Favourite Films of 2019

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My favourite films released in Melbourne, Australia, in 2019:

1. Amazing Grace (realised by Alan Elliott, 2018)
Released August
2. Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, 2019)
Released December
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, Céline Sciamma, 2019)
Released December
4. Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
Released August
5. Marriage Story (Noah Baumback, 2019)
Released November
6. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
Released November
7. The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2019)
Released August
8. Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018)
Released March
9. Animals (Sophie Hyde, 2019)
Released September
10. Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019)
Released July

Honourable mentions

Twenty more films I loved this year, listed alphabetically:

Ága (Milko Lazarov, 2018)
Released May
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, 2019)
Released July
Atlantics (Atlantique, Mati Diop, 2019)
Released November
Blinded by the Light (Gurinder Chadha, 2019)
Released October
Brittany Runs a Marathon (Paul Downs Colaizzo, 2019)
Released October
Buoyancy (Rodd Rathjen, 2019)
Released September
Burning (Beoning, Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Released April
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)
Released January
Evelyn (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2018)
Released September
I Lost My Body (J’ai perdu mon corps, Jérémy Clapin, 2019)
Released November
Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019)
Released October
Leaving Neverland (Dan Reed, 2019)
Released March
Mid90s (Jonah Hill, 2018)
Released April
Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
Released August
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)
Released January
Pain & Glory (Dolor y Gloria, Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)
Released November
Parasite (Gisaengchung, Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
Released June
The Australian Dream (Daniel Gordon, 2019)
Released August
The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019)
Released September
The Report (Scott Z Burns, 2019)
Released November

Favourite films not yet given a full release locally

Many of the films I saw this year that left a big impression on me are films that only screened to Melbourne audiences at various festivals, so I’d like to also mention the following:

Aquarela (Victor Kossakovsky, 2018)
Bait (Mark Jenkin, 2019)
Give Me Liberty (Kirill Mikhanovsky, 2019)
Goldie (Sam de Jong, 2019)
Morgana (Josie Hess and Isabel Peppard, 2019)
Our Mothers (Nuestras madres, Cesar Diaz, 2019)
Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham, 2018)
System Crasher (Systemsprenger, Nora Fingscheidt, 2019)
The Swallows of Kabul (Les hirondelles de Kaboul, Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec, 2019)
Varda by Agnès (Varda par Agnès, Agnès Vard, 2019)

This list was compiled for the upcoming Senses of Cinema 2019 World Poll

Thomas Caldwell, 2019