The Top Ten BEST Movies Watched in 2023 | Eyebrow Cinema
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Listing the top ten movies OF 2023? No thanks. Eyebrow Cinema tradition requires instead listing the top ten best movies I watched for the first time in 2023. The focus is on classics, old and new, rather than new releases. This year brings us anime, hard science-fiction, feminist film manifestos, and a punk-rock odyssey. If you're looking for some film recommendations to start the new year right, you've come to the right place.
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Obviously you forgot that you watched Bela Legosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla this year
DUUUUKIEEEEE
Long live nabonga
I watched so many great movies for the first time this year, that I'm just gonna list a top 20:
20. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) dir. James Foley
19. Straight Time (1978) dir. Ulu Grosbard
18. A Hard Days Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
17. Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
16. The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) dir. John Ford
15. Blue Jasmine (2013) dir. Woody Allen
14. Seconds (1966) dir. John Frankenheimer
13. Opening Night (1977) dir. John Cassavetes
12. Rachel Getting Married (2008) dir. Jonathan Demme
11. Rumble Fish (1983) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
10. One, Two, Three (1961) dir. Billy Wilder
9. In Cold Blood (1967) dir. Richard Brooks
8. In The Bedroom (2001) dir. Todd Field
7. PlayTime (1967) dir. Jacques Tati
6. Serpico (1973) dir. Sidney Lumet
5. Singin' In The Rain (1952) dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
4. Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks
3. Paper Moon (1973) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
2. All That Jazz (1979) dir. Bob Fosse
1. Harakiri (1962) dir. Masaki Kobayashi
You had a hell of a year my friend. Some absolute, stone cold classics in this list. And a fellow Cassavetes and Hawks picks are nice to see.
nice, I also saw All That Jazz for the first time this year and it instantly became one of my favorite movies ever
Same here! I watched All That Jazz for the first time too and it's one of my new absolute favorites, I now need to get Cabaret under my belt, I haven't seen that yet either, I will say my absolute top favorites of your list might be Serpico and Paper Moon but there is soooo many amazing films listed
Nice list! If I had to pick the ten best movies I watched for the first time in 2023, they would be:
- They Live!
- 12 Angry Men
- Psycho
- JFK
- The French Connection
- Blow Out
- Observe and Report
- American Made
- The Exorcist
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Oh man, this list is absolutely stacked.
If you like Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men and Dr. Strangelove, you should check out Fail-Safe, it's the Anti-Strangelove sorts by Lumet
Quite a list. :)
I watched Jeanne Dielman for the simple reason that it became available to me. I found a complete copy on RUclips one day. It was the middle of the pandemic and I was trapped at home and bored out of my mind. Something about those circumstances made me particularly receptive to the extremely constrained life of this woman. It was a powerful experience, one that I think will always be connected to a specific, very trying time in my life.
That does sound like it be a powerful experience.
My top ten first watches of 2023 would be
10. Robocop
9. Punishment Park
8. Close
7. The Fly
6. La Haine
5. Tokyo Godfathers
4. Scenes From a Marriage
3. Aftersun
2. Sherlock Jr.
1. Judgment at Nuremberg
I had a great year for discovering movies!
Nice list. Which version of The Fly is that?
Cronenberg’s version
@@karlboyack1921 hell yeah. The 1958 version is good too but Cronenberg's is next level.
Not ranked, but I'd choose these fifteen first timers (that weren't released in 2023):
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Possession (1981)
- Akira (1988)
- Coraline (2009)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- The Fabelmans (2022)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Fargo (1996)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- One, Two, Three (1961)
- A Page of Madness (1926)
- Rope (1948)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
- Scarface (1983)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Nice mix of my own favourited and some intriguing movies I've never seen.
that's a great list. sounds like you had a good year!
Sunset BLVD is one of my favourite movies of all time. I have so much love and respect for the works of the great Billy Wilder!
Regarding Billy Wilder, in 2023. I wathced for the first time his film Sabrina. What a charming film! The beuatiful and elegant Audrey Hepburn paired with Humphrey Bogart and Wilder's reccuring colaborater William Holden. Apsolute reccomendation!
Here is one hidden gem, The Last Supper 1995. It has a great cast as well. I can't believe this is from the same director who gave us Bye Bye Man. RIP Stacy Title.
Great to hear someone shared my experience with Jeanne Dielman. I never wanted to see it at home for the exact same reason and was happy when it was programmed this summer in one of the many great cinema's of Amsterdam, and even happier to see a packed house of interested viewers.
It did well in Kingston too. Not exactly sellouts but definitely a lot of people eager to experience this odd film the right way.
@@EyebrowCinema Jeanne Dieleman is a masterpiece. I love the way the film involves the audience by making it look for meaning behind seemingly prosaic domestic acts.
However, I have some reservations about it appearing as number one in the BFI-list of greatest films of all time, as it is not an easy film. If a person, tired of endless IP-wringing, aspired to immerse himself or herself more into richness of world cinema and used the BFI-list as an entry guide, Jeanne Dieleman would not make for the best introduction to more artistic and challenging cinema. It might even but people of, unlike previous number ones Citizen Kane, Vertigo or Tokyo Story.
Let met put it like this: if you’d say you think The Apartment is dull, I’d answer you are a heartless idiot. If you’d say that Jeanne Dieleman is dull, I’d answer, I don’t agree with you, but I sort of see your point.
I am so happy to see a lot of Buster Keaton on this list! Keaton's shorts are truly magical. I recall watching them all over the course of 2012-2013, deliberately spacing them out, and just loving them. Even the lesser works are a delight. Also glad to see Jeanne Dielman. I saw that one this year too and was mesmerized.
As for my own top ten discoveries this year:
1) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
2) The Boy and the Heron (2023)
3) Kuroneko (1968)
4) Malcolm X (1992)
5) The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
6) Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
7) Shoes (1916)
8) Jeopardy (1953)
9) Girlfriends (1978)
10) Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 (1945, 1958)
After this year I'm starting to wonder if Keaton really is my favourite silent clown. He's such a sophisticated filmmaker.
When you started off with my favorite David Lynch film (Wild at Heart), my favorite late noir (Kiss Me Deadly), and my favorite Buster Keaton feature (Our Hospitality) I knew this was going to be good.
Not ranked, but here are my 10 favorite movies that I watched for the first time this year.
-The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
-The Red Turtle
-The Godfather
-The Godfather Part II
-Badlands
-Bicycle Thieves
-Sorcerer
-To Live and Die in L.A.
-Titane
-Burn After Reading
Honorable mention goes to The Godfather CODA: The Death of Michael Corleone
Dishonorable mention: Caligula
This is an awesome list with tons of all-timers but I'm even more compelled by the Caligula shade.
@@EyebrowCinema My obsession with Caligula was to the point of it being subconscious (I literally had a dream years ago about finding the movie on DVD and debating with myself whether or not I should buy it), and when I finally saw it at a revival house, not only I was unprepared with how hardcore the movie is, it was extremely frustrating to see a genuinely compelling movie buried in filthy imagery.
And to rub salt in the wound, shortly after watching Caligula, Penthouse announced a new cut that follows Gore Vidal's original screenplay that premiered at Cannes.
