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href="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/category/world-poll/" title="View all posts in World Poll">World Poll</a></div></div></div></header> <div class="cb-category cb-byline-element issue-single-meta"><i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i><a href="/issues/issue-108">Issue 108</a></div> <section class="cb-entry-content entry-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"> <h2>ENTRIES IN PART 3:</h2> <p><div class="sixcol first"><a href="#1">John Edmond</a><br /> <a href="#2">William Edwards</a><br /> <a href="#3">Geronimo Elortegui</a><br /> <a href="#4">Cristóbal Escobar</a><br /> <a href="#5">Javier H. Estrada</a><br /> <a href="#6">Adalberto Fonkén</a><br /> <a href="#7">Gwendolyn Audrey Foster</a><br /> <a href="#8">Simon Foster</a><br /> <a href="#9">Giampiero Frasca</a><br /> <a href="#10">Cynthia Fuchs</div></a><div class="sixcol last"><a href="#11">Flora Georgiou</a><br /> <a href="#12">Sean Gilman</a><br /> <a href="#13">Antony I. Ginnane</a><br /> <a href="#14">Leo Goldsmith</a><br /> <a href="#15">Andrew Goode</a><br /> <a href="#16">Jared Gores</a><br /> <a href="#17">Michael Granados</a><br /> <a href="#18">Sam Gray</a><br /> <a href="#19">Francesco Grieco</a><br /> <a href="#20">Victor Guimarães</a></div><div class="clearfix"></div></p> <hr /> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="1"></a>John Edmond<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Organiser of <i>Container: Brisbane Film Society</i></h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ten features and ten shorts that premiered in 2023. In a rough order.</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eureka</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lisandro Alonso, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">May December</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Todd Haynes, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Bête</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Beast</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Bertrand Bonello, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nu Aștepta Prea Mult de la Sfârșitul Lumii </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Radu Jude, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Joanna Arnow, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cerrar los ojos </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Close Your Eyes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Víctor Erice, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aku wa sonzai shinai</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evil Does Not Exist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sweet East</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sean Price Williams, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notre corps</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Body</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Claire Simon, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Scorsese, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <div id="attachment_47707" style="width: 1405px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Eureka.png"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47707" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-47707 size-full" src="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Eureka.png" alt="" width="1395" height="780" srcset="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Eureka.png 1395w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Eureka-300x168.png 300w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Eureka-1024x573.png 1024w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Eureka-768x429.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1395px) 100vw, 1395px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-47707" class="wp-caption-text"><i>Eureka</i></p></div> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Laberint Sequences</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Blake Williams, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spark from a Falling Star</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ross Meckfessel, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">NYC RGB</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Viktoria Schmid, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slow Shift</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Shambhavi Kaul, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shrooms </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Jorge Jácome, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a Nearby Field</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Laida Lertxundi, Ren Ebel, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bloom</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We Don’t Talk Like We Used To</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Joshua Gen Solondz, 2023)</span></li> <li><i>Let’s Talk</i> (Simon Liu, 2023)</li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="2"></a>William Edwards<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Critic, Film Director, Editor Lente Creativo; Buenos Aires, Argentina</h5> <ol> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomie d’une chute (Anatomy of a Fall, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justine Triet, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Der Fuchs</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Fox</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adrian Goiginger,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Zone of Interest</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rapito</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kidnapped, Marcel Bellocchio, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tár </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Todd Field, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kaibutsu</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monster</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shayda</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Noora Niasari, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le Procès Goldman </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Goldman Case, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cédric Kahn, 2023</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stella. A Life.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kilian Riedhof, 2023)</span></li> </ol> <div id="attachment_47708" style="width: 836px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TheZoneOfInterest.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47708" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-47708 size-full" src="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TheZoneOfInterest.jpeg" alt="" width="826" height="368" srcset="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TheZoneOfInterest.jpeg 826w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TheZoneOfInterest-300x134.jpeg 300w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TheZoneOfInterest-768x342.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-47708" class="wp-caption-text"><i>The Zone of Interest</i></p></div> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="3"></a>Geronimo Elortegui<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Critic, Film Director, Editor Lente Creativo; Buenos Aires, Argentina</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here is my list of the best of this year, all in alphabetical order.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Top Ten</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roter Himmel </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Afire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Christian Petzold, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allensworth</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (James Benning, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ankabut-e moqaddas</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Holy spider</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ali Abbasi, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bên trong vo kén vàng</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Thien An Pham, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Close</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lukas Dhont, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coup de chance</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Woody Allen, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Film Annonce du Film qui n’existera Jamais: “Drôles de Guerres”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: “Phony Wars”, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jean-Luc Godard, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Godard, seul le cinéma </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Godard Cinema</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Cyril Leuthy, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Scorsese, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mariupolis 2</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Mantas Kvedaravicius, Hanna Bilobrova, 2022)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In close second…</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anita, gomshodeh dar akhbar </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anita, Lost in the News</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Behzad Nalbandi, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bogotá Story</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Esteban Pedraza, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Et si le soleil plongeait dans l’océan de nues </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">If the Sun Drowned Into an Ocean of Clouds</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Wissam Charaf, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Homeward</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Olexi Chubun, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interdit aux chiens et aux italiens</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">No Dogs or Italians Allowed</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Alain Ughetto, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inu-oh</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Yuasa Masaaki, 2021)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Das Lehrerzimmer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Teachers’ Lounge</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ilker Çatak, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Das rotohr</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Red Ears</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Paul Drey, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jackals & Fireflies </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Charlie Kaufman, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kapag wala nang mga alon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the Waves Are Gone</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lav Diaz, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Khers nist </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">No Bears</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Jafar Panahi, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Les chambres rouges </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Red rooms</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Pascal Plante, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manjianghong</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full River Red</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Zhang Yimou, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mon crime</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Crime is Mine</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, François Ozon, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">mul-an-e-seo </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">in water</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Hong Sang-soo, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Navalny</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Daniel Roher, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La gravité</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Gravity</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Cédric Ido, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Palace</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Roman Polanski, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peter Von Kant</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (François Ozon, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Renfield</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Chris McKay, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Saules aveugles, femme endormie </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Pierre Földes, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simone: Le voyage du siècle</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simone: Woman of the Century</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Olivier Dahan, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sintiéndolo mucho</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feeling it</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Fernando León de Aranoa, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sparta</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ulrich Seidl, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tori et Lokita</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tori and Lokita</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">On dirait la planète Mars</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Viking</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Stéphane Lafleur, 2022)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And some other interesting things on TV or streaming</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">20 Days in Mariupol</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Mstyslav Chernov, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dekiru Neko wa Kyō mo Yūutsu</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Suzuki Shingo, Kodera Katsuyuki, Yokomine Katsumasa, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jonathan Krisel, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">South Park: Joining the Panderverse </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Trey Parker, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Smile – Wall of Eyes </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Paul Thomas Anderson, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="4"></a>Cristóbal Escobar<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Lecturer in screen studies (University of Melbourne) & Film programmer (FIDOCS) – Chile</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Films released for the first time in 2023. </span></p> <ol> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El realismo socialista</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Socialist Realism, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento, 1973 – 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Zone of Interest </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Jonathan Glazer, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomie d’une chute </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomy of a Fall, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justine Triet, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Filhas do Fogo </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daughters of Fire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Pedro Costa, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El auge del humano 3 </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Human Surge 3, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eduardo Williams, 2023)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musik </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Angela Schanelec, 2023)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los colonos </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Settlers</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Felipe Gálvez Haberle, 2023)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">May December</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Todd Haynes, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notre corps </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Body</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Claire Simon, 2023)</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I must confess I’m terrible at making lists. There’s always something important missing. This list is no exemption; there are many great works that have been left out:</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bên trong vo kén vàng</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Thien An Pham, 2023)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Mantagheye bohrani </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Critical Zone, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ali Ahmadzadeh, 2023), </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El Primer Año </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The First Year</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Patricio Guzmán, 2023). Or films that I’ve not yet seen: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cerrar los ojos </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Close Your Eyes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Víctor Erice, 2023), </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los delincuentes </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Delinquents</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Rodrigo Moreno, 2023), </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">L’été dernier</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Summer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Catherine Breillat, 2023)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Poor Things </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023).</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The above films are just the ones that come to mind this morning, and that I’d like to watch again tonight (on the big screen).</span></p> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="5"></a>Javier H. Estrada<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Head of Programming for SEMINCI Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain) and FILMADRID International Film Festival (Spain)</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the recent months we have seen the emergence of a significant number of films that address silenced realities from original and risky perspectives. Cinema that defies the establishment, sometimes made clandestinely, such as Ali Ahmadzadeh’s confirmation as a key</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> auteur</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mantagheye bohrani </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Critical Zone, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023); or the return of master Adachi Masao, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revolution+1 </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2022), once again reflecting on the taboos of Japanese society. Inquiries into erased pasts, either starting from an intimate context, such as Asmae El Moudir’s resplendent debut, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kadib Abyad</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mother of All Lies,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 2023); or in a small collective, like André Gil Mata and his goldsmith piece </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pátio do Carrasco </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2023). But the most powerful and painfully realistic work of the year was </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le gang des Bois du Temple </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Temple Woods Gang</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2022), another peak in Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s career, pointing out the omnipresent tentacles of the system, while vindicating the honest and unwavering camaraderie of the partisan. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best films of 2023 </span></p> <ol> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le Gang des Bois du Temple</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Temple Woods Gang</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mantagheye bohrani </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Critical Zone, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ali Ahmadzadeh, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kadib Abyad</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mother of All Lies</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Asmae El Moudir, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pátio do Carrasco</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (André Gil Mata, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revolution +1</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Adachi Masao, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mon pire ennemi</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Worst Enemy</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Mehran Tamadon, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vildanden</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wild Duck</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Nadja Ericsson, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chienne de rouge</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bloodhound</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Yamina Zoutat, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tótem</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Totem</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lila Avilés, 2023)</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Essentials from 2023</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aqueronte</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Manuel Muñoz Rivas, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arthur & Diana</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sara Summa, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gasoline Rainbow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I AM HERE!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ludwig Wüst, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jaii keh khoda nist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where God Is Not</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Mehran Tamadon, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Banāt Olfa</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Four Daughters</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Malqueridas</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Tana Gilbert, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Retratos fantasmas</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pictures of Ghosts, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roter Himmel</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Afire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Christian Petzold, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samsara</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lois Patiño, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sweet East</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sean Price Williams, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Secret Garden</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Nour Ouayda, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zinzindurrunkarratz</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Oskar Alegria, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revelations from the past </span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al-makhdu’un</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Dupes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Tewfik Saleh, 1972)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Breza</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Birch Tree</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ante Babaja, 1967) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drylongso</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Cauleen Smith, 1998) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Himiko </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ShinodaMasahiro</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 1974)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kaitei kara kita onna</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Woman from the Sea</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Kurahara Koreyoshi, 1959)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kara Kafa</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Head</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Korhan Yurtsever, 1979) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Laysa lahum wujud </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">They Do Not Exist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Mustafa Abu Ali, 1974)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Majd holnap</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe Tomorrow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Judit Elek, 1980) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Universo en el Perú</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Universe in Peru</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Grupo Chaski, 1982) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Saat el Fahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Heiny Srour, 1974)</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="6"></a>Adalberto Fonkén<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Lima-based social communicator and film writer for the <i>Séptima Ilusión</i> blog.