2018 has reached its final day, and the box office of Chinese films has also exceeded the 60 billion mark this year, but our vision of movies cannot be limited to cinema films, and the huge number of non-cinema films every year is also a rich mine. Before the monologue has been sent "2018 movies, 8 responsible works", is a summary of the 2018 domestic cinema film. This inventory of non-theatrical films tries to sort out some personal viewing lines in many non-theatrical films at home and abroad in 2018.
Since it is an inventory of non-cinema films, after stripping away the box office bonus, this list will naturally be more fan-like. Any list is a reflection of the aesthetic taste of the selectors themselves, and I always maintain an instinctive skepticism about the kind of list that is calculated by the data of the comprehensive score.
The screening of the list will inevitably hang on to the leaks. But some are not deliberately omitted, but subjectively disliked. Movies like Black Mirror: Pandasneki, which is bigger than content, just watch it fresh; Camera Don't Stop! In the last century, there was a similar theme such as "Rhapsody of Kaimara", and in recent years, there has been no shortage of works of the same type, resulting in the viewing process is not too much of a surprise, and it is difficult to be included in the list. As for films such as "Cold War", it is difficult to escape the ridicule of PPT movies, and they are not included in the list.
The following is my list of the top ten non-theatrical films in 2018, in order.
NO.10 "Blood of the Lone Wolf"
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Writers: Junya Ikegami / Yuko Yuzuki
Starring: Koji Yakusho / Momori Matsuzaka / Ryoko Maki / Ryoichi Kodo / Tomoro Taguchi
Genre: Drama / Crime
Screening date: 2018-05-12 (Japan)
This is the most appetizing gangster crime film I have seen this year, the amazing acting skills of Hiroshi Hiroshi of the service house have shaped the image of a policeman who wanders between black and white, and the young detective played by Matsusaka Momori is also quite distinctive, and the partner of one old and one young is very interesting.
The intensely violent temperament of the entire film pushes Hiroshima directly to the audience before the implementation of the "Triad Countermeasures Act" in 1988. What is more worth mentioning is that the original novel of this film, which won the 69th Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, has a solid foundation in the original work, and the script is naturally not bad.
NO.9 "Rome"
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Yaliza Abaricio / Marina de Tavira / Diego Cortina Otterli
Genre: Drama / Family
Release Date: 2018-08-30 (Venice Film Festival) / 2018-12-14 (USA)
The work of Alfonso Cuarón, one of Hollywood's "Three Mexican Masters", revolves around the unfortunate encounter of two women, but behind it is the different choices of the same fate faced by the Mexican middle class and the bottom in a turbulent era. The choice of women as the main body of the story makes the whole film gentle and powerful, black and white photography, panning-based long shots are the characteristics of this movie, when black and white photography fades the hustle and bustle of color, what remains is the blandness of life.
In particular, the sound effect of "Roma" is amazing. The film uses panoramic sound effects to present the most complex neighborhood sound effects in film history, which can be said to be a delicate display. If you have the conditions, you must watch it on the big screen, even if you enjoy it at home, it is best to wear headphones to savor the unique sound charm of this movie.
NO.8 《Upgrade》
Director: Ray Werner
Writers: Ray Werner
Starring: Logan Marshall-Green / Mailary Warreho / Harrison Gilbertson
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
This is probably the most underrated sci-fi thriller of 2018. As director, Ray Werner has a resounding nickname: the father of "Chainsaw Horror". As a genius who started the Chainsaw Horror series with Wen Ziren, Ray Werner has an instinctive preference for thrillers, so in a science fiction movie like "Upgrade", thrillers have become an indispensable element.
In the highly developed future world, the relationship between artificial intelligence and humans has been very close, and the protagonist has gradually taken control of the body by the chip after being transplanted with a smart chip. When humans become a host of tragic fate, artificial intelligence may take its place, so the thinking about mechanical life and artificial intelligence eating human beings is chilling.
NO.7 "Happy Lazaro"
Director: Aliče Rolvacher
Writers: Alise Rolvahr
Starring: Adriano Tardiolo / Agnese Graziani / Luca Chikovani / Alba Rolvacher / Serci López
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Release Date: 2018-05-13 (Festival de Cannes) / 2018-05-31 (Italy)
In this year's Cannes, "Happy Lazzaro" won the Best Screenplay Award. The film has a very shocking script, churches, prayers, icons... The various images that appear in the film have a light or dark connection with Christianity. The biblical-based mutant story confuses time and space, blending class, rich and poor, good and evil into one, and making people addicted to it.
The screen image of Lazzaro, like the modern Jesus, explores the ancient proposition of morality, tells the story of mankind's path to salvation, and its strong religious atmosphere creates a mysterious fable related to goodness.