@@AgsmaJustAgsmaAccording to legend, Caligula was the only movie that film critic Roger Ebert ever walked out of.
Top 10 films I finally saw this year in no particular order (some of which took me way to long to finally see):
- Tár
- 12 years a slave
- In the Mouth of Madness
- the lighthouse
- the kid detective
- the killing
- To be or not to be
- Night of the living dead
- Jaws
- The Hudsucker Proxy
Real good list. I gotta rewatch The Hudsucker Proxy. I had a somewhat mixed response when I first saw it but I remember it quite vividly all these years later.
10. The Red Shoes : The people and sets are so colorful and dramatic that it becomes overwhelming.
9. The Battle of Algiers : Ennio Morricone composing the soundtrack and it coming out only a few years after the independence of Algeria speaks by itself.
8. 8 ½ : It’s 8 ½.
7. Barry Lyndon : Tragedy of a historical complex unimportant man.
6. Fanny and Alexander : It is now a crime to not rewatch Fanny and Alexander every year on Christmas.
5. Yi Yi : I don’t know why I place it at this place, it comes down to some personal reasons that I’ve haven’t really figured out.
4. Seven Samurai : Kikuchiyo being himself makes him the best character that has ever existed in media.
3. Andrei Rublev : The most beautiful film I’ve ever watched, the world just moves with a power that is so poetic.
2. Sátántangó : It is hilarious to have the idea of watching a 7.5 hour long film with only grey mud and rain in one sitting, who would be that stupid?
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey : My favorite film of all time, the reason why I became obsessed with films in the first place.
I want to thank this channel for helping me along the way. Only since last year I’ve begun watching films obsessively, hopefully I will continue to seek some of my favorite films in the future.
Glad I could play some small role in your growing passion for films. This list is also an exquisite collection of amazing movies. Also a reminder that I should really get around to watching Sátántangó.
if you liked 8 1/2, watch All That Jazz and Stardust Memories
Here's my top 10 favorite non-2023 movies that I watched in 2023
1. Mommy (2014)
2. Harakiri (1962)
3. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
4. Moonlight (2016)
5. Modern Times (1936)
6. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
7. The Conversation (1974)
8. Heat (1995)
9. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
10. Amarcord (1973)
Also just to mention the Angles in America miniseries which is probably my favorite thing that I watch in 2023
Seen everything in your list except your number one. Been circling Mommy for a while but still haven't quite found the right moment.
@@EyebrowCinema oh man you need to see Mommy it's so good, I recommend to my friends who aren't really cinphiles and they like it. So I recommend it to you because I think you would Love it.
I know I commented already, but I just wanted to say that I was able to cash in my Jeanne Dielman hipster points once it was ranked #1 by Sight & Sound, because 'I Liked Jeanne Dielman Before It Was Cool.' (Seriously, one of my favorite movies, another paradigm shifting moment in my moviegoing. Glad to see our boy Eyebrow giving it a shoutout.)
Sight & Sound copying your homework.
@@EyebrowCinema This aggression will not stand, man.
I'm approximately 50 years your senior. Glad we have a few similar choices. KISS ME, DEADLY ( Spillane insisted on the comma for the novel's cover.) SID AND NANCY and WILD AT HEART are three of my favorite Blu-rays. I've viewed each of them numerous times over the years. Cheers for the eclectic selection!
Great picks here, I much prefer the idea of a top 10 first watches over a top 10 of films released in a given year.
My 10 Favorite First Watches in 2023: [Warning: Heavily biased towards Japanese films.]
* Angel's Egg (1985) - Watched it January 1st, 2023 and there was never any doubt it would remain in my top 10.
* Woman in the Dunes (1964) - I also read the book, both fantastic and I think they delve into probably one of the most problematic aspects of Japanese society.
* Samurai Rebellion (1967) - I mean, come on, Masaki Kobayashi has one of the most consistently high-quality film outputs in all of cinema.
* Big Time Gambling Boss (1968) - I'm so glad the new Blu-ray distributor Radiance Films burst on to the scene with this underseen masterpiece. Easily the best surprise of 2023.
* The Life of Oharu (1952) & Ugetsu (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi sends his regards.
* Cure (1997) - I've never been much for Horror (J-Horror or otherwise, I tend to find them quite boring) but Cure had me entranced the whole way through, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a master.
* A Scene at the Sea (1991) - A departure from the usual type of film Takeshi Kitano puts out and easily one of my favorites.
* Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) - Sachiko Chiba gives perhaps the best female lead performance and character in a Japanese film from this period. She stands out from the crowd in both the film and among her contemporaries.
* The Black House (1999) - Criminally underseen, the colors in this film alone make it deserving of being viewed.
Great stuff here. The Life of Oharu and Cure are major blindspots for me.
The Life of Oharu is such a great movie!
Criminal that you aren’t at 100k yet. Been following you for years, always a treat when you upload! Happy new year!
Happy New Year!!
Dear Daniel thank you again. For all your work . Your channel is one of my favourite movie channels around. So wholesome. Love your concept of your(!) favourite movies of the year. Funny how a they sometimes mirror mine. 😅😅Happy New Year to Canada. And looking forward to more cinema conversations.
I love Cowboy Bebop, so happy to see Knockin' on Heaven's Door on your list! If you're looking for something in the same vein as the series but definitely more lighthearted, I watched Space Dandy this year (it's by the same director - Shinichiro Watanabe) and it delivers on space adventure, music, and is extremely funny too!
These lists are always great.
For me my top 10 would probably consist of:
Sullivan’s Travels
Wolf Children
Lost City of Z
Three Colours: Blue
Friday the 13th: Jason Lives
Che (both parts)
Happiness
Ice Storm
Invisible Man (1933)
Blue Collar
Honorable Mentions: Harakiri, Child’s Play 1 and 2, First Cow, Decision to Leave, Belle, Bringing Up Baby, Red Turtle, Sunshine, Tampopo, Stepford Wives (1975), Love & Mercy
Very good picks and honourable mentions. Always happy to see some love for The Invisible Man. That movie is a hoot.
Great video, thank you for making this!
If I had to pick movies that I saw for the first time in 2023, my top picks would be:
1. In the mood for love.
2. Pather panchali
3. Sunset Blvd
4. L.A Confidential
5. Black Narcissus
6. Midnight Cowboy
(These aren't in any particular order except #1)
This year, I wanted to broaden the films I saw, and these were some of the best. My only regret is that I didn't see them sooner; 2023 was the year I really enjoyed watching movies, and when I made the active effort to see something different. I'm so glad I did. Among some other greats were The Apartment, It happened One Night and Network
I hope 2024 is a great movie year for me and everyone else
Real good picks. Sunset Boulevard is a key movie for my partner and I.
Excluding new releases, ten favorites:
The Warriors
The Red Shoes
The Graduate
Seventh Seal
Persona
Wild Strawberries
Cries and Whispers
Hour of the Wolf
The Rapture
Streets of Fire
I also happened to see Kiss Me Deadly first time this year. Strange masterwork.
Loving all the Bergman.
Thanks for the list! Saw Wild at Heart for the first time this year as well and loved it as well. This list is way more interesting and useful than another 'Best of 2023' list.