</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best Films </span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Chimera</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roter Himmel</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Afire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Christian Petzold, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Il Sol Dell’avvenire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Brighter Tomorrow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Nanni Moretti, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Scorsese, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tótem </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Totem</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lucía Avilés, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los Delincuentes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The delinquents</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Rodrigo Moreno, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trenque Lauquen</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Laura Citarella, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suzume no tojimari</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suzume</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Shinkai Makoto, 2022)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other films that could be included</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Zone of Interest</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomie d’une chute (Anatomy of a Fall, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justine Triet, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Qīng chūn</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Youth (Spring)</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Wang Bing, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bên trong vo kén vàng</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Thien An Pham, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musik</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Angela Schanelec, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">M3gan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Gerard Johnstone, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Retratos Fantasmas</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pictures of Ghosts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Kleber Mendonça, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Historias de Shipibos</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shipibos Stories</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Omar Forero, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El Caso Monroy</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Monroy Affaire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Josué Méndez, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unrueh</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unrest</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Cyril Schäublin, 2022)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good films</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Círculo de tiza</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Circle of chalk</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Jean Alcócer, Diana Daf, 2020) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samichay, en Busca de la Felicidad</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samichay: In Search of Happiness</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Mauricio Franco Tosso, 2020)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Loving Vincent</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 2017)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lu bian ye can</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kaili blues,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bi Gan, 2015)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Młyn i Krzyż</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mill and the Cross</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lech Majewski, 2011)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re discoveries</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yadon Ilaheyya</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Divine Intervention</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Elia Suleiman, 2002)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Casa de Lava</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Down to Earth</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Pedro Costa, 1994)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do the Right Thing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Spike Lee, 1989)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ana y los Lobos</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ana and the Wolves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Carlos Saura, 1973)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hud</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Ritt, 1963)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Winchester ‘73 (</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anthony Mann, 1950)</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="7"></a>Gwendolyn Audrey Foster<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Writer, experimental filmmaker, and Willa Cather Professor Emerita at University of Nebraska, Lincoln</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Top Ten films of 2023:</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">LOLA</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Andrew Legge, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zone of Interest </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Jonathan Glazer, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Showing Up</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kelly Reichardt, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reality</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Tina Satter, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Occupied City</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Steve McQueen, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">À plein temps </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full Time</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Éric Gravel, 2021)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allensworth</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (James Benning, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nowhere Near</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Miko Revereza, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samsara</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lois Patiño, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barbie (Greta Gerwig, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notre Corps</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Body</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Claire Simon, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thematically, 2023 is again about fighting for freedom and bodily autonomy. It’s a terrible time we live in – as we attempt to fight off and resist the creeping tide of fascism here and around the world. Decency, fairness and equal rights are derided as “wokeness,” while racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-intellectual, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic hatred are codified as right wing “values” and used as political bludgeons, in ways that make the hysteria and tyranny of the Cold War era look like a civilized tea party. America is a truly scary place right now, but the majority of Americans are not being represented by those seeking to embrace fascism. Most of us are waiting (not so patiently) to have the opportunity to vote in the presidential election of 2024: so much rides on the outcome. In the meantime, artists, filmmakers and writers are actively responding to the political horrors of the day, making many superb films that often fly under the radar.</span></p> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="8"></a>Simon Foster<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Festival Director, Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival; Managing Editor, <i>Screen-Space</i>; Host, <i>Screen Watching Podcast</i>.</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Films released for the first time in 2023</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomie d’une chute (Anatomy of a Fall, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justine Triet, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taylor Swift The Eras Tour</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sam Wrench, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Past Lives</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Celine Song, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gojira Mainasu Wan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Godzilla Minus One,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Yamazaki Takashi, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect Days</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Wim Wenders, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barbie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Greta Gerwig, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond Utopia</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Madeleine Gavin, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reality</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Tina Satter, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nimona</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bottoms</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Emma Seligman, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Older films encountered for the first time in 2023</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Real Genius</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martha Coolidge, 1985)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le dernier métro</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Last Metro</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, François Truffaut, 1980)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cannery Row </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(David S. Ward, 1982)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rancho Notorious</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Fritz Lang, 1952)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Woody Allen, 1971)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Torso</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Sergio Martino, 1973)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Genbaku no ko</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Children of Hiroshima</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Shindô Kaneto, 1952)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Race With The Devil</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jack Starrett, 1975)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drylongso</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Cauleen Smith, 1998)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Safety Last!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Event of 2023</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WORLDCON 81st World Science Fiction Convention, Chengdu, China</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cinema was welcomed into the convention’s literature-based program to a greater degree than ever before. Along with delegates from London Sci-Fi, Miami Science Fiction Film Festival, Fantasporto, Utopia Fest (Israel) and China’s own Blue Planet Film Festival, I represented The Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival as a founding member of the Universal Sci-Fi Film Festival Alliance. This initiative will help provide global exposure for independent filmmakers working in the genre space.</span></p> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="9"></a>Giampiero Frasca<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Italian film critic and writer</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From tenth to first + one bonus. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bonus. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film you expect in the way you expect. Yet it is always surprising. </span></p> <ol start="10"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Io capitano</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Me Captain</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Matteo Garrone, 2023)<br /> </span>An Italian film that manages to adopt the point of view of the marginalised to immerse itself in necessity, pain and hope. Rarity.</li> </ol> <ol start="9"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Thousand and One</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (A.V. Rockwell, 2023)<br /> </span>An urban drama that is not what it appears. It’s much worse.</li> </ol> <ol start="8"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Saltburn</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Emerald Fennell, 2023)<br /> </span>The second work that risks becoming excessive, but is so full of charm in its staging that it is a pleasure to see it.</li> </ol> <ol start="7"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Holdovers</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Alexander Payne, 2023)<br /> </span>Like going back in time to make a New Hollywood film. Same scent. Same bitterness.</li> </ol> <ol start="6"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cuando acecha la maldad </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Evil Lurks</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Demián Rugna, 2023)<br /> </span>Making a horror film today is damn complicated, because there are no more new ideas. This Argentinian film has a couple of them and they are fantastic.</li> </ol> <ol start="5"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuru Otlar Üstüne</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">About Dry Grasses</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023)<br /> </span>The usual painful characters searching for their place in a world (Turkey, but that’s just one case) that always presents unattainable alternatives.</li> </ol> <ol start="4"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">May December</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Todd Haynes, 2023)<br /> </span>A subtle and very complicated film about guilt, the weight of the past, irrational choices and the entertainment society that tries to eat everyone in one bite. A relationship between protagonists such as hasn’t been seen since Ingmar Bergman’s <i>Persona</i> (1966).</li> </ol> <ol start="3"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trenque Lauquen</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Laura Citarella, 2023)<br /> </span>A mazy tale, a game of mirrors, perspectives that intersect and bifurcate. The childish pleasure of narration that is renewed from scene to scene and the sad awareness that the camera can never bear witness to the truth.</li> </ol> <ol start="2"> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Scorsese, 2023)<br /> </span>Scorsese still digs bare-handed into the rot of the American psyche and brings out his first, too late, western of his career. To do first.</li> </ol> <ol> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oppenheimer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Christopher Nolan, 2023)<br /> </span>Nolan is beyond. Beyond History, beyond stories, beyond structures. When what he has in mind is combined with a product that is intelligible to humans, the result is the best film of the year</li> </ol> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="10"></a>Cynthia Fuchs<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Programmer, Film Critic, Academic Program Director, United States</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Films released for the first time in 2023:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Raven Jackson, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Thousand and One</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (A.V. Rockwell, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond Utopia</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Madeleine Gavin, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bobi Wine: The People’s President</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skąd dokąd </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Rearview,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Maciek Hamela 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Amanda Kim, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Occupied City</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Steve McQueen, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Past Lives</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Celine Song, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Silver Dollar Road</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Raoul Peck, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tótem</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Totem</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lila Avilés, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best series: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m a Virgo</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Boots Riley, 2023)</span></p> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="11"></a>Flora Georgiou<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Melbourne based theatre and film reviewer</h5> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Showing Up</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kelly Reichardt, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Walad min al-Janna </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Cairo Conspiracy, Tarik Saleh, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sound of Freedom </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Alejandro Gómez Monteverde, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reality</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Tina Satter, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bai ta zhi guang </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Shadowless Tower</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Zhang Lü, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Air</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ben Affleck, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Everything Everywhere All at Once</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Schienert, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Scorsese, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sweet East</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sean Price Williams, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Chimera</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="12"></a>Sean Gilman<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">A film critic in Tacoma</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ten of the best new movies I saw in 2023:</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rocky and Rani’s Love Story</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Karan Johar, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mén qián bǎodì</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (100 Yards, Xu Haofeng, Xu Junfeng, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baby Assassins: 2 Babies</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sakamoto Yugo, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jigarthanda DoubleX </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Karthik Subbaraj, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wu ming</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hidden Blade</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Cheng Er, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jawan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soldier</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Atlee, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ribâ, nagarenaide yo </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">River</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Yamaguchi Junta, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bu xu ci xing </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">All Ears</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Liu Jiayin, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El Puño del Cóndor </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fist of the Condor</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Final Game of Death </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(James Flower, 2023)</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ten of the best older movies I saw in 2023:</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nerawareta gakuen </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">School in the Crosshairs</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko, 1981)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hong se niang zi jun </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Red Detachment of Women</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Xie Jin, 1961/Fu Jie, Pan Wenzhan, 1970) </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Xiao shi yi lang </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Swordsman and Enchantress</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Chor Yuen, 1978)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sang faa sau see</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bio-Zombie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Yip Wilson, 1998)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ban sheng yuan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eighteen Springs</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Hui Ann, 1997)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shu dan long wei </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">High Risk</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Wong Jing, 1995)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dang cheuk nei wooi loi </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Returning</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Cheung Jacob, 1994)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shi wan jin shan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ghost Hill</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ting Shan-hsi, 1971)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hung bong </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Imp</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Yu Dennis, 1981)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Classic Albums </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">season 2, episode 5. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Steely Dan: Aja </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Alan Lewens, 2000)</span></li> </ol> <div id="attachment_47709" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SwordsmanEnchantress.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47709" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-47709 size-full" src="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SwordsmanEnchantress.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="254" srcset="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SwordsmanEnchantress.jpeg 600w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SwordsmanEnchantress-300x127.jpeg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-47709" class="wp-caption-text"><i>Swordsman and Enchantress</i></p></div> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="13"></a>Antony I. Ginnane<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Melbourne born Antony I. Ginnane has produced or executive produced 72 feature films, MOW’s, miniseries and TV series over 50 years</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top 10 (Eligibility: 2023 films in theatrical, festival, premiere DVD or VOD or streaming first release in the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand) listed alphabetically by title:</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Wick: Chapter 4 </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chad Stahelski, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Always incredible kinetic action blends with melancholy as this thrilling saga draws to a close.