time this year.
If you’re interested in seeing any of the films listed below, please don’t hesitate to reach out and I’ll let you know if it’s available on home video/streaming to watch.
- (January) Les chiens savants
- Une histoire roulante
- L’enfant de la barricade
- Making an American Citizen
- The Girl in the Arm-Chair
- Marketa Lazarová
- The Wedding Night (1935)
- Sabah
- Inescapable (2012)
- Ditya bolshogo goroda (Child of the Big City)
- Zhizn za zhizn (Her Sister’s Rival)
- The Sheik
- The Son of the Sheik
- Phantom Thread
- Proud Mary
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- David and Lisa
- Paddington 2
- Country Strong
- Anna Lucasta (1958)
- Don’t Make Waves
- It’s a Date (1940)
- À peine j’ouvre les yeux (As I Open My Eyes)
- La voix du rossignol (Voice of the Nightingale)
- The Flying Fleet
- Sukkar banat (Caramel)
- Our Daily Bread (1934)
- Millie
- Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
- Before I Fall
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- The North Star
- Tomorrow Is Another Day
- The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
- The Blue Bird (1918)
- Mickey (1918)
- Of Human Bondage (1964)
- (February) The Accused (1949)
- The Underworld Story
- They Were Expendable
- Doctor Dolittle (1967)
- The Great Race
- On The Bowery
- The Sea Around Us
- The Battle of Midway
- Salome (1922)
- Lot in Sodom
- In Between Days (2006)
- Lovesong
- This Land Is Mine
- Nicholas and Alexandra
- Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
- Therese and Isabelle
- The Rage: Carrie 2
- Black Panther
- Utvandrarna (The Emigrants)
- Nybyggarna (The New Land)
- Xi yan (The Wedding Banquet)
- Titanic (1953)
- Central do Brasil (Central Station)
- Una mujer fantástica (A Fantastic Woman)
- Les adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen)
- Rude Boy
- Bright Victory
- Ryan’s Daughter
- (March) Teströl és lélekröl (On Body and Soul)
- The Party (2018)
- Volver a empezar (Begin The Beguine)
- Italiensk for begyndere (Italian For Beginners)
- Che strano chiamarsi Federico (How Strange To Be Named Federico)
- Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (Ugly, Dirty and Bad)
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Thoroughbreds
- Family (2018)
- Fast Color
- Half The Picture
- The Legend of Lylah Clare
- Irreplaceable You
- Planetarium
- Oh Lucy! (2018)
- Just Wright
- Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
- Love, Simon
- The Connection (1961)
- Ornette: Made in America
- Mr. Roosevelt
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
- No Questions Asked
- Naturally Native
- The Colour of His Hair
- The Love Witch (2016)
- The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
- (April) Den skaldede frisør (Love Is All You Need)
- Få meg på, for faen (Turn Me On, Dammit!)
- The Last Days of Chez Nous
- The Phantom of Paris
- Butterflies Are Free
- El verano de los peces voladores (The Summer of Flying Fish)
- Clockwatchers
- Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
- Guinevere
- Cameraperson
- Córki dancingu (The Lure)
- Aria Diva
- Viva Maria!
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
- Smooth Talk
- Party Girl (1995)
- You Were Never Really Here
- Little Pink House
- The Train
- The Ballad of Jack and Rose
- Angela
- Greed
- The Letter (2018)
- (May) Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
- Disobedience
- Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
- Mal de pierres (From the Land of the Moon)
- Speed Racer
- Marvel mon amour
- Petticoat Fever
- Fast Workers
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers)
- Petulia
- Lo scopone scientifico (The Scopone Game)
- Série noire
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
- Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Beastly
- Beautiful Creatures (2013)
- …One Third of a Nation…
- The Wagons Roll at Night
- Beast (2018)
- Prêt-à-Porter
- Unzipped
- Kinky Boots
- L’amour fou (2010)
- The Clay Pigeon
- The Password Is Courage
- The Film of Her
- City Walk
- Ghost Trip
- Decasia
- The Mesmerist
- Light is Calling
- Outerborough
- Porch
- The Highwater Trilogy
- Who By Water
- Spark of Being
- Release
- The Miners’ Hymns
- Just Ancient Loops
- The Great Flood
- Re: Awakenings
- Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
- Visages villages (Faces Places)
- (June) First Reformed
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties
- The Rider
- Foxfire
- Torch Song Trilogy
- Female Trouble
- Outrageous!
