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HARRY CHOTINER’S BEST FILMS OF 2019 ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOREIGN FILMS DOCUMENTARIES 1917 Parasite (S. Korea) Edge of Democracy Jojo Rabbit Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France) Of Fathers and Sons Lighthouse Woman at War (Iceland) Dawson City, Frozen Time Once Upon a Time in Holly- Non Fiction (France) Woodstock wood Working Woman (Israel) They Shall Not Grow Old Irishman Atlantics (Senegal) On Her Shoulders Rocketman Long Day’s Journey into Night (China) Biggest Little Farm Farewell White, White Day (Iceland) Linda Ronstadt Last Black Man in SF Les Miserables (France) Our Godfather Booksmart An Elephant Sitting Still (China) Toni Morrison Joker Ash is the Purest White (China) Obit Toy Story 4 Synonym (Israel) Uncut Gems Pain and Glory (Spain) Queen and Slim Chambermaid (Mexico) Knives Out Wild Goose Lake (Chinese) Marriage Story TOP GROSSING DOMESTIC FILMS AS OF JAN 2 (STAR WARS WILL END HIGHER) Honorable Mention: Domestic Earnings/ML Foreign Earnings/ML Budget Total Earnings Nightingale Avengers-Endgame: $859 $1.94B $356M $2.8B Two Popes Lion King: $544 $1.1B $260 $1.7B The Laundromat Toy Story 4: $435 $640 $200 $1.07B Peanut Butter Falcon Frozen 2: $431 $799 $150 $1.23B Motherless Brooklyn Captain Marvel: $427 $701 $152 $1.13B Little Woods Star Wars 9: $408 $408 $275 $816M Mouthpiece Spider Ma: $391 $741 $160 $1.1B Wild Rose Aladdin: $356 $695 $183 $1B Ophelia Joker: $334 $729 $63!!! $1B Dark Water It 2: $212 $261 $79 $472M John Wick 3 BEST OF LAST DECADE ALL TIME LEADERS DOMESTIC FOREIGN BOX OFFICE IN US DOMESTIC GROSS OJ: Made in America A Separation (Iran) (IN MILLIONS): (ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION): Moonlight Parasite (S. Korea) Star Wars 8: $937 Gone with the Wind (1939): $1.9B Grand Budapest Hotel Roma (Mexico) Avengers Endgame: $859 Star Wars (original) (1977): $1.7B Big Short Dogtooth (Greece) Avatar: $750 Sound of Music (1965): $1.3B (I’m not Boyhood Capernaum (Lebanon) Black Panther: $701 kidding….honest) Act of Killing Shoplifters (Japan) Avengers Infinity: $679 ET (1982): $1.3B Toy Story 3 Foxtrot (Israel) Titanic: $659 Titanic (1997): $1.25B 12 Years a Slave The Square (Sweden) Jurassic World: $653 Ten Commandments (1956): $1.2B Zero Dark Thirty Son of Saul (Hungary) Avengers: $624 Jaws (1975): $1.2B Manchester by the Sea A Hijacking (Denmark) Star Wars Last Jedi: $621 Dr. Zhivago (1965): $1.1B Mad Max About Elly (Iran) Incredibles 2: $609 Exoricst (1973): $996M Wolf of Wall Street Mother (S. Korea) Snow White (1937): $982M BPM (France) Amour (France) Toni Erdmann (Germany).

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