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">May December</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Todd Haynes, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haynes’ cool icy humour gets an extra edge as Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore duel with quips, tabloid disclosures and dashes of ‘50s melodrama.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">L’été dernier</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Summer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Catherine Breillat, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Breillat’s remake of the Danish </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dronningen </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Queen of Hearts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, May el-Toukhy, 2019) is a pull back from the hard-edged sexuality of her previous work. Here, sensibility is visual and the drama is restrained.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Master Gardener</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Paul Schrader, 2022)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another Schrader redemption saga – a mix of violence, romance and introspection. The garden – plantation setting provides a hide out of sorts for hate and pain.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Martin Scorsese, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scorsese continues to explore the racist, violent underpinnings of American development, focussing on Osage exploitation and manipulation. Stellar performance by Lily Gladstone.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Killer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (David Fincher, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fincher updates and remodels Jean-Pierre Melville’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le Samouraï </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Samurai</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 1967) with Michael Fassbinder as a paid assassin caught up in a maelstrom of survival mechanisms when a job goes wrong.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Zone of Interest</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Johathan Glazer, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full of alienation and nightmarish indifference, Glazer’s Auschwitz tale of a model Nazi and his family is chilling.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomie d’une chute (Anatomy of a Fall, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justine Triet, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Triet’s twisty courtroom drama teasing the potential involvement of a woman in her husband’s death (or murder?). Like Preminger, Triet takes no moral stance and presents no clear answers.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Limbo</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ivan Sen, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A modern noir thriller spectacularly set around the otherworldly caves and mines of Coober Pedy as a decades old murder cold case is meticulously solved by a heroin addicted cop. The black and white cinematography is exquisite.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poor Things </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lanthimos is back with another sci-fi fantasy – a Frankensteinesque study of a woman learning about life and her body, the world, pain and happiness. Off the wall humour coupled with stunning costumes; music and Emma Stone. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other titles that have excited or inspired me during the year include:</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Avatar: The Way of Water </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(James Cameron, 2022)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Navalny </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Daniel Rohner, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">EO </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oppenheimer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Christopher Nolan, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sisu</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jalmari Helander, 2022)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Equalizer 3</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Antoine Fuqua, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carmen</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Benjamin Millepied, 2022)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Transfusion</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Matt Nable, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Napoleon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ridley Scott, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gojira Mainasu Wan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Godzilla Minus One,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Yamazaki Takashi, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ferrari </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Michael Mann, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coup de Chance </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Woody Allen, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i>Saltburn </i>(Emerald Fennell, 2023)</li> </ol> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="14"></a>Leo Goldsmith<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Writer, programming advisor to the New York Film Festival, and Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School</h5> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Man in Black</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Wang Bing, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Things </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Deborah Stratman, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El auge del humano 3 </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Human Surge 3,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Eduardo Williams 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mast-del</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Maryam Tafakory, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Night Visitors</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Michael Gitlin, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abattoir U.S.A.!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Aria Dean, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eureka</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lisandro Alonso, 2023) </span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Janet Planet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Annie Baker, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Fist </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Ayo Akingbade, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ferrari</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Michael Mann, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="15"></a>Andrew Goode<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Head of Theatrical Distribution – Hi Gloss Entertainment</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top 10 Films of 2023</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aggro Dr1ft (Harmony Korine, 2023)<br /> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It would be an understatement to say that I love Harmony Korine and actually being in Venice to watch the premiere of his new “experimental action film” will forever be a cherished memory for me. A Miami-set apocalyptic revenge thriller starring one of the biggest rappers on Earth (Travis Scott) shot entirely on an infrared lens. The film runs purely on vibes and will be a favourite amongst film brats worldwide once readily available.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">All the Beauty and the Bloodshed </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Laura Poitras, 2022)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I watched the much-deserved winner of the 2022’s Golden Lion in a relatively empty cinema in Melbourne earlier this year and was completely blown away. Laura Poitras was able to interweave the story of Goldin’s radical art career with her more recent fight against the Sackler family, capturing both the anger and the beauty in Goldin’s lifelong struggle. </span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Wick: Chapter 4</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Chad Stahelski, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not a big fan of action, but the scene in Osaka is pure cinema.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">EO</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I technically watched the film in 2022, but I also watched it again in 2023 and feel it deserves to be recognised once again. Although there is an element of bias shrouding this selection as the company I work for (Hi Gloss Entertainment) acquired and released the film, I can’t think of a more original and artistic film that graced screens in Australia this year.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Showing Up </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Kelly Reichardt, 2022)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve always been a huge fan of Reichardt and I found that her relatively low key 2022 film </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Showing Up </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">to be the most accessible offering of her career to date and my personal favourite. Reichardt perfectly captures the micro side of the art world, which is filled with anxiety, jealousy and frustration and was able to find humour and heart amongst the mess instead of simply poking fun at it like most art-related dramas. </span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was my first foray into the Finnish master of deadpan’s work and it left me wanting more. I sense some first timers may be put off by Kaurismäki’s quirks, but those who are willing will be in for a treat. </span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poor Things</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I saw this in a rowdy public cinema in Venice, and like the thousand other people there, was completely blown away. This film is a revelation, a reminder that Hollywood can produce art once in a while.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hitman (Richard Linklater, 2023)<br /> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I suspect that a “Lido Cinemas recency bias” might be at play for some of my selections this year, but Linklater’s new film </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hitman</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> would’ve featured on this list no matter where and when it premiered. The funniest, sexiest comedy of 2023 and a pure tragedy that Netflix bought it. There is a theory in Melbourne that the “vibiest” place to watch a new release is the Monday evening session after opening weekend at Cinema Nova and I can’t imagine how much of a party that screening would’ve been for this film.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">80 For Brady</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle Marvin, 2023</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astonishingly directed Kyle Marvin, an acclaimed indie director who also starred in the superb </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Climb </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Michael Angelo Covino, 2019) which premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, comes almost definitely the most lowbrow film of 2023 </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">80 for Brady</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The pitch: four old Tom Brady obsessed women want to see their hero play in what looked like his last Superbowl. The result: a crude yet also oddly endearing comedy romp filled with literally every old age trope you can find. Was it good? No. Did I enjoy it? Very much so.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zielona granica (Green Border, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agnieszka Holland, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The biggest shock of Venice 2023 was the triumphant return of the much-maligned Agnieszka Holland. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green Border </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is some of the most critical, powerful, and angry filmmaking that I have seen in some time. It reminded me of two other staggering films that also graced the Lido before it, Jasmila Žbanić’s</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Quo Vadis, Aida?