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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.
- AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine)
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)
- A Prince (Pierre Creton)
- Our Body (Claire Simon)
- May December (Todd Haynes)
- Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
- Last Summer… (Catherine Breillat)
- About Thirty (Martín Shanly)
- The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
- Here (Bas Devos)
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 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)
- Slow Glass (1991, John Smith)
- L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
- My Little Loves (1974, Jean Eustache)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
- Falling Lessons (1992, Amy Halpern)
- Order (1980, Shahid-Saless)
- Diaries (1971-1976) (1982, Ed Pincus)
- La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki)
- 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