2018 has reached the last day, and the box office of Chinese films has also exceeded the 60 billion mark this year, but our vision of movies cannot be limited to theatrical films, and the huge number of non-theatrical films every year is also a bonanza. Previously, the monograph has issued “2018 movies, 8 responsible works”, which is a summary of the 2018 domestic theater films. And this inventory of non-theatrical films tries to sort out some personal viewing contexts in many non-theatrical films at home and abroad in 2018.
Since it is an inventory of non-theatrical films, after stripping away the box office bonus, this list will naturally be more fanciful temperament. Any list is a reflection of the judge’s own aesthetic taste, and I always maintain instinctive skepticism about the kind of list that is calculated based on data based on comprehensive scores.
The screening of the list will inevitably be missed. But some are by no means deliberately omitted, but subjectively disliked. Movies like “Black Mirror: Panders Nike” that form is greater than content, just watch it fresh; “Don’t stop the camera! In the last century, there was a similar theme such as “Kamera Rhapsody”, and in recent years there is no shortage of works of the same type, resulting in the viewing process is not too surprising, and it is difficult to be included in the list. As for films like “Cold War”, it is difficult to escape the ridicule of PPT movies, and it is not included in the list.
The following is my list of the top ten non-theatrical films in 2018, in order.
NO.10 “Lone Wolf Blood”
Director:
Kazuya Shiraishi
Screenwriter:
Junya Ikegami / Yuzuki Hiroko
Starring:
Hiroshi Kakusho / Momolee Matsuzaka / Yoko Maki / Kenichi Takito / Tomoro Taguchi
Type:
Drama / Crime
Release Date:
2018-05-12(Japan)
This is the most appetizing gangster crime film I’ve seen this year, Hiroshi Kusho’s brilliant acting skills create the image of a policeman walking between black and white, and the young detective played by Matsuzaka Momolee is also quite distinctive, and the old and young partners are very interesting.
The strong violent temperament of the entire film directly pushes Hiroshima before the implementation of the “Yakuza Countermeasures Law” in 1988 directly in front of the audience. What’s more worth mentioning is that the original novel of this movie has won the 69th Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, and with the solid foundation of the original work, the script will naturally not be bad.
NO.9 “Rome”
Alfonso Cuarón
Jariza Abaricio / Marina de Tavira / Diego Cortina Otri
Drama / Family
2018-08-30(Venice Film Festival) / 2018-12-14(USA)
The work of Alfonso Cuarón, one of Hollywood’s “Three Masters of Mexico”, revolves around the unfortunate encounter of two women, but behind it presents the different choices of the same fate faced by the Mexican middle class and the bottom in a turbulent era. The choice of women as the main body of the story makes the whole film gentle and powerful, black and white photography, panning-based long shots are the characteristics of this film, when black and white photography fades the hustle and bustle of color, leaving behind is the dullness of life.
In particular, the sound effect of “Roma” is amazing. The film uses panoramic sound effects to present the most complex neighborhood sound effects in film history, which can be said to be subtle. If you have the conditions, you must watch it on the big screen, even if you enjoy it at home, it is best to wear headphones to savor the unique sound charm of this movie.
NO.8 “Upgrade”
Ray Warner
Logan Marshall-Green / Melary Wolleho / Harrison Gilbertson
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
This is probably the most underrated sci-fi thriller of 2018. As a director, Ray Warner has a resounding nickname: the father of “Chainsaw”. As a genius who started the “Chainsaw” series with Wen Ziren, Ray Warner has an instinctive preference for thrillers, so in a sci-fi movie like “Upgrade”, thriller has become an indispensable element.
In the highly developed future world, the relationship between artificial intelligence and humans has become very close, and the protagonist is gradually controlled by the chip after being transplanted with a smart chip. When humans become a host of miserable fates, artificial intelligence may take its place, so thinking about mechanical life and artificial intelligence eating humans back is chilling in the spine.
NO.7 “Happy Lazaro”
Alice Roervacher
Adriano Tardiolo / Agnese Graziani / Luca Chikovani / Alba Rolvacher / Sergi López
Drama / Fantasy
2018-05-13(Cannes Film Festival) / 2018-05-31(Italy)
At this year’s Cannes, “Happy Lazaro” won the Best Screenplay award. The film has a very powerful script, churches, prayers, iconostasis… The various images that appear in the film are explicitly or implicitly related to Christianity. Stories based on the Bible are varied, disrupting time and space, regardless of class, rich or poor, good and evil, making people addicted.
The screen image of Lazaro, like the modern Jesus, explores the ancient proposition of morality, tells the path of human salvation, and its strong religious atmosphere creates a mysterious allegory related to goodness.
