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For 11 years running, our end-of-the-year tradition on the Notebook has been to poll our roster of contributors to create fantasy double features of new and old films. But what about the curators behind Mubi itself? This year we begin what we hope to be a new tradition: publishing the favorite films of the year as chosen by our programming team: Daniel Kasman in the U.S., Anaïs Lebrun and Chiara Marañón in the U.K. We each have two lists: our top new films that premiered in 2018, and then a selection of revivals screened in cinemas.PREMIERESDaniel Kasman1. Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)2. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)3. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, USA)4. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, USA)5. The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann, Austria)6. Unsane (Steven Soderbergh, USA)7. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack, USA)8. The Red Shadow [director's cut]9. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?...

Volker Schlöndorff‬ on Germany in Autumn (Deutschland Im Herbst): "In the film there is a segment which Heinrich Böll wrote and I directed about an Antigone production …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

On the last day in April, after having returned from Indiana where he spoke at the 1968 in Europe and Latin America conference (held at the University of Notre Dame), Volker Schlöndorff met with me at Lincoln Center for a follow-up conversation on the topic. His 1966 film Young Törless, starring Mathieu Carrière, was also screened.

Earlier that morning he was up at Columbia discussing Antigone and May '68 in a class taught by his Return To Montauk co-screenwriter Colm Tóibín. The director of the Oscar-winning Tin Drum on the 50th anniversary year of the student protests shared his memories on the legacy of '68 and the eternal return of Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Max Zorn (Stellan Skarsgård) with Rebecca (Nina Hoss) in...

"The idea was to record and respond to the political and culture climate as instantaneously as possible — and, one assumes, intervene as well and possibly even influence it.... It registers as few other films have the difficulty – actually, impossibility – of coming to terms with very recent history." Evan Kindley on the omnibus film Germany in Autumn (1978, with segments directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, among others) at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, which is co-presenting tonight's screening and discussion at 92YTribeca with Red Channels and Goethe-Institut New York.