#951: Best Scenes of 2023
Adam, Josh, and some very special guests with the funniest, most moving, and best music moments of the movie year.
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Adam, Josh, and some very special guests with the funniest, most moving, and best music moments of the movie year.
Read MoreAll of Us Strangers
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Asteroid City
The Holdovers
The Taste of Things
Anatomy of a Fall
May December
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest
11-19 (Alphabetical order)
The Iron Claw
The Killer
Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troigros
Past Lives
Poor Things
Showing Up
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (plus Dahl shorts)
The Boy and the Heron
Anatomy of a Fall
Asteroid City (plus Dahl shorts)
You Hurt My Feelings
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
All of Us Strangers
Skinamarink
Priscilla
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Barbie
11-20
11. Past Lives
12. The Zone of Interest
13. May December
14. Killers of the Flower Moon
15. Godzilla Minus One
16. The Holdovers
17. Suzume
18. Four Daughters
19. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
20. Rodeo
Past Lives
The Boy
Killers of the Flower Moon
Barbie
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
The Zone of Interest
Return to Seoul
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (plus Dahl shorts)
Oppenheimer
May December
11-20 (Alphabetical order)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Fair Play
Four Daughters
I’m a Virgo
In the Rearview
Poor Things
The Royal Hotel
Showing Up
A Thousand and One
The Unknown Country
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Plan 75
Past Lives
Amanda/Fremont
The Blue Caftan
Godland
La Chimera
Kokomo City
Lakota Nation vs. United States
BlackBerry
12-20
12. May December
13. Blue Jean
14. Passages
15. Priscilla
16. Origin
17. Hannah Ha Ha
18. Brother
19. King Coal
20. Bottoms
Special Guests
Aisha Harris, MAY DECEMBER
Melissa Tamminga, MAY DECEMBER
Scott Tobias, THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Mitchell Beaupre, ANATOMY OF A FALL
David Chen, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Ryan McQuade, OPPENHEIMER
Chris Klimek, OPPENHEIMER
Matt Singer, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Keith Phipps, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Veronica Phillips, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Sam Van Hallgren, POOR THINGS
Amy Nicholson, FAIR PLAY
Betty Lavandero, THE HOLDOVERS
Roxana Hadadi, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
Isaac Feldberg, THE TASTE OF THINGS
Supporting Actor
5. Milo Machado Graner, ANATOMY OF A FALL
4. Glenn Howerton, BLACKBERRY
3. Mark Ruffalo, POOR THINGS
2. Robert Downey Jr., OPPENHEIMER
1. Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Supporting Actor
5. Jacob Elordi, PRISCILLA
4. Donnie Yen, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
3. Samuel Theis, ANATOMY OF A FALL
2. Charles Melton, MAY DECEMBER
1. Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Supporting Actress
5. Julianne Moore, MAY DECEMBER
4. Juliette Binoche, THE TASTE OF THINGS
3. Da'Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
2. Rachel McAdams, ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET
1. Scarlett Johannson, ASTEROID CITY
Supporting Actress
5. Iman Vellani, THE MARVELS
4. Danielle Brooks, THE COLOR PURPLE
3. Da'Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
2. Scarlett Johansson, ASTEROID CITY
1. Julianne Moore, MAY DECEMBER
Lead Actor
5. Jason Schwartzman, ASTEROID CITY
4. Benoit Magimel, THE TASTE OF THINGS
3. Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS
2. Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
1. Andrew Scott, ALL OF US STRANGERS
Lead Actress
5. Michelle Williams, SHOWING UP
4. Lily Gladstone, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
3. Emma Stone, POOR THINGS
2. Natalie Portman, MAY DECEMBER
1. Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Lead Actor
5. Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
4. Dave Bautista, KNOCK AT THE CABIN
3. Jason Schwatrzman, ASTEROID CITY
2. Andrew Scott, ALL OF US STRANGERS
1. Teo Yoo, PAST LIVES
Lead Actress
5. Ayo Edibiri, BOTTOMS
4. Lily Gladstone, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
3. Natalie Portman, MAY DECEMBER
2. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, YOU HURT MY FEELINGS
1. Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
The best of the best.
