Criterion just published their preview of hotly anticipated titles for 2023. Most of the list has been covered on my 80 must-sees list. I did find a few that I may have missed and are now on my radar:
“I Saw the TV Glow”, the story of two teens coping with the cancelation of their favorite series. Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) directs Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Helena Howard, and Danielle Deadwyler.
Joe Talbot (The Last Black Man in San Francisco) will direct Lily-Rose Depp, Hoyeon, and Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) in The Governesses, an adaptation of Anne Serre’s 1992 novel that publisher New Directions calls a “semi-deranged erotic fairy tale.”
Rebecca Miller (Maggie’s Plan) will direct Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage, and Marisa Tomei in She Came to Me, a trio of interwoven New York love stories.
Twenty years after his Philip K. Dick adaptation Paycheck, John Woo has returned to the States to make Silent Night, an action movie without a word of dialogue.
Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole) will tell the story of the knotty relationship between a father and son in a tight-knit New Jersey community of Kabardian immigrants in his English-language feature, Butterfly Jam.
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse, in the meantime, has cast Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil in Un silence, his tenth feature. The story remains, as they say, under wraps, but Lafosse did tell Cineuropa that he aims “to try to show and explain why it’s so difficult to speak out.”
Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter) has been working on L’ordine del tempo, a story based on the book by theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli. A group of old friends meet once a year in a villa by the sea, but at this year’s party, they discover that the world may be ending within just a few hours.
Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive) is wrapping his first feature since Dream of Light (1992). In Cerrar los ojos, a famous Spanish actor disappears from a film set and is presumed dead. Years later, a television program revives interest in the case.
Back in March, word got around that Bi Gan would be shooting his third feature this year, but little has been heard about it since. Kino Lorber, though, will soon have the fifteen-minute A Short Story in theaters with the rerelease of Long Day’s Journey into Night (2018).
Edward Berger seems to have settled on what comes next. His Lance Armstrong biopic, starring Austin Butler, is now holding casting calls, with production eyed for January.