NO.6 "Wild Pear Tree"
Director: Nuri Bige Ceylon
Writers: Ak Aksu / Ebrür Ceylon / Nouri Big Ceylon
Starring: Dogu Demirkol / Murat Semir / Benui Ildimlar
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2018-05-18 (Festival de Cannes) / 2018-06-01 (Turkey)
As Ceylon's new work, "Wild Pear Tree" can be described as this year's Cannes pearl, rich pictures, exquisitely carved language are refreshing. It outlines young people's imagination of the world and their vision of the distant place, and in this regard, it is not the monopoly of small-town Turkish youth, this sentiment belongs to the nostalgia shared by young people who have left their homes all over the world.
NO.5 "Fake Captain"
Director: Robert Svenk
Writer: Robert Svenk
Starring: Max Kubacher / Milan Peischer / Frederick Law
Genre: Drama / History / War
Release Date: 2017-09-07 (Toronto Film Festival) / 2018-03-15 (Germany)
This is the biggest surprise of this year's German films to the world, as a world war-themed work, "Captain Fake" has made a great breakthrough in the reflection on the war. Based on true events, the film tells the story of willie Herold, an ordinary German creep who deserted before the end of World War II, and ridiculously because he picked up a set of captain's uniforms, and after collecting a group of stragglers, he transformed into the "Emsland Executioner" and went on a killing spree in the chaotic German soil.
Blood and violence are not the focus of the film, and how an ordinary person can quickly twist in power and become a devil who does nothing wrong is the true meaning of "Captain Fake". At the end of the film, this group of innocent guys is thrown back to the modern era by the director, but modern Germany still can't resist the atrocities of the Nazis. Such a powerful question of history and human nature makes the audience involuntarily think: What has war brought to mankind?
NO.4 "I made this house"
Director: Russ von Thiel
Writers: Russ von Trier / Jereh Hallander
Starring: Matt Dillon / Bruno Gantz / Uma Thurman / Hefon Fallon
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Crime
Release Date: 2018-05-14 (Cannes Film Festival) / 2018-10-17 (France) / 2018-11-29 (Denmark)
Not everyone can embrace Russ von Trier's films, from Dogtown to Female Addicts, who has repeatedly refreshed the audience's viewing experience. The charm of Ras von Trier is difficult to define in simple language, and for Western audiences with Christian beliefs, Las von Trier is an out-and-out destroyer.
Obscure metaphors, depictions of extreme evil, ultimately lead to the conclusion that heaven is hell, then in turn, hell is also heaven, relying on killing to build an altar, sacrificing everything with life, such evil beauty and extreme arguments, really not everyone can accept.
NO.3 The Ballad of Buster Scruggers
Director: Ethan Cohen / Joel Cohen
Writers: Ethan Cohen / Joel Cohen
Starring: Harry Milling / Zoe Kazan / Liam Neeson / James Franco
Genre: Comedy / Cabaret / Western
Release Date: 2018-08-31 (Venice Film Festival) / 2018-11-16 (USA)
The Coen brothers returned with this Ballad of Buster Scrugers. The six stories are stacked together like a platter, quite like a short story collection, and the overall atmosphere and tone continue the tone of the Coen brothers' previous works.
For fans who love the Coen brothers, the love of this work does not require much elaboration.
NO.2 "The Elephant Sits on the Ground"
Director: Hu Bo
Screenwriter: Hu Bo
Starring: Peng Yuchang / Zhang Yu / Wang Yuwen / Li Congxi / Dong Xiangrong
Release Date: 2018-02-16 (Berlin Film Festival)
The nearly four-hour film sparked widespread discussion over the director's death. I have seen more comments on eating human blood steamed buns, but it is rare to see the audience who calm down to watch this work, the hot spots are all over the clouds, only the work can be immortal. It's a shame to get to know this director in this way, and it's a shame not to see more of his work.
In Hu Bo's novel Bullfrog, I read this passage: "Perhaps nothingness itself prevents suicide." Nothingness is standing at the intersection, and there are many roads leading to all directions at this intersection, each with no end in sight, and nothing around, not to the endless process, but to the position where it is at this time, it seems that there are many possibilities, and even every difference is very large, but it is not as good as standing here. "Life is really cruel, especially for talented creators, the more sensitive they are, the more painful they are to live.
NO.1 "They're Not Getting Old Anymore"
Director: Peter Jackson
Genre: Documentary / History / War
Release Date: 2018-10-16 (London Film Festival)
This is the best documentary of the year. In the four years after "The Hobbit 3", Peter Jackson plunged into the black-and-white silent film, and together with the BBC, using the real historical images of the Imperial Museum, converted a large number of black-and-white silent films into color sound works, not to mention the technical difficulty of the film's 2D to 3D, black-and-white to color, just from hundreds of hours of video and audio materials to sort out these 99 minutes, the workload is not generally large.
As a special commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, "They Are No Longer Old" truly shows the ugliness and dirtiness of the war, the huge impact of the real image is better than all the propaganda and preaching, all the advocates of the war, are irresponsible, watching the young faces fall in the trenches of the First World War, killed by poison gas or tanks, and sincerely hope that mankind will always maintain peace, after all, "there has never been a good war, and there is no bad peace." ”
【Text/Zhongguo Seven Dukes】