Her Fresh Picks: 2018 Acclaimed Movies
You can watch these movies along with Angela and Bryan, and see if you agree or disagree. These are 2018 movies that have been critically acclaimed and we missed reviewing when they first played in theaters. All are available on some sort of streaming service (Amazon, Hulu or Netflix) or on Netflix DVD.
My Happy Family
Annihilation
Oscar Nominated Films
Captains Courageous (1937) Dir: Victor Fleming (Won: Actor; Nominated: Editing, Film, Writing)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Dir: William Dieterle (Won: Supporting Actor, Film, Screenplay; Nominated: Actor, Art direction, Music, Director)
Babes in Arms (1939) Dir: Busby Berkeley (Nominated: Actor, Music)
Kings Row (1942) Dir: Sam Wood (Nominated: Cinematography, Directing, Film)
Gervaise (1956) Dir: Rene Clement
Bus Stop (1956) Dir: Joshua Logan (Nominated: Supporting Actor)
Black Orpheus (1959) Dir: Marcel Camus (Won: Best Foreign Language)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Dir: Marlon Brando (Nominated: Cinematography)
Oliver! (1967) Dir: Carol Reed (Won: Film, Sound, Music, Directing, Art Direction; Nominated: Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Costume, Editing, Writing)
Rachel, Rachel (1968) Dir: Paul Newman (Nominated: Actress, Supporting Actress, Film, Writing)
War and Peace (1968) Dir: Sergei Bondarchuk (Won: Foreign Language; Nominated: Art Direction)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) Dir: Herbert Ross (Nominated: Actor, Music)
Bound for Glory (1976) Dir: Hal Ashby (Won: Music, Cinematography. Nominated: Costume, Editing, Film)
Dodsworth (1936) Dir: William Wyler (Won: Art Direction. Nominated: Picture, Leading Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Screenplay, Sound)
Seven Beauties (1975) Dir: Lina Wermuller. (Nominated: Actor, Director, Screenplay, Foreign Language Film)
Get Out. Director: Keegan Peele
I Don’t Feel At Home in this World Anymore. Director: Macon Blair
The Girl With All the Gifts. Director: Colm McCarthy
A Monster Calls. Director: J.A. Bayona
Raw. Director: Julia Ducournau
All this Panic. Director: Jenny Gage
I Called Him Morgan. Director: Kasper Collins
Beatriz at Dinner. Director: Miguel Arteta
The Big Sick. Director: Michael Showalter
The Bad Batch. Director: Ana Lilly Amirpour
Strike (1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Dir: John Huston
Jean Renoir: The Golden Coach (1954) Dir: Jean Renoir
Up the Down Staircase (1967) Dir: Robert Mulligan
The Swimmer (1968) Dir: Frank Perry
The Twelve Chairs (1970) Dir: Mel Brooks
Parade (1974) Dir: Jacques Tati
Stalker (1979) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
Angela’s Top 10
1. Moonlight. Director: Barry Jenkins
2. Manchester by the Sea. Director: Kenneth Lonergan
3. Dheepan. Director: Jacques Audiard
4. The Handmaiden. Director: Park Chan-wook
5. Embrace of the Serpent. Director: Ciro Guerra
6. Our Little Sister. Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
7. I Am Not Your Negro. Director: Raul Peck
8. 20th Century Women. Director: Mike Mills
9. The Lobster. Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
10. Hell or High Water. Director: David Mackenzie
Honorable Mentions: The Witch, Demon, Loving, Toni Erdmann, The Witness
Bryan’s Top 10
1. Manchester by the Sea. Director: Kenneth Lonergan
2. Hell or High Water. Director: David Mackenzie
3. Moonlight. Director: Barry Jenkins
4. The Handmaiden. Director: Park Chan-wook
5. Nocturnal Animals. Director: Tom Ford
6. The Birth of a Nation. Director: Nate Parker
7. 20th Century Women. Director: Mike Mills
8. The Witness. Director: James D. Solomon
9. Dheepan. Director: Jacques Audiard
10. The Eagle Huntress. Director: Otto Bell
Honorable Mentions: The Jungle Book, The Witch, The Lobster, The Family Fang, Moana, Little Men, Loving, Green Room, The Edge of Seventeen
You can watch these movies along with Angela and Bryan, and see if you agree or disagree. These are movies that have been critically acclaimed. All are available on some sort of streaming service (Amazon, Hulu or Netflix) or on Netflix DVD.
Big City: Mahanagar (1963) Dir: Satjajit Ray
Brothel No. 8 (1974) Dir: Kei Kumai
Auto Focus (2002) Dir: Paul Schrader
Stray Dog (1949) Dir: Kurosawa
The Lower Depths (1936) Dir: Jean Renoir
Bedazzled (1967) Dir: Stanley Donen
Ride the High Country (1962) Dir: Sam Peckinpah
Man of the West (1958) Dir: Anthony Mann
Faust (1926) Dir: FW Murnau
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Dir: John Huston
Angela’s June 2016 Picks:
Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
World of Tomorrow (2015)
About Elly (2015)
Bryan’s June 2016 Picks:
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
We are Still Here (2015)
Kung Fury (2015)
Streaming Services:
https://www.netflix.com
https://play.google.com/store/movies
https://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/movies/