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.

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