Glad to hear! I have a lot of fun making these every year.
I know what you mean about being embarrassed as a cinephile for not having seen certain lauded classics. For me this year the big one was "Lawrence of Arabia". I gotta say it lived up to the hype. Now I'm still embarrassed that I haven't seen "Apocalypse Now". Hopefully I'll get to that this year.
Ultimately it's more exciting to have major blind spots than it is embarrassing. Just means you have some big things to look forward to!
The 15 best movies I watched in 2023 for the first time (in no particular order):
-Duck you sucker (1971) d.Sergio Leone
-Winter Light (1963) d.Ingmar Bergman
-The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) d.Vincente Minneli
-JFK (1991) d.Oliver Stone
-L'Avventura (1960) d.Michelangelo Antonioni
-Blowup (1966) d.Michelagelo Antonioni
-Encounters at the End of the World (2007) d.Werner Herzog
-Mishima: A life in 4 chapters (1985) d.Paul Schrader
- Bowfinger (1999) d.Frank Oz
- The treasure od the Sierra Madre (1948) d.John Huston
- The Dark Corner (1946) d.Henry Hathaway
- White hunter, black heart (1990) d.Clint Eastwood
- Sabrina (1954) d.Billy Wilder
- Up in the Air (2009) r.Jason Reitman
- In Bruges (2008) d.Martin McDonagh
Thank you for giving Cowboy Bebop The Movie a chance. Bebop was my first anime and led me to Death Note and Soul Eater (for which I am going to be foever thankful). I bought it from Suncoast at the mall back in 2003. The writers did an excellent job allowing it to be its own entity but still appreciating the fans. I was just talking to a friend about how awesome that 21 years later, I can watch this fantastic movie whenever I want. The series holds a special place in my heart...Spike was my spirit animal before that term became popular. His easy going attitude was admirable considering his lifestyle choices 😊 And you cannot forget his adopted family....again, thank you for listing this film. I'm glad others are seeing how valuable it is among the slew of anime films that sadly miss the mark.
Here are the 10 films that left the biggest impression on me during 2023. Ever since I watched the top pick early during last year, I still remember it so vividly that it may have earned a place somewhere in my all-time top 20 or top 10.
1. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. The Last Waltz (1978)
4. Airplane! (1980)
5. La Strada (1954)
6. Rashomon (1950)
7. Malcolm X (1992)
8. Solaris (1972)
9. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
10. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
nice! last few months of this year have been pretty much the first time ive properly been into movies, and my favourite first time watch was Scarface, with The Godfather, The Irishman, The Northman and Terrifier 2 (yes) for runnerups
Sounds like a good year for you and gangster movies!
@@EyebrowCinema 100%, and next years shaping up to be that too with all the other famous gangster films i havent watched yet
Glad you got to experience A Woman Under the Influence it’s like watching real life. Genius. And the first Tarkovsky movie I saw was Solaris which the first half almost tricked me to turn it off lol. This year I watched Stalker for the first time and he changed my life again! Can’t wait to watch the rest of his films out of order
I'll probably rewatch Stalker this year. Then the Tarkosky marathon might be paused due to streaming availability.
Really good video and a lot of crossover with my own tastes and films I saw for the first time in 2023, includingKiss Me Deadly and Mirror (but see my channel for my favourites of the year). Solaris is a longtime favourite of mine and (currently) my 6th favourite of all time. Great stuff and I’ll check out more of your vids.
Recently went through most of Cox's filmography (waiting on a friend to watch Repo Chick with me so I can continue that journey) and i've come to really really love him. Repo Man for me is his masterpiece but I do adore Sid & Nancy and im overjoyed to hear how much you loved that movie and just hear people discuss his work in general
1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
3. Synechdoche, New York
4. In Bruges
5. Possession
6. Incendies
7. An Elephant Standing Still
8. Lost Highway
9. Suspiria (1977)
10. La Haine or Harakiri
Honourable mentions: Memories of Murder, Kubo, Cure, Taste of Cherry, La Jetee, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Nausicaa. Nausicaa was a rewatch a few years removed from the last time I had seen it. I always knew that I loved it, but it reinforced it as my all time favorite Ghibli movie. Loved all these movies and loved your picks as well! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, and great list! Good year for you and David Lynch.
Ill go:
1. The Young Girls of Rochefort
2. Whiplash
3. Death Proof
4. Limelight
5. There Will Be Blood
6. It Happened One Night
7. Morvern Callar
8. Birdman
9. The Lodger
10. Carts of Darkness
I've had a friend pushing me to see Morvern Callar for a while now. Maybe 2024 is the year.
@@EyebrowCinema Yes! Lynne Ramsay is an amazing director. Morvern is my favourite but most of her films are deeply moving to me
Btw watching Ratcatcher before Morvern Callar isn’t necessary but it’s the best way to watch those movies imo. It’s similar to Jacques Demys style of name dropping a few characters from previous films
@@isjosh8064 Thanks, I appreciate the insight!
And this is why I'm a subscriber.
Great list as usual!
My top ten
1. L'Argent (1983) dir. Robert Bresson
2. Traces of Bernhard (2010) dir. David Liljemark
3. Still Walking (2008) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
4. Another Year (2010) dir. Mike Leigh
5. Wendy and Lucy (2008) dir. Kelly Reichardt
6. Rivers and Tides (2001) dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer
7. Demons (1971) dir. Toshio Matsumoto
8. Hud (1963) dir. Martin Ritt
9. It's a Gift (1934) dir. Norman Z. Mcleod
10. The Saddest Music in the World (2003) dir. Guy Maddin
I’ll be perfectly honest, I watched so many great films for the first time in 2023 that most of the 72 I watched were either 4 1/2 or 5 stars. I can’t believe it took a curious look into Sorcerer after Friedkins death (who I sadly didn’t really know beforehand) to basically watch around 50 older films I had on the back burner. It’s basically changed my viewing habits to be more habitual and I’m honestly happy with that.
This is a great idea, no idea why no one else does this.
It's fun to make too. And unlike a traditional Best of lists it doesn't feel like there's a half dozen movies I still need to catch-up on before making my list.
I watched a lot of great movies this year, I'm almost entirely caught up on the Cohen Brother's filmography now with most recently I saw the Hudsucker Proxy on New Years Eve (without knowing it takes place at New Years, which was a neat surprise). I also finally got around to watching Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, In Bruges and The Nice Guys.
I also watched a lot of Buster Keaton short films, which I loved.
Been seeing a lot of Buster love in the comments today and that makes me happy.
Glad you like Sid and Nancy, the ending with the taxi is sublime.
That song made my Spotify wrapped I listened to it so much.
@@EyebrowCinema Taxi to Heaven gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
Its ridiculous how Knockin on Heaven's Door is never on any streaming service & finding a good bluray copy is a pain to find.
Agreed.
I'm gonna post mine before watching yours. This was a magnificent year of movies for me - I think my top 8 of this year would have broken my top 2 of last year - so these are cream of a bumper crop.
