The wait is over! 2023 was an incredible year for movies and, amidst change and upheaval in the industry at large, the stories told on screen remained powerful and inspiring to filmgoers worldwide. As always, moviegoing begets moviegoing and with a robust slate of new releases, festivals, retrospectives, restorations, and special events, Film at Lincoln Center was honored to be your home for new cinematic discoveries and revisiting old favorites.
Per our annual tradition, our staff publishes a selection of their top films and memorable cinematic experiences. Read on below to see our recommendations!
Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival
Top 5 2023 premieres (alphabetical):
The Beast
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Evil Does Not Exist
Here
The Human Surge 3
15 more (alphabetical):
Afire, Anatomy of a Fall, Eureka, In Our Day, In Water, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Last Summer, May December, Music, Menus-Plaisirs Les Troigros, Nowhere Near, Pictures of Ghosts, Ryuichi Sakamoro: Opus, The Shadowless Tower, Youth (Spring)
Florence Almozini, Vice President of Programming
Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet
Pacifiction, Albert Serra
Afire, Christian Petzold
Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt
The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer
May December, Todd Haynes
Unrest, Cyril Schäblin
Stonewalling, Ji Huang & Ryûji Otsaka
Trenque Lauquen, Laura Citarella
Suzume, Shinkai Makoto
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? The Dupes by Tewfik Saleh
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? My Little Loves by Jean Eustache
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? I can’t pick any, love them all, from Peele to Yang, with Eustache, Yoshida, the Daniels, Apichatpong, Tod Browning, Marco Ferreri, Bela Tarr!
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Hard to pick, maybe Hamaguchi on Evil Does Not Exist at NYFF.
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? A wide range of cinematic pleasures, from Dune: Part 2 to the latest from Matias Pineiro!
Jordan Raup, Associate Director of Marketing
10. All of Us Strangers
9. The Holdovers
8. Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. May December
5. Priscilla
4. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
3. The Boy and the Heron
2. Pacifiction
1. Afire
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Love Streams
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Rio Bravo on 35mm
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Annie Baker & Raven Jackson talk at NYFF61
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Megalopolis (or Malick, if it comes out!)
Lisa Schroeder, Chief Administrative Officer
Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Perfect Days
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Katie Zwick, Senior Coordinator, Exhibition & Programming
1. Showing Up, dir. Kelly Reichardt
2. May December, dir. Todd Haynes
3. Zone of Interest, dir. Jonathan Glazer
4. The Boy and the Heron, dir. Hayao Miyazaki
5. Anatomy of a Fall, dir. Justine Triet
6. Poor Things, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
7. Priscilla, dir. Sofia Coppola
8. Asteroid City, dir. Wes Anderson
9. Earth Mama, dir. Savannah Leaf
10. Fallen Leaves, dir. Aki Kaurismäki
Favorite First Watches of 2023
A Dream Longer Than the Night (1976), dir. Niki de Saint Phalle;
Perceval le Gallois (1978), dir. Éric Rohmer;
Vale Abraāo (1993), dir. Manoel de Oliveira;
Safe (1995), dir. Todd Haynes
S/O NYFF Revivals!
Favorite Re-Watches of 2023
Amélie (2001), dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet because sometimes you need to remember who you are
Reign of Fire (2002), dir. Rob Bowman because everyone is fighting those dragons in complete earnest
(500) Days of Summer (2009), dir. Marc Webb because twee was sort of back for a minute there
Undine (2020), dir. Christian Petzold because it’s a masterpiece <3
Favorite Programming at FLC
The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul + The Unspeakable Films of Tod Browning
Favorite Programming Elsewhere
Ratatouille on my birthday at Metrograph + Showgirls on 35mm at Nitehawk
Best FLC Talk
Todd Haynes x Jeremy O. Harris for NYFF; Sandra Huller for NYFF
Most Anticipated Film of 2024
PAVEMENTS BY ALEX ROSS PERRY!!, The Shrouds by David Cronenberg, and I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun. Also, Vanderpump Rules season 11. Justice for Mickey 17!!
