Films I Saw in 2023

001. Compulsion (1959, Richard Fleischer) 01 Jan

002. Women Talking (2022, Sarah Polley) 02 Jan

003. Hard Labour (1973, Mike Leigh) 04 Jan

004. First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff) 05 Jan

005. Flooding With Love for the Kid (2007, Zachary Oberzan) 06 Jan

006. Kill! (1968, Kihachi Okamoto) 07 Jan

007. HyperNormalisation (2016, Adam Curtis) 09 Jan

008. Skinamarink (2022, Kyle Edward Ball) 11 Jan

w01. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2021, Dean Fleischer-Camp) 12 Jan

009. Nuts in May (1976, Mike Leigh) 12 Jan

010. Shoot the Piano Player (1960, François Truffaut) 13 Jan

011. California Split (1974, Robert Altman) 14 Jan

w02. Three Minutes—A Lengthening (2021, Bianca Stigter) 15 Jan

w03. The Quiet Girl (2022, Colm Bairéad) 15 Jan

012. Bones and All (2022, Luca Guadagnino) 16 Jan

013. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022, James Cameron) 17 Jan

014. Return to Seoul (2022, Davy Chou) 18 Jan

015. The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022, Werner Herzog) 19 Jan

016. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) 20 Jan

017. Clifford (1994, Paul Flaherty) 22 Jan

018. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1951, Orson Welles) [1952 version] 22 Jan

019. The Whale (2022, Darren Aronofsky) 24 Jan

020. Alcarràs (2022, Carla Simón) 24 Jan

021. Queen of Glory (2021, Nana Mensah) 26 Jan

022. Forbidden Games (1952, René Clément) 27 Jan

023. Reflection (2021, Valentyn Vasyanovych) 28 Jan

024. Ryan's Daughter (1970, David Lean) 29 Jan

025. Benediction (2021, Terence Davies) 30 Jan

026. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater) 31 Jan

027. The Inspection (2022, Elegance Bratton) 01 Feb

028. Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg) 01 Feb

029. One Fine Morning (2022, Mia Hansen-Løve) 02 Feb

030. The Children Are Watching Us (1943, Vittorio De Sica) 03 Feb

031. Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov) 04 Feb

032. RRR (2022, S S Rajamouli) 05 Feb

033. Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski) 06 Feb

034. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh) 06 Feb

035. Aftersun (2022, Charlotte Wells) 07 Feb

036. TÁR (2022, Todd Field) 08 Feb

037. EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski) 09 Feb

038. The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg) 09 Feb

039. Reflection (2021, Valentyn Vasyanovych) 10 Feb

040. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer) 11 Feb

041. The Producers (1967, Mel Brooks) 13 Feb

042. Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance) 15 Feb

043. Athena (2022, Romain Gavras) 16 Feb

044. Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021, Maria Speth) 18 Feb

045. Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle) 19 Feb

046. There's Always Tomorrow (1956, Douglas Sirk) 20 Feb

047. Enys Men (2022, Mark Jenkin) 21 Feb

048. Emily the Criminal (2022, John Patton Ford) 22 Feb

049. Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt) 23 Feb

050. The Candidate (1972, Michael Ritchie) 25 Feb

051. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray) 26 Feb

052. The Kiss of Death (1977, Mike Leigh) 27 Feb

053. Tori and Lokita (2022, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 28 Feb

054. The Ear (1970, Karel Kachyňa) 01 Mar

w04. Mars One (2022, Gabriel Martins) 02 Mar

w05. Living (2022, Oliver Hermanus) 02 Mar

055. Lacombe Lucien (1974, Louis Malle) 03 Mar

056. Remember My Name (1978, Alan Rudolph) 04 Mar

w06. Talking About the Weather (2022, Annika Pinske) 05 Mar

057. in water (2023, Hong Sang-soo) 06 Mar

058. Cairo Conspiracy (2022, Tarik Saleh) 07 Mar

s01. Lost in the Mountains (2009, Hong Sang-soo) 08 Mar

059. Full Time (2021, Éric Gravel) 08 Mar

060. Clean, Shaven (1993, Lodge H. Kerrigan) 10 Mar

061. Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023, Steven Soderbergh) 11 Mar

062. Ghostwatch (1992, Lesley Manning) 13 Mar

063. The Outwaters (2022, Robbie Banfitch) 14 Mar

064. Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) 16 Mar

065. After Love (2020, Aleem Khan) 17 Mar

w07. Emily (2022, Frances O'Connor) 18 Mar

066. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976, Barbara Kopple) 19 Mar

067. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford) 20 Mar

068. Abigail's Party (1977, Mike Leigh) 21 Mar

w08. Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022, Michelle Garza Cervera) 23 Mar

069. Everything Went Fine (2021, François Ozon) 23 Mar

070. Rimini (2022, Ulrich Seidl) 24 Mar

071. The Five Devils (2022, Léa Mysius) 25 Mar

072. Hobson's Choice (1954, David Lean) 26 Mar

073. John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019, Chad Stahelski) 27 Mar

074. John Wick Chapter 4 (2023, Chad Stahelski) 28 Mar

075. The Lost King (2022, Stephen Frears) 29 Mar

076. Night of the Comet (1984, Thom Eberhardt) 30 Mar

077. Equinox (1970, Jack Woods) 31 Mar

078. Amateur (1994, Hal Hartley) 01 Apr

079. Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier) 02 Apr

w09. The Worst Ones (2022, Lisa Akoka & Romane Gueret) 04 Apr

w10. Rye Lane (2023, Raine Allen-Miller) 04 Apr

080. Phantom Lady (1944, Robert Siodmak) 04 Apr

081. Sleeper (1973, Woody Allen) 05 Apr

w11. Linoleum (2022, Colin West) 06 Apr

082. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin | White Mask (1995, Isaac Julien) 06 Apr

083. Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978, Barbet Schroeder) 07 Apr

084. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder) 09 Apr

085. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926, Lotte Reiniger) 10 Apr

w12. Revoir Paris (2022, Alice Winocour) 11 Apr

w13. Under the Fig Trees (2021, Erige Sehiri) 11 Apr

w14. The Plains (2022, David Easteal) 12 Apr

086. La Fracture (2021, Catherine Corsini) 12 Apr

087. The Pirate (1948, Vincente Minnelli) 14 Apr

s02. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963, Eric Rohmer) 15 Apr

088. Suzanne's Career (1963, Eric Rohmer) 16 Apr

089. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004, Adam McKay) 16 Apr

090. Manderlay (2005, Lars von Trier) 17 Apr

091. A Thousand and One (2023, A.V. Rockwell) 20 Apr

092. Who's Who (1979, Mike Leigh) 21 Apr

093. Seduced and Abandoned (1964, Pietro Germi) 23 Apr

094. The Last Laugh (1924, F.W. Murnau) 23 Apr

095. R.M.N. (2022, Cristian Mungiu) 24 Apr

096. Air (2023, Ben Affleck) 26 Apr

097. Broken Blossoms, or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919, D.W. Griffith) 27 Apr

098. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Víctor Erice) 29 Apr

s03. Numbskull (2023, Luis Calil) 30 Apr

099. Summer (1986, Eric Rohmer) 30 Apr

100. I ♥ Huckabees (2004, David O. Russell) 30 Apr

101. The Eight Mountains (2022, Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch) 02 May

102. Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020, Junta Yamaguchi) 03 May

103. Where (2022, Tsai Ming-liang) 05 May

104. Jigoku (1960, Nobuo Nakagawa) 07 May

105. Dadetown (1995, Russ Hexter) 07 May

106. Full River Red (2023, Zhang Yimou) 08 May

107. Beau Is Afraid (2023, Ari Aster) 09 May

108. Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie) 10 May

w15. The Blue Caftan (2022, Maryam Touzani) 11 May

109. Sólo con tu pareja (1991, Alfonso Cuarón) 13 May

110. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow) 14 May

111. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley) 15 May

112. BlackBerry (2023, Matt Johnson) 16 May

113. The Italian Straw Hat (1928, René Clair) 17 May

114. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023, Kelly Fremon Craig) 18 May

115. Throwdown (2004, Johnnie To) 20 May

116. Hud (1963, Martin Ritt) 21 May

117. The Line (2022, Ursula Meier) 23 May

118. Master Gardener (2022, Paul Schrader) 23 May

119. Alien³ (1992, David Fincher) [assembly cut] 25 May

120. Hands Over the City (1963, Francesco Rosi) 27 May

121. Joshua (2007, George Ratliff) 28 May

122. God Told Me To (1976, Larry Cohen) 29 May

123. Love Me Tonight (1932, Rouben Mamoulian) 31 May

124. Polite Society (2023, Nida Manzoor) 01 Jun

w16. Monica (2022, Andrea Pallaoro) 02 Jun

125. Claire's Knee (1970, Eric Rohmer) 03 Jun

126. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang) 04 Jun

127. Falcon Lake (2022, Charlotte Le Bon) 05 Jun

128. You Hurt My Feelings (2023, Nicole Holofcener) 06 Jun

129. Personality Crisis: One Night Only (2022, Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi) 08 Jun

130. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968, William Greaves) 09 Jun

131. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ (2005, William Greaves) 10 Jun

132. Prisoners (2013, Denis Villeneuve) 11 Jun

133. Reality (2023, Tina Satter) 12 Jun

134. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023, Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson) 13 Jun

135. The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot) 14 Jun

136. The Restless (2021, Joachim Lafosse) 15 Jun

137. Counsellor at Law (1933, William Wyler) 17 Jun

138. The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006, no director credited) [Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Ian Markiewicz] 17 Jun

139. Nobody's Hero (2022, Alain Guiraudie) 18 Jun

140. Experiment in Terror (1962, Blake Edwards) 19 Jun

141. American Dream (1990, Barbara Kopple) 21 Jun

142. Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen) 21 Jun

144. Afire (2023, Christian Petzold) 22 Jun

145. Caliber 9 (1972, Fernando Di Leo) 23 Jun

146. The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021, Avi Mograbi) 25 Jun

147. Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula) 25 Jun

148. In Our Day (2023, Hong Sang-soo) 27 Jun

149. Asteroid City (2023, Wes Anderson) 27 Jun

150. Hickey & Boggs (1972, Robert Culp) 28 Jun

151. Wait Until Dark (1967, Terence Young) 29 Jun

152. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, Steven Spielberg) 30 Jun

153. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023, James Mangold) 01 Jul

154. Border Radio (1987, Allison Anders & Dean Lent & Kurt Voss) 02 Jul

155. Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog) 02 Jul

156. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) 03 Jul [ was ]

157. No Hard Feelings (2023, Gene Stupnitsky) 05 Jul

w17. Robe of Gems (2022, Natalia López Gallardo) 07 Jul

158. The Mask (1994, Chuck Russell) 08 Jul

159. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson) 08 Jul

160. Strong Shoulders (2003, Ursula Meier) 09 Jul

w18. Pamfir (2022, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk) 10 Jul

161. Crimes of the Future (1970, David Cronenberg) 10 Jul

162. The Night of the 12th (2022, Dominik Moll) 10 Jul

w19. Autobiography (2022, Makbul Mubarak) 11 Jul

163. I Walked With a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur) 11 Jul

164. Living on Tokyo Time (1987, Steven Okazaki) 12 Jul

w20. Blue Jean (2022, Georgia Oakley) 12 Jul

165. First Man Into Space (1959, Robert Day) 13 Jul

166. Shrek (2001, Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson) 13 Jul

167. The Thief and the Cobbler (1993, Richard Williams) ["uncobbled cut Mark 5 work in progress"] 14 Jul

168. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994, Alan Rudolph) 15 Jul

w21. Safe Place (2022, Juraj Lerotić) 15 Jul

169. Wittgenstein (1993, Derek Jarman) 15 Jul

170. The Letter (1940, William Wyler) 16 Jul

171. Last Action Hero (1993, John McTiernan) 16 Jul

172. A Couple (2022, Frederick Wiseman) 17 Jul

173. Within Our Gates (1920, Oscar Micheaux) 17 Jul

174. Newsfront (1978, Philip Noyce) 19 Jul

175. Mission: Impossible II (2000, John Woo) 19 Jul

176. White Men Can't Jump (1992, Ron Shelton) 20 Jul

177. The Atomic Submarine (1959, Spencer G. Bennet) 21 Jul

178. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999, Jamie Babbit) 22 Jul

179. Nostalgia (2022, Mario Martone) 23 Jul

180. Highlander (1986, Russell Mulcahy) 24 Jul

181. Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989, Wayne Wang) [shorter cut] 24 Jul

182. Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (2023, Christopher McQuarrie) 25 Jul

183. Body and Soul (1925, Oscar Micheaux) 26 Jul

184. Best in Show (2000, Christopher Guest) 26 Jul

185. Los olvidados (1950, Luis Buñuel) 27 Jul

186. The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner) 28 Jul

187. The Haunted Strangler (1958, Robert Day) 29 Jul

s04. Elephant (1989, Alan Clarke) 30 Jul

188. Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones) 30 Jul

189. The Anniversary Party (2001, Jennifer Jason Leigh & Alan Cumming) 30 Jul

190. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985, Tim Burton) 31 Jul

191. Big Top Pee-wee (1988, Randal Kleiser) 31 Jul

192. Barbie (2023, Greta Gerwig) 01 Aug

w22. Joy Ride (2023, Adele Lim) 02 Aug

w23. They Cloned Tyrone (2023, Juel Taylor) 02 Aug

193. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, Steven Spielberg) 02 Aug

