Episode 196: The Best Films of 2019

==Show Notes==
: We go through our top ten favourite films of 2019. This is the only list you'll ever need. You can throw out every other film that came out this year!
==Films Discussed==
* Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Dir. Sidney Lumet
* The Killer (1989) Dir. John Woo
* Big Daddy (1999) Dir. Dennis Dugan
* Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) Dir. Ang Lee
* Kill Bill: Volume 1 & 2 (2003-2004) Dir. Quentin Tarantino
* The Squid and the Whale (2005) Dir. Noah Baumbach
* Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006) Dir. Isaac Florentine
* Ninja (2009) Dir. Isaac Florentine
* Observe and Report (2009) Dir. Jody Hill
* Undisputed III: Redemption (2010) Dir. Isaac Florentine
* Django Unchained (2012) Dir. Quentin Tarantino
* Amour (2012) Dir. Michael Haneke
* Spring Breakers (2013) Dir. Harmony Korine
* Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear (2013) Dir. Isaac Florentine
* American Sniper (2014) Dir. Clint Eastwood
* The Witch (2015) Dir. Robert Eggers
* Bone Tomahawk (2015) Dir. S. Craig Zahler
* Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Dir. Kenneth Branagh
* Bodied (2017) Dir. Joseph Kahn
* 15:17 to Paris (2018) Dir. Clint Eastwood
* War (2019) Dir. Siddharth Anand
* Saaho (2019) Dir. Sujeeth
* Joker (2019) Dir. Todd Phillips
== Discussion Notes ==
* The ICC double Top Ten of 2019
** Don't watch any other movies!
** Will - "I hate this annual episode"
** Justin - "It doesn't mean anything"
** Both hosts - "Thank God for Letterboxd"
* End-of-year lists are mostly people showing off - 'look what I think is good!'
* Lists should be for sharing new things to people and making recommendations
* Justin's List (unranked)
** Atlantics (2019) Dir. Mati Diop
*** A different take on I Walked with a Zombie
** The Lighthouse (2019) Dir. Robert Eggers
*** A loud, big, and very funny take on Lovecraft 
** Little Women (2019) Dir. Greta Gerwig
*** "Likely to become the definitive version of the text" says man who has never seen or read another version
** Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019) Dir. Surender Reddy
*** "The kind of political propaganda I can get behind 100%"
** Uncut Gems (2019) Dir. Josh & Benny Safdie
*** The right 'full Sandler' movie at the right time
** Marriage Story (2019) Dir. Noah Baumbach
*** Excellent performances in a story that has divided audiences over sides to take
** Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019) Dir. Quentin Tarantino
*** "It's made for me" - saw it three times in theaters
** Knives Out (2019) Dir. Rian Johnson
*** Excellent balance of tone and content in the mystery genre
** The Twentieth Century (2019) Dir. 
*** A surreal farce with an emotional center about a milquetoast neo-liberal and the Canadian identity
** Avengement (2019) Dir. Jesse V Johnson
*** Tightly structured revenge story that is everything DTV action should be
* Will's List (ranked)
** 10. High Life (2019) Dir. Claire Denis
*** A grueling experience filled with sensual beauty
** 9. Parasite (2019) Dir. Bong Joon-ho
*** The obvious statement is it's great
** 8. Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019) Dir. Surender Reddy
*** Super fun ridiculous anti-oppressor action
** 7. Dragged Across Concrete (2019) Dir. S. Craig Zahler
*** Great story, racist politics, with enough craft to not dismiss outright
** 6. Richard Jewell (2019) Dir. Clint Eastwood
*** Unadorned story of the loser everyman wanting to be a hero
** 5. Rolling Thunder Revue (2019) Dir. Martin Scorsese
*** "What more do you want?"
** 4. The Beach Bum (2019) Dir. Harmony Korine
*** A beautiful film filled with attractive repulsiveness
** 3. Uncut Gems (2019) Dir. Josh & Benny Safdie
*** Like going on a ride
** 2. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019) Dir. Quentin Tarantino
*** Has risen in estimation since original viewing, haunted by last shots of the film
** 1. The Irishman (2019) Dir. Martin Scorsese
*** Will's parents loved it
==Listener Letters==
* No letters this week!
== Post-Outro Discussion ==
*Do you still get angry when you see a negative review of a film you love?
**Twitter was invented to bring annoying takes right to you
**Our hosts feel they have grown out of the age of needing to debate strangers on the internet
***Letterboxd 1-star reviews can put that urge back into our hosts though
*Will and Justin have come to accept each other for who they are on social media
**Don't take internet reviews so seriously!
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