1. RRR (2022, S.S. Rajamouli) - Maximalist euphoria. The dance scenes, the fight scenes, the political stance, the awkward romantic comedy - ALL of it is committed to 100% at every stage of the film. But if the core story wasn't so damn good, this wouldn't be near my top ten of a very strong year. The brotherhood and friendship of our heroes is tested over and over, becoming increasingly tragic and painful with each twist of the knife. That dramatic heart is *enhanced* by the maximalist intensity, so that there is so much more to the movie than its surface pleasures.
2. Extraordinary Stories (2008, Mariano Llinas) - It's not about the destination, but the journey. In many movies, that is true... but the detective mystery is VERY MUCH about that destination, of putting the puzzle together and revealing the perpetrators of the perfect crime. Unless your detective mystery is Extraordinary Stories, which spends more than half of its four hour running time in digressions and tangents that have *nothing* to do with anything and encourage the viewer to soak in its world and appreciate its people... before ending in a series of increasingly elaborate shaggy dog jokes. And it is all MAGICAL. Maybe more than any other movie I've seen, this is a world and experience I could immerse myself in, to flow with its many stories, its psychotic bank robbers and foolhardy soldiers and lovesick farmers and heartbroken abandoned animals. These stories may or may not help solve the core mysteries our detectives investigate (some of them do help, most do not), but these Extraordinary Stories are not about the destination.
3. Underground (1995, Emir Kusturica) - Foregrounding a love triangle against a backdrop of Yugoslavia's history as a nation, this Palme winning epic perfectly blends its large scale history (the film takes place over 50 years!) and its small scale drama. This love letter to Emir Kusturica's home country easily could have become an earnest and dour award grab (and the Oscar goes to the history lesson of a now dead nation!), but this is an often hilarious celebration of Yugoslavia and what it represents to Kusturica.
4. Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013, Sion Sono) - Nobody loves movies the way Sion Sono loves movies. This is such a joy to watch, an innocent love letter to imagination and creativity, a call to never starve that inner child amidst the grown-up cares and worries. Fuck Bombers forever.
5. Himizu (2011, Sion Sono) - So many movies want people to follow their hearts and chase their dreams. What Himizu understands - and so many other films miss - is that for some people, the strongest dream they have is to live a normal life where they don't hurt anyone. Sono understands the pain of suicidal thinking, the inescapable guilt of things you can't take back, the fear that you are fundamentally broken and can never give a good life to someone else. But he also understands that we don't need a movie wallowing in misery - that by showing people helping each other and loving each other, he can help us imagine that normal life. Even if we say it is out of reach, not realistic, not possible... Just imagine it. It sounds so perfectly happy, doesn't it?
6. Scalpel (1977, John Grissmer) - The best way I can describe my reaction to this movie is "compulsive cackling." Scalpel is a deliriously deranged, deliciously depraved psychosexual southern gothic soap opera that plays like Brian De Palma filming a Tennessee Williams script... but with more sleaze and more fun. Co-stars Robert Lansing and Judith Chapman are clearly HAVING A BALL all through this twisted yarn, and their enthusiasm is infectious.
7. Bahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017, S.S. Rajamouli) - Spectacle. That word meant one thing before Bahubali 2, and meant something very, very different afterwards.
8. Confessions (2010, Tetsuya Nakashima) - Confessions has a vision of the world much like Lord of the Flies... without any of that comforting distance LotF gives us. Nobody waits for a deserted island to show their true colors, and there is no sheen of polite civility here: almost every character is purely awful down to the roots (the best of them are dangerously naive). And yet, the film gropes for a kind of humanity, trying to find something, anything, good in people. Heartbreaking and horrifying in equal measure.
9. This Transient Life (1970, Akio Jissoji) - A horror film in which the dread doesn't come from some killer or monster, but yourself. The fear of Hell and of guilt and the fear that there is no Hell, that this transient life is all there is, that no God or Buddha is there to pass judgment on your sins, that all of these religions and laws are meaningless and made up because we're afraid of the unimaginable nothingness that awaits us all. Debut director Akio Jissoji perfectly captures the horror of not knowing which is worse.
10. Fast & Feel Love (2022, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit) - I've said it before, I'll say it again: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is the voice of Generation Z. Nobody understands the ennui of young people today like he does (Joachim Trier can fuck right off). So imagine my surprise when I learned his latest film was a full-blown action comedy spoof (referencing everything from Taken to the Fast & Furious franchise to a wonderfully conceived Parasite gag). Although this is his most accessible and funniest movie - not that he was ever inaccessible like some European arthouse clowns - it is also filled with his usual preoccupations. By pushing the protagonist's inability to "adult" to an absurdly comedic limit - just read this movie's premise if you don't believe me - he allows us to laugh at our failings and gently encourage the kids in adult bodies that there is room and time to grow, and that it is okay to screw up along the way.
And general thoughts on your favorites...
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Terrific popcorn entertainment. I think it is a lesser episode of the show - less philosophically dense or funny when compared to the best episodes, but trading that off with flashy action and a fast pace - but it's still such good fun.
Kiss Me Deadly is one I didn't like when I was younger, but don't really remember why.
Jeanne Dielmann, on the other hand... that movie is just.... why? If I want to watch a woman wash dishes and peel potatoes for three hours - with no dialogue, no insight into who she is, no NOTHING - I can just watch any random woman doing so! I'm glad it works for other people, but I 100% cannot understand how this stale-ass, utterly pedestrian work of pointless minimalism - minimalism that strips all narrative momentum for the purpose of... hell if I know - is so lauded.
Solaris, though, is a complete masterpiece, for some of the reasons you stated. It's a magnificent sci-fi yarn, a meditation on God and existence, etc. And Natalya Bondarchuk is such an ethereal being, providing one of the most hypnotic performances ever. I'm taking it you haven't reached Stalker yet, so... eheheheh. That's Tarkovsky's best, imo (Solaris is #2, Childhood is #3).
The short films of Buster Keaton! I've seen a lot of them (I think all of them you have mentioned.) Can't remember them all, but he made a lot of solidly entertaining stuff with great vfx and stunt work (nobody before or since could *act* while doing stunts like Keaton).
Cassavetes is... not for me. I'll just leave it at that, I think. Been a long time since I watched Influence, but I remember being pretty bored by it. I don't despise it the way I despise his other mean-spirited movies, I remember that.
Haven't seen Wild at Heart, The Dawn Patrol, Sid and Nancy, or Our Hospitality. The Keaton in particular looks really good - that last gag you showed made me laugh hard, and that's a split second joke! - so color me interested.
Of all the lists I've seen today this is the one that's the most new to me. The only of these films I've seen is RRR.
@@EyebrowCinema I watch altogether too many movies, and tend to gravitate towards the more obscure and foreign because they offer new experiences to me. But there's more to them than just "new = good." Rather, it is "outsider = intriguing." Watching some Thai movies in the past couple years has been a wacky, high energy experience. Tsui Hark is a pretty great director doing live action Looney Tunes action films (often starring big Chinese names like Jet Li), but nobody talks about him. Mariano Llinas has created wonderful experimental films in ways that people more established in certain film cultures would not do. (Both Extraordinary Stories and his 14 hour La Flor - yeah, that length isn't a typo - owe far more to Argentine novels than any movie.) David Lynch started his career with Eraserhead, which was far, FAR outside the mainstream, before it was seen by Mel Brooks, who immediately championed him and hired the kid to direct The Elephant Man.
