As 2023 ends and 2024 begins, here's the list of my favourite first watches that I saw last year. There is a clear bias to old Hollywood movies, as per usual, but my Mubi subscription is also well represented 😅 boxd.it/khrWc
The ones that hit the mark on my first viewing - 2023 edition
Well before the almost 20 minutes of 1959's copganda THE FBI STORY starring James Stewart devotes to the Osage Nation murders, there was a blink-and-miss shot of Clarke Gable inking an oil deal with Oklahoma Native Americans in 1940's BOOM TOWN. Earliest cinematic representation in Hollywood?
After 35 movies spanning from 1943's nifty B-noir WHISPERING FOOTSTEPS to 1993's sunburned neo-noir RED ROCK WEST, that is a wrap of #Noirvemberboxd.it/q2eLk#Noirvember2023
My Noirvember viewings for 2023