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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.
- A Prince (Pierre Creton)
- Our Body (Claire Simon)
- May December (Todd Haynes)
- Last Summer… (Catherine Breillat)
- About Thirty (Martín Shanly)
- Anselm (Wim Wenders)
- The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
- Here (Bas Devos)
- Music (Angela Schanelec)
- The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams)
Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)
- The Plains (2022, David Easteal)
- Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt)
- Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella)
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
- First Time — The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (2021, Nicolaas Schmidt)
- Un monde flottant (2021, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
- Our Body (2023, Claire Simon)
- Saxifrages, Four White Nights (2021, Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval)
- May December (2023, Todd Haynes)
- Who’s Stopping Us (2021, Jonás Trueba)
My Top 10 Discoveries During 2023 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)
- Slow Glass (1991, John Smith)
- L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
- Order (1980, Shahid-Saless)
- Diaries (1971-1976) (1982, Ed Pincus)
- Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki)
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Other 2023 films I’ve seen
- Club Zero (Jessica Hausner) – 6.5
- Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli) – 6.4
- The Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) – 6.4
- Samsara (Lois Patiño) – 6.4
- The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno) – 6.3
- Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan) – 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
- Forms of Forgetting (Burak Çevik) ~ 6.0
- In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.0
- Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) – 5.9
- The Echo (Tatiana Huezo) – 5.9
- Gush (Fox Maxy) – 5.9
- Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing) – 5.9
- The Pot-au-Feu (Trần Anh Hùng) – 5.8
- Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice) – 5.8
- A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser) – 5.8
- Tótem (Lila Avilés) – 5.8
- The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) – 5.7
- Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster) – 5.7
- Man in Black (Wang Bing) – 5.7
- Regardless of Us (Yoo Heong-jun) – 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
- Grace (Ilya Povolotsky) – 5.5
- The Trial (Ulises de la Orden) – 5.5
- Asteroid City (Wes Anderson) – 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
- White Plastic Sky (Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó) – 5.2
- The Plough (Philippe Garrel) – 5.1
- Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki) – 5.1
- Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) – 5.1
- Last Things (Deborah Stratman) – 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
- Kubi (Takeshi Kitano) – 4.9
- Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania) – 4.9
- Lost in the Night (Amat Escalante) – 4.8
- Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) – 4.7
- Breath (Jéro Yun) – 4.7
- in water (Hong Sang-soo) – 4.7
- The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu) – 4.7
- The Old Oak (Ken Loach) – 4.6
- Bad Living (João Canijo) – 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
- Past Lives (Celine Song) – 4.1
- Notes from Eremocene (Viera Čákanyová) – 4.0
- Disco Boy (Giacomo Abbruzzese) – 4.0
- Living Bad (João Canijo) – 3.9
- Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz) – 3.7
- Manodrome (John Trengove) – 3.6
- The Book of Solutions (Michel Gondry) – 3.6
- The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha) – 3.5
- BlackBerry (Matt Johnson) – 3.5
- Black Flies (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire) – 3.2
- A Brighter Tomorrow (Nanni Moretti) – 2.4