James Malzone, Theater Staff
Asteroid City
Fallen Leaves
Happer’s Comet
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
May December
Other People’s Children
Pacifiction
Passages
Showing Up
Walk Up
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Frederick Wiseman’s Primate at FLC’s Howard Gilman Theater in May
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? The Night of the Hunter and Stop Making Sense, two all-time favorites.
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? No doubt it was the Apichatpong Weerasethakul series — watching dozens of his short films and features in 35mm, alongside selections like Hou’s The Puppetmaster and Guy Maddin’s Careful, was a delight.
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Todd Solondz series @ Roxy Cinema in January, Jeanne Moreau series @ Film Forum in March, Joe Dante series @ anthology in April, Ozu series @ Film Forum in June, shopping mall and John Wilson selects series @ anthology in August, and Reverse Shot at 20 @ Museum of the Moving Image all Fall.
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Corey Feldman for The Birthday at FLC.
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024?: The Beast. Runner-up: The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Most Anticipated Film of 2024 I’ve Yet to See? Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End
Max Isaacs, Theater Staff
1. Poor Things
2. The Killer
3. Passages
4. Dogleg
5. Asteroid City
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. The Sweet East – I acted in this one!
8. Dream Scenario
9. Janet Planet
10. Blackbird
Honorable mentions: Theater Camp, Bottoms, and Missing
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year?
It’s truly tied between The Long Goodbye and All That Jazz. Two movies that reshaped my brain. Gotta get caught up on the 70s
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Punch-Drunk Love. After watching it I realized it’s currently my favorite movie ever made. Every last element of the film is magic.
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? I was late in the game as I only started working here during the festival. But was really happy to get introduced to Edward Yang’s filmography. Watched Yi Yi on New Year’s Eve and A Brighter Summer Day on New Year’s day and I truly can’t think of a better way to transition from one year to the other.
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? I think The Roxy is consistently my favorite programming in the city. Ilyse, Dillon and Mitch are consistently killing it all year long.
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? I got to watch the Q&A for The Curse Episode 8 & 9 with Benny Safdie, Nathan Fielder, Emma Stone, Nizhonniya Austin and Dave McCary. My girlfriend and I drove from Kentucky overnight 14 hours just to make it on time and in my sleep deprived state it was one of the best theater experiences of my whole year. It was less of a Q&A and more of a town hall.
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? This is such a hard question so my cop out answer is www.RachelOrmont.com by Peter Vack and Messy by Alexi Wasser. I hope both these films get released in 2024 as I have parts in them and can’t wait to see them as a whole :).
Nick Byrne, Theater Staff
Unranked Top 7
In Our Day – Hong Sang-soo
In Water – Hong Sang-soo
The Daughters of Fire – Pedro Costa
Unhappy Hour – Ted Fendt
The Boy and the Heron – Hayao Miyazaki
Fallen Leaves – Aki Kaurismaki
Another Letter to the New York Film Festival – Hong Sang-soo
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Love Torn in Dreams (Combat d’amour en songe) – Raúl Ruiz (seen at E-Flux).
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Bringing up Baby – Howard Hawks (seen at MoMI)
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida.
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Dream Runner: The Films of Katsu Kanai (at Anthology Film Archives).
What was the best Q&A/talk that you watched that FLC conducted this year? Catherine Breillat for Last Summer (at NYFF61)
What is your most anticipated movie of 2024? Whatever Hong Sang-soo makes
Harrison Asen, Manager, Ticketing Services
Bottoms
Killers of the Flower Moon
Eureka
Afire
Passages
Fallen Leaves
Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Holdovers
Chris Torres, Theater Staff
My #1 film, totaI no brainer: Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismaki and a close #2 is The Night Visitors by Michael Gitlin
Other Favorites include:
Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
The Holdovers
In Water
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Menus Plaisirs-Les Troigros
Perfect Days
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Ever since I saw Greed (1924) by Erich Von Stroheim, every single movie I watch feels like it shares its DNA.
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Close call here with The Conformist during its restoration run at Film Forum, but seeing Stop Making Sense in IMAX was a life affirming and always ass-shaking experience.
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Without a doubt The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice curated by Jordan Peele. Favorites (King Kong), surprises (The Birthday), miracles (Muybridge Animal Locomotion); but the cherry on top was getting to poke my head in on Nope in 70mm for my favorite scenes which still haunt me in my sleep.
