2023 First Watches

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Renewed Appreciation: PlayTime, GoodFellas, Millennium Mambo, The River, Mildred Pierce, The Host

Shorts: A Short Story, Could see a puma., The Sower of Stars, By Halves, Fire Belly, Last Screening, Oh Supreme Light, This Is My Kingdom, Newt Leaders, Three Atlas, Ginko Yellow, Birds in the Window

  1. La Cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol) [January]
  2. Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk) [May]
  3. L’Enfant (2005, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [March]
  4. That Old Dream That Moves (2001, Alain Guiraudie) [January]
  5. Full Contact (1992, Ringo Lam) [May]
  6. The Kid With a Bike (2011, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [March]
  7. Tokyo Drifter (1966, Suzuki Seijun) [February]
  8. Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt) [April]
  9. Kagero-za (1981, Suzuki Seijun) [February]
  10. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor) [January]
  11. in water (2023, Hong Sang-soo) [February]
  12. Mother (2009, Bong Joon-ho) [February]
  13. Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich) [March]
  14. Tales of the Purple House (2022, Abbas Fahdel) [March]
  15. Stars at Noon (2022, Claire Denis) [January]
  16. Rewind & Play (2022, Alain Gomis) [April]
  17. Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) [March]
  18. Rosetta (1999, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [March]
  19. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023, Chad Stahelski) [April]
  20. The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2022, Lewis Klahr) [February]
  21. Saturn Bowling (2022, Patricia Mazuy) [March]
  22. Matter Out of Place (2022, Nikolaus Geyrhalter) [March]
  23. Both Sides of the Blade (2022, Claire Denis) [January]
  24. Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata) [March]
  25. The Adventures of Gigi the Law (2022, Alessandro Comodin) [March]
  26. Knock at the Cabin (2023, M. Night Shyamalan) [February]
  27. Full River Red (2023, Zhang Yimou) [January]
  28. Shin Ultraman (2022, Higuchi Shinji) [May]
  29. Glass Onion (2022, Rian Johnson) [January]
  30. Passages (2023, Ira Sachs) [January]
  31. Astrakan (2022, David Depesseville) [March]
  32. Kimi (2022, Steven Soderbergh) [January]
  33. Fremont (2023, Babak Jalali) [January]
  34. Safe Place (2022, Juraj Lerotić) [March]
  35. It Is Night in America (2022, Ana Vaz) [March]
  36. Titanic (1997, James Cameron) [March]
  37. Nemesis (1992, Albert Pyun) [May]
  38. Last Things (2023, Deborah Stratman) [January]
  39. A Common Sequence (2023, Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser) [January]
  40. Skinamarink (2022, Kyle Edward Ball) [January]
  41. The Tuba Thieves (2023, Alison O’Daniel) [January]
  42. Warriors of Future (2022, Ng Yuen-fai) [May]
  43. Gush (2023, Fox Maxy) [January]
  44. Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? (2022, Franciska Eliassen) [March]
  45. Fairytale (2022, Alexander Sokurov) [March]
  46. The Batman (2022, Matt Reeves) [January]
  47. Cette maison (2022, Miryam Charles) [January]
  48. Flash Point (2007, Wilson Yip) [January]
  49. Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann) [January]