- Weekend (2011)
- Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993)
- The Feminine Touch (1941)
- Emporte-moi (Set Me Free)
- Mary Shelley
- Sebastiane
- Nancy
- Hearts Beat Loud
- Aimée & Jaguar
- Paris Was a Woman
- TransMilitary
- (July) Set It Up
- La revue des revues
- La sirène des tropiques
- Zouzou
- Princesse Tam-Tam
- Fausse alerte (The French Way)
- Whitney
- Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
- Sorry to Bother You
- The Feels
- Spoonful
- The Cakemaker
- Leave No Trace
- Eighth Grade
- Three Identical Strangers
- The King
- L’Age d’Or
- Swing Shift
- The Duke Is Tops
- Blindspotting
- Love, Cecil
- (August) Life Boat
- Nothing Important
- Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City)
- Manhatta
- Rien que les heures (Nothing But Time)
- N.Y., N.Y.
- Stations of the Elevated
- The Spy Who Dumped Me
- Generation Wealth
- The Darkest Minds
- Midnight Mary
- McQueen
- Pytel blech (A Bagful of Fleas)
- Mimì metallurgico ferito nell’onore (The Seduction of Mimi)
- Ladyhawke
- Crazy Rich Asians
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Never Goin’ Back
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- Funny Lady
- The Main Event
- Yentl
- Skate Kitchen
- Up The Sandbox
- Support the Girls
- Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl)
- L’Atlantide (1932)
- Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
- Geheimnisse einer Seele (Secrets of a Soul)
- Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (The Love of Jeanne Ney)
- Kameradschaft
- Spring Madness
- Le drame de Shanghaï
- L’esclave blanche (Pasha’s Wives)
- (September) Madeline’s Madeline
- The Bookshop
- Old San Francisco
- Piccadilly
- We the Animals
- Nico, 1988
- O necem jinem (Something Different)
- Ovoce stromu rajských jíme (Fruit of Paradise)
- A Simple Favor
- Tiger Bay (1934)
- When Were You Born
- Love, Gilda
- Lizzie (2018)
- Friends In Law
- Mi mejor amigo (My Best Friend)
- A Moment in the Reeds
- Nappily Ever After
- I Think We’re Alone Now
- Thunder Road (2018)
- Thunder Road (2016)
- Malila: The Farewell Flower
- Kanarie (Canary)
- As Boas Maneiras (Good Manners)
- When the Beat Drops
- Call Her Ganda
- Man Made
- Innerspace
- Every Act of Life
- Mr. Soul!
- Mario
- Lez Bomb
- The Happy Prince
- Snapshots
- 1985
- Studio 54
- Body and Soul (1925)
- (October) Sperfuira! (The False Oath)
- La Grande Bretèche
- The Sealed Room
- Always Keep To The White Line
- The Covered Wagon
- Satana (1912)
- Parsifal (1912)
- Das Geheimnis Der Marquise (The Marquise’ Secret)
- Our Pet
- Captain Salvation
- Plus De Chauves (No More Bald Men)
- Un Rayon De Soleil
- Her Code of Honor
- Schall Und Rauch (Sound and Smoke)
- The Lincoln Cycle: My Mother
- The Lincoln Cycle: My Father
- Not’ Fanfare Concourt (Our Band’s Going To The Court)
- L’Auberge Rouge (1923)
- Diplomatic Henry
- Sowing The Wind
- Der Kampff Ums Matterhorn (The Fight For The Matterhorn)
- Das Mädchen Für Alles (The Girl For Everything)
- Das Alte Gesetz (The Ancient Law)
- La Plus Belle Conquête De La Femme C’est La Citroën
- The Mating Call
- The Lincoln Cycle: A Call To Arms
- [Reklama Piecyków Do Piecznia]
- Le Cheval Emballé
- Dunungen (In Quest of Happiness)
- The Way To A Child’s Heart
- Smouldering Fires
- That Other Girl
- Schultz’s Lottery Ticket
- The Child Thou Gavest Me
- Making A Convert
- What Could She Do!
