Top first viewings of 2019

[Mothravka]

It's 2020 now, so let's take a look back again. Which films were your favourites that you watched for the first time during 2019?

Last year's thread:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=313332

And like before, feel free to post your list of any length. I limited myself to 100 entries once again. Here's my list:

1. A Place in the World (2001, Artour Aristakisian)
2. Spiritual Voices (1995, Aleksandr Sokurov)
3. Variations (1998, Nathaniel Dorsky)
4. Ladoni (1994, Artour Aristakisian)
5. Sogobi (2002, James Benning)
6. Berta's Motives (1984, José Luis Guerin)
7. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
8. Nainsukh (2010, Amit Dutta)
9. Happy Hour (2015, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
10. Closing Time (2018, Nicole Vögele)
11. One or Two Question (2018, Kristina Konrad)
12. Elsewhere (2001, Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
13. Pokkuveyil (1982, Govindan Aravindan)
14. Oxhide (2005, Liu Jiayin)
15. Komitas (1989, Don Askarian)
16. Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère... (1976, René Allio)
17. Bellavista (2006, Peter Schreiner)
18. New York Portrait: Chapter III (1990, Peter B. Hutton)
19. Babel - lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique (1991, Boris Lehman)
20. ________ (2018, Kyle Faulkner)
21. Shrine (2017, Robert Todd)
22. The Kali Of Emergency (2016, Ashish Avikunthak)
23. Vrindavana (2010, Ernesto Braca)
24. People's Park (2012, Libbie Dina Cohn & J.P. Sniadecki)
25. Abendland (2011, Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
26. Sonnensystem (2011, Thomas Heise)
27. É na Terra não é na Lua (2011, Gonçalo Tocha)
28. Kékszakállú (2016, Gastón Solnicki)
29. Caolas na Hearadh (2019, Joshua Bonnetta)
30. Racines lointaines (2002, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd)
31. Gegenwart (2012, Thomas Heise)
32. Drift (2017, Helena Wittmann)
33. Closed District (2005, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd)
34. El futuro (2013, Luis López Carrasco)
35. Donkey in a Brahmin Village (1977, John Abraham)
36. The Four Times (2010, Michelangelo Frammartino)
37. Jean Gentil (2010, Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán)
38. Alberi (2013, Michelangelo Frammartino)
39. The Punishment (1962, Jean Rouch)
40. Los (2001, James Benning)
41. Genet à Chatila (1999, Richard Dindo)
42. Vidheyan (1994, Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
43. Magino Village: A Tale (1987, Shinsuke Ogawa)
44. Esthappan (1980, Govindan Aravindan)
45. El Valley Centro (1999, James Benning)
46. Das Jahr nach Dayton (1997, Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
47. The Long Holiday (2000, Johan van der Keuken)
48. Red Persimmons (2001, Shinsuke Ogawa & Peng Xiaolian)
49. Vostrau Belarus (2009, Victor Asliuk)
50. The Goddesses (1972, Walter Hugo Khouri)
51. El palacio (2013, Nicolás Pereda)
52. Lost Land (2011, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd)
53. Naissant (1964, Stephen Dwoskin)
54. Suddenly, One Day (1989, Mrinal Sen)
55. The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher)
56. Postman (1995, Jianjun He)
57. Barravento (1962, Glauber Rocha)
58. Liv (1967, Pål Løkkeberg)
59. The Birch Tree (1967, Ante Babaja)
60. Documentarist (2003, Harutyun Khachatryan)
61. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983, Raúl Ruiz)
62. Antigravitacija (1995, Audrius Stonys)
63. Border (2009, Harutyun Khachatryan)
64. Story of My Death (2013, Albert Serra)
65. Amor e Desamor (1966, Gerson Tavares)
66. A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016, Lav Diaz)
67. The Plaits (1974, Zoran Tadić)
68. The Journey of a Young Composer (1985, Giorgi Shengelaia)
69. The Letter (2013, Sergey Loznitsa)
70. Dad (2010, Vlado Škafar)
71. Moment (1968, Stephen Dwoskin)
72. Handcuffs (1970, Krsto Papić)
73. Arising from the Surface (1980, Mani Kaul)
74. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990, Vitali Kanevsky)
75. La flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
76. Hotel by the River (2018, Hong Sang-soo)
77. La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green)
78. The Dreamed Path (2016, Angela Schanelec)
79. Manta Ray (2018, Phuttiphong Aroonpheng)
80. Sacro GRA (2013, Gianfranco Rosi)
81. Maidan (2014, Sergey Loznitsa)
82. Krabi, 2562 (2019, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong)
83. Fausto (2018, Andrea Bussmann)
84. The Iron Ministry (2014, J.P. Sniadecki)
85. Heimat Is a Space in Time (2019, Thomas Heise)
86. The Eternals (2017, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd)
87. Fata Morgana (2013, Peter Schreiner)
88. Alms for a Blind Horse (2011, Gurvinder Singh)
89. Der Rosenkönig (1986, Werner Schroeter)
90. Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980, Leo Hurwitz)
91. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong)
92. Sailing a Sinking Sea (2016, Olivia Wyatt)
93. Strangers When We Meet (1960, Richard Quine)
94. Szenvedély (1998, György Fehér)
95. The Man Who Loves the Birds (1976, Ali Khamraev)
96. Little Fugitive (1953, Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin)
97. L'ange (1982, Patrick Bokanowski)
98. Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute (1971, Masao Adachi & Haruhiko Arai)
99. Je t'attendrai (1939, Léonide Moguy)
100. Underground (1928, Anthony Asquith)

I think I have a lot more recent films this time than in the list from 2018, but that's probably because I was exploring newer stuff a lot more in 2019. There's several other films I liked as well, but ranking and changing the list too much will make my head explode, so this will do for the moment.

