

(For comparison, see last year’s top 10, featuring several films that went on to have a decent shelf-life, including A Quiet Place and Thunder Road, which is finally rolling out to cinemas in the UK, NZ and Australia over the next few months.)

Between my own viewings and those of our feverish Letterboxd members in attendance, we present our Top Ten SXSW Premieres for 2019-and look forward to seeing where these will go. This makes it a particularly fun task to dig out the very best from the fest. (Shout out to the Austin Film Society, whose members are O.G. Of all the film festivals in the world, SXSW has the highest annual number of Letterboxd members in attendance.