- The Last of the Hargroves
- The Portrait In The Attic
- Neobychainye Prikliucheniya Mistera Vesta V Strange Bolshevikov (The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West In The Land of the Bolsheviks)
- Le Secret De La Cuisinière
- Den Gyldne Drøm
- Paris At Midnight (1926)
- The Lincoln Cycle: My First Jury
- The Lincoln Cycle: Tender Memories
- The Rock Garden
- Captain Blood (1924)
- Suspicious Wives
- Judaspengar (The Price of Betrayal)
- Ballettprimadonnan
- [Reklamfilm Barnängen – Reportage Från Sommarens Stockholmsutställning]
- L’Homme Du Large
- Melodie (1929)
- Les Rameaux. Hosannah! (De Faure)
- Assunta Spina (1915)
- The Lincoln Cycle: A President’s Answer
- The Lincoln Cycle: Native State
- Le Cheminée Fume
- Prästänkan (The Parson’s Widow)
- Madame De Langeais
- Liebe
- I Promessi Sposi (1922)
- The Lincoln Cycle: Under The Stars
- When The Tables Turned
- Husbands And Lovers
- Eugénie Grandet
- La Cousine Bette
- (L’Invasione Dell Truppe Tedesche Nel Beglio)
- L’Energica Avanzata Contro I Ribelli Di El Baruni
- The Enemy (1927)
- La Memoria Dell’altro
- L’Atlantide (1921)
- Der Hund Von Baskerville (1929)
- Ett Farligt Frieri (A Dangerous Wooing)
- Changing Hues
- The Home Maker
- Memory Lane (1926)
- Filendouce Est Insaisissable
- Troll-Elgen (The Ghost Elk)
- The Slavey Student
- What Do You Do On Friday Night?
- Forbidden Paradise
- [Reklamfilm Barnågen – Chimpansen Rakas]
- A Simple Mistake (1910)
- Der Goldene Abgrund. Schiffbrüchige Des Lebens (The Golden Abyss. Castaways of Life)
- La Donna Che Inventò La Diva
- Robert Vignola, Da Trivigno A Hollywood
- Laveuses
- Admiral Cigarette
- Lasse Månsson Fra Skaane (Struggling Hearts)
- Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgers
- The Ploughshare
- Something Good – Negro Kiss
- In Old Kentucky (1927)
- Mes Voisins Font Danser
- The Little Boys Next Door
- Les Bottines Du Colonel
- When Mary Grew Up
- Gontran Et La Voisine Inconnue
- La Vengeance Du Sergent De Ville
- Park Your Car (1920)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
- Impromptu (2017)
- Le Joueur D’Échecs (The Chess Player)
- Ocean’s 8
- Tea With The Dames
- Colette (2018)
- The Land of Steady Habits
- Private Life
- The Kindergarten Teacher
- Dude
- Like Father
- Lightning Sketches
- Cartoons on Tour
- Col. Heeza Liar, Detective
- Bobby Bumps Starts for School
- The Circus (1920)
- The Fable of the Jolly Rounders
- Fireman Save My Child
- The Bomb Idea
- Felix Comes Back
- Springtime (1923)
- Scents and Nonsense
- Dinky Doodle in Lost and Found
- Hot-Toe Mollie
- Toby the Milkman
- The Farmerette
- The Haunted Hotel (1907)
- La course aux potirons (The Pumpkin Race)
- The Ouija Board
- Koko Sees Spooks
- Dinky Doodle in Just Spooks
- Alice’s Mysterious Mystery
- Slick Sleuths
- Pete’s Haunted House
- Sure-Locked Homes
- The Fresh Lobster
- The Witch’s Cat (1929)
- The Haunted Ship (1930)
- Skulls and Sculls
- Wot a Night
- Bold King Cole
- Ich möchte kein Mann sein (I Don’t Want To Be A Man)
- Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess)
- Die Puppe (The Doll)
- Anna Boleyn
- Sumurun (One Arabian Night)
- Gan (Wild Geese)
- Neko to Shôzô to futari no onna (Shozo, a Cat and Two Women)
- Tutto a posto e niente in ordine (All Screwed Up)
- Ferdinando e Carolina
- Dietro gli occhiali bianchi (Behind The White Glasses)
- The Night Porter
- La donna nella Resistenza (Women of the Resistance)
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- Subarashiki nichiyôbi (One Wonderful Sunday)
- A Dog’s Life (1918)
- Karumen kokyô ni kaeru (Carmen Comes Home)
- Karumen junjô su (Carmen Falls In Love)
- Tooi kumo (The Tattered Wings/Distant Clouds)
- Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum)
- Haru no yume (Spring Dreams)
- Shoulder Arms
- Sunnyside (1919)
- The Idle Class
- Pay Day
- A Day’s Pleasure
- A Woman of Paris
- The Circus
- Kimi to wakarete (Apart from You)
- Minato no nihonmusume (Japanese Girls at the Harbor)
- Kurutta ippêji (A Page of Madness)
- Arigatô-san (Mr. Thank You)
- Anma to onna (The Masseurs and a Woman)
- Kanzashi (Ornamental Hairpin)
- Naniwa erejî (Osaka Elegy)
- Gion no shimai (Sisters of the Gion)
- Yoru no onnatachi (Women of the Night)
- (Noirvember) Akasen chitai (Street of Shame)
- Follow Me Quietly
- The Mirror Crack’d
- Evil Under the Sun
- ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’
- Hijôsen no onna (Dragnet Girl)
- Her Defiance
- The Call of the Cumberlands
- ’49-’17
- The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West
- Onna (Woman)
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Love You More
- Tord och Tord (Tord and Tord)
- The Strange Ones (2011)
- La Ducha (The Shower)
- J.M. Mondesir
- Needle
- When We Lived In Miami
- Simhall (Bath House)
- Cailleach
- Monkey Love Experiments
- Skunk
- La mallette noire (The Black Case)
- Washingtonia
- Seide
- Cipka (Pussy)
- Swallowed
- And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye
- Limbo (2016)
- Min börda (The Burden)
- Call of Cuteness
- Hairat
- Deer Boy
- An Act of Love
- Harikomi (Stakeout)
- Saute ma ville
- Asparagus
- Wildlife (2018)
- Chung Hing sam lam (Chungking Express)
- Over the Moon
- Berlin Express
- Travels with My Aunt
- Salaviinanpolttajat (Moonshiners) (2017)
- Hyas et stenorinques (Hyas and Stenorhynchus, marine crustaceans)
- Les oursins (Sea Urchins) (1929)
- Oeufs d’épinoche (Stickelback Eggs)
- La pieuvre (The Octopus)
- La daphnie (Daphnia)
- Traitement expérimental d’une hémorragie chez le chien (Experimental Treatment of a Hemorrhage in a Dog)
- L’hippocampe, ou ‘Cheval marin’ (The Seahorse)
- La quatrième dimension (The Fourth Dimension)
- Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard)
- Images mathématiques de la lutte pour la vie (The Struggle for Survival)
- Similitudes des longueurs et des vitesses (Similarities Between Length and Speed)
- Voyage dans le ciel (Voyage to the Sky)
- Le vampire
- Assassins d’eau douce (Freshwater Assassins)
- Les oursins (Sea Urchins) (1958)
- Comment naissent les méduses (How Some Jellyfish Are Born)
- Les danseuses de mer (Sea Ballerinas)
- Histoires de crevettes (Shrimp Stories)
- Les amours de la pieuvre (The Love Life of an Octopus)
- Diatomées (Diatoms)
- Acéra ou Le bal des sorcières (Acera, or the Witches’ Dance)
- Cristaux liquides (Liquid Crystals)
- Les pigeons du square (Pigeons in the Square)
- Time Without Pity
- Sous les toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris)
- Cry Terror!
- Les grandes manoeuvres (The Grand Maneuver)
- Orphée
- Sapphire
- David Golder
- Poil de carotte
- Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
- Aru kyôhaku (Intimidation)
- Un carnet de bal
- Zero no shôten (Zero Focus)
- Mammy Water
- Les maîtres fous
- Moi, un noir
- La pyramide humaine (The Human Pyramid)
- La chasse au lion à l’arc (The Lion Hunters)
- Jaguar
- Petit à petit (Little by Little)
- The Audition
- Si Nos Dejan
- Arrowed
- (The end) of history illusion
- Ma
- Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well)
- Madamu to nyôbô (The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine)
- Jinsei no onimotsu (Burden of Life)
- What They Had
- Osorezan no onna (An Innocent Witch)
- Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes)
- Pépé le Moko
- Koshiben ganbare (Flunky, Work Hard!)