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where are you going, Aida? </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">2020) and Václav Marhoul’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nabarvené ptáče </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Painted Bird, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">2019)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></i></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top 10 Discoveries / First Viewings</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miami Vice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Michael Mann, 2006)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caché </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hidden, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Heneke, 2005)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spencer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Pablo Larraín, 2021)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hana-bi</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Fireworks, Kitano Takeshi, 1997)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Beach Bum</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Harmony Korine, 2019)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gokseong </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wailing,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Na Hong-Jin, 2016)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Qian xi man bo </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Millennium Mambo,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Hou Shaio-Hsien, 2001)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">What’s Up, Doc?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Peter Bogdanovic, 1972)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohikkoshi </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moving,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Sōmai Shomai, 1993)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Old Dogs</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Walk Becker, 2009)</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="16"></a>Jared Gores<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Documentary Producer and Film Podcaster Based in SF Bay Area</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Favourite Films Released in the U.S. in 2023:</span></p> <ol> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Scorsese, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Asteroid City</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Wes Anderson, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vanskabte land</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Godland</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Hlynur Pálmason, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Killer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (David Fincher, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oppenheimer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Christopher Nolan, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La passion de Dodin Bouffant</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Taste of Things</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Trần Anh Hùng, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Falcon Lake</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Charlotte Le Bon, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pacifiction: Tourment sur les îles</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pacification</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Albert Serra, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poor Things</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Holdovers</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Alexander Payne, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">À plein temps</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full Time</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Éric Gravel, 2021)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Wick: Chapter 4</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Chad Stahelski, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Syk pike</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sick of Myself</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Kristoffer Borgli, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Zone of Interest</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to Blow Up a Pipeline</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Daniel Goldhaber, 2022)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Boy and the Heron</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Miyazaki Hayao, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomie d’une chute</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anatomy of a Fall</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Justine Triet, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, 2023)</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Favourite Older Films I Discovered in 2023:</span></p> <ol> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daybreak Express</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (D. A. Pennebaker, 1953)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Streetwise</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Bell, 1984)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jewel Robbery</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (William Dieterle, 1932)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vengeance Is Mine </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haunted</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Michael Roemer, 1984)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sūzhōu Hé</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suzhou River</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lou Ye, 2000)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Go-Between</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Joseph Losey, 1971)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Claudine</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (John Berry, 1974)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Totally F***ed Up</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Totally Fucked Up</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Gregg Araki, 1993)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La permission</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Story of a Three-Day Pass</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Melvin Van Peebles, 1967)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cabra Marcado para Morrer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twenty Years Later</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Eduardo Coutinho, 1984)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Born to Win</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ivan Passer, 1971)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mississippi Masala</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Mira Nair, 1991)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Love Jones</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Theodore Witcher, 1997)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ruby in Paradise</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Victor Nunez, 1993)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hester Street</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Joan Micklin Silver, 1975)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Libeled Lady</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jack Conway, 1936)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yózhik v tumáne</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hedgehog in the Fog</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Yuri Norstein, 1975)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Testament</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lynne Littman, 1983)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sik ching nam lui</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Viva Erotica</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Yee Derek, Law Chi-Leung, 1996)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Die Puppe</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Doll</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)</span></li> </ol> <div id="attachment_47710" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-scaled.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47710" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-47710 size-full" src="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1440" srcset="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SuzhouRiver-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-47710" class="wp-caption-text"><i>Suzhou River</i></p></div> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="17"></a>Michael Granados<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Film Writer based in Los Angeles, <i>Film Fest Report</i></h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aku wa sonzai shinai</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evil Does Not Exist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aqueronte </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Manuel Muñoz Rivas, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Filhas do Fogo</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daughters of Fire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Pedro Costa, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cerrar los ojos </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Close Your Eyes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Víctor Erice, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El auge del humano 3</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Human Surge 3</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Eduardo Williams, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eureka</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lisandro Alonso, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fár</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intrusion</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It follows It passes on</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Erica Sheu, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Laberint Sequences</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Blake Williams, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Bête</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Beast</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Bertrand Bonello, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mast-Del</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Maryam Tafakory, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musik </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Angela Schanelec, 2023)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nowhere Near</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Miko Revereza, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nu Aștepta Prea Mult de la Sfârșitul Lumii</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Radu Jude, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samsara</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lois Patiño, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">To Brasil</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ute Aurand, 2023)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Valerija</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sara Jurinčić, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <div id="attachment_47711" style="width: 1439px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cerrar.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47711" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-47711 size-full" src="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cerrar.jpeg" alt="" width="1429" height="790" srcset="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cerrar.jpeg 1429w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cerrar-300x166.jpeg 300w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cerrar-1024x566.jpeg 1024w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cerrar-768x425.