2023 in film: favourites
In no particular order, these are
my favourites of this year. Of course, any list is going to tell you more about
my taste than anything, but these are the films that if you disagree, I’m going
to think you’re wrong. As opposed to something like, say, ‘Cocaine Bear’,
which I went to out of curiosity and ended up enjoying but I really wouldn’t defend
much. On the other hand, I found ‘Barbie’, to be far more middling
provocation than expected. Etc. And I didn't get to see heavy hitters 'Oppenheimer' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (yet).
Anyway, I have
Seven favourites of 2023
(in no particular order):
Eo
Godland
Godzilla Minus One
Anatomy of a Fall
Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse
Past Lives
Close
Honourable mentions: ‘The Beasts’
and ‘Pamfir’ and 'When Evil Lurks'.
Three films that knocked me for six:
· Past Lives
· Love Life
Honourable mentions: ‘War Pony’ and ‘The Damned Don’t Cry’.
Individual scenes of the year:
These were moments where, suddenly,
my antenna went up and I thought “Now you have my attention” regardless of how I felt about the rest of the film:
· Cocaine Bear: bear vs. ambulance
· Love Life: nuns at karaoke, and then.
· Past Lives: discussing insecurities and things in bed
· Passages: opening scene/Tomas directing
· John Wick chapter 4: God’s eye view of a shootout through a building
· When Evil Lurks: what do they say about animals and children in film?
· Godland: scenery
· Guardians of the Galaxy volume 3: space corridor fight
· Return to Seoul: the early café scene
& ‘Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning part one’ : the final train set piece.
And I think I should mention the ‘Saltburn’, because throughout the bathwater scene the man next to me was making amused sounds of disgust and mumbling “aw no…” and “argghh” through his discomforted giggles.
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