Favorite First-Watches and Discoveries of 2023
Here are my Favorite Pre-2022 First-Watches and Discoveries of 2023:
“Humoresque” (1946)
“Max and the Junkmen”
“Le Trou” (“The Hole”)
“Streets of Fire” (1984)
“Le Corbeau” (“The Raven”)
”The Man from Laramie”
“An Impossible Love”
“Women in Love” (1969)
“Splendor in the Grass” (1961)
“Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer”
“A Girl Missing”
“Black Sunday” (1977)
“Lover Come Back” (1961)
“César and Rosalie”
“Twentieth Century”
“Bad News Bears” (1976)
“Elizabeth Harvest”
“Serenity” (2019)
“Pastorale 1943”
“Fran”
“Executive Decision” (1973)
“Fallen Angel” (1945)
“Persian Lessons”
“The Audition” (2019)
“Sister, Sister”
“Apollo 11” (2019)
“House of Gucci”
“Hangover Square” (1945)
“High Tension” (Unrated)
“Vengeance is Mine” (1984)
“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
“Black Orpheus”
“Wife of a Spy”
“Madeleine Collins”
“Rachel, Rachel”
“The Midwife”
“The Sadness” (2021)
“Braid” (2018)
“The Snapper”
“The Nile Hilton Incident”
“Brimstone”
“Demonlover” (Director’s Cut)
“Waterland”
“My King” (2015)
“The Stunt Man”
“Becket” (1964)
“Mother Joan of the Angels”
“Happening” (2021)
“Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie”
“F/X”
“Dream Lover” (Uncut)
“Chess Story”
“Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time”
“Still Crazy”
“La Bête Humaine”
“Bait” (2019)
“The Three Musketeers” (1973)
“Man Hunt” (1941)
“La Belle Captive”
“Room at the Top”
“Seventh Heaven” (1997)
“The Killing Floor” (1984)
“The Glass Key” (1942)
“Dark Night of the Scarecrow”
“Flesh+Blood”
“Massacre at Central High”
First-Watches of Films: January 2023
“Humoresque” (1946)
“Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer”
“Serenity” (2019) (x2)
“Apollo 11” (2019)
“House of Gucci”
“Black Orpheus”
“Vengeance is Mine” (1984)
“Happening” (2021)
“The Glass Key” (1942)
“The Killing Floor” (1984)
“Boys State”
“The Plumber” (1979)
“White Noise” (2022)
“The Eternal Daughter”
“The Menu”
“This Gun for Hire”
“Cop Land”
“Raymond & Ray”
“Another World” (2021)
“Bone: A Bad Day in Beverly Hills”
“Hatching”
“Executive Decision”
“Skinamarink”
“Call Northside 777”
“Soul Food”
“Charlie’s Country”
“She Will”
Rewatches of Films: January 2023
“Citizen Kane”
“The Ninth Configuration”
“The Whale”
“Deep End”
“A Fish Called Wanda”
“The Innocents” (2021)
“Unidentified”
“Mad God”
“The Brady Bunch Movie”
“Corsage”
“The Tragedy of Macbeth”
“Cellular”
“Bride of Chucky”
First-Watches of Films: February 2023
“Max and the Junkmen”
“Twentieth Century”
“César and Rosalie”
“Room at the Top”
“Dead for a Dollar”
“Infinity Pool”
“Wife of a Spy”
“Martin Eden”
“Incredible But True”
“RRR”
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (2022)
“Bones and All”
“Les Choses de la Vie”
“The Peanut Butter Falcon”
“A Kind of Loving”
“Cordelia”
“Saint Omer”
“Asako I & II”
“Come and Get It”
“Ash”
“You Never Can Tell”
“The Boxtrolls”
“Pulse”
“That Most Important Thing: Love”
“Short Eyes”
“The Nun’s Story”
“Lover For a Day”
“Code of Silence”
Rewatches of Films: February 2023
“Three Kings”
“Killer Joe”
“Midnight Run”
“Life Itself”
“Seven Beauties”
“The Whale”
“The Secret of Roan Inish”
“The Cat’s Meow”
“God Bless America”
“Alps”
First-Watches of Films: March 2023
“The Quiet Girl”
“A Girl Missing”
“Executive Decision” (1973)
“Madeleine Collins”
“Chess Story”
“Man Hunt” (1941)
“Mayor”
“3 Faces”
“High Tension” (Unrated)
“Demonlover” (Director’s Cut)
“Suite Française”
“The Woman on the Beach”
“Seventh Heaven” (1997)
“Q: The Winged Serpent”
“Me and My Gal”
“Little Women” (1933)
“Last of the Dogmen”
“What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael”
“Strange Behavior” (“Dead Kids”)
“Fascination” (1979)
“The Outsiders: The Complete Novel”
“August 32nd on Earth”
“The Young Savages”
Rewatches of Films: March 2023
“3 Women”
“Freeway” (1996 – Uncensored Director’s Cut)
“Chopper”
“Pandora and the Flying Dutchman”
“Titanic” (1997)
“Leave No Trace”
“To Leslie”
“The Good Boss”
“Bronson”
“Barbarian”
“The Menu”
“Maelström”
First-Watches of Films: April 2023
“Le Corbeau” (The Raven)
“Black Sunday” (1977)
“Lover Come Back” (1961)
“Beau is Afraid” (“Disappointment Blvd.”)
