EFP 25: Best Films of 2019

Join us for a discussion of the best films from 2019 with Dr David Sorfa and Dr Pasquale Iannone, hosted by Kat Zabecka.Here is the list of films in the order of mention, all released in 2019 (with a few from 2018):Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) Climax (Gaspar Noé) The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh) Marriage Story (Noach Baumbach) The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch) Booksmart (Olivia Wilde) The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier) Styx (Wolfgang Fischer) The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Mid90s (Jonah Hill) Dolemite is My Name (Craig Brewer) Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke) Jiang hu er nü / Ash is Purest White (Zhangke Jia) Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Ben Wheatley) Photograph (Ritesh Batra) Knives Out (Rian Johnson) Notti Magiche/Magical Nights (Paolo Virzi) Loro (Paolo Sorrentino) The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg) Joker (Todd Phillips)Varda par Agnès/Varda by Agnes (Agnès Varda) If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Vince Gilligan)Films we have seen this year but were released prior to 2019:Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett 1978)Three Colours Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski 1993)Ukigumo/Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse 1955)The Rebel/Call Me Genius (Robert Day 1961)Chinatown (Roman Polanski 1974)Moon (Duncan Jones 2009)Summer Stock (Charles Walters 1950)L'une chante l'autre pas/One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda 1977)