FILM IN MEMORY: 2023
All the films that have stayed with me this past year, lingered, their images upon me — dreamt or evidenced. For the first time.
ONIBABA (Kaneto Shindo, 1965)
2. FIRST NAME: CARMEN (Jean-Luc Godard, 1983)
3. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, 1942)
4. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, 1927)
5. HEROIC PURGATORY (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970)
6. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, 2021)
7. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog, 1972)
8. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang, 1983)
9. GASLIGHT (George Cukor, 1944)
10. A WIFE CONFESSES (Yasuzo Masumura, 1961)
11. THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
12. PALE FLOWER (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
13. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, 1967)
14. SAMURAI REBELLION (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967)
15. IN A LONELY PLACE (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
16. DARKNESS AND LIGHT (Chang Tso-Chi, 1999)
17. THE SWORD OF DOOM (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
18. HHH: A PORTRAIT OF HOU HSIAO-HSIEN (Olivier Assayas, 1997)
19. SONATINE (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
20. RETURN TO SEOUL (Davy Chou, 2022)
21. THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Love, 2016)
22. ORIGINS OF THE 21st CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard 2000)
23. NADJA IN PARIS (Eric Rohmer, 1964)
24. LETTER FROM A FILMMAKER TO HIS DAUGHTER (Eric Pauwels, 2000)
25. WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOUSE? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
26. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
27. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)
28. THE CHILDE (Park Hoon-jung, 2023)
29. THE END OF SUMMER (Yasujiro Ozu, 1961)
30. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gilles Pontecorvo, 1966)
31. SALT OF THIS SEA (Annemarie Jacir, 2008)
32. I LIKE MOVIES (Chandler Levack, 2022)
33. EYE IN THE SKY (Yau Nai-hoi, 2007)
34. IT MUST BE HEAVEN (Elia Suleiman, 2019)
35. IN THE DARKNESS OF TIME (Jean-Luc Godard, 2002)
36. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006)
37. RED ARMY/PFLP: DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR (Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu, 1971)
38. REASSEMBLAGE: FROM THE FIRELIGHT TO THE SCREEN (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1983)
39. GLASS (Bert Haanstra, 1958)
40. HEAT (Michael Mann, 1995)
41. PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, 2023)