“Sister, Sister”
“The Snapper”
“Waterland Becket” (1964)
“La Bête Humaine”
“Pillow Talk”
“The Tarnished Angels” (1957)
“Hôtel du Nord”
“The Girl Can’t Help It”
“Phantom Lady” (1944)
“Wonder Wheel”
“When You Finish Saving the World”
“All I Desire”
“Enys Men”
“Moonage Daydream”
“The Tall Men”
“The Curse” (“Nocebo”)
“Cry, My Beloved Country” (1995)
“Send Me No Flowers”
“Justice for Bunny King”
“Color of Night Maniac” (1980)
“Malignant”
“Thunder on the Hill”
“When a Stranger Calls” (1979)
“Town Without Pity”
Rewatches of Films: April 2023
“The Prince of Egypt”
“Total Recall” (1990)
“Dead For a Dollar”
“Smoking Causes Coughing”
First-Watches of Films: May 2023
“Le Trou” (“The Hole”)
“Elizabeth Harvest”
“You Hurt My Feelings” (2023)
“The Audition” (2019)
“The Three Musketeers” (1973)
“Brimstone”
“The Nile Hilton Incident”
“Sweet Thing” (2020)
“Spoor” (“Pokot”)
“Judgment at Nuremberg”
“M3GAN”
“Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.”
“Witchfinder General”
“Return to Seoul”
“The Wayward Bus”
“Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?”
“My Name is Sara”
“Forty Guns”
“Heart of Midnight”
“The Dark and the Wicked”
“Appaloosa”
“Go Tell the Spartans”
“Switchblade Sisters”
“Party Girl” (1995)
“Murmur” (2019)
“Mother’s Day” (1980) (Rat Pack Forever!)
Rewatches of Films: May 2023
“The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”
“Body Heat”
“No Country For Old Men”
“The Quiet Girl”
“JFK”
“Cape Fear” (1962)
“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
“May” (2002)
“The Great Silence”
“Gladiator” (Extended Cut)
“Aftersun”
“Single White Female”
“The Big Easy”
“Infinity Pool”
“Fatal Attraction” (1987)
“Southland Tales” (Cannes Cut)
First-Watches of Films: June 2023
“Palm Trees and Power Lines”
“The Sadness” (2021)
“Sick of Myself”
“Mother Joan of the Angels”
“Dream Lover” (Uncut) (x2)
“Reflection” (“Vidblysk”) (2021)
“Calvaire” (2004)
“Dark Night of the Scarecrow”
“Marlow” (2022)
“Tetsuo: The Iron Man”
“Lonely Are the Brave”
Rewatches of Films: June 2023
“Moonlighting” (1982)
“In a Lonely Place”
“Uncut Gems”
“The Little Mermaid” (1989)
“The Incredibles”
“The Incredibles 2”
“The Royal Tenenbaums”
“Down with Love”
“Saint Maud”
“Bliss” (1997)
“A Dark Song”
“Mr. Bean’s Holiday”
First-Watches of Films: July 2023
“The Man from Laramie”
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Pt 1”
“Fran”
“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
“F/X”
“The Stunt Man”
“La Belle Captive”
“Flesh+Blood”
“Friendship’s Death”
“Master Gardener”
“Turkish Delight”
“Eat a Bowl of Tea Black Widow” (2021)
“Halloween Ends”
Rewatches of Films: July 2023
“The Son” (“Le Fils”)
“The Untouchables”
“Witness” (1985)
“The Terminator”
“Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”
“Contempt”
“Carnal Knowledge”
“Lost in America”
“American Graffiti”
“Diner” (1982)
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)
“Ghostbusters” (1984)
“Beau is Afraid”
“Deliverance”
“Peterloo”
“Rosetta”
“The Mother and the Whore”
“Metropolis” (2001)
“Species”
First-Watches of Films: August 2023
“Women in Love” (1969)
“Streets of Fire” (1984)
“Splendor in the Grass” (1961)
“Full Time” (“À Plein Temps”)
“Oppenheimer” (IMAX 70mm)
“My King” (2015)
“Rachel, Rachel”
“Sisu”
“12 Angry Men” (1997)
“Clash by Night” (1952)
“This Magnificent Cake!”