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? I caught several films down at IFC Center this Fall for their William Friedkin retrospective, including an incredible screening of Bug with a Q&A between Charles Bramesco and writer Tracy Letts which was a highlight of the whole year. Also watching The Exorcist with an audience for the first time was wonderful.
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Hearing Wim Wenders discuss his approach to documentary and the surprises he kept for the subject was amazing. Anselm has a real depth to it that adds such a different texture to the already breathtaking art. I got to meet Wim briefly and can confirm he is as big of a sweetheart as you imagine. Gave me some advice in a weird idle moment that I think will be with me forever. “Never apologize for what you want in life.”
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Been waitin’ a long time for this Dune sequel.
Matt Bolish, Vice President, Operations and Production; Managing Director, NYFF
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Fantastic Planet (1973, Laloux)
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? The Third Man (1949, Reed)
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? The New York Film Festival (ha!)
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? “Big & Loud,” Paris Theater and the restoration of Winter Kills (1979, Richert)
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Ryusuke Hmaguschi on Evil Does Not Exist at NYFF61
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)
Jim Rohner, Senior Coordinator, Theater Operations and Venue Sales
Poor Things
Anatomy of a Fall
Priscilla
American Fiction
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Maestro
Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse
Skinamarink
Barbie
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? The Sting. Can you believe Hollywood used to make movies like this? And that they used to win Oscars?
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year?
Some Like It Hot. Saw the musical for my birthday (fabulous), so had to rewatch the source (fabulous also)
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? (Can be series, retrospective, special event, etc.)
Tod Browning retrospective. Only in NYC can you catch a 35mm print of Freaks on the big screen.
What was your favorite programming elsewhere?
I have a toddler – I don’t have time for programming “elsewhere.”
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year?
I work in rentals – they don’t let me in the same room as talent so that I don’t scare them away
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024?
Mickey 17. Bong Joon-ho + R Pats = swoon
Rebecca Slaman, Theater Manager + Marketing Assistant
Poor Things
Blackberry (though this is #2 on my list, it’s my most watched and most highly recommended. See this film!)
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Boy and the Heron
May December
Past Lives
Asteroid City
Orlando, My Political Biography
Dicks: the Musical
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? My most anticipated release is Wicked (Part 1.) Will Cynthia Erivo be vindicated in choosing this film over The Color Purple? Will the story support two full length films? Will the offscreen Glinda-Boq romance color the performances? Will this film ever even come out? I’m on the edge of my seat!
Side note: If anyone has insights as to filming locations for upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, hit me up.
Katie Skelly, Senior Manager, Marketing
1) Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
2) The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)
3) Afire (Christian Petzold)
4) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
5) Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
6) Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
7) Infinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg)
8) The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
9) Tie: Talk to Me (Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou) and A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell)
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? I was so late to the party because I already knew the films would be great (the irony!), but this year I finally decided to watch Miyazki’s filmography and it truly was the most wonderful and mesmerizing experience. Shoutout specifically to Kiki’s Delivery Service and Princes Mononoke. Outside of Miyazaki, Tawfiq Saleh’s The Dupes and György Fehér’s Twilight, but there’s so many others this year.
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? One of the first films I ever watched was The Wizard of Oz, so being able to see this on 35mm and in the Walter Reade was just incredible and immediately transported me to being a little kid again who experienced movies for the first time.
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? “Unspeakable: The Films of Tod Browning” and shoutout to Tyler, Maddie, Manuel, Katie Z., and our wonderful projectionists in the booth for this one because sourcing these prints and getting them on screen was no easy feat, which made seeing some of these films on screen such a treat. Honorable mention though to Eugenio Mira’s The Birthday (Part of “The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice”) with Mira and Corey Feldman here in person; give this film a proper release.
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? “Great Gowns, Beautiful Gowns” at Nitehawk.
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Hands down Nikki Giovanni during any Q&A at NYFF61, but specifically this one.
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? I can’t wait to know who the REAL Agent Argyle is….but seriously, M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap and Oz Perkins’ Longlegs.
