Seen / read / heard 2023

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— All caps, bold: MOVIE
— All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* or ONLINE VIDEO* or TV*
— All caps, Italics: ART / LIVE EVENT / THEATRE
— Italics, bold: Book or Short Story
— Quotation marks: “Audio”
— Italics: Article ^^

December 2023 #

• 30/12 — SALTBURN

• 20/12 — ANATOMY OF A FALL 📽️

• 13/12 — MAY DECEMBER

• ( < 12/12) — ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN IRELAND*

November 2023 #

• 09/11 — THE KILLER 📽️

• 08/11 — TIME* ( < 06/11)

• 05/11 — QUARTET: HOW FOUR WOMEN CHANGED THE MUSICAL WORLD

October 2023 #

• 31/10 — CASPER

• 30/10 — BECKHAM* ( < 28/10)

• 29/10 — PLANE

• 28/10 — KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON 📽️

• 28/10 — BODIES* ( < 22/10)

• 21/10 — THE CREATOR 📽️

• 20/10 — DEATH WISH 3

• 19/10 — DEATH WISH 2

• 18/10 — DEATH WISH

• 17/10 — THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN

• 08/10 — DELIVERANCE

• 07/10 — ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ

• 06/10 — MASTER GARDENER

• 06/10 — BOILING POINT* ( < 03/10)

September 2023 #

• 30/09 — THE KARATE KID

• 24/09 — LIVING

• 24/09 — OPPENHEIMER 📽️

• 23/09 — BLUE STEEL

• 22/09 — NO HARD FEELINGS

• 21/09 — MARGIN CALL

• 12/09 — SHIRLEY VALENTINE

• 11/09 — BEAU IS AFRAID

August 2023 #

• 27/08 — ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

• 02/08 — HIJACK* (23/06)

July 2023 #

• 31/07 — THE BEAR* ( < 17/07)

• 22/07 — WAR GAMES

• 19/07 — MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART 1 📽️

• 02/07 — INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY 📽️

June 2023 #

• 30/06 — MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM

• 21/06 — AI Is a Lot of Work

  “There are people classifying the emotional content of TikTok videos, new variants of email spam, and the precise sexual provocativeness of online ads. Others are looking at credit-card transactions and figuring out what sort of purchase they relate to or checking e-commerce recommendations and deciding whether that shirt is really something you might like after buying that other shirt. Humans are correcting customer-service chatbots, listening to Alexa requests, and categorizing the emotions of people on video calls. They are labeling food so that smart refrigerators don’t get confused by new packaging, checking automated security cameras before sounding alarms, and identifying corn for baffled autonomous tractors.”

• ( < 19/06) — BEEF*

• 18/06 — LAW OF TEHRAN

• ( < 16/06) — BLACK MIRROR*

• 11/06 — INDECENT PROPOSAL

May 2023 #

• 29/05 — THIEF

• 28/05 — BARRY* ( < 16/04)

• 28/05 — SUCCESSION* ( < 26/03)

• 07/05 — JURY DUTY* ( < 01/05)

April 2023 #

• 04/04 — THE SQUARE

• 03/04 — EMILY THE CRIMINAL

• 02/04 — AFTER YANG

• 01/04 — A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

March 2023 #

• 17/03 — THE LAST OF US* ( < 12/03)

• 05/03 — BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

• ( < 03/03) — MR INBETWEEN*

• 02/03 — TOP GUN MAVERICK 📽️

February 2023 #

• 27/02 — THE GAME

• 20/02 — BRIAN & CHARLES

• ( < 20/02) — CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

• 19/02 — THE GOLD* ( < 17/02)

• 12/02 — I HATE SUZIE TOO* ( < 10/02)

• 09/02 — MAGIC MIKE XXL

• 07/02 — THE WALK-IN* ( < 04/02)

• 05/02 — HAPPY VALLEY* ( < 23/01)

• 04/02 — THE MENU

• 03/02 — AMERICAN GIGOLO

• 02/02 — MAKING WAVES: THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUND*

• 02/02 — Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley ( < 22/01)

January 2023 #

• 30/01 — SYLVIA

• ( < 30/01) — “Erotic 80’s — You Must Remember This”

