SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2023 – FORTY-FIVE FILMS RANKED FROM BEST TO HO-HUM
Well, the Sydney Film Festival 2023 just swept through last June 7-18 during the start of our winter season as it now celebrates the King’s Birthday long weekend.
It is the end of another year of wonderful cinema and here is my list of the best films of this year. All the films got my five stars. Catch them on Netflix or Blu-Ray or free-to-air when you can.
DRAMA
The Post, All the Money in the World, I Tonya, Phantom Thread, Mr Stein Goes Online, Catch the Wind, Custody, The Price of Success, Jalouse, The Guardians, Bloody Milk, The Light of the Moon, Loveless, The Open Door, Foxtrot, What Will People Say, Word of God, The Real Estate, Under the Tree, A Horrible Woman, Darling, While We Live, Ted – Show Me Love, Becoming Astrid, Border, Amateurs, The Swan, Ravens, Butterflies, Cold of Kalandar, More, Microhabitat, West of Sunshine, BlacKkKlansman, Boys Cry, There is no Place Like Home, Happy as Lazzaro, We’ll Be Young and Beautiful, Dogman, First Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, The City Without Jews, The Last Supper, Boy Erased, Ramen Shop, Longing, Animal, Birds of Passage, Violeta Al Fin, Loveling, Un Traductor, Lean on Pete, Can You Ever Forgive Me, The Kindergarten Teacher, The Wife, Aga, Wajib, Roma
ROMANCE
All of You, The Boy Downstairs, Adrift, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Book Club, Crazy Rich Asians, The Guest, Ladies in Black, The Seagull, Promise at Dawn, Tutor, Outdoors, Call Boy, The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
COMEDY
Two is A Family, La Tribu, Abracadabra, The Saint Bernard Syndicate, The Breaker Upperers, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Thicker than Water
ACTION
Black Panther, Loving Pablo, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Skyscraper, Beirut, Mission Impossible – Fallout, The Darkest Minds, American Animals, Venom, Sobibor, Deadpool 2, El Angel, Widows, Creed II
THRILLER
Double Lover, Unsane, Chappaquiddick, Utoya: July 22, Searching, Murer – Anatomy of a Trial, The Body Collector
HORROR
A Quiet Place, Thelma
QUEER
Beach Rats, A Moment in the Reeds, Nobody’s Watching, Saturday Church, Love Simon, Golden Years, Lola Pater, Euphoria, My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Colette, The Marriage
DOCUMENTARY
The Gospel According to Andre, BPM (Beats per Minute), Black Divas, Coby, Braguino, Julia ist, Gurrumul, Whitney, Ferrante Fever, George Michael: Freedom, Mario, Abu, A Kid Like Jake, Water and Sugar: Carlo di Palma the Colours of Life, Our New President, The Waldheim Waltz, The Oslo Diaries, Love Gilda, The Mossad: Imperfects, Madam Prime Minister, The Museum, Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood, The Prince and the Dybbuk, My Generation, Black Honey – the Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutskever, Conventional Sins, Kusama Infinity, Yellow is Forbidden, Filmworker, Of Fathers and Sons, Lots of Kids A Monkey and a Castle.
Well, the Sydney Film Festival 2023 just swept through last June 7-18 during the start of our winter season as it now celebrates the King’s Birthday long weekend.
The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) is back this year at the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, Sydney, from 18 February to 24 March 2021. The festival spans a varied collection of Jewish films in both documentary and narrative feature formats. There is a bit for everyone, including movies and TV series from Israel, stories about the Holocaust, and compelling profiles of prominent Jewish personalities.