The Films I Saw in 2023

First Seen of the Year:

Cure [Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997]

Last Seen of the Year:

Chicago Calling [John Reinhardt, 1951]

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Accattone [Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961]

Ådalen 31 [Bo Widerberg, 1969]

Adam’s Rib [George Cukor, 1949]

After Hours [Martin Scorsese, 1985]

Ain’t It Aggravatin’ [David Barclay, 1953]

Aiqing wansui / Vive l’Amour [Tsai Ming-liang, 1994]

À l’ombre de la canaille bleue [In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal] [Pierre Clémenti, 1985]

Älskande par [Loving Pair] [Mai Zetterling, 1964]

Un américain [An American] [Alain Cavalier, 1958]

L’amore [Love] [Roberto Rossellini, 1948]

L’amour fou [Mad Love] [Jacques Rivette, 1969]

Amsterdam [David O. Russell, 2022]

Anémic cinéma [Rrose Sélavy aka Marcel Duchamp, 1926]

An jan [Hidden War] / Running Out of Time [Johnnie To, 1999]

An jan 2 [Hidden War 2] / Running Out of Time 2 [Johnnie To and Law Wing-cheung, 2001]

Annette [Leos Carax, 2021]

Anthropological Sketches: Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections [Jonas Mekas, 1990]

Apollo 10-1/2: A Space Age Childhood [Richard Linklater, 2022]

Arat az Orosházi “Dózsa” [Harvest on the “Dózsa” in Orosháza] [Miklós Jancsó, 1953]

L’argent de poche [Pocket Money] [François Truffaut, 1976]

Art History [Joe Swanberg, 2011]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty [Jonas Mekas, 2000]

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol [Jonas Mekas, 1964]

Backtrack [Dennis Hopper, 1990]

Bakuchū-uchi: Sōchō toba+ku [The Gamester: The Big-Time Gambling Boss] [Kōsaku Yamashita, 1968]

Ballerina [David Lynch, 2007]

Ballet mécanique [Mechanical Ballet] [Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, 1924]

The Banshees of Inisherin [Martin McDonagh, 2022]

Barbie [Greta Gerwig, 2023]

Barnvagnen [The Baby Carriage] [Bo Widerberg, 1963]

Baxter, Vera Baxter [Marguerite Duras, 1977]

The Beach Bum [Harmony Korine, 2019]

Une belle fille comme moi [A Gorgeous Girl Like Me] [François Truffaut, 1972]

Bergman Island [Mia Hansen-Løve, 2021]

Bergman’s Ghosts [Gabe Klinger, 2021]

Blast of Silence [Allen Baron, 1961]

Bless Their Little Hearts [Billy Woodberry, 1984]

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters [Edward Bernds, 1954]

The Boy with Green Hair [Joseph Losey, 1948]

Bride of Frankenstein [James Whale, 1935]

Cassis [Jonas Mekas, 1966]

Catherine Called Birdy [Lena Dunham, 2022]

Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris [Céline and Julie Go Boating: Phantom Ladies Over Paris] [Jacques Rivette, 1974]

C’est plein [It’s a Full House] [Alain Cavalier, 2011]

La chambre verte [The Green Room] [François Truffaut, 1978]

Le chant du styrène [The Song of the Styrene] [Alain Resnais, 1958]

Chicago Calling [John Reinhardt, 1951]

Chilly Scenes of Winter [Joan Micklin Silver, 1979]

Christian Louboutin [David Lynch, 2014]

Christmas Carole [Agnès Varda, 1966 / posthumous 2021]

Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach [Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach] [Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1968]

Ciao, Federico! [Gideon Bachmann, 1970]

Cinéastes de notre temps: Pasolini l’enragé [Filmmakers of Our Time: Pasolini the Enraged] [Jean-André Fieschi, 1966]

Il cinema di Pasolini (appunti per un critofilm) [Pasolini’s Cinema (Notes Toward a Critique-Film)] [Maurizio Ponzi, 1967]

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old: A Manifesto [Jonas Mekas, 2006]

Circus Maximus [Harmony Korine et al, 2023]

The Clock [Vincente Minnelli, 1945]

Le combat dans l’île [Face-Off on the Island] [Alain Cavalier, 1962]

Cooley High [Michael Schultz, 1975]

A Countess from Hong Kong [Charles Chaplin, 1967]

The Courtship of Eddie’s Father [Vincente Minnelli, 1963]

Crack [Jon Moritsugu, 1999]

Creature from the Black Lagoon {2D Version} [Jack Arnold, 1954]