There is so much outside of the curated world of the accepted masters. Not to say those masters are bad, but I tend to gravitate more towards these outsiders simply because *they don't feel like the masters.* They do their own things, in their own way.
Woman Under the Influence Hive let's gooooo
I am now under the influence and I'm loving it.
I saw Poor Things last week. My first theater experience since the pandemic started. Easily one of my favorite movies now.
Hoping to get to that one this week.
Here is my top 10 first time watches:
10. Fantasia
9. Frankenstein (1931)
8. Bringing Up Baby
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
6. The Great Silence
5. The Fabelmans
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. The Apartment
2. Dog Day Afternoon
1. the „The Human Condition“-Trilogy
The Human Condition Trilogy topped my list last year. Astounding stuff.
I was pretty inactive in movie watching but this Is my top 10
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Spiderman Across the Spider verse
3. Eyes Without a Face
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
5. It's a Wonderful life
6. The Fabelmans
7. Eraserhead
8. Some Like It Hot
9. Godzilla Minus One
10. The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Shoutout to The Exorcist, which wasn't a first watch but It was a first Time in theatres for me, and boy It was Awesome, the 4k remaster was beautiful, and the sound in the theatre was insane.
For someone inactive in 2023 this is an absolutrly killer list. I also just rewatched Some Like It Hot a few days ago so that's some fun timing.
eh fook it, here's mine. some movies I love but first saw in 2023. in no particular order.
- Rumble Fish
- The Fly (your video was what got me to finally see Cronenberg)
3.
- The French Connection
- Sorcerer
- Family Plot
- Frenzy
- The Phantom Carriage
- Marnie
- Topaz
- Killers Flower Moon
- Vertigo
- North by Northwest
- Rear Window
- Psycho
- The Birds
- Rope
- The Man Who Knew Much 56
- Trouble With Harry
- Sound of Freedom
- Cinema Paradiso
- F for Fake
- Lost in La Mancha
- Short Cuts
- Modern Times
- The Sacrifice
- Nostalghia
and that's it.
I'm glad I helped push someone towards The Fly. Also, this list is stellar. Seemed a big year for you and Hitchcock.
@@EyebrowCinema sure was. I bought those 4k sets from Universal and was pretty much an excuse to finally watch Hitchcock. all in November to note. and during that, saw North by Northwest else where, as it Warner.
before seeing Hitchcock and some Friedkin this year, I'd seen your videos about the two prior to it. with Friedkin, seeing his films as he'd passed away and I loved French Connection and Sorcerer right there. with Exorcist being one I enjoyed but my least favorite of the three.
with Hitchcock, I'd seen your video way back, but remembered it when the time came to see his last string of films and imo, I felt like the only truly mixed was Torn Curtain. especially after learning Bernard Herrmann did a fantastic score that wound up unused.
and I'd had the interest in Cronenberg but after seeing some alright movies of his, remembered your video and how The Fly is Cronenberg's best one. and that pushed me to finally see what was with The Fly. so watching it, it blew me away with it's depth compared to the flatness of Naked Lunch or Crash, where it's more events rather than the characters with personality of The Fly.
I've watched and seen your channel for some years now and yeah you're still good af. my introduction was from the video about Once Upon a Time in America. as I'd seen it and the mob films I had not seen in Feb 2022.
which another Documentary I'll mention since I listed one as a fav, is definitely Hearts of Darkness. a fine and iconic documentary but I prefer CinemaTyler's series on the movie's production honestly. goes much more indepth and covers the more crazier things that went down compared to Hearts of Darkness.
just started the video and coming out swinging hard - Knocking On Heaven's Door reset my tiny preteen brain (along with the show) and its so fucking good. Glad you've had a chance to watch it! It's fantastic.
my top 10 I saw in 2023 were
-Project A
-Chinatown
-The Last Temptation of Christ
-Sunset Boulevard
-Do the Right Thing
-Neptune Frost
-Redline
-All That Jazz
-Hollywood Shuffle
-Ran
For me personally:
10. Tokyo Godfathers
9. Gerry
8. Dead Man
7. Apocalypse Now
6. Hana-Bi
5. Tampopo
4. The Sacrifice
3. Bringing Out the Dead
2. Mother (Joon-ho)
1. Magnolia
Very cool list. Dead Man was also a first tine watch for me in 2023. Also welcome to the Bringing Out the Dead fandom. One day we will have our Blu-Ray.
For me the list would be:
1. Mama Roma
2. The Seventh Continent
3. L'Avventura
4. The Conformist
5. The White Ribbon
6. Red Desert
7. The Piano Teacher
8. Blow Up
9. La Notte
10. The Blue Angel
A bit homogenous, yes. But my greatest discoveries this year were Antonioni, Haneke and Pasolini
I've been thinking I need a restart with Antonioni similar to I did with Tarkovsky. I've seen a decent amount of his movies and really like Blow Up especially, but it's also been a while and I could use the re-introduction.
Will love if you do top favs movies by decade ❤
The director of Sid and Nancy is the same as Repo man? What an awesome and underrated sci Fi gem 💎✨
Ooh I kept track of my own top ten films after seeing your video last year, here’s mine:
10. The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
9. Joint Security Area (2000)
8. Brief Encounter (1945)
7. Paris, Texas (1984)
6. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
5. Chocolat (1988)
4. Stop Making Sense (1984)
3. Betty Blue (1986)
2. Close (2022)
1. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Nice! Stoked to see JSA make your list too, and great picks overall.
Here are nine movies I watched for the first time in 2023 that I gave 5 stars to on Letterboxd:
Persepolis (2007)
God Told Me To (1976)
Marianne and Juliane (1981)
Beau Pere (1981)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Assault (1986)
Confidence (1980)
Raven’s End (1963)
I've really gotta rewatch Persepolis. Don't think I've seen it since high school and that's just way too long.
If I had to recommend only one it’s be Confidence, it’s this brilliant WW2 thriller from Hungary that just blew me away. Not sure why it’s not talked about more. It’s from the same director who made Mephisto if you’ve heard of that one.
I'm not sure what my top 10 first time watches would be *exactly* but I do know that Betty (1992) would be number one. I would also have A Room With A View (1986), Phantom Thread (2017), Fascination (1979), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Max & The Junkmen (1971), Sabrina (1995), and The Power of the Dog (2021) in my list. From there it's really hard to choose and I'm not even 100% sure about a couple of those being in the top 10. I watched a lot of movies from the 1930s this year and a lot of films from particular actresses: Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and Juliette Binoche. Sooo, I'll just list a handful more that are standouts, favorites, and represent my 2023 year of watching: Broken Lullaby (1932), Midnight (1939), Easy Living (1937), Certified Copy (2010), Sophie's Way (1971), Old Acquaintance (1943), Poison for the Fairies (1986), Up The Down Staircase (1967), and I can't not mention Into The Woods- the American Playhouse Original Broadway cast performance/recording (1991) if that counts!
