Chris Lamb: Favourites of 2023
This post should have marked the beginning of my yearly roundups of the favourite books and movies I read and watched in 2023.
However, due to coming down with a nasty bout of flu recently and other sundry commitments, I wasn't able to undertake writing the necessary four or five blog posts In lieu of this, however, I will simply present my (unordered and unadorned) highlights for now. Do get in touch if this (or any of my previous posts) have spurred you into picking something up yourself
Older releases (Films released before 2022, and not including rewatches from previous years.)
Books
Films Recent releases
- The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani, 2022)
- The Eight Mountains (Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2022)
- Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2023)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorcese, 2023)
- Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2023)
- Passages (Ira Sachs, 2023)
- Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)
- The Tuba Thieves (Alison O Daniel, 2023)
- Theater Camp (Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman, 2023)
- T R (Todd Field, 2022)
Older releases (Films released before 2022, and not including rewatches from previous years.)
- Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
- Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014)
- Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich, 1974)
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
- Forbidden Games (Ren Cl ment, 1952)
- La Noire de... (Ousmane Semb ne, 1966)
- The Queen of Spades (Thorold Dickinson, 1949)
- The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
- Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
- Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)