NO.6 “Wild Pear Tree”
Nuri Bigg Ceylon
Aq Aksu / Ebru Ceylon / Nuri Big Ceylon
Dogu Demir / Murat Semir / Bennui Ildimlar
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2018-05-18(Cannes Film Festival) / 2018-06-01(Turkey)
As a new work in Ceylon, “Wild Pear Tree” can be described as this year’s Cannes pearl, rich in pictures and meticulously carved language give people a refreshing feeling. It outlines young people’s imagination of the world and their distant visions, and in this respect, it is not exclusive to young people in small Turkish towns, but a sentiment shared by young people who have left their homes all over the world.
NO.5 “Fake Captain”
Robert Svenk
Max Kubacher / Milan Pescher / Frederick Law
Drama / History / War
2017-09-07(Toronto Film Festival) / 2018-03-15(Germany)
This is the biggest surprise of German films to the world this year, as a World War II-themed work, “Captain Counterfeit” has made a great breakthrough in the reflection on the war. The film is based on real events, telling the story of an ordinary German soldier Willie Herold before the end of World War II became a deserter, the funny thing is because he picked up a captain’s uniform, after collecting a group of skirmishers, he turned into a “Emsrand executioner” and killed in the chaotic German land.
Blood and violence are not the focus of the movie, and how an ordinary person quickly twists in power and becomes an evil devil is the true meaning of “Captain Imposter”. At the end of the film, this group of evil guys is thrown back to the modern era by the director, but modern Germany still can’t resist the Nazi atrocities. Such a powerful questioning of history and human nature makes the audience involuntarily think: What has war brought to mankind?
NO.4 “This room is made by me”
Russ von Trier
Lars von Trier / Gerler Haard
Matt Dillon / Bruno Gantz / Uma Thurman / Shepon Faron
Drama / Thriller / Crime
2018-05-14(Cannes Film Festival) / 2018-10-17(France) / 2018-11-29(Denmark)
Not everyone can accept Lars von Trier’s films, from “Dog Town” to “Female Addicts”, he has repeatedly refreshed the audience’s viewing experience. Lars von Trier’s charm is difficult to define in simple words, and for Western audiences with Christian faith, Lars von Trier is an out-and-out destroyer.
Obscure metaphors, depictions of extreme evil, ultimately lead to the conclusion that heaven is hell, then conversely, hell is also heaven, relying on killing to build an altar, with life to sacrifice everything, such evil beauty and extreme arguments, really not acceptable to everyone.
NO.3 “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Ethan Cohen / Joel Cohen
Harry Milling / Zoe Kazan / Liam Neeson / James Franco
Comedy / Song and Dance / Western
2018-08-31 (Venice Film Festival) / 2018-11-16 (USA)
The Coen brothers are back with this “Ballad of Buster Scruggs”. The six stories are stacked together like a platter, quite like a short fiction collection, and the overall atmosphere and tone continue the tone of the Coen brothers’ previous works.
For fans who like the Coen brothers, love this work does not need much explanation.
NO.2 “Elephant Sitting on the Ground”
Hu Bo
Peng Yuchang / Zhang Yu / Wang Yuwen / Li Congxi / Dong Xiangrong
2018-02-16 (Berlinale)
The nearly four-hour film has sparked widespread discussion because of the director’s death. I have seen more comments about eating human blood steamed buns, but it is rare for the audience to calm down to watch this work, and the hot spots are all passing eyes, only the work can be immortal. It’s a pity to get to know the director in this way, and it’s a pity that I never see more of his work.
In Hu Bo’s novel The Bullfrog, I read this passage: “What prevents suicide may be nothingness itself.” Nothingness is standing at the intersection, there are many roads leading to all directions, each with no end in sight, and there is nothing around, not the process of going to those endless ends, but the position where it is at this time, it seems that there are many possibilities, and even each of them is very different, but it is not as good as standing here. “Life is really cruel, especially for talented creators, the more sensitive they are, the more painful it is to live.
NO.1 “They are no longer getting old”
Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / War
2018-10-16 (London Film Festival)
This is the best documentary of the year. Peter Jackson in the four years after “The Hobbit 3”, plunged into black and white silent films, and together with the BBC, used real historical images of the Imperial Museum to convert a large number of black and white silent films into color sound works, not to mention the technical difficulty of 2D to 3D and black and white to color, just from hundreds of hours of video and audio data to sort out these 99 minutes, the workload is not ordinarily large.
As a special commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, “They Are No Longer Old” truly shows the ugliness and dirtiness of war, the huge impact of real images is better than all propaganda and preaching, all those who advocate war, are irresponsible, watching that young face fall in the trenches of World War I, killed by gas or tanks, sincerely hope that mankind will always maintain peace, after all, “there is never a good war, there is no bad peace.” ”
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Alfonso Cuarón
Ray Warner
Alice Roervacher
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Robert Svenk
Ethan Cohen / Joel Cohen
Hu Bo