Un crime d’amour [A Love Crime] {Incomplete/Rushes} [Jean-Denis Bonan, 1965]

Csillagosok katonák [The Ones with the Star, Soldiers] [Miklós Jancsó, 1967]

Cure [Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997]

The Curse [Nathan Fielder, 2023]

Demon House [Zak Bagans, 2018]

La deuxième femme [The Second Woman / The Second Wife] [Pierre Clémenti, 1978]

Diaries: Notes and Sketches: Also Known as ‘Walden’ [Jonas Mekas, 1969]

Dixieland Droopy [Tex Avery, 1953]

Dogleg [James Alexander Warren, 2023]

La donna della domenica [The Sunday Woman] [Luigi Comencini, 1975]

Dracula [Tod Browning, 1931]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Rouben Mamoulian, 1931]

Elle [Her] [Paul Verhoeven, 2016]

Elle a passé tant d’heures sous les sunlights… [She Spent So Much Time Under the Sunlamps…] [Philippe Garrel, 1985]

Elvira Madigan [Bo Widerberg, 1967]

L’enfant sauvage [The Wild Child] [François Truffaut, 1970]

eXistenZ [David Cronenberg, 1999]

Fame [Alan Parker, 1980]

Fame Whore [Jon Moritsugu, 1997]

Family Plot [Alfred Hitchcock, 1976]

Fantômas [Louis Feuillade, 1913-1914]

Fårö Dokument [Fårö Document] [Ingmar Bergman, 1970]

The FBI Story [Mervyn LeRoy, 1959]

Fellini-Satyricon [Federico Fellini, 1969]

La femme bourreau [The Executioner Woman] [Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968]

Fényes szelek [Sparkling Winds] [Miklós Jancsó, 1968]

Filming ’The Trial’ [Orson Welles, 1981/2001 posthumous]

Film Magazine of the Arts: No. 1 Summer 1963 [Jonas Mekas, 1963]

Flickorna [The Girls] [Mai Zetterling, 1968]

Force of Evil [Abraham Polonsky, 1948]

Frasier: The Third Act: Season 1 [James Burrows, et al, 2023]

Freaks [Tod Browning, 1932]

Friedkin Uncut [Francesco Zippel, 2018]

The Front Page [Billy Wilder, 1974]

A Fuller Life [Samantha Fuller, 2013]

Funny Ha Ha [Andrew Bujalski, 2002]

La garce [The Bitch] [Christine Pascal, 1984]

The General [Buster Keaton, 1927]

Il giorno della civetta [The Day of the Owl] [Damiano Damiani, 1968]

Gloria [John Cassavetes, 1980]

Greetings from Africa [Cheryl Dunye, 1994]

Guernica [Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens, 1949]

La guerre est finie [The War Is Over] [Alain Resnais, 1966]

Hairspray [John Waters, 1988]

Hallelujah the Hills: A Romance [Adolfas Mekas, 1963]

Halloween Party [David Skowronski, 1989]

Happy Birthday to John [Jonas Mekas, 1995]

Hare Krishna [Jonas Mekas, 1966]

Harmadik jelenlét [Third Presence] [Miklós Jancsó, 1986]

Have a Nice Life [Prashanth Kamalakanthan, 2021]

Hippy Porn [Jon Moritsugu, 1991]

Hishū monogatari [A Tale of Grief] [Seijun Suzuki, 1977]

L’histoire d’Adèle H. [The Story of Adèle H.] [François Truffaut, 1975]

Hold That Ghost [Arthur Lubin, 1941]

Hollywood Scout [Pete Smith, 1945]

Holy Motors [Leos Carax, 2012]

L’homme qui aimait les femmes [The Man Who Loved Women] [François Truffaut, 1977]

Hong Kong Solitude [Nicolas Saada, 2016]

Hong Kong Stories [Yves Montmayeur, 2003]

Hugo [Martin Scorsese, 2011]

Imitation of Life [John M. Stahl, 1934]

In Between [Jonas Mekas, 1978]

Indián történet [An Indian Story] [Miklós Jancsó, 1961]

India Song {French-Language Soundtrack} [Marguerite Duras, 1975]

Ingmar Bergman [Stig Björkman, 1972]

Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death and Love: With Erland Josephson [Stefan Brann, 2000]

INLAND EMPIRE [David Lynch, 2006]

Ins Blaue hinein… [On Into the Blue…] [Eugen Schüfftan, 1931]

An Interview with Ambassador from Lapland [Adolfas Mekas, 1967]

L’istruttoria è chiusa: Dementichi: Tabante sbarre [The Case Is Closed: Forget It: Many Bars] [Damiano Damiani, 1971]

Invaders from Venus! [Frank Mosley, 2003]

I rollerna tre [In the Roles of Three] [Christina Olofson, 1996]

It Came from Outer Space {2D Version} [Jack Arnold, 1953]

Janine [Cheryl Dunye, 1990]

Jelenlét [Presence] [Miklós Jancsó, 1965]

Joan Micklin Silver: Begegnung mit der New Yorker Filmregisseurin [Joan Micklin Silver: Encounter with the New York Director] [Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler, 1983]

Kagerō-za [Heat-Shimmer Theater] [Seijun Suzuki, 1981]

Kamerával kosztromában. [With a Camera in Kostroma.] [Kézdi Kovács Zsolt, et al, 1967]

Keeper of the Flame [George Cukor, 1943]

Killers of the Flower Moon [Martin Scorsese, 2023]

Koroshi no rakuin [Branded to Kill] [Seijun Suzuki, 1967]

Kurosawa, la voie [Kurosawa: The Way] [Catherine Cadou, 2011]

Kvarteret Korpen [Bo Widerberg, 1963]

L 182 (En passion) [L 182 (A Passion)] [Ingmar Bergman, 1969]

Lachende Erben [Laughing Heirs] [Max Ophüls, 1933]

The Lady from Shanghai [Orson Welles, 1948]

The Last Picture Show [Peter Bogdanovich, 1971]

A Letter to Penny Arcade [Jonas Mekas, 2001]

The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra [Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, 1927]

Little Debbie, Snack Whore of N.Y.C. [Jon Moritsugu, 1987]

Le livre d’image: Image et Parole [The Image Book: Image and Word] [Jean-Luc Godard, 2018]

The Long, Long Trailer [Vincente Minnelli, 1954]

Lost Highway [David Lynch, 1997]

Lost Lost Lost [Jonas Mekas, 1976]

Louis CK: Back to the Garden [Louis C.K., 2023]

Lynch [blackANDwhite, 2007]

Lynch: 2 [blackANDwhite, 2007]

La madre muerta [The Dead Mother] [Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1993]

Ma femme vit dans la peur [My Wife Lives in Fear] [Alain Cavalier, 2011]

Un maledetto imbroglio [A Bloody Scam] [Pietro Germi, 1959]

Mamma Roma [Pier Paohlo Pasolini, 1962]

Manhatta [Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, 1921]

Mannen på taket [The Man on the Roof] [Bo Widerberg, 1976]

Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten [Jonas Mekas, 2001]

Marguerite, telle qu’en elle-même [Marguerite, as in Herself] [Dominique Auvray, 2003]

La mariée était en noir [The Bride Was in Black / The Bride Wore Black] [François Truffaut, 1968]

Marnie [Alfred Hitchcock, 1964]

Második jelenlét [Second Presence] [Miklós Jancsó, 1978]

Mathieu-Fou [Jean-Denis Bonan, 1967]

Ma vie de courgette [My Life as a Zucchini] [Claude Barras, 2016]

Mean Streets [Martin Scorsese, 1973]

Még kér a nép [And the People Still Ask] [Miklós Jancsó, 1971]

Memoria [Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021]

Menschen am Sonntag, ein Film ohne Schauspieler [People on Sunday: A Film Without Actors] {Most Complete Extant Version} [Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, 1930]

The Menu [Mark Mylod, 2022]

Merde [Shit] [Leos Carax, 2008]

Merrill’s Marauders [Samuel Fuller, 1962]

Messiah of Evil [Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, 1973]

Miami Blues [George Armitage, 1990]

Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part One [Christopher McQuarrie, 2023]

Les mistons [The Mischief-Makers] [François Truffaut, 1957]

Mod Fuck Explosion [Jon Moritsugu, 1994]

More Things That Happened [David Lynch, 2007]

Möte med Mai [Meeting with Mai] [Solveig Nordlung, 1984/1996]

The Mummy [Karl Freund, 1932]

My Bolexes [Jonas Mekas, 2016]

My Degeneration [Jon Moritsugu, 1989]

Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Denison Clift, 1935]

The Mystic [Tod Browning, 1925]

Nana [Jean Renoir, 1926]

National Velvet [Clarence Brown, 1944]

Nattlek [Night Games] [Mai Zetterling, 1966]

Neige [Snow] [Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger, 1981]

New Old, ou les Chroniques du temps présent [New Old, or: Chronicles of the Present Time] [Pierre Clémenti, 1979]

New Strains [Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan, 2023]