- Nasanunaka (No Blood Relation)
- Yogoto no yume (Every-Night Dreams)
- Kagirinaki hodô (Street Without End)
- La Bête Humaine
- Hôtel du Nord
- Les Visiteurs du Soir
- Mata Hari (1932)
- Plein soleil (Purple Noon)
- Seishun no yume ima izuko (Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth)
- Tokkan kozô (A Straightforward Boy)
- Daigaku wa detakeredo (I Graduated, But…)
- Sono yo no tsuma (That Night’s Wife)
- Rakudai wa shitakeredo (I Flunked, But…)
- Rich and Famous
- Un Flic
- Muhomatsu no issho (Muhomatsu, The Rickshaw Man)
- Kurutta kajitsu (Crazed Fruit)
- Kyônetsu no kisetsu (The Warped Ones)
- Electra Glide In Blue
- The Drowning Pool
- Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking
- Le deuxième souffle
- Jinn
- Le Cercle Rouge
- Torrent
- The Temptress
- A Society Sensation
- Virtuous Sinners
- Eyes of Youth
- Stolen Moments
- Blood and Sand (1922)
- The Leopard Man
- Madame Bovary (1949)
- The Time Machine (1960)
- Fanfan la Tulipe
- La kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
- The Big Sleep (1978)
- Dont Look Back
- A Hard Day’s Night
- True Stories
- Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter
- Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
- Zazie dans le métro
- Powwow Highway
- Der amerikanische Freund (The American Friend)
- The Long Day Closes
- Kage no kuruma (The Shadow Within)
- Histoires extraordinaires (Spirits of the Dead)
- Beoning (Burning)
- Widows (2018)
- Walkabout
- The Love Goddesses
- The Silver Cord
- À la folie… pas du tout (He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not)
- Peccato che sia una canaglia (Too Bad She’s Bad)
- Easy Living (1949)
- Suna no utsuwa (The Castle of Sand)
- Glastonbury Fayre
- The Devils
- Ann Vickers
- Roma
- The MacKintosh Man
- Blue (1993)
- Stingaree
- La Ronde
- Le Plaisir
- Lola Montès
- Mýrin (Jar City)
- Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
- Mockery
- La punition
- Quick Change
- Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
- Insomnia (1997)
- The Boys from Brazil
- Peppermint Frappé
- Cría Cuervos
- Following
- The Kill-Off
- (December) The Magician (1926)
- The Mortal Storm
- The Divorce of Lady X
- I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
- Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore
- The Favourite
- Shirkers
- Lazzaro felice (Happy As Lazzaro)
- Dumplin’
- The Party’s Just Beginning
- Silent Night, Deadly Night
- Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
- Vox Lux
- Zimna wojna (Cold War)
- Capharnaüm (Capernaum)
- Manbiki kazoku (Shoplifters)
- Sound of Noise
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Bird Box
- Blockers
- On The Basis of Sex
- Book Club
- RBG
- Izzy Gets The Fuck Across Town
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
- Upgrade
- Zama
- BlacKkKlansman
Here are the films from this list that are directed by women:
- Les chiens savants
- Une histoire roulante
- L’enfant de la barricade
- Making an American Citizen
- The Girl in the Arm-Chair
- Sabah
- Inescapable (2012)
- Country Strong
- À peine j’ouvre les yeux (As I Open My Eyes)
- Sukkar banat (Caramel)
- Before I Fall
- The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
- In Between Days (2006)
- Lovesong
- Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
- The Rage: Carrie 2
- Teströl és lélekröl (On Body and Soul)
- The Party (2018)
- Italiensk for begyndere (Italian For Beginners)
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Family (2018)
- Fast Color
- Half The Picture
- Irreplaceable You
- Planetarium
- Oh Lucy! (2017)
- Just Wright
- Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
- The Connection (1961)
- Ornette: Made in America
- Mr. Roosevelt
- Naturally Native
- The Love Witch (2016)
- The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
- Den skaldede frisør (Love Is All You Need)
- Få meg på, for faen (Turn Me On, Dammit!)
- The Last Days of Chez Nous
- El verano de los peces voladores (The Summer of Flying Fish)
- Clockwatchers
- Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
- Guinevere
- Cameraperson
- Córki dancingu (The Lure)
- Aria Diva
- Viva Maria!
