Dec 30, 2023

Best Premiere Viewings of 2023 (Vintage Edition)

My 2023 was deeply marked by classic cinema, and finding their ways to my heart were more than 100 (!) films released during the 20th century, but seen for the first time in the past 363 days. In that regard, the top 30 selection you will find hereinafter represents but a glimpse back at extremely diverse viewing pleasures, with monthly lists linked in post scriptum.

1. Anmonaito no sasayaki wo kiita / I’ve Heard the Ammonite Murmur (Isao Yamada, 1992)
2. Ilektra / Electra (Michael Cacoyannis, 1962)
3. Bariera / Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1966)
4. Utopia (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1983)
5. La Notte / The Night (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)


6. El extraño caso del doctor Fausto / The Strange Case of Doctor Faust (Gonzalo Suárez, 1969)
7. Людина К (Сергій Рахманін, 1992) / The K Man (Sergey Rakhmanin, 1992)
8. Khane-ye doust kodjast? / Where Is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
9. La fiancée du pirate / A Very Curious Girl (Nelly Kaplan, 1969)
10. Ďáblova past / The Devil’s Trap (František Vláčil, 1962)


11. Diabeł / The Devil (Andrzej Żuławski, 1972)
12. Diabły, diabły / Devils, Devils (Dorota Kędzierzawska, 1991)
13. Flesh and Fantasy (Julien Duvivier, 1943)
14. Erosu purasu gyakusatsu / Eros + Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1969)
15. Kyōnetsu no Kisetsu / The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960)


16. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
17. La mort trouble / The Unquiet Death (Claude d’Anna & Férid Boughedir, 1970)
18. Žuvies diena / The Day of the Fish (Algimantas Puipa, 1990)
19. Le collier perdu de la colombe / The Dove’s Lost Necklace (Nacer Khemir, 1991)
20. Bruges-La-Morte (Ronald Chase, 1978)


21. Martin (George A. Romero, 1977)
22. Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier, 1962)
23. Genji Monogatari / The Tale of Genji (Gisaburō Sugii, 1987)
24. Soleil Ô / Oh, Sun (Med Hondo, 1967)
25. Mickey One (Arthur Penn, 1965)


26. Peščeni grad / A Sand Castle (Boštjan Hladnik, 1962)
27. La femme bourreau / A Woman Kills (Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968)
28. Baron Prášil / The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zeman, 1962)
29. Salomé (Pierre Koralnik, 1969)
30. Herzog Blaubarts Burg / Bluebeard’s Castle (Michael Powell, 1963)

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