194. Seven Days in May (1964, John Frankenheimer) 03 Aug

195. Jurassic Park III (2001, Joe Johnston) 04 Aug

196. Corridors of Blood (1958, Robert Day) 05 Aug

197. Scattered Clouds (1967, Mikio Naruse) 06 Aug

w24. Klondike (2022, Maryna Er Gorbach) 07 Aug

198. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985, Susan Seidelman) 07 Aug

199. Leila's Brothers (2022, Saeed Roustaee) 08 Aug

200. Scarlet (2022, Pietro Marcello) 09 Aug

201. Mediterranean Fever (2022, Maha Haj) 10 Aug

202. Humoresque (1946, Jean Negulesco) 10 Aug

203. The Shout (1978, Jerzy Skolimowski) 11 Aug

204. How to Marry a Millionaire (1953, Jean Negulesco) 13 Aug

205. Local Hero (1983, Bill Forsyth) 13 Aug

206. The Prowler (1951, Joseph Losey) 13 Aug

207. Hoffa (1992, Danny DeVito) 14 Aug

208. Rachel, Rachel (1968, Paul Newman) 15 Aug

209. Oppenheimer (2023, Christopher Nolan) [70mm IMAX] 16 Aug

210. Remorques (1941, Jean Grémillon) 17 Aug

211. The Emperor Jones (1933, Dudley Murphy) 18 Aug

212. The Newton Boys (1998, Richard Linklater) 18 Aug

213. The Steel Helmet (1951, Samuel Fuller) 19 Aug

214. Fruit of Paradise (1970, Vera Chytilová) 20 Aug

215. Bus Stop (1956, Joshua Logan) 21 Aug

216. Past Lives (2023, Celine Song) 22 Aug

217. Duet for Cannibals (1969, Susan Sontag) 23 Aug

218. The Addams Family (1991, Barry Sonnenfeld) 23 Aug

219. True Lies (1994, James Cameron) 24 Aug

220. Borderline (1930, Kenneth Macpherson) 26 Aug

221. Chicken Run (2000, Peter Lord & Nick Park) 26 Aug

222. Hellzapoppin' (1941, H.C. Potter) 27 Aug

223. Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve) 28 Aug

224. She's Gotta Have It (1986, Spike Lee) 28 Aug

s05. One Week (1920, "Buster" Keaton & Eddie Cline) 29 Aug

s06. Convict 13 (1920, "Buster" Keaton & Eddie Cline) 29 Aug

s07. Hard Luck (1921, "Buster" Keaton & Eddie Cline) 29 Aug

s08. High Sign (1921, "Buster" Keaton & Eddie Cline) 29 Aug

s09. The Play House (1921, "Buster" Keaton & Eddie Cline) 30 Aug

s10. Cops (1922, "Buster" Keaton & Eddie Cline) 30 Aug

s11. The Blacksmith (1922, Buster Keaton & Mal. St. Clair) 30 Aug

s12. The Electric House (1922, "Buster" Keaton & Eddie Cline) 30 Aug

225. Three Ages (1923, Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline) 30 Aug

226. There's Always Vanilla (1971, George A. Romero) 31 Aug

227. Sanders of the River (1935, Zoltan Korda) 02 Sep

228. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming) 03 Sep

229. The Haunted Palace (1963, Roger Corman) 04 Sep

230. She-Devil (1989, Susan Seidelman) 04 Sep

w25. Dry Ground Burning (2022, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós) 05 Aug

231. Wild Things (1998, John McNaughton) 05 Sep

232. Wham! (2023, Chris Smith) 06 Sep

233. Scarecrow (1973, Jerry Schatzberg) 07 Sep

234. The Masque of the Red Death (1964, Roger Corman) 08 Sep

235. Youth (Spring) (2023, Wang Bing) 09 Sep

236. Joy Ride (2001, John Dahl) 09 Sep

237. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu) 10 Sep

238. The Damned (1969, Luchino Visconti) 11 Sep

239. Party Girl (1995, Daisy von Scherler Mayer) 11 Sep

240. Brother and Sister (2022, Arnaud Desplechin) 12 Sep

241. Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii) 13 Sep

w26. Theater Camp (2023, Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman) 14 Sep

242. The Perfect Storm (2000, Wolfgang Petersen) 14 Sep

243. Millie Lies Low (2021, Michelle Savill) 15 Sep

244. Jericho (1937, Thornton Freeland) 16 Sep

245. Killer's Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick) 16 Sep

246. Baby Doll (1956, Elia Kazan) 17 Sep

247. Secret Ceremony (1968, Joseph Losey) 17 Sep [ was !]