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
- Smooth Talk
- Party Girl (1995)
- You Were Never Really Here
- Little Pink House
- The Ballad of Jack and Rose
- Angela
- Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
- Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
- Mal de pierres (From the Land of the Moon)
- Speed Racer
- Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Visages villages (Faces Places)
- The Rider
- Foxfire
- Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993)
- Emporte-moi (Set Me Free)
- Mary Shelley
- Nancy
- Paris Was a Woman
- TransMilitary
- Set It Up
- Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
- The Feels
- Spoonful
- Leave No Trace
- Love, Cecil
- Life Boat
- Nothing Important
- The Spy Who Dumped Me
- Generation Wealth
- The Darkest Minds
- Pytel blech (A Bagful of Fleas)
- Mimì metallurgico ferito nell’onore (The Seduction of Mimi)
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Never Goin’ Back
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- Yentl
- Skate Kitchen
- Madeline’s Madeline
- The Bookshop
- Nico, 1988
- O necem jinem (Something Different)
- Ovoce stromu rajských jíme (Fruit of Paradise)
- Love, Gilda
- Nappily Ever After
- I Think We’re Alone Now
- Malila: The Farewell Flower
- As Boas Maneiras (Good Manners)
- Mr. Soul!
- Lez Bomb
- Snapshots
- Das Geheimnis Der Marquise (The Marquise’ Secret)
- Assunta Spina (1915)
- La Donna Che Inventò La Diva
- Robert Vignola, Da Trivigno A Hollywood
- Impromptu (2017)
- The Land of Steady Habits
- Private Life
- The Kindergarten Teacher
- Dude
- Like Father
- Tutto a posto e niente in ordine (All Screwed Up)
- Ferdinando e Carolina
- The Night Porter
- La donna nella Resistenza (Women of the Resistance)
- Her Defiance
- The Call of the Cumberlands
- ’49-’17
- The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Love You More
- Tord och Tord (Tord and Tord)
- The Strange Ones (2011)
- La Ducha (The Shower)
- J.M. Mondesir
- Needle
- When We Lived In Miami
- Simhall (Bath House)
- Cailleach
- Monkey Love Experiments
- Skunk
- La mallette noire (The Black Case)
- Washingtonia
- Seide
- Cipka (Pussy)
- Swallowed
- And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye
- Limbo (2016)
- Min börda (The Burden)
- Call of Cuteness
- Hairat
- Deer Boy
- An Act of Love
- Saute ma ville
- Asparagus
- Les oursins (Sea Urchins) (1958)
- Comment naissent les méduses (How Some Jellyfish Are Born)
- Les danseuses de mer (Sea Ballerinas)
- Histoires de crevettes (Shrimp Stories)
- Les amours de la pieuvre (The Love Life of an Octopus)
- Acéra ou Le bal des sorcières (Acera, or the Witches’ Dance)
- The Audition
- Si Nos Dejan
- Arrowed
- (The end) of history illusion
- Ma
- What They Had
- Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking
- Jinn
- Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
- À la folie… pas du tout (He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not)
- I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
- Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore
- Shirkers
- Lazzaro felice (Happy As Lazzaro)
- Dumplin’
- The Party’s Just Beginning
- Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
- Capharnaüm (Capernaum)
- Bird Box
- Blockers
- On The Basis of Sex
- RBG
- Zama
59 of the 2018 releases (out of 117 total) were directed by women, which is almost exactly half. I hope to keep that ratio up in 2019, but also keep it up with releases I watch at home as well. I had tried to do that earlier in the year, but both the Pordenone Silent Film Festival (at which I usually watch 100+ films, mostly directed by men) and my intense FilmStruck binge in November (again, mostly films by men) skewed my watching. 170/654 is about 25% of my total films watched this year, which is not bad, but considering what I did during A Year With Women, I know I can do better. I did discover some really wonderful female filmmakers this year which is always fantastic.
I particularly enjoyed finding the work of Niki Lindroth von Bahr, whose short animated films brought me nothing but joy.
In 2019, I have pulled together films by women on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and that I plan to rent from Videodrome to keep up my goal this year. I’ve also got that great Kino Women Film Pioneers set (some of which is streaming on Netflix if you are unable to afford the complete set). I also plan to see as many films by women released in 2019 as possible. For those who also would like to do that Women Direct on Twitter and Tumblr is a really great resource. They post what new films (in US/Canada) are released every Friday.
My main goal for 2019 is to continue to explore films made by female directors and share my love of ones I’ve already seen by bringing back Female Filmmaker Friday (check out my previous Female Filmmaker Friday essays here and the podcast episodes here). Here’s to a great year of cinema in 2019!
Posted on January 1, 2019, in 2018 in Films and tagged Female Directors, Female Filmmaker Friday, Niki Lindroth von Bahr. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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