Looking back on 2019, there have been many good works in the global film industry, and many media have also launched their own annual top ten. For the fourth consecutive year, the American film and television information website IndieWire has sent a letter of inquiry to a number of famous directors, inviting them to choose their own annual masterpieces. Moreover, the list is not limited to the new works born in 2019, as long as they have watched a very favorite movie in the year, they can be included; even not necessarily only movies, TV series, literary works and musical works are not limited. The so-called layman looks at the hilarity and the insider looks at the doorway, and is also a film creator, and let us get a glimpse of what is unique about the perspectives and tastes of these well-known directors.
Olivier Assayas
French director Olivier Assayas said he was busy this year, so the number of movies watched was much smaller than in those years when he was not usually busy. Among his limited works, his favorite was the Italian film Il Traditore, an eye-opener and indelible impression of mafia films like this. Second, he combines Martin Scorsese's new work "The Irishman", Roman Polanski's new work "J'accuse", the Dane brothers' new work "Le Jeune Ahmed", the French director Arno Deplerchamp's "Roubaix" (une lumière) and the three French female directors Alice Winaugur, Marty Diop and Claire Denis's new works. Proxima, Atlantique and High Life.
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In addition, "Marriage Story", "Ad Astra", "Once Upon a Time". in Hollywood) and "Dolor y gloria", the hits of the year, are also among them. Finally, he noted that he admired the performances of Kristen Stewart and Christian Bale in Seberg and Ford v Ferrari, which seemed to represent as the best actress of the year in Asayas's mind.
Anna Lily Amipur
British female director Ana Lily Amirpour's list of best picture in 2019, which has impressed people with her debut film "The Girl Who Returned alone at night", is more mainstream. Among them are popular works such as Joker, Midsommar, The Two Popes, Les Miserables, Parasite, Marriage Story, the Irishman, and Waves, Monos and The Mustang Mustang) are three acclaimed independent masterpieces.
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Bi Gan
Chinese director Bi Gan also received the questionnaire. Most of the lists he gave were classic old films that he revisited this year, including Kieslowski's Blind Chance (1987), Japanese director Yoshimitsu Morita's "After 1985" and Shunji Iwai's "Dream Traveler, 1996," american business card "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), and the documentary "Heart of Darkness" about Coppola's "Modern Apocalypse." （Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse，1991）。
Poster of "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind"
As for new films, Bi Gan chose his compatriot Lou Ye's "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" and the Chinese animation film "Nezha", plus two short films he saw at this year's Locarno Film Festival: "Black Sun" and "Otpusk". It is worth mentioning that in the tenth position of this list, Bi Gan wrote the national drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an".
Poster of "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an"
Bong Joon-ho
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho himself, whose work "Parasite" has repeatedly been on the list, includes American female director Kelly Reichard's new work "First Cow", "The Irishman", Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 2018 work "Night and Day", "Marriage Story", "A Midsummer Night's Horror", "Uncut Gems", compatriot Hong Sang-so's "Riverside Inn" and the second season of the American drama "Mindhunter". He also singled out Adam Sandler in "The Diamond" and Charlize Theron in "Bombshell", who praised their performances.
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Gilmo del Toro
Mexican director Gilmou del Toro, who is also a deep fan, has included Parasite, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Diamond, The Lighthouse, Pain and Glory, 1917, Joker, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, Monkey, Little Women, Portrait of a Burning Woman, in no particular order. Fourteen films, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and A Midsummer Night's Horror, are among their best of the year, and there seems to be some missing surprises and highlights.
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Luca Guadagnino
The favourite of the year selected by Luca Guadagnino, the Italian director of "Call Me By Your Name," is even more personal. His list includes not only the Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pain and Glory, I Accuse, Varda par Agnès, Interstellar Exploration and Synonyms, but also "The First Cow," "A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmao," "Liberty," and "Ang." Hupa), "Her Smell", and the documentaries "The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be" and "State Funeral" are relatively unpopular works, and even include the new work "Death Stranding" by famous game producer Hideo Kojima.
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In addition, Guadagnino's list of the best of the year also includes Diao Yinan's "The Party at the South Station", and specifically recommends all the works of Claire Mathon, the French female director of photography , who is the director of photography for many french masterpieces such as Portrait of the Burning Woman, The Atlantic, Mon roi and L'Inconnu du lac (
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Bill Hader
Bill Hader, a famous comedian who has starred in films such as "One Night Belly" and "Joker Returns 2", began to write and direct his own American drama "Barry" last year, and was also promoted to director, so he also got this questionnaire. His bests of the year include the second season of the British drama "Fleabag", the American drama "Chernobyl", "What We Do in the Shadows", "Rick and Morty", "Adventure Time" and "I Think You Should Leave", and the film "The Irishman" (Highlights: especially the last half hour), "Thunder Road," "Rolling Thunder Revue," "Apollo 11," "Parasite," "Under the Skin," and the film's director, Jonathan Glazer's 7-minute short film The Fall.
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David Lowey
David Lowery, director of "The Old Man and the Gun," whose best-of-the-year series includes Netflix's new show "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" and his Hungarian Bella Tarr's Sátántangó, which he watched for the second time this year, said: "It's been twelve years since I first saw it, but as in 2007. Let me immerse myself in it all day after watching it. ”
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Poster of "Satan Tango"
In addition, Lowey's list includes the independent films Diane and The Wave, as well as his memorable "Us," "The Nightingale," "Transit," "A Hidden Life," "The Last Night on Earth," "Peterloo," "Little Women" and "Lighthouse."
Adam McKay
For Adam McKay, who has directed films such as "Big Short" and "Vice President", the movie that touched him the most in 2019 was "Parasite". In addition, he was not afraid to be suspicious of his own production of "Hustler" and "Booksmart", and "Dark Waters", "The Report" and "Original Diamond" are also the best films of the year in his mind.
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Julia Reichett/Steven Borgner
Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, the two directors who made the hit documentary "The American Factory" this year, also gave their answers. As documentary filmmakers, they listed three documentaries as their best of the year: For Sama, Apollo 11, and Rolling Thunder: The Legend of Bob Dylan.
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Angela Robinson
Angela Robinson's best-of-the-year titles include "Parasite," Harriet, Queen and Slim, Knives Out, Portrait of a Burning Woman, Captain Marvel, The Dancing Lady, Rafiki, Little Forest, "The High School" and "The Farewell". She said that these movies made her excited to watch and made her fall in love with the art of film again, especially "Parasite", and she specially went to the theater to brush up, which was her young movie habit, but no movie could make her do it for a long time.
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Chad Stahursky
Chad Stahelski, who became a popular Director in Hollywood for directing the "Fast and Furious" series, listed Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" as his 2019 best, in addition to "Speed King", Vietnamese action film "Er Feng" and "Little Women" are also among them.
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Prince Yi
Among the top 10 chinese-American female directors wang Ziyi, who directed "Don't Tell Her," include not only the film "The Succession of the Pope," but also Merrit Weaver, the star of the American drama "Unbelievable," And The British drama "Rocks," as well as The New York Times podcasts "The Birth of American Music" and "Trapped in Syria." In addition, there are the new Broadway drama "American Utopia" and the Vietnamese-American poet Nguyen Phuc Hon's novel debut "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous", and even the MV of British singer FKA Twigs's new work "Cellophane" and the year-end hit Baby Yoda.
Poster of The Succession of the Pope