Walter Blum, Front of House
1.) Oppenheimer (IMAX 70mm, 70mm + 35mm) – Dir. Christopher Nolan
2.) The Zone of Interest (NYFF) – Dir. Jonathan Glazer
3.) The Boy and the Heron (NYFF) – Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
4.) Poor Things (NYFF) – Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
5.) May December (NYFF) – Dir. Todd Haynes
6.) The Beast (NYFF) – Dir. Bertrand Bonello
7.) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Nitehawk Williamsburg) – Dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers
8.) Asteroid City (Alice Tully Hall) – Dir. Wes Anderson
9.) Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds (Tribeca Film Festival) – Dir. Glen Milner
10.) Knock at the Cabin (AMC Lincoln Square 13) – Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Honorable Mentions:
Bottoms – Dir. Emma Seligman (AMC 34th St)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (Williamsburg Cinemas)
The Curse – Dir. Nathan Fielder + David Zellner + Nathan Zellner (NYFF)
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Shaolin Soccer (Amazon Prime) – Dir. Stephen Chow: I had a great projector setup for the month of February while I was house-sitting for my Grandparents; I brought over my girlfriend and a few friends/co-workers from FLC to watch this film which to my surprise, no one had seen before. So it was all a first time watch for us! The best part of the night was that I also brought over my dog, Figaro, who watched the entire film in such a calm and intriguing manner. Whether he went up to the screen to inspect the shot or laid back by the couch where we were, I think I learned that Stephen Chow was his favorite director. Here’s to Figaro, an incredible friend; everyone there made that film a wonderful screening/experience.
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Sorcerer (35mm + DCPs) – Dir. William Friedkin + Interstellar (IMAX 70mm) – Dir. Christopher Nolan: I’ve done crazy film trips before but the year of 2023 was the craziest for me! Friedkin’s Sorcerer doesn’t get shown on a print that much anymore for various reasons; in May of 2023, the New Beverly Cinema out in LA announced that they would be screening the film on a 4 Mag Track 35mm print. So I bought a ticket, flew out to LA for the day, went to a Dodgers game and the Academy Museum before going to New Bev to find out that there was a technical difficulty with the projectors. I waited 2 hours (the length of the film) to go inside and watch the film, tired and realizing that I’d been up for 24hrs straight. The print was faded but the sound was incredible! Although the film was faded, it was nice to see on a print. Got to see it 2 more times in NYC at the Paris Theater and Roxy Cinema. RIP Friedkin, Sorcerer is your magnum opus! As for Interstellar, I flew myself and my girlfriend to Indiana to see it play in IMAX 70mm in December. Possibly my favorite film experience is seeing Interstellar in this format. It demands a big IMAX screen and don’t miss out on the film if it plays in IMAX 70mm nearby! I already drove out to Canada to see it in this format a month before lockdown started in 2020. I am sane but also very crazy when it comes to celluloid road or plane trips.
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice + Verse Jumping with the Daniels (Film at Lincoln Center): It was a wonderful start to the year with Jordan Peele’s Nope playing in glorious 70mm at the Walter Reade. I got to see King Kong on a 35mm print (a childhood favorite) as well as some other fun films. Same goes for Verse Jumping with the Daniels. Not only getting to see some classics in 35mm or films I’ve never seen before, I was able to provide some 35mm trailers for the retrospective which was super fun. I just want to thank Tyler Wilson + Florence Almozini on letting me do a small part and a thanks to the Daniels for picking out a good batch of trailers!
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? See it Big in 70mm (MOMI) + Big and Loud! (Paris Theater): It was a good year for 70mm in NYC and the rest of the US! From Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in IMAX 70mm + 70mm, Boogie Nights + Nope in 70mm at Walter Reade, this year was fun! Outside of those, the 70mm lineup at the Museum of Moving Image and Paris Theater was great! I finally got to see the partial 70mm blowup of Inception at MOMI (select sequences shot with 65mm cameras) and I got to see a 70mm double feature at the Paris Theater for Big and Loud!; I saw a 70mm blow up of The Wild Bunch by Sam Peckinpah and the beautiful 70mm spectacle by Ron Fricke, Baraka. Both incredible first time watches.