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1429px) 100vw, 1429px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-47711" class="wp-caption-text"><i>Close Your Eyes</i></p></div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Old </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blue</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Derek Jarman, 1993) 35mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come Out</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Narcisa Hirsch, 1971) 35mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Falling Lessons</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Amy Halpern, 1995) 16mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Go Go Tales</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Abel Ferrara, 2007) 35mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Honor de cavallería</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Honour of the Knights</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Albert Serra, 2006) 35mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mes petites amoureuses</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Little Loves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Jean Eustache, 1974) DCP</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">NО̄</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Sharon Lockhart, 2003) 16mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (David Rimmer, 1970) 16mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Written on the Wind</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Douglas Sirk, 1956) 35mm</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i>Zorns Lemma</i> (Hollis Frampton, 1970) 16mm</li> </ul> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="18"></a>Sam Gray<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Cinephile, writer, producer, and game developer. London, UK</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Films</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Showing Up</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kelly Reichardt, 2022)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eternal damnation to the cowards who failed to bring Kelly Reichardt’s latest to UK theatres – though perhaps it’s unsurprising, considering its subject matter of the painful labour that goes into creating modest art with little commercial appeal. Wonderfully acted and observed, it’s a quietly monumental work from a quietly monumental filmmaker.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">L’été dernier</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Summer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Catherine Breillat, 2023)</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">May December</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Todd Haynes, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haynes’s approach was as academic as Breillat’s was uncomfortably intimate – but taken together, these two films about age-inappropriate relationships form the most successfully complex and provocative duet of 2023.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roter Himmel</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Afire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Christian Petzold, 2023)</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aku wa Sonzai Shinai</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evil Does Not Exist, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamaguchi Ryusuke, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two dreams that curdle into beautiful nightmares, made all the more effective by their initial grounding in naturalism and humour. Song of the year: Wallners’ “in my mind”.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notre corps</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Body</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Claire Simon, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simon’s documentary distinguishes itself from the Frederick Wiseman approach with emphasis on the personal above the institutional – the filmmaker audibly asking questions at first, then placing herself front and centre with the (shocking) scene of her cancer diagnosis. A fascinating exploration of a feminine space.</span></p> <div id="attachment_47712" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/OurBody.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47712" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-47712 size-full" src="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/OurBody.jpeg" alt="" width="800" height="450" srcset="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/OurBody.jpeg 800w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/OurBody-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/OurBody-768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-47712" class="wp-caption-text"><i>Our Body</i></p></div> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Swan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Wes Anderson, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If Anderson’s work has leaned towards twee since his 2009 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fantastic Mr. Fox</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, then it’s appropriate that his adaptation of Dahl’s darkest short story works as a magnificent course correction, using his Brechtian formalism in service of a devastating reenactment of childhood abuses. The best final shot of the year.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hit Man</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Richard Linklater, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s no better proof of the (comedic, romantic) deficiencies in our collective film diets than Linklater’s successful crowd pleaser, in which Glen Powell and Adria Arjona demonstrate such novel concepts as “star power” and “chemistry”.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Adults</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Dustin Guy Defa, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If not quite as impressive a juggling act as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Person to Person</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Dustin Guy Defa, 2017), a nonetheless successful sibling dramedy, unafraid to alienate when appropriate. Hannah Gross and Michael Cera are both very good.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another increasingly rare breed of film, the light, detailed </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bildungsroman</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Rachel McAdams deserves all the awards.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Discoveries</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Belle Noiseuse</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Beautiful Troublemaker, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jacques Rivette, 1991)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The entire filmography of Buster Keaton</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caught </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Max Ophüls, 1949)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charley Varrick </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Don Siegel, 1973)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daisy Kenyon </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Otto Preminger, 1947)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Damned</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Joseph Losey, 1963)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">French Cancan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Jean Renoir, 1955)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Les glaneurs et la glaneuse </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Gleaners and I</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Agnès Varda, 2000)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Idioterne </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Idiots</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lars von Trier, 1998)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killer of Sheep</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Charles Burnett, 1978)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Spy in Black</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Michael Powell, 1939)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The workprint cut of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Swing Shift</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Jonathan Demme, 1984)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tōkyō boshoku </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tokyo Twilight, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ozu Yasujirō, 1957)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le trou </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Jacques Becker, 1960)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revelatory rewatches of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Narcissus </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947) </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vertigo </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Searchers </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(John Ford, 1956)</span></li> </ul> <div id="attachment_47713" style="width: 1234px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlackNarcissus.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47713" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-47713 size-full" src="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlackNarcissus.jpg" alt="" width="1224" height="896" srcset="https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlackNarcissus.jpg 1224w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlackNarcissus-300x220.jpg 300w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlackNarcissus-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlackNarcissus-768x562.jpg 768w, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlackNarcissus-80x60.jpg 80w" sizes="(max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-47713" class="wp-caption-text"><i>Black Narcissus</i></p></div> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="19"></a>Francesco Grieco<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Staff writer for LocarnoDaily magazine, member of the selection committee for Presente Italiano Festival</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Films released for the first time in 2023 (festivals, cinemas, streaming services, or other theatrical and non-theatrical contexts):</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La bête</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Beast</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Bertrand Bonello, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Les chambres rouges </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Red Rooms</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Pascal Plante, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El Juicio </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trial</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ulises de la Orden, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killing Romance</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lee Won-suk, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kim’s Video</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (David Redmon, Ashley Sabin, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuru Otlar Üstüne </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">About Dry Grasses</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nähtamatu võitlus </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Invisible Fight</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Rainer Sarnet, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quslara xütbe </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sermon to the Birds</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Hilal Baydarov, 2023)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roter Himmel</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Afire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Christian Petzold, 2023)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Older films encountered for the first time in 2023 (seen in festivals, cinematheques, re-releases, home entertainment, streaming channels, etc.):</span></p> <ul> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le Rideau cramoisi </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Crimson Curtain</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Alexandre Astruc, 1953)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los hermanos Del Hierro </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Son, the Hero</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ismael Rodríguez, 1961)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smog</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Franco Rossi, 1962)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nothing But a Man </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Michael Roemer, 1964)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le clair de terre </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earth Light</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Guy Gilles, 1970)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (D.A. Pennebaker, 1979)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Les maîtres du temps </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time Masters</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, René Laloux, 1982)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pirata! Cult Movie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Paolo Ricagno, 1984)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tras el cristal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a Glass Cage</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Agustí Villaronga, 1986)</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Therapy Dogs </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Ethan Eng, 2022)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any online or hybrid festivals or other events you ‘attended’ and that you felt presented a high-quality program and experience (and why?):</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2023 I didn’t attend Venice Film Festival, but thanks to the Biennale Cinema Channel platform I could watch a very interesting movie, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lumbrensueño </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Firedream</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, José Pablo Escamilla, 2023).</span></p> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0; text-transform: uppercase;"><a name="20"></a>Victor Guimarães<a href="#list"><img src="http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/endnotes.gif" alt="" /></a></h2> <h5 style="text-transform: uppercase;">Film critic (<i>Con los Ojos Abiertos</i>) and programmer (FICValdivia, FENDA) – Brasil</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">14 imaginary double bills in 2023</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Urgency of Death</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lucía Seles, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El Auge del Humano 3</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Human Surge 3</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Eduardo Williams, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A poem written on a truck tire. A painting carved with the viscera of a broken computer. To tear up the grammar of cinema while generously teaching us how to speak an alien language.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musik </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Angela Schanelec, 2023)</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">+ </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kuolleet lehdet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fallen Leaves</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">An opera made of whispers. A rom-com made of silence.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seguro que Bach Cerraba la Puerta Cuando Quería Trabajar</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Narcisa Hirsch, 1979/2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cerrar los Ojos</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Close Your Eyes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Víctor Erice, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">To inhabit the insides of a mirror. To see with eyes wide shut.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mãri Hi – A Árvore do Sonho</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mãri Hi: The Dream Tree, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morzaniel Ɨramari, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mami Wata</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A documentary made with the matter of dreams. A frenzied futuristic fiction made with ancestral clay.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">L’Été Dernier</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Summer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Catherine Breillat, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Martin Scorsese, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some old masters still believe in making films for grown-up viewers. Some films still ask us to sustain our gaze against all odds.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mul-an-e-seo </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Water,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Hong Sang-Soo, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">O Dia que te Conheci</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Day I met You</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, André Novais Oliveira, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some filmmakers can convert their styles into a home and, while feeling completely at ease there, decide to break down open doors. Intimacy and distance can rhyme. Love can be built through opacity.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ejemplo #35</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Example #35</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lucía Malandro, Daniel Saucedo, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Huellas </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Traces, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Valeria Sarmiento, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The remnants of a collective experience can inhabit a film in mysterious ways. History can powerfully haunt us if treated in a way that respects the force of things left unsaid.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incident</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Bill Morrison, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Por Trás da Linha de Escudos</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Marcelo Pedroso, 2017/2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking a walk on enemy territory can reveal so much about our allies.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El Polvo ya no Nubla Nuestros Ojos</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Colectivo Silencio, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todxs queremos un </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">lugar al que llamar nuestro</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all want a place to call our own</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Daniela Delgado Viteri, 2022)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">To take the worn-out, appeased textures of contemporary experimental film and make it burn again in Latin America. To reinvent political cinema, again, from our perspective. </span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Bas Devos, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Las Cosas Indefinidas</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Undefined Things, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">María Aparicio, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The materiality of tenderness.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barbie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Greta Gerwig, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knock at the Cabin</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (M. Night Shyamalan, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">No ready-made discourse can stand as long as there is a new image to be extracted from its dissolution. No ready-made belief can survive where cinema has taken the task of creating its own form of believing.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Things</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Deborah Stratman, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Celluloid Underground</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Ehsan Khoshbakht, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our catastrophic world can still reveal infinite layers of poetry. Our dying star named cinephilia can still be a feverish delirium.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">W Ukrainie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Ukraine</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolski, 2023) +</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Começo a Ver a Luz</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m beginning to see the light</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Melissa Dullius, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The images of war don’t tremble anymore. And that’s precisely why they can haunt us in unexpected ways. The images of love don’t shine anymore. And that’s precisely why they can still make us cry.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ramal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time to ride</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Higor Gomes, 2023) + </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ramona</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Victoria Linares Villegas, 2023)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">To tear up the documentary form to embrace the indeterminacy of life. There are few things more cinematic than youthful energy. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">7 Latin American masterpieces seen for the first time in 2023</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Mujer de Nadie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nobody’s Wife</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Adelia Sequeyro, 1937)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A non-monogamist set of people trying to love each other in 1930s Mexico and banging their heads against a wall called society. Care, attention, and desire flowing in all directions until they can’t.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Un Día Feriado</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lydia García Millán, 1951)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">An experimental journey through the margins of a big city long before that gesture became a major source of masterpieces among us.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Fórmula Secreta</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Secret Formula, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rubén Gámez, 1965)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ideological ethnography meets allegorical sur-realism.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lupe</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (José Rodríguez Soltero, 1967)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">An experimental melodrama where the wild strength of a dissident life meets the incendiary power of dissident images and sounds.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">El Otro Francisco</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Other Francisco</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Sergio Giral, 1975)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wherever you want character development, Giral gives you distancing effects. Wherever you want sentimental music, Leo Brower gives you pieces of silence and noise. Wherever you want love, the film gives you means of production. A horror movie, but one that’s made of the economic reports of a plantation.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Terror and the Time</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (The Victor Jara Collective, 1978)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Counter-information and lyric poetry are not opposed, but rather contaminate each other. A cinematic tissue where rapid-fire montages of popular revolutions all around the Third World and slow-motion sur-real depictions of Guyanese faces and landscapes can harmoniously coexist. Not a historical lesson nor a political statement, but a material, living experience that swallows our whole body and makes us dream together. Not dreaming </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">of</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> changing the world. Dreaming </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">to</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> change the world.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sun Quartet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2017)<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The explosive powers of an elegy. 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