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This felt like a banner year for films, and while crafting this list is always a challenge, this year felt particularly hard. From horror, to international to indie, to queer films, there was a plethora of incredible films to choose from.
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I’ve made the executive decision for this list to be as subjective as possible, with arbitrary rules about what constitutes “a 2023 movie.”
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Trying to pick 15 films I wanted to highlight as the best of the year is an impossible task. But the important thing to remember is that you can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep.
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Sofia Coppola’s film, Priscilla shares fleeting snippets of a young woman’s past and invites the watcher to draw their own conclusions.
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Directed by Sofia Coppola (2017)
by Jaime Davis, The Fixer
When I was in high school, I had subscriptions to about 10 different magazines: Vogue, Seventeen, W, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Bazaar, YM, Elle, etc. A lot of the "women's interest" rag mags I peeped back then were Mad About the Girl, the Girl in question being none other than Sofia Coppola. Featured in profile after inane profile or in party pics, Sofia appeared to embody all the 90's cool I could never quite muster: minimalist, skinny chic, effortless in every fucking way. "Oh! Here's Sofia and her fashion-y, model-y friends in the Village. And HERE she is hanging with rock stars (Kim Gordon!). OMG she has a clothing line called Milk Fed that I could never ever afford!" (Also I think she dated Keanu Reeves back in the day which is like super heckin cool). For a young girl who, at that time, operated with a level of self-esteem around 37%, Coppola embodied a sort of love-hate escapism; I dreamed of living a life half as cool as hers, being half as cool as she was, while fully realizing the PR machine behind her was just a bunch of bullshit dressed up in cool trainers, baby tee, and stretchy black skirt. When the news about Coppola moved away from scene girl to her impending directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, I became fully immersed in all things Coppola. At the time I fancied becoming a filmmaker myself, so naturally now I wanted to BE HER. Ugh.
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