Artribune's Top 10 Films of 2019: From Parasite to The Irishman

Artribune published its list of the ten best films of 2019, highlighting a year of highly anticipated releases and some disappointments. The list includes Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as South Korea's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2020 Oscars. Joker by Todd Phillips, starring Joaquin Phoenix, won the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice Film Festival. The Irishman by Martin Scorsese, featuring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, is a Netflix production over three and a half hours long, shot in 108 days across more than 100 locations. Other films include Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach, Dolor y Gloria by Pedro Almodóvar with Antonio Banderas, La favorita by Yorgos Lanthimos starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz, and L'ufficiale e la spia by Roman Polanski. The list also features La mafia non è più quella di una volta by Franco Maresco, Burning – L'amore brucia by Chang-dong Lee, and La belle époque by Nicolas Bedos. The article notes that 2019 saw the Moviement movement supporting the Italian summer film season and that the Cannes and Venice film festivals demonstrated industry leadership.