Top first viewings of 2019

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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.