Cannesversations

For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our Cannes episode on About Dry Grasses and May December) and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2023.

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Below, you first find all our honorable mentions, followed by our individual Top 10-6 films.

Honorable Mentions

Öykü

• Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorcese)
• Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
• About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
• Here (Bas Devos)

Lawrence

• Music (Angela Schanalec)
• The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
• Notre Corps (Claire Simon)
• In Water (Hong Sang-soo)
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson)

Eliana

• Amiko (Yusuke Morii)
• Music
• Sparta (Ulrich Seidl)
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude)
• The Human Surge 3

Patrick

• Forms of Forgetting (Burak Çevik)
• A Wild Roomer (Lee Jeong-hong)
• Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (Elene Naveriani)
• Music
• Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
• De Facto (Selma Doborac)
• There Is a Stone (Tatsunari Ota)
• Remembering Every Night (Yui Kiyohara)
• This Closeness (Kit Zauhar)
• May December (Todd Haynes)
• Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)

Top 10

Öykü

• 10 Yannick (Quentin Dupieux)
• 9 Orlando, My Political Biography
• 8 Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli)
• 7 Notre Corps
• 6 La bête (Bertrand Bonello)

Lawrence

• 10 Totem (Lila Avilés)
• 9 Cerrar los ojos (Víctor Erice)
• 8 In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
• 7 The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
• 6 Forms of Forgetting

Eliana

• 10 Passages
• 9 Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
• 8 Yannick
• 7 The Delinquents
• 6 May December

Patrick

• 10 Concrete Valley (Antoine Bouge)
• 9 Notre Corps
• 8 Cerrar los ojos
• 7 Here
• 6 La bête

At the end of the second episode, we asked Öykü and Lawrence about writings they are proud of or happy with. Öykü interviewed Radu Jude for Mubi’s Notebook, which you can find here, and Lawrence referred to his 15,000-word deep dive into David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return. Make sure to check both of them out!

We wish all of you a happy year of 2024 and are hopeful for many more episodes to come in the new year!