New York Stories: Life Lessons [Martin Scorsese, 1989]

New York Stories: Life Without Zoe [Francis Ford Coppola, 1989]

New York Stories: Oedipus Wrecks [Woody Allen, 1989]

Notes for Jerome [Jonas Mekas, 1978]

Notes on the Circus [Jonas Mekas, 1966]

Obsession [Brian De Palma, 1976]

Oppenheimer [Christopher Nolan, 2023]

Ösz Badacsonyban [Autumn in Badacsony] [Miklós Jancsó, 1954]

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man [Jonas Mekas, 2013]

Paracelsus [G. W. Pabst, 1943]

Paradise Not Yet Lost, Also Known as ‘Oona’s Third Year’ [Jonas Mekas, 1979]

Paul Gauguin [Alain Resnais, 1949]

Perche si uccide un magistrato [How to Kill a Judge] [Damiano Damiani, 1974]

Petite maman [Little Mama] [Céline Sciamma, 2021]

Phantom of the Opera [Arthur Lubin, 1943]

The Phantom of the Opera [Rupert Julian, 1925]

Pier Paolo Pasolini [Ivo Barnabò Micheli, 1995]

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 [Agnès Varda, 1967 / posthumous 2022]

Pig Death Machine [Jon Moritsugu, 2013]

Le plein de super [Fill ‘Er Up with Super] [Alain Cavalier, 1976]

Pojken och draken [The Boy and the Kite] [Jan Troell and Bo Widerberg, 1962]

Poker Face: Season 1 [Rian Johnson, Natasha Lyonne, et al, 2023]

Positano [Pierre Clémenti, 1968]

The Potluck and the Passion [Cheryl Dunye, 1993]

Il prefetto di ferro [The Iron Prefect] [Pasquale Squitieri, 1977]

Presents [Michael Snow, 1981]

PTU [Johnnie To, 2003]

Quartet #1 [Jonas Mekas, 1991]

Qianxi mambo / Millennium Mambo [Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001]

A Really Important Person [Basil Wrangell, 1947]

El reino de Víctor [Víctor’s Kingdom] [Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1989]

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania [Jonas Mekas, 1972]

Results [Andrew Bujalski, 2015]

Report from Millbrook [Jonas Mekas, 1966]

La révolution n’est qu’un début. Continuons le combat. [The Revolution Is Only a Beginning. Let’s Continue the Fight.] [Pierre Clémenti, 1968]

La ricotta [The Ricotta] [Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963]

Riten [The Rite] [Ingmar Bergman, 1969]

River of Grass [Kelly Reichardt, 1994]

Le roi des biberons [The King of Baby-Bottles] [Alain Cavalier, 2011]

Rote Sonne [Red Sun] [Rudolf Thome, 1970]

Saboteur [Alfred Hitchcock, 1942]

Une saison chez les hommes [A Season with Mankind] [Jean-Denis Bonan, 1967]

Sans lendemain [Without Tomorrow / No Tomorrow] [Max Ophüls, 1939]

Screwy Squirrel: The Screwy Truant [Tex Avery, 1945]

Scumrock [Jon Moritsugu, 2002]

Shadow of a Doubt [Alfred Hitchcock, 1943]

Sharp Stick [Lena Dunham, 2022]

She Dies Tomorrow [Amy Seimetz, 2020]

She Don’t Fade [Cheryl Dunye, 1991]

Shitoyaka na kedamono [Elegant Beast] [Yūzō Kawashima, 1962]

The Shout [Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978]

Showgirls [Paul Verhoeven, 1995]

Silence, Please! [Jonas Mekas, 2014]

Silver Bullets [Joe Swanberg, 2011]

La sirène du Mississipi [The Siren of the “Mississipi”] [François Truffaut, 1969]

Sirokkó [Sirocco] [Miklós Jancsó, 1969]

Skammen [Shame] [Ingmar Bergman, 1968]

Skyscraper Symphony [Robert Florey, 1929]

Shùnliú nìliú [Downstream and Counter-Current] / Time and Tide [Tsui Hark, 2000]

The Smile: “Wall of Eyes” [Paul Thomas Anderson, 2023]

Soleil [Sun] [Pierre Clémenti, 1988]

Song of Avignon [Jonas Mekas, 2001]

Sopralluoghi in Palestina [Scoutings in Palestine] [Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1965]

Souvenirs, souvenirs [Memories, Memories] [Pierre Clémenti, 1978]

Sparks: “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte” [Ron Mael, Russell Mael, and Richie Starzek, 2023]

