Looking Back: Nguyen Le’s Wonderful ‘Cinema Montage 2023’ Video
by Alex Billington March 19, 2024Source: Vimeo
One more video recap to enjoy as a last look back at the movies of 2023. Vietnamese film critic Nguyên Lê has revealed his Cinema Montage 2023 video, featuring a look at his Top 25 Best Films from last year (+ 2 extras). Oppenheimer won the Academy Award for Best Picture a few weeks ago, ending the 2023 awards season. Though that doesn’t mean we can’t still continue to celebrate all the great movies from last year. His video features many of my personal 2023 favorites as well, including: A Thousand and One, American Fiction, Godzilla: Minus One, Past Lives, Perfect Days, The Promised Land, and The Taste of Things. Plus other underrated gems like Polite Society, Sleep, Monster, Knock at the Cabin, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. The video comes in under 3 minutes and is a wonderfully short and sweet reminder of all the beauty cinema offers us every year. Enjoy.
Thanks to Nguyên Lê on Twitter for the tip on this video. This Cinema Montage 2023 video is created and edited by Nguyên Lê, a Vietnamese film critic / journalist currently based in Saigon. The full list of films highlighted in this montage is included at the end – around 2:30 into the video. You can also follow Nguyên Lê on Twitter @thevietwhoviet or visit his Vimeo page to see more of his creations. For more retrospectives and articles about the previous year in movies, check out our Looking Back category with other highlights. We have also posted a few other recap videos: Top 10 Favourites from 2023 in Cinema and Sleepy Skunk’s 2023 Movie Trailer Mashup and Jed Wagman’s 2023 Movie Mashup, as well as David Ehrlich’s iconic The 25 Best Films of 2023 Video Countdown. All 27 of the films included in this video are really worth a watch.