I had a pretty good year, this year. Got to see stuff like The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Other Side of the Wind, and The Apartment, but here were my top ten first watches:
10- Following (dir Christopher Nolan)
9- Election (dir Alexander Payne)
8- Paper Moon (dir Peter Bogdanovich - in memory of Ryan O’Neal)
7- 12 Angry Men (dir Sidney Lumet)
6- Alien (dir Ridley Scott)
5- Titanic (dir James Cameron - got the chance to see in IMAX 3D in February and realised, that ‘huh, this is good, actually’)
4- Judgement At Nuremberg (dir Stanley Kramer - gotta love a movie that can keep 100% engaged for three hours)
3- Casino (dir Martin Scorsese)
2- Network (dir Sidney Lumet, great screenplay, this was at the top for a while then the next film just scooched on in in December)
1- Apocalypse Now (dir Francis Ford Coppola, theatrical cut, brilliant film)
Stellar list. I'm envious to be honest.
A woman under the influence didn't do much for me but now just seeing some frames I remember so many good things, I can't say that for other meh movies, will revisit
Good video. My list would be
10. Donnie Darko (extremely smart screenplay with great performance by jake gyllenhall. Also I vibed with the teen angst of it as somebody coming out of highschool that year)
9. Irreversible (Very disturbing but smart movie. Generally the kind of gimic this movie used would make it worse but it’s works in this movies case because it adds to the hectic nature of it while having amazing transitions and interesting themes about male violence)
8. Gladiator (it’s an amazing time enough said)
7. I am a sex addict (very underrated movie about the director by indie filmmaker Caveh Zadhie. He casts himself as the main character which sounds kind of pretentious in some regards but his style and humor not only make it extremely entertaining but also adds a layer of authenticity due to blurring of documentary and drama)
6. Intolerance (Griffiths Masterpiece, incredible set design, 4 intertwining storys that all make themeatic sense and incredible use of montage.)
5. La La Land (Amazing musical that not only covers all the bases in making a great musical but also subverts the genre in an interesting but simple way that works. Made me cry.)
4. Spiderman Across the Spiderverse (revolutionary animation with compelling story with great themes. Best comic book movie to come out since the first Spiderverse period)
3. Batman vs Superman Ultimate Edition (I don’t feel like justifying this so I won’t)
2. A Silent Voice (one of if not the best depictions of selective socialization and the awkwardness of forgiveness from the wrong doers and victims point of view in a film period)
1. Titanic (amazing theater experience and movie in general. Has everything you could really ask for, amazing performances, amazing set design, great script, great romance, and one amazing set piece.)
I really should get around to Irreversible. It's been one I've been curious about for a very long time but it's difficult to find the right mood.
if you liked La La Land, check out The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Great list. Can't speak to whether it's *better* but will strongly recommend Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent in the "excellent anime series" category, it's his usual themes elaborated for miniseries length and probably his funniest and most insightful work.
Top 10 first time watches for me:
10. The Visitor in the Eye (as a big House fan I can't get enough of Obayashi's romantically imaginative style)
09. Elisa, mia vida (this was the year I discovered I love Geraldine Chaplin, and her work with Carlos Saura is stellar. this one is an ambiguous reflection on memories, familial relationships, and the wounds of post-fascist Spain)
08. Autumn Sonata (truly cannot go wrong with Bergman. both of them!)
07. Diary for My Children (first in Marta Meszaros' auto-biographical movies about coming of age in Communist Hungary. this one's the best one - the invocation of memory elevates it from a potentially rote period drama into something deeply personal)
06. Klute (skin crawlingly paranoid film. amazing cast)
05. Death by Hanging (powerful, moralistic, absurdist and funny plea from Nagisa Oshima against the death penalty)
04. Nashville (can't believe it took me this long. the near-3 hours flew by. rich tapestry of characters all inflicted with the American dream of being famous enough to be murdered)
03. Sisters (I like Frenzy but this is *really* what Hitchcock in the 70s should be. masterful and daring, great timely political stuff around race, feminism, and unsympathetic corridors of power)
02. Deep End (sex comedy gone wrong, gone toxic)
01. War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk's epic. both incredible from a scale point of view but also, with wildly inventive camera tricks and subtle tones, captures the spirituality of Tolstoy's work too. ethereally good cinema)
dude I wish I could see Death By Hanging for the first time again, what an experience
In no particular order:
- Giant
- Beau is Afraid
- Bringing Out the Dead
- Le Bonheur
- Days of Wine and Roses
- High and Low
- Safety Last!
- Running on Empty
- Enter the Dragon
- The Heiress
Daaaaaamn! Maaaan!
You've watched some amazing movies in 2023.
It was a good year.
Guess here’s my top 5
5. Five Nights at Freddy’s: not a good film by itself but just a load of fun with friends
4. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters: first off, 10/10 name. Second off, it was really funny. Not a film for anyone who isn’t an Aqua Teen fan but got the ones who are, it’s on the Internet Archives for free so what are you waiting for
3. Freaked: pure comedy gold from beginning to end. Such a shame this film has slipped under the radar after 30 years because it’s bat shit insane and fun from beginning to end. It is pretty much just 120 minutes of gags and jokes mixed with crazy special effects. And with Keanu Reeves as the Dog Boy and Mr. T and the Bearded Lady, this film is killer
2. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. Schlocky violence with bad puns. Throw in a crazy fun performance from Billy Zane that absolutely steals the show and as the Crypt Keeper once said “Now that’s Entertainment!”
1. Creepshow. This has become one of my favorite films of all time. The stories, the special effects, the acting, the direction. Having George Romero, Stephen King, and Tom Savini working together to make a tribute to 1950’s horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of horror is in itself fantastic. Add in the a killer cast including E.G. Marshall, Ted Danson, Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, and Hal Holbrook is just the cherry on top. Every single inch of this movie is covered in love from everyone who worked on it. Every single second is filled with care and attention to detail. I can’t describe how much I love Creepshow as a movie and as a franchise. It is a beautiful movie from beginning to end that I can’t appreciate enough. 10/10
Some other films I saw included: Nightmare on Elm Street 1-3
Creepshow 2
Mario Bros
Saw I-VI
UHF
Full Metal Jacket
Jojo Rabbit
Forrest Gump
Dark Knight
Batman 89
Dr. Strange Love
Blues Brothers
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Tingler
And Ferris Bueller among others
Final note: worst movie I saw this year: Creepshow 3. Just an all around piece of shit cash grab made by a greedy studio and has nothing to do with the first 2. Avoid at all costs
I hope everyone had a good 2023 and has a great 2024
Creepshow 3 looks unreasonably bad. Does the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie include that Metal song about not talking in the theater? I've never seen the film but listen to that track all the time.
@@EyebrowCinema on the Creepshow thing: it’s awful. The rights were bought by a direct to DVD company and they spit it out. Genuinely awful
On the Aqua Teen thing, yes. It acts as the opening of the film and is pretty funny(funnier if you had no prior knowledge of the scene but still)
A woman under the influence was also my number one film I saw in 2023, it truly is Phenomenal movie.
Hell yeah. Great, great movie.