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Bleat in 35mm with a live score + Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone or The Curse Episodes 6 + 7: Both were full of laughs and fun. Got to help Benny Safdie bring out two cardboard standees of Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder for The Curse.
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? 3 films: Dune: Part 2 [IMAX Version] (Dir. Denis Villenuve), Nosferatu (Dir, Robert Eggers), Mickey 17 (Dir. Bong Joon-Ho) [I hope it comes out in 2024, if not here’s looking at 2025!])
Matthew Dinda, Senior Manager, Partnerships and Advertising
Afire
Anatomy of a Fall
Earth Mama
May December
Other People’s Children
Passages
<Past Lives
Poor Things
Showing Up
A Thousand and One
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Pretty much every Q&A/talk I get the pleasure to listen in on is exceptional. Beyond the student screening Q&As and the sound-specific panels from our partnership with the Dolby Institute (always exceptional conversations), listening to Raven Jackson and Devika Girish discuss All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt at NYFF61 was a standout. The film is beautifully immersive, and Raven bringing us into her mind and process significantly deepened my experience and the film’s power.
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Mother Maryfrom David Lowery for many reasons (Michaela Coel! Charli XCX!). In addition, it’s been far too long since Andrea Arnold’s last narrative film so I’m very excited about her next one, Bird.
Kyle Milner, Theater Staff
1. May December (Todd Haynes)
2. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
3. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
4. In Water (Hong Sang-soo)
5. Passages (Ira Sachs)
6. A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell)
7. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
8. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)
9. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
10. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year?
– Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998) from the comfort of my couch
– The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967) from the comfort of my couch
– Hold Me While I’m Naked (George Kuchar, 1966) at The 303 Free Theater
– Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995), 35mm at BAM
– Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) 35mm at Anthology Film Archives
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year?
–Bring It On (Peyton Reed, 2000), 35mm rowdy screening at Nitehawk
–Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014), realized I was wrong before and that it is indeed a masterpiece from the comfort of my couch
–Back to School (Alan Metter, 1986), had a crummy mood turned around by Rodney one night from the comfort of my couch
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida, Korean Cinema’s Golden Decade: The 1960s, The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? H.P. Lovecraft and Shopping Worlds at Anthology Film Archives, Dedicated to Kirsten Dunst at Nitehawk and Real Rap: Hip-Hop Star Power on Screen at MOMI
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Benny Safdie holding audiences and staff hostage by his eloquent speaking voice during The Curse never ceased to be memorable. He’s also been wearing a great pair of New Balances, too!
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Bird – Andrea Arnold’s new movie with Franz Rogowski, also: Drive Away Dolls, Dune: Part Two, Mickey 17, Nosferatu, and anything that hasn’t been officially announced yet from filmmakers I love!
Tyler Wilson, Programmer
Pacifiction
Dry Ground Burning
Enys Men/Bait
Unrest
Rewind & Play
Stonewalling
Past Lives
Trenque Lauquen
Anatomy of a Fall
Suzume
Favorite older movie I saw for the first time this year: The Dupes
Favorite older movies I saw again this year: Yi Yi, The Cobweb, Freaks
Madeline Whittle, Assistant Programmer
- Pacifiction
- May December
- De humani corporis fabrica
- Fallen Leaves
- The Delinquents
- Showing Up
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Rewind & Play
- About Dry Grasses
- The Zone of Interest
Manuel Santini, Senior Manager, Programming
(in alphabetical order)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
The Castle (Martín Benchimol)
The Echo (Tatiana Huezo)
Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
I Have Electric Dreams (Valentina Laurel)
May December (Todd Haynes)
Milisuthando (Milisuthando Bongela)
Totem (Lila Avilés)
The Trial (Ulises de la Orden)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Nope (Jordan Peele) and The Face of the Jellyfish (Melisa Liebenthal)
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Style Wars (Tony Silver) and Trenque Lauquen (parts 1 & 2; Laura Citarella), which was on my list for 2022 and got even better upon second viewing in 2023.
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? Seriously, what a year! Peele, Apitchatong, Eustache, another strong year of NYFF Revivals, and Yang to turn it up to close the year, but we were outside for the 50th! “Can’t Stop the Street: Hip Hop on Screen” @ Damrosch Park is it for me!
