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# Hyperallergic's Film Buffs Discuss 2019's Best Films, from Parasite to Avengers
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/best-films-2019-podcast/
- Published: 2019-11-27T18:17:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:23:00.000Z
- Description: This year provided a bounty of exciting indie and art house films, and three Hyperallergic editors discuss their picks along with a conversation about the glut of Superhero flicks that dominate the box office.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Podcast, Documentary, Film, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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A scene from Parasite (image courtesy Cinetic Marketing)

Hyperallergic Reviews editor [Dessane Lopez Cassell](https://hyperallergic.com/author/dessane-lopez-cassell/) and Documentary associate editor [Dan Schindel](https://hyperallergic.com/author/dan-schindel/) join me to discuss our favorite films from 2019.

We discuss [*Parasite*](https://hyperallergic.com/parasite-review-bong-joon-ho/), [*The Farewell*](https://hyperallergic.com/lulu-wang-on-family-fiction-and-the-first-gen-experience-in-the-farewell/), [*America*](https://hyperallergic.com/garrett-bradley-america-bam/), [*High Life*](https://hyperallergic.com/claire-denis-on-black-holes-olafur-eliasson-and-the-making-of-high-life/), [*Midnight Traveler*](http://youtube.com/watch?v=BTT-duEoRdc&ref=hyperallergic.com), the new frontiers of documentary, including [*Syrmor*](https://hyperallergic.com/syrmor-youtube-vrchat-interviews/), [*The Giverny Document*](https://hyperallergic.com/jatovia-gary-ciff-interview-giverny-document/), and more. We also discuss the recent boom in superhero movies, how they dominate conversation about film,[Martin Scorsese’s problems with the genre](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), and what it tells us about movies today. We also talk about Schindel’s newly published essay, “[What Is a Documentary These Days?](https://hyperallergic.com/497052/what-is-a-documentary-these-days/)”

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