• 29/01 — OSLO, AUGUST 31ST

• 29/01 — MATILDA THE MUSICAL 📽️

• 28/01 — MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ — EVERY TANGLE OF THREAD AND ROPE at Tate Modern

• 27/01 — ATLANTA* — season 4 ( < 16/01)

• 26/01 — SPECTOR* ( < 23/01)

• 22/01 — AM I BEING UNREASONABLE?* ( < 08/01)

• 22/01 — TÁR 📽️

• 22/01 — Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan ( < 19/10)

• 20/01 — TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

• 19/01 — Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson ( < 14/01)

• 18/01 — AFTERSUN

• 16/01 — Nick Cave on ChatGPT

  “ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to reach beyond its limitations, and hence it doesn’t have the capacity for a shared transcendent experience, as it has no limitations from which to transcend.”

• 15/01 — THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

• 15/01 — DALÍ : CYBERNETICS THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE

• 14/01 — THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD ( < 13/01)

• 14/01 — AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER 📽️

• 14/01 — The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman ( < 18/12)

• 12/01 — BASIC INSTINCT

  “‘Basic Instinct’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin”

  “Queer villains, erotic noir, 90s pulp. ‘Basic Instinct’ and the backlash, rewound

• 11/01 — BLACK BEAR

• 11/01 — HIT THE ROAD ( < 10/01)

• 09/01 — THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2022 A VIDEO COUNTDOWN*

  1— Aftersun 2— Tár 3— Everything Everywhere All at Once 4— Hit the Road 5— Descendant 6— Return to Seoul 7— We’re All Going to the World’s Fair 8— Crimes of the Future 9— Decision to Leave 10— Nope 11— Jackass Forever 12— All That Breathes 13— Top Gun: Maverick 14— After Yang 15— RRR 16— Benediction 17— EO 18— All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 19— Ahed’s Knee 20— Saint Omer 21— Armageddon Time 22— The Banshees of Inisherin 23— Resurrection 24— The Northman 25— The Fabelmans

  All the leftovers from previous years:
  —The Tragedy of Macbeth, —The Worst Person in the World, —West Side Story, —Undine, —All Light, Everywhere, —Flee —Titane, —Procession, —The World to Come, —In the Heights, —Petite Maman, —memoria, —The Souvenir Part II, —The Power of the Dog, —Minari, —World of Tomorrow episode 3, —Bacurau, —David Byrne’s American Utopia, —Swallow, —Babyteeth, —Shirley, —Vitalina Varella, —Ema, —Ms. Americana, —Beanpole, —Wolfwalkers, —First Cow, —Many, —Emma, —Synonyms, —Varda par Agnès, —Diamantino, —Transit, —Atlantics, —I Lost My Body, —The Hottest August

  Other films to remember:
  —The Quiet Girl, —Parallel Mothers, —Mass, —Official Competition, —All Quiet on the Western Front, —Triangle of Sadness

• 09/01 — DECISION TO LEAVE ( < 08/01)

  “Park Chan-wook Finds “Decision to Leave” in “The Mist”

• 08/01 — BERGMAN ISLAND

• ( < 08/01) — DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED*

• 08/01 — CEZANNE

  Cézanne’s Withdrawal

  ”what if an image of the world won at the greatest cost, at the greatest proximity, returns as something ungraspable? What if knowledge, at close range, adds up to confusion? The view across the bay of Marseille, at the opposite shore, speaks to this fear. In both paintings, distance has ironed out the peculiarities of the foreground, but at the cost of all lived particularity. It is as if in order to understand the scene, the painter had to kill it.”

• ( < 06/01) — THE RIG*

• 04/01 — VENGENCE ✈️

• 03/01 — JOYRIDE ✈️

• 03/01 — THE WOMAN KING ✈️

• 02/01 — The Instrumentalist

  “To paraphrase Schopenhauer—who gets several shout-outs in Tár—every generation mistakes the limits of its own field of vision for the limits of the world. But what happens when generational visions collide? How should we respond?”

• 02/01 — SLOW HORSES* ( < 11/22)

• 01/01 — WHITE NOISE

• 01/01 — GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY