Culture 2023: our picks for film, TV, music and art | Film
What are your cultural new year resolutions? Maybe you’re just going to stop listening to new albums on shuffle, like the film critic Ellen E Jones. “I really ruined Beyoncé’s last album like that,” she says.
Nosheen Iqbal is joined by the Guardian’s arts editor, Alex Needham, the music and features writer Sam Wolfson, and Ellen E Jones, to recommend what to look out for in 2023. The panel discusses the opening of new cultural spaces such as Factory International in Manchester, why old music is trