Hey everyone,
I’m going to keep this short and give you a concise list of my favourite things of 2023.
For longer thoughts, you can ask me on Twitter or Instagram. Read my top 3 movies and series for News24, or follow me on Letterboxd.
See you in 2024!
Top 10 Films Released in 2023:
May/December / dir: Todd Haynes
Oppenheimer / dir: Christopher Nolan
Barbie / dir: Greta Gerwig
Killers of the Flower Moon / dir: Martin Scorsese
Past Lives / dir: Celine Song
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse / dir: Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers
Rye Lane / dir: Raine Allen-Miller
Asteroid City / dir: Wes Anderson
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. / dir: Kelly Fremon Craig
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 / dir: James Gunn
10 Films I Watched (and loved) for the first time in 2023 (old movies):
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)/ dir: Hayao Miyazaki
Gladiator (2000) / dir: Ridley Scott
While You Were Sleeping (1995)/ dir: John Turteltaub
Drive My Car (2021) / dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) / dir: Cooper Raiff
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) / dir: Mike Newell
Miss Juneteeth (2020) / dir: Channing Godfrey Peoples
A Separation (2011) / dir: Asghar Farhadi
Dangerous Beauty (1998) / dir: Marshall Herskovitz
Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão (2019) / dir: Karim Aïnouz
Top 10 TV shows of 2023
Succession S4 (HBO/Showmax)
Queen Charlotte (Netflix)
Daisy Jones and the Six (Amazon Prime Video)
Class of ‘07 (Amazon Prime Video)
Extraordinary (Disney+)
Never Have I Ever S4 (Netflix)
Ms. Marvel (Disney+)
Loki S2 (Disney+)
Only Murders In the Building S3 (Disney+)
Abbott Elementary S2 (Disney+)
10 Documentaries I loved this year:
Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) / dir: Alek Keshishian
Girl, Taken (2022) dir: Francois Verster, Simon Wood
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) / dir: Mark Kitchell
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2021) / dir: Dayne Goldfine, Daniel Geller
Athlete A (2020) / dir: Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) / dir: Davis Guggenheim
Taylor Swift: the Eras Tour (2023) / dir: Sam Wrench
20 Days in Mariupol (2023) / dir: Mstyslav Chernov
Marjoe (1972) / dir: Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan
Sidney (2022) / dir: Reginald Hudlin
6 Books I Read (and Loved) This Year:
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
The White Album: Essays - Joan Didion
Mr. Entertainment: The Story of Taliep Petersen - Paula Fourie
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
What were some of your faves of 2023?