Top 10 of 2023

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This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2023 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

  1. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine)
  2. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)
  3. A Prince (Pierre Creton)
  4. Our Body (Claire Simon)
  5. May December (Todd Haynes)
  6. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
  7. Last Summer… (Catherine Breillat)
  8. About Thirty (Martín Shanly)
  9. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
  10. Here (Bas Devos)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)

  1. The Plains (2022, David Easteal)
  2. Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt)
  3. Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella)
  4. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  5. First Time — The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (2021, Nicolaas Schmidt)
  6. Un monde flottant (2021, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
  7. Our Body (2023, Claire Simon)
  8. Saxifrages, Four White Nights (2021, Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval)
  9. May December (2023, Todd Haynes)
  10. Who’s Stopping Us (2021, Jonás Trueba)

 

My Top 10 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

  1. Slow Glass (1991, John Smith)
  2. L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
  3. My Little Loves (1974, Jean Eustache)
  4. To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
  5. Falling Lessons (1992, Amy Halpern)
  6. Order (1980, Shahid-Saless)
  7. Diaries (1971-1976) (1982, Ed Pincus)
  8. La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  9. Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki)
  10. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma)

 

Other 2023 films I’ve seen

  • Music (Angela Schanelec) – 6.5
  • The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams) – 6.5
  • An Evening Song (for three voices) (Graham Swon) – 6.5
  • Club Zero (Jessica Hausner) – 6.5
  • Rotting in the Sun (Sebastián Silva) – 6.4
  • The Killer (David Fincher) – 6.4
  • Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli) – 6.4
  • The Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) – 6.4
  • Samsara (Lois Patiño) – 6.4
  • Anselm (Wim Wenders) – 6.3
  • The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno) – 6.3
  • The Practice (Martín Rejtman) – 6.3
  • Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan) – 6.2
  • He Thought He Died (Isiah Medina) – 6.2
  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Thien An Pham) – 6.1
  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Anna Hints) – 6.1
  • The Adults (Dustin Guy Defa) – 6.1
  • Occupied City (Steve McQueen) – 6.1
  • Eureka (Lisandro Alonso) – 6.0
  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude) – 6.0
  • Forms of Forgetting (Burak Çevik) ~ 6.0
  • In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.0
  • The Beast (Bertrand Bonello) – 5.9
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) – 5.9
  • The Echo (Tatiana Huezo) – 5.9
  • Gush (Fox Maxy) – 5.9
  • Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 5.9
  • Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing) – 5.9
  • Janet Planet (Annie Baker) – 5.8
  • The Pot-au-Feu (Trần Anh Hùng) – 5.8
  • Republic (Jin Jiang) – 5.8
  • A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser) – 5.8
  • Tótem (Lila Avilés) – 5.8
  • Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman) – 5.7
  • Reptile (Grant Singer) – 5.7
  • The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) – 5.7
  • Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster) – 5.7
  • Man in Black (Wang Bing) – 5.7
  • Mademoiselle Kenopsia (Denis Côté) – 5.7
  • Regardless of Us (Yoo Heong-jun) – 5.6
  • Hit Man (Richard Linklater) – 5.6
  • Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli) – 5.6
  • About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 5.6
  • Silent Witnesses (Luis Ospina & Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga) – 5.6
  • Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) – 5.5
  • Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan) – 5.5
  • Grace (Ilya Povolotsky) – 5.5
  • The Trial (Ulises de la Orden) – 5.5
  • Asteroid City (Wes Anderson) – 5.4
  • Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie) – 5.4
  • Lousy Carter (Bob Byington) – 5.4
  • Last Things (Deborah Stratman) – 5.4
  • Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado) – 5.3
  • Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy) – 5.3
  • Till the End of the Night (Christoph Hochhäusler) – 5.2
  • The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki) – 5.2
  • Gasoline Rainbow (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) – 5.2
  • White Plastic Sky (Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó) – 5.2
  • Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho) – 5.2
  • Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) – 5.1
  • The Plough (Philippe Garrel) – 5.1
  • Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki) – 5.1
  • The Island (Damien Manivel) – 5.1
  • This Closeness (Kit Zauhar) – 5.1
  • Memory (Michel Franco) – 5.1
  • Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) – 5.1
  • Family Portrait (Lucy Kerr) – 5.1
  • Barbie (Greta Gerwig) – 5.0
  • Arthur&Diana (Sara Summa) – 5.0
  • The Holdovers (Alexander Payne) – 5.0
  • Homecoming (Catherine Corsini) – 5.0
  • Godard by Godard (Florence Platarets) – 5.0
  • Melting Ink (Dominik Graf) – 5.0
  • Afire (Christian Petzold) – 4.9
  • Still Film (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) – 4.9
  • Kubi (Takeshi Kitano) – 4.9
  • Mountains (Monica Sorelle) – 4.9
  • Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania) – 4.9
  • The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams) – 4.8
  • The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez Haberle) – 4.8
  • Lost in the Night (Amat Escalante) – 4.8
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (Neo Sora) – 4.8
  • in water (Hong Sang-soo) – 4.7
  • Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) – 4.7
  • Ferrari (Michael Mann) – 4.7
  • His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs) – 4.7
  • Priscilla (Sofia Coppola) – 4.7
  • Breath (Jéro Yun) – 4.7
  • Peak Season (Henry Loevner & Steven Kanter) – 4.7
  • The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu) – 4.7
  • All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson) – 4.6
  • Air (Ben Affleck) – 4.6
  • Passages (Ira Sachs) – 4.6
  • The Old Oak (Ken Loach) – 4.6
  • Shadow of Fire (Shinya Tsukamoto) – 4.6
  • All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh) – 4.6
  • Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 4.5
  • Bad Living (João Canijo) – 4.5
  • Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam) – 4.5
  • On the Adamant (Nicolas Philibert) – 4.5
  • The Quiet Migration (Malene Choi) – 4.5
  • Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 4.4
  • Deserts (Faouzi Bensaïdi) – 4.3
  • Jeanne du Barry (Maïwenn) – 4.3
  • Home Invasion (Graeme Arnfield) – 4.3
  • Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza) – 4.2
  • Past Lives (Celine Song) – 4.1
  • Sweet Dreams (Ena Sendijarević) – 4.1
  • Notes from Eremocene (Viera Čákanyová) – 4.0
  • Disco Boy (Giacomo Abbruzzese) – 4.0
  • Living Bad (João Canijo) – 3.9
  • Mimang (Kim Tae-yang) – 3.9
  • American Fiction (Cord Jefferson) – 3.9
  • Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz) – 3.7
  • Manodrome (John Trengove) – 3.6
  • The Book of Solutions (Michel Gondry) – 3.6
  • Green Border (Agnieszka Holland) – 3.5
  • The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha) – 3.5
  • BlackBerry (Matt Johnson) – 3.5
  • Poolman (Chris Pine) – 3.4
  • The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green) – 3.3
  • Black Flies (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire) – 3.2
  • The Pigeon Tunnel (Errol Morris) – 2.8
  • A Brighter Tomorrow (Nanni Moretti) – 2.4