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? sTo Len @ MoMI in January
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Milisuthando Bongela & Hankyeol Lee on Milisuthando from ND/NF 2023
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024?
Same as last year! Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World (Radu Jude) & To Close One’s Eyes (Víctor Erice)
Iris Lin, NYFF61 Programming Fellow
A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)
Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf)
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
Fremont (Babak Jalali)
Here (Bas Devos)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Music (Angela Schanelec)
Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza)
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien), Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky), The Long Farewell (Kira Muratova)
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun), Bird (Andrea Arnold)
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Raven Jackson on All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt at NYFF
Clinton Krute (editor, Film Comment)
- Showing Up
- Pacifiction
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Youth (Spring)
- Our Body
- Walk Up
- Earth Mama
- May December
- Will-o’-the-Wisp
- Rewind & Play
- Maestro
- Dry Ground Burning
- Fallen Leaves
- Priscilla
- Scarlet
- Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
- The Zone of Interest
- Orlando, My Political Biography
- The Delinquents
- The Adults
Best New Old Pick: L’Amour fou; Best TV: The Curse
Manny Lage-Valera, Manager, Theater Operations
Ranked 2023 Top Ten:
1. Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan)
2. in water / In Our Day / Another Letter to the New York Film Festival (Hong Sangsoo)
3. I. / II. / III. (Alexandre Larose)
4. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine)
5. Music (Angela Schanelec)
6. Unhappy Hour (Ted Fendt) / Fire Belly (Amy Halpern)
7. Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (Jean-Luc Godard) / From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (Ken Jacobs)
8. Jawan (Atlee)
9. Pathaan (Siddharth Anand)
10. Silent Night (John Woo) / Saw X (Kevin Greutert)
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage), The Rainbow Bridge (Vicki Z. Peterson), Zoo in Budapest (Rowland V. Lee), Black and White (Želimir Žilnik), Rude Awakening (Warren Sonbert), Batman Dracula (Andy Warhol)
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Starman (John Carpenter) and Deja Vu (Tony Scott); two of the greatest movies ever made projected on some of the most stunning prints I’ve ever seen.
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? The Marco Ferreri retrospective was the best series at FLC this year, so many beautiful rare prints and US premieres in that series, essential programming of movies that never screen. The Tod Browning and Kijū Yoshida retrospectives were also highlights.
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? A Fox Dozen (MoMA), Amy Halpern (MoMI), B-Sides (Nitehawk Cinema), Colección Privada (MoMI and Anthology Film Archives), The Deuce (Nitehawk Cinema), Feedback Series (Anthology Film Archives), Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution (MoMA), Iván Zulueta (Anthology Film Archives), Jan Soldat (Anthology Film Archives), Katsu Kanai (Anthology Film Archives), Maria Lassnig (Anthology FIlm Archives), Nitrate Film Festival (George Eastman Museum), Paul Vecchiali (Metrograph), Phil Solomon (Anthology Film Archives), Prismatic Ground (Multiple Venues), The Red Eye (IFC Center), Ridiculous Sublime (Nitehawk Cinema), Straub-Huillet (Metrograph), Warren Sonbert (MoMA), Wayans Brothers (Roxy Cinema)
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? The Harmony Korine intro with the chairs.
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap
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Listed alphabetically:
Afire (Christian Petzold)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
Linoleum (Colin West)
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Talk to Me (Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou)
The Starling Girl (Laurel Parmet)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
What’s the best older movie you saw again this year? Hollywood Shuffle (Robert Townsend), on the occasion of its Criterion Collection release in March
What’s the best older movie you saw for the first time this year? Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (Thomas Casey) as part of my visit to the Enzian in Maitland, Florida last June
What was your favorite programming at FLC this year? The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
What was your favorite programming elsewhere? Ken Jacobs: Up the Illusion (80WSE’s outdoor presentation on the corner of Broadway and E. 10th Street)
What was the best Q&A/talk you watched that FLC conducted this year? Christian Petzold on Afire
What’s your most anticipated movie of 2024? Only one? Probably Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn’s Dream Team, premiering in Rotterdam next week! Their previous features (Two Plains & a Fancy, L For Leisure, Blondes in the Jungle) were some of the more original of the last decade