The Spirit of ’45: The Labour Victory of 1945: Memories and Reflections [Ken Loach, 2013]

Spring Breakers [Harmony Korine, 2012]

Spy no tsuma [Wife of a Spy] {Continuous Episode Version Smoothed into Theatrical Feature} [Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020/2021]

Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy: Season 1 [Stanley Tucci, et al, 2021]

Strangers on a Train [Alfred Hitchcock, 1951]

Stromboli [Roberto Rossellini, 1950]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie [Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, with Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri, 2023]

Support the Girls [Andrew Bujalski, 2018]

Les surmenés [The Overworked] [Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 1959]

Szegénylegények [Poor Lads] [Miklós Jancsó, 1966]

Szerelmem, Elektra [My Love, Elektra] [Miklós Jancsó, 1974]

The Tall T [Budd Boetticher, 1957]

Targets [Peter Bogdanovich, 1968]

The Tenth Annual Live On Cinema Oscar Special [Eric Notarnicola and Tim Heidecker, 2023]

Terminal USA [Jon Moritsugu, 1993]

Texasville {Bodanovich’s 1992 Cut} [Peter Bogdanovich, 1990/1992]

There There [Andrew Bujalski, 2022]

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography [Jonas Mekas, 1999]

The Thomas Crown Affair [John McTiernan, 1999]

Three Ages [Buster Keaton, 1923]

The Touch [Ingmar Bergman, 1971]

Tin yeuk yau tsing [If There’s a Passion in Heaven] / A Moment of Romance [Johnnie To and Benny Chan, 1990]

Tom and Jerry: Pent-House Mouse [Chuck Jones, 1963]

Tough Guys Don’t Dance [Norman Mailer, 1987]

Tōkyō no chorus [Tokyo Chorus] [Yasujirō Ozu, 1931]

To Live and Die in L.A. [William Friedkin, 1985]

Toute la mémoire du monde [All the Memory in the World] [Alain Resnais, 1956]

Travel Songs [Jonas Mekas, 1980]

The Trial [Orson Welles, 1962]

Tristesse des anthropophages [Sadness of the Anthropophagi] [Jean-Denis Bonan, 1966]

Trouble Every Day [Claire Denis, 2001]

The Trouble with Harry [Alfred Hitchcock, 1955]

The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh [Marilyn Ann Moss, 2019]

Undercurrent [Vincente Minnelli, 1946]

The Unknown [Tod Browning, 1927]

An Untitled Portrait [Cheryl Dunye, 1993]

UNTOLD: Johnny Manziel [Ryan Duffy, 2023]

Van Gogh [Alain Resnais, 1948]

Vanilla Sex [Cheryl Dunye, 1992]

Vargtimmen [The Hour of the Wolf] [Ingmar Bergman, 1968]

Vengeance Is Mine [Michael Roemer, 1984]

La vie brève de Monsieur Meucieu [Jean-Denis Bonan, 1962]

Vielleicht bin ich wirklich eine Zauberin: Die Regisseurin Mai Zetterling und ihre Filme [Maybe I’m Actually a Sorceress: The Director Mai Zetterling and Her Films [Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler, 1989]

Il vangelo secondo Matteo [The Gospel According to Matthew] [Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964]

Visa de censure nº X [Pierre Clémenti, 1967]

Viskningar och rop [Whispers and Cry] [Ingmar Bergman, 1972]

Vive le cinéma! [Jacques Rozier, 1972]

The Watermelon Woman [Cheryl Dunye, 1996]

Weekend am Wannsee [Weekend on the Wannsee] [Gerald Koll, 2000]

Welcome to the Dollhouse [Todd Solondz, 1995]

White Zombie [Victor Halperin, 1932]

Williamsburg Brooklyn During Its Golden Age Before the Emergence of Artists’ Utopia [Jonas Mekas, 2002]

Xin Szechuan jianxia [New Shushan Swordsman] [Tsui Hark, 1983]

Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana [Yakuza Burial: The Jasmine Flower] [Kinji Fukasaku, 1976]

Yankee Doodle Dandy [Michael Curtiz, 1942]

You and Me [Fritz Lang, 1938]

Yume [Dreams] [Akira Kurosawa, 1990]

‘Yume’: Eiga shōzō [‘Dreams’: A Portrait of Cinema] / A Portrait of Cinema [Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, 1990]

Yumeji [Seijun Suzuki, 1991]

Zefiro Torna, or: Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas [Jonas Mekas, 1992]

Zigeunerweisen [Seijun Suzuki, 1980]

The Zone [Joe Swanberg, 2011]

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