[TajSamKojiJesam]

1) Blood (Pedro Costa, 1989)
2) Devi (Satyajit Ray, 1960)
3) Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980)
4) The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975)
5) Taiga (Ulrike Ottinger, 1992)
6) Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994)
7) Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
8) Il dono (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2003)
9) World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
10) Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
11) Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky, 1998)
12) Life, and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami, 1992)
13) Where Is My Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
14) A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
15) The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
16) City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)
17) Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
18) Forest of Bliss (Robert Gardner, 1986)
19) Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
20) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972)
21) The Virgin's Bed (Philippe Garrel, 1969)
22) Komitas (Don Askarian, 1989)
23) Birthplace (Paweł Łoziński, 1992)
24) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
25) Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)

26) Good Riddance (Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)
27) In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
28) Report to Mother (John Abraham, 1986)
29) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
30) Photography (Pál Zolnay, 1973)
31) Bangkok Nites (Katsuya Tomita, 2016)
32) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
33) Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Michael Fengler, 1970)
34) Repast (Mikio Naruse, 1951)
35) Csontváry (Zoltán Huszárik, 1980)
36) The American Soldier (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
37) The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1991)
38) Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
39) Portret (Sergei Loznitsa, 2002)
40) Phantom India (Louis Malle, 1969)
41) Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
42) Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
43) My Twentieth Century (Ildikó Enyedi, 1989)
44) Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
45) Giano (Francesco Dongiovanni, 2014)
46) Sinbad (Zoltán Huszárik, 1971)
47) Metamorphoses (Sebastian Mez, 2013)
48) Voyage to Cythera (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1984)
49) Long Day's Journey Into Night (Gan Bi, 2018)
50) A Dedicated Life (Kazuo Hara, 1994)

51) The Boogeyman (Živko Nikolić, 1974)
52) Inside/Out (Rob Tregenza, 1997)
53) Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972)
54) Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969)
55) Shrine (Robert Todd, 2017)
56) Alexander the Great (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1980)
57) The Hunters (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1977)
58) The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010)
59) Towers of Silence (Jamil Dehlavi, 1975)
60) Merry-Go-Round (Zoltán Fábri, 1956)
61) Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
62) The Plaits (Zoran Tadić, 1974)
63) Madame La Murie (Petr Václav, 1993)
64) Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963)
65) Boatman (Gianfranco Rosi, 1993)
66) 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim, 2004)
67) Illusions (Diana Matuzevičienė & Kornelijus Matuzevičius, 1993)
68) Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988)
69) Jamilia (Aminatou Echard, 2018)
70) Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Sôda, 2018)
71) The Ancient Woods (Mindaugas Survila, 2017)
72) Autumn Snow (Valdas Navasaitis, 1992)
73) Lacrau (João Vladimiro, 2013)
74) The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
75) Caolas na Hearadh (Joshua Bonnetta, 2019)

76) Le berceau de cristal (Philippe Garrel, 1976)
77) The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009)
78) The Tree (André Gil Mata, 2018)
79) Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977)
80) Documentarist (Harutyun Khachatryan, 2003)
81) Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
82) Café Lumière (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2003)
83) The Dreams of the Centenarians (Robertas Verba, 1969)
84) August at Akiko's (Christopher Makoto Yogi, 2018)
85) Magino Village: A Tale (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1987)
86) Peace (Kazuhiro Sôda, 2010)
87) Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz, 2007)
88) The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini, 2017)
89) The Water Was So Clear (Yôichi Takabayashi, 1973)
90) Sailing a Sinking Sea (Olivia Wyatt, 2015)
91) The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Victor Sjöström, 1917)
92) Have You Seen the Barefoot God? (Soo-kil Kim, 1986)
93) Jakub (Jana Ševčíková, 1992)
94) Đurđa (Mirza Idrizović, 1978)
95) The Abandoned Children (Danny Lyon, 1975)
96) Earth of the Blind (Audrius Stonys, 1992)
97) Calling (Marcin Dudziak, 2014)
98) A Nice Day (Jan Jakub Kolski, 1988)
99) 36 (Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, 2012)
100) A Girl's Dreams (Mirjana Živković, 1960)

I've been exploring some Hungarian classics, and also directors like Fassbinder, Angelopoulos, Murnau and Sjöström (pretty sure I've completed some of them to boot).

Aristakisyan's A Place in the World is maybe even my favorite movie from this century, it's just really dripping with distilled despair and bitterness, and it also got me into Robert Wyatt.

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by TajSamKojiJesam

1)I've been exploring some Hungarian classics, and also directors like Fassbinder, Angelopoulos, Murnau and Sjöström (pretty sure I've completed some of them to boot).

Aristakisyan's A Place in the World is maybe even my favorite movie from this century, it's just really dripping with distilled despair and bitterness, and it also got me into Robert Wyatt.

A lot of good stuff on your list! And I see that we have a couple of shared favourites too.

I agree with you on A Place in the World (2001), it's really brutal, punishing and bleak. I couldn't think of a better film to claim the number one place.