Happy New Year! Here's hoping that 2024 brings you good moments and many great movies. It's time again to look back at the last year of my movie viewing and make the final tally of films watched. My classic movie choices for 2023 were heavily affected by the many great collections on the Criterion Channel last year, and I'm looking forward to another year of old favorites and new discoveries there. Most of the other streaming services continue to be useless for classic films, but I watched quite a few new movies on them. Visits to the theater continue to be low compared to pre-pandemic numbers; we saw a few new releases on the big screen this year - including super hit Barbie - but in general it just wasn't worth the cost and hassle, especially after we were accosted by a drunk/high and very noisy audience member at Dungeons and Dragons. Much of my energy in 2023 went to work on a forthcoming anthology of feminist essays about Star Trek, so I spent a lot of time rewatching episodes and films from that iconic franchise (more about that later!).
Here's the monthly breakdown for every movie I watched at home or elsewhere in 2023.
January
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
Francis (1950)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Nice Guys (2016)
Love is News (1937)
Honor Society (2023)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
The Pale Blue Eye (2023)
Dead of Night (1945)
Goldeneye (1995)
February
The Unknown (1927)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Harvey (1950)
The Suspect (1944)
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Rosaline (2022)
The Sound of 007 (2022)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Phantom Lady (1944)
A View to a Kill (1985)
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
The Queen of Spades (1949)
March
Dancing Lady (1933)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
The Princess Bride (1987)
42nd Street (1933)
The Heroic Trio (1993)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Antman: Quantumania (2023)
Clue (1985)
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Thunder on the Hill (1951)
Prom Pact (2023)
April
Sky High (2005)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1951)
A Woman's Face (1941)
Grease 2 (1982)
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Magic (1978)
May (my kid graduated from college and we had a big family trip to the UK!)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
June
The Lost King (2023)
What's Love Go to Do With It? (2022)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Monkey Business (1952)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
July
Polite Society (2023)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
On the Town (1949)
The Woman in Question (1950)
August
Haunted Mansion (2023)
Barbie (2023)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Asteroid City (2023)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Brigadoon (1954)
September
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980)
Mr. Vampire (1985)
Mr. Vampire II (1986)
Mr. Vampire III (1987)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Jane Eyre (1943)
Mr. Vampire IV (1988)
MST3K: Beyond Atlantis (1973) - live at the Center for Puppetry Arts
Ivy (1947)
Moss Rose (1947)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2023)
Blanche Fury (1948)
Elemental (2023)
3000 Years of Longing (2022)
October
Red, White and Royal Blue (2023)
So Long at the Fair (1950)
Murders in the Zoo (1933)
Doctor X (1932)
Haunted Mansion (2023) - second time this year
The Old Dark House (1933)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
Gaslight (1944)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
So Evil My Love (1947)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Devotion (1946)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Dead Again (1991)
Freaks (1932)
Madeline (1950)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Haunted Spooks (1920)
Bewitched (2005)
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Casper (1995)
November
The Lodger (1944)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rancho Notorious (1952)
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
The Marvels (2023)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
High Anxiety (1977)
Dragnet (1987)
Werewolves Within (2021)
The Cheat (1931)
Three on a Match (1932)
December
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Repeat Performance (1947)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Die Hard (1988)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Scrooged (1987)
White Christmas (1955)
Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)
Love, Actually (2003)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Glass Onion (2022)
Total for 2023: 130
I watched 23 more movies in 2023 than in 2022, so that's an improvement! As usual, it's an eclectic mix of classics, new releases, family favorites, and weeknight compromises with the spouse.
"Compromises with the spouse." When my wife retired a few years, we began a weekly "Geezer Cinema", taking turns picking the movie. So you could say I've seen 105 such compromises ... 106 after tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWow, so many movies! These are new-to-you movies, right?
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