“The Dinner Game”
“Fear the Night”
“On the Edge” (“Entre la Vie et la Mort”) (2022)
“The Strange One”
“R.M.N.”
“Mortal Thoughts”
“Six Degrees of Separation”
“Luce”
“Mystic Pizza”
“Monkey Business” (1952)
Rewatches of Films: August 2023
“To Die For” (1995)
“Near Dark”
“To Live and Die in L.A.”
“Brazil”
“Werckmeister Harmonies”
“Robocop: Director’s Cut”
“Bull Durham”
“Rob Roy”
“May” (2002)
“Dinner in America”
“The Beasts”
“Eight Legged Freaks”
“Black Widow” (2021)
First-Watches of Films: September 2023
“The Zone of Interest”
“BlackBerry”
“Bad News Bears” (1976)
“Rotting in the Sun”
“Undercurrent”
“Cobweb”
“Astroid City”
“The Promised Land” (Bastarden)
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“It Always Rains on Sunday”
“Massacre at Central High”
“Sanctuary”
“Breathless” (1983)
“Twister” (1989)
“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension”
“Johnny Mnemonic: In Black and White”
“Scrapper” (2023)
“Barbie” (2023)
“The Rapture” (2023)
“The Doom Generation”
Rewatches of Films: September 2023
“Monsieur Hire”
“Peggy Sue Got Married”
“Midnight Cowboy”
“Miracle” (2021)
“The Omen” (1976)
“Celia” (1989)
“Wait Until Dark” (1967)
“The Savages” (2007)
“Petite Maman”
“Dr. Giggles”
“The Shout”
“Clifford”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Dirty Harry”
“House of Usher” (1960)
First-Watches of Films: October 2023
“The Wait” (“La Espera”) (2023)
“Last Summer” (2023)
“The Killer” (2023)
“The Boy and the Heron”
“Chile ’76”
“The Pot-au-Feu” (“La Passion de Dodin Bouffant”)
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Just the Two of Us” (2023)
“Suddenly” (“Aniden”)
“Visions of Ecstasy”
“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”
“The Old Oak”
“October Country”
“The Legacy of Whining”
“The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine”
“One Day All This Will Be Yours”
“Past Lives”
Rewatches of Films: October 2023
“Dark City” (1998) (Director’s Cut)
“Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”
“Babe: Pig in the City”
“The Nightmare Before Christmas” (3D)
“Creepshow Full Time” (2021)
“The Great Mouse Detective”
“Alléluia” (2014)
“The Trouble with Being Born”
“Madeline Collins”
“Joy Ride” (2001)
“Kingpin” (1996)
“Slither” (2006)
“Cobweb”
“Halloween III: Season of the Witch”
“Idle Hands” (1999)
“The Stepford Wives” (1975)
“Dogma”
First-Watches of Films: November 2023
“The Holdovers”
“Suitable Flesh”
“May December”
“Persian Lessons”
“Pastorale 1943”
“Fallen Leaves”
“Thanksgiving” (2023)
“Braid” (2018)
“The Midwife”
“Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie”
“Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time”
“Still Crazy”
“Nobody”
“Once Within a Time”
“By the Grace of God”
“Sleep” (2023)
“Hocus Pocus”
“Magnum Force”
“Doctor X” (1932)
“Showing Up”
“The Lost” (2006)
“Playing with Fire”
Rewatches of Films: November 2023
“Fargo” (1996)
“The Insider”
“Carnal Knowledge”
“BlackBerry”
“Sisu”
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Pt One”
“The Sadness”
“Fear” (1996)
“Speed 2: Cruise Control”
First-Watches of Films: December 2023
“The Iron Claw”
‘An Impossible Love’
“Khrustalyov, My Car!”
“Love Life” (2022)
“Red Rooms”
“Fallen Angel” (1945)
“The Lodger” (1944)
“Bait” (2019)
“The Outwaters”
“Crimes of Passion”
“Happer’s Comet”
“Brainstorm” (1983)
“Event Horizon”
“Linoleum”
‘Thirteen Women”
Rewatches of Films: December 2023
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
“Edward Scissorhands”
“Sleepy Hollow”
“Bad Santa” (Director’s Cut)
“Love and Death on Long Island”
“Butcher Boy”
“Boy and the Heron”
“Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
“Wolfwalkers”
“Things Change”
“Manhattan Project”
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
“Cats Don’t Dance”
Total Films Watched in 2023: 403
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