A bit late to the party but if I had to pick out my favorite movies I watched for the first time in 2023, the following would be there:
West Side Story
The Wild Bunch
High Plains Drifter
Singing in the Rain
The Gold Rush
City Lights
Leave Her to Heaven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Superman 2
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
It wasn’t as good as the last couple years (in retrospect, I now consider my 2022 list of movies as a better list than what I thought at the time), but hopefully, this will be more versatile and more improving as the years go on and my film journey expands. But so far, this year has gone good. Still, no best films of the year list compares to 2021 where I was finding masterpiece after another back then. And that’s what I’m hoping 2024 will be like. If it doesn’t happen, the next years or so will make up for it hopefully. There’s always hope down the tunnel.
Honestly, I had a lot of good first time watches this year! It was hard to make this list, might rework it on the future.
Honorable Mentions: Bring me the head of alfredo garcia, Spellbound, Oldboy and The Holy Mountain.
10) The Descent
9) Phenomena
8) The Secret in their eyes
7) Tiempo de Valientes
6) Apocalypse Now
5) Paris Texas
4) The Gunfighter
3) The Exorcist
2) Seven Samurai (this is actually a rewatch, but seeing it on cinemas is a different experience)
1) Brazil
Phenomenal list. Glad you got to see Seven Samurai in a theater. That sounds like an utter delight.
A Woman Under the Influence has haunted me for years in an entirely different way, in that I never responded to the love for it or Cassavetes as a whole, forced to sit at my lonely Cassavetes Hater table of one. Very interested to check out the blind spots I have from this list, but as for myself, I'd say The Last Picture Show, Pyaasa, Streetwise and Secrets & Lies were the best films I watched last year.
Yeah Cassavetes is interesting because I've never LOVED any of his films I've seen, but they definitely all stuck with me in some way
A little self indulgence isn't a bad thing. If I have to watch one more film or play one more game made to please everyone, I'm going to .... I dunno, avoid them I guess? Anyway, keep up the good work.
Thanks Jim!
How does the Hawks Dawn Patrol compare to the Errol Flynn remake from a few years later? The latter is the one I grew up with and I remember it being pretty decent.
It's hard choosing just ten films, but here's my list:
1 - Under The Flag Of The Rising Sun (1972)
2 - Phantom Of The Paradise (1974)
3 - Lars And The Real Girl (2007)
4 - Nightcrawler (2014)
5 - Possession (1981)
6 - Harakiri (1962)
7 - The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
8 - The Swimmer (1968)
9 - High And Low (1963)
10 - Gate Of Hell (1954)
Honourable mentions (these are all too good to go unmentioned):
Wise Blood (1979)
The Last Detail (1973)
Hunger (1966)
Chilly Scenes Of Winter (1979)
The Offence (1973)
The Bofors Gun (1968)
I've seen most of your list except your number one, funnily enough. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun is totally new to me but looks very interesting.
@@EyebrowCinema It might be my favourite Japanese film, and it's certainly my favourite WWII film.
Top 25 favorite movies ive seen for the first time this year
1. The Red Shoes (1948)
2. The Misfits (1961)
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
4. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
5. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
6. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Double Indemnity (1944)
9. La Haine (1995)
10. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
11. Rebecca (1940)
12. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
13. The Holdovers (2023)
14. The Four Feathers (1939)
15. Passage to Marseille (1944)
16. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2023)
17. The Last Emperor (1987)
18. Two for the Road (1967)
19. Red River (1948)
20. Stagecoach (1939)
21. Oppenheimer (2023)
22. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
23. Empire of the Sun (1987)
24. Black Narcissus (1947)
25. Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Real good list this. The Misfits will also be one of my first watches of 2024 so I'll be catching up with that very soon.
Da mirror da mirror da mirror! I’m so hyped
Just saw the list, shit sorry
fuck yeah self-indulgence! a few films i loved this year:
- Cold Souls (2009) - forgotten paul giamatti sci-fi indie dramedy
- Dick (1999) - an insane quirky comedy about tricky dick, of all people
- S1m0ne (2002) - the DUMBEST movie i've seen in a long long long time, and so much fun. my favorite kind of bad movie
- The Children’s Hour (1961) - really compelling time-capsule with great Hepburn-MacLaine performances
- One Hour Photo (2002) - man, this movie has aged like fine wine.
- Thelma & Louise (1991) - welp, this just became my favorite ridley scott movie
- The Andromeda Strain (1971) - exquisite sci-fi procedural, from the guy for directed sound of music of all things (and the Star Trek motion picture)
- To Die For (1995) - like an Evil Tim Burton movie, in all the best ways
- Oklahoma! (1955) - what an INSANE, UNHINGED, FUN bundle of crazy this milestone musical is. zinnemann doesn't fuck around
happy new year! 'Kiss Me Deadly' is quite the movie
Happy New Year!! Did you see a Criterion of To Die For just got announced?
@@EyebrowCinema oh shit i didn’t. hope they pack some extras in there, what a gem of a movie
11:42 “lmaooooo this guy hasn’t Jeanne dillman get outta hereeee 😂😂😂”
- the cinephile cool kids table, 2023
True story. The bullying I endured was severe but I did come out stronger.
Guess I need to finally watch Dawn Patrol, it's been on my dvr for like a year.
I watched Wild at Heart for the first time not that long ago. It so strange how such a well regarded filmmaker like David Lynch, who didn't make that many films, has a few films in his filmography that are very obscure and hard to find now. Wild at Heart and Lost Highway only received North American blu-ray releases within the last handful of years, which is insane for how good both of those films are. I still think Inland Empire has yet to get a Blu-Ray release.
Criterion put out Inland Empire semi-recently. I actually got that Blu Ray as a Christmas gift.
@@EyebrowCinema Thanks. I was not aware of that.
Speaking of Lynch, I watched The Straight Story for the first time and I was so amazed and entranced by a film that does......practically nothing, but in the best way and its beautiful in its simplicity, I never heard about it until recently and saw an article saying "remember when David Lynch made a Disney film?" And I was like "WHAT IS THIS" I immediately had to watch it and I loved it, especially Angelo Badalamentis' wonderful score, highly recommended
I tried watching my first Tarkovsky this year: Stalker. I thought it was very boring. I couldn't even watch it the whole way through. I started skipping around after like 30 minutes. Maybe I will revisit and like it like you.
every time, every fucking time I see chaplin rollerskate so close to that edge my fight or flight response activates because I know for a fact that is not being faked, he's really inches away from his death
Top ten movies I watched for the first time this year:
10. Menace II Society
9. Worst Person in the World
8. Scarface (De Palma's)
7. La Dolce Vita
6. Past Lives
5. My Darling Clementine
4. Poor Things
3. Exotica
2. The Green Ray
1. Stop Making Sense
This was like listening to Patrick Bateman talk about music.
There are two types of Otaku. Those who name Cowboy Bebop as their favorite anime and those who have yet to experience it.
My favourite watch in 2023 was The Long Goodbye
My top 10 first time watches of 2023
Sideways
The Piano Teacher
The House that Jack Built
Submarine
The Last Picture Show
Whiplash
Killing of a Sacred Deer
Midnight Cowboy
Terminator 2
Oldboy - I hope Canada got access to the 20th anniversary screenings.
I also watched Jeanne Dielman and I found it absolutely boring. The way it was made surly has intention and I wanted to be edified by the tedium to unlock some interest but that simply never happened. I think it’s just a case of an bold filmakers idea did not work for me
I can get that reaction to Dielman. I also have no idea how I'd react outside of a theater.
Also great list. Thrilled to see more love from The Last Picture Show.
1. 2024 is the year you get to 100k subs.
2. Wild at Heart is a movie, I have to admit, I don't get. I don't get Lost Highway either, to be honest.
3. I'm really bad at cataloging what I watch so I feel like I can't make a list. And I don't think I actually saw a movie in a theatre in 2023, not as I can recall anyhow.
1. Here's hoping! I need about 22k subs to get there, which is 5k more than I gained in 2023. So, getting there might be tight, but it is doable.
2. That's fair, I don't know if I get it either.
3. Maybe 2024 will have more theater trips!
@@EyebrowCinema As far as I've noticed growth is exponential, so the more you grow the more you grow, to a certain limit at least.
I'm also poor and movie tickets aren't getting cheaper here in Sweden, not the mainstream theatres at least. But I've promised to go see at least one movie in the theatres once a month in 2024.
So much of this year was taken up by the mental energy of reading Dostoyevsky's Demons that it blocked out a lot of other things. I saw Barbie, which was really good.
Here's my list:
The Incident (1967)
Resurrection (2022)
Descent Into Darkness: My European Nightmare (2013)
Massacre At Central High (1976)
Kisapmata (1981)
Punishment Park (1971)
Demons (1971)
Blind Beast (1969)
In My Skin (2002)
Altered (2006)
Images (1972)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Secret In Their Eyes (2009)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Southern Comfort (1981)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
The Rapture (1991)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
The King of Pigs (2011)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971)
Lady In A Cage (1964)
The Wolfman (2010)
The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
Buzzard (2014)
Poison For The Fairies (1986)
Lily 4-Ever (2002)
The Hunt (2012)
Kids (1995)
Simon Killer (2012)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Kidnapped (2010)
August Underground (2001)
Men Behind The Sun (1988)
Threads (1984)
Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
Exists (2014)
Lots of good stuff here. I'm thinking 2024 should be the year I FINALLY get to The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
My top 20 of the year are
He who got slapped
The graduate
8 1/2
Safety last!
Ikiru
The unknown
M
The holy Mountain
Midnight cowboy
Barry lyndon
La dolce vota
The third man
Godzilla minus one
Sunset boulevard
Shoot the piano player
Anatomy of a murder
The doors
Breathless
The last laugh
Citizen kane
Mine in no order
Nil By Mouth
The Bad Sleep Well
Tàr
The Yakuza
The Father
Oppenheimer
Lawman
Talk to Me
Red River
Saltburn
I also watched The Yakuza this year, assuming you're also talking about the Sydney Pollack movie. Cool film.
no place better than to put it here:
10. Moonrise Kingdom
9. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Days of Being Wild
7. Oppenheimer
6. Howl's Moving Castle
5. Glass Onion
4. Barbie
3. Uncut Gems
2. Spirited Away
1. Little Women
Rugrats in Paris
So here’s my top 20 first time watches (not including 2023):
1. Safe (1995)
2. One Eyed Jacks (1960)
3. Crumb (1994)
4. Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1988)
5. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
6. Down By Law (1986)
7. The Inspection (2022)
8. A Brief History of Time (1991)
9. A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
10. Tampopo (1985)
11. Home From The Hill (1960)
12. Police Story (1985)
13. Limelight (1952)
14. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
15. The Trial (1962)
16. Beauty And The Beast (1946)
17. Shallow Grace (1994)
18. Storytelling (2001)
19. Targets (1968)
20. Cronos (1992)
Honorable Mentions:
Gates of Heaven (1978)
The Executioner (1963)
Battle of Algers (1966)
Playtime (1967)
Orpheus (1950)
Fists of Fury (1972)
Streetwise (1986)
Fearless (1993)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Bulworth (1998)
Top 10 of 2023:
1. Blackberry
2. Poor Things
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Taylor Swift: The Era Tour
5. Beau Is Afraid
6. The Holdovers
7. Oppenheimer
8. The Iron Claw
9. Ferrari
10. Killers of The Flower Moon
The only regret this year was not seeing more new foreign films, but I’ll probably see most of them the next few months.
Watch anatomy of a fall!
repo man is better
This pretentious ass list, dawg be yourself.
he is being himself, and these aren't even particularly pretentious movies. you're on the wrong channel if you expected him to just list off like the 10 most recent marvel movies he's watched lmao
@@pestifer_ I have been subbed since 2021 I like him and I love his videos but man he and some other film video essay RUclipsrs can be pretentious like he is trying to hard to impress other cinephiles I just wanted a mix atleast of honesty I meet people who talk like this all the time and 80 percent of the time they are just trying too hard also idc about marvel movies lol am not that person but I also used to be pretentious that's why I can tell.
'Jeanne Dielman' isn't a movie. It's an art installation, one of those things you found playing on a 23" Sony Trinitron in a tiny room all by itself. You watch it for a few minutes, say "I don't get it," then move along. You circle back twenty minutes later, watch a few more minutes, and say, "I still don't get it." It's pompous, empty, feminist junk.
'Solaris' is garbage, a shabby Soviet rip-off of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It's the film equivalent of the Tu-144 "Concordsky," the commie rip-off of the exquisite British-French Concorde.
The only good thing about 'Jeanne Dielman' and 'Solaris' is that, unlike the Tu-144, neither crashed into a Paris suburb and killed civilians.
I'd rather watch the Collected Works of Jerry Lewis than either of these abominations a second time.
Not at all
You and your "partner"? Don't you mean your girlfriend or wife? It's demeaning to the other to call them a "partner" like you have a business relationship and not a romantic relationship
Glad you enjoyed Cowboy Bebop so much. The movie, known as Knocking on Heavens door in Japan (we didn't get the cool title because of copyright) is definitely a treat. I hope you watched it all dubbed. Probably has one of the few English dubs that is more beloved than the original Japanese.
I'm usually more into anime than anything but I really burnt myself out in 2021/22 and started migrating back into cinephilia after about a decade mostly immersed in anime. I run a monthly film club at my library and have discovered the Philadelphia Film Society shows a lot of classic cinema so that has helped me watch a lot of older films, when I'm not using Kanopy, Hoopla, Netflix, or my brother's Prime account. Definitely helped me in my goal of watching all the 1001 Movies you Must See Before You Die; I've owned a copy for about 15 years now.
Older films I watched for the first time and that stuck out to me this year, in no particular order, include: John Huston's The Dead, Reservoir Dogs, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (which got me into a month long giallo spree), The Godfather, Back to the Future, Saving Private Ryan, RRR, and one shot I really love from the giallo adjacent Italian slasher film Stagefright Aquarius.
I actually watched Bebop all subtitled but I think on our inevitable rewatch we'll give the dub a try.
God, anime is SO ugly on the eyes! If only they´ve animated the stuff the normal way, they would be unbeatable, lol. Hell, they are unbeatable anyway, damn!? :)