Read MorePetite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
The Power of the Dog
Pig
Licorice Pizza
Summer of Soul
The Killing of Two Lovers
Drive My Car
The Card Counter
Annette
The Power of the Dog
Identifying Features
The French Dispatch
Summer of Soul
Zola
Petite Maman
Memoria
Passing
About Endlessness
The Green Knight
A Night of Knowing Nothing
The Underground Railroad
Drive My Car
Passing
West Side Story
The Lost Daughter
Licorice Pizza
Summer of Soul
It's a Sin
The Green Knight
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
The Disciple
The Green Knight
A Hero
Licorice Pizza
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Summer of Soul
The Velvet Underground
West Side Story
Special Guest #1s
Pt. 1:
Katie Rife - The Power of the Dog
Sam Van Hallgren - Annette
Isaac Feldberg - This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Cat Sullivan - C'mon, C'mon
Sarah Welch-Larson - Pig
Carlos Aguilar - Identifying Features
Pt. 2:
Matt Singer - Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Alison Willmore - The Lost Daughter
Mekado Murphy - Drive My Car
Mitchell Beaupre - Titane
Scott Tobias - Drive My Car
Marya Gates - Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Keith Phipps - The Power of the Dog
Sean Baker - Titane / Benedetta
Roxana Hadadi - The Green Knight
Chris Klimek - Licorice Pizza
Melissa Tamminga - The Power of the Dog
Aisha Harris - Summer of Soul
1. Lover’s Rock
2. Soul
3. First Cow
4. Vitalina Varela
5. Relic
6. Dick Johnson Is Dead
7. The Assistant
8. The Forty-Year-Old Version
9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
10. Mangrove
1. Lover's Rock
2. First Cow
3. One Night in Miami
4. Sound of Metal
5. The Painter and the Thief
6. The Truffle Hunters
7. Mank
8. The Trip to Greece
9. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
10. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
1. Lover’s Rock
2. First Cow
3. David Byrne’s American Utopia
4. Nomadland
5. City So Real
6. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
7. The Assistant
8. Mangrove
9. The Vast of Night
10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
1. Small Axe
2. Boys State
3. Nomadland
4. The Trial of the Chicago 7
5. The Platform
6. Wolfwalkers
7. David Byrne’s American Utopia
8. First Cow
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
10. Kajillionaire
Chris Klimek: Tenet
Cat Sullivan: The Invisible Man
Melissa Tamminga: The Assistant
Scott Tobias: Dick Johnson Is Dead
Alison Willmore: Bacarau
Dave Chen: Sound of Metal
Mekado Murphy: Soul
Josh Youngerman (Listener): Nomadland
Aisha Harris: Lover's Rock
1 List: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets; Boys State; City So Real; The Forty-Year-Old Version; I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Kajillionaire; Mank; Never Rarely Sometimes Always; One Night in Miami; The Painter and the Thief; The Platform; Relic; Soul; Sound of Metal; The Trial of the Chicago 7; The Trip to Greece; The Truffle Hunters; The Vast of Night; Vitalina Varela; Wolfwalkers
2 Lists: The Assistant; David Byrne's American Utopia; Dick Johnson Is Dead; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Mangrove; Nomadland
3 Lists: n/a
4 Lists: First Cow, Lover's Rock/Small Axe
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1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. The Master
3. The Tree of Life
4. Never Let Me Go
5. Lady Bird
6. Boyhood
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Parasite
9. Take Shelter
10. The Act of Killing
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Tree of Life
3. Moonlight
4. Isle of Dogs
5. Get Out
6. Meek’s Cutoff
7. Leviathan
8. The Fits
9. Cemetery of Splendor
10. Hail, Caesar!
11. Ex Machina
12. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
13. Phantom Thread
14. Roma
15. The Florida Project
16. Winter’s Bone
17. The Bling Ring
18. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
19. Chi-Raq
20. The Act of Killing
11. Under the Skin
12. Certified Copy
13. Margaret
14. Meek’s Cutoff
15. If Beale Street Could Talk
16. Dogtooth
17. The Social Network
18. BlackKklansman
19. Tower
20. The Arbor
1. Parasite
2. Little Women
3. Marriage Story
4. The Irishman
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
6. Ad Astra
7. Her Smell
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
9. Uncut Gems
10. Knives Out
1. Us
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Parasite
4. The Irishman
5. A Hidden Life
6. Pain and Glory
7. Jojo Rabbit
8. The Souvenir
9. Knives Out
10. High Life
1. Parasite
2. The Farewell
3. A Hidden Life
4. The Nightingale
5. Honey Boy
6. Hail, Satan?
7. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. I Lost My Body
9. Wild Rose
10. Knives Out
1. Parasite
2. Marriage Story
3. Ash Is Purest White
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. The Irishman
6. One Child Nation
7. Waves
8. Present. Perfect.
9. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
10. Little Women
Films that made 2 lists: Little Women, Marriage Story, A Hidden Life, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Films that made 3 lists: The Irishman, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Knives Out
Film that made all 4 lists: Parasite
Rian Johnson (Writer/Director, "Knives Out") - The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Alison Willmore (Vulture) - Uncut Gems / The Hottest August
Andy Mitchell (outgoing Filmspotting PA) - Homecoming
Jim Pallini (FS Listener) - Marriage Story
Cat Sullivan (incoming Filmspotting PA) - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Alissa Wilkinson (Vox) - Parasite / The Hottest August
Sean Gilman (Seattle Screen Scene) - First Love
Matt Singer (ScreenCrush.com) - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Nick E. (FS Listener) - The Farewell
Sarah Welch-Larson (Think Christian, Bright Wall/Dark Room) - The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Aisha Harris (New York Times) - Us
Sam Van Hallgren (FS Producer) - Marriage Story / The Dead Don't Die
Dave Chen (/Filmcast, Culturally Relevant) - Parasite
Daniel Nava (Chicago Cinema Circuit) - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Scott Tobias (The Next Picture Show) - The Irishman
Griffin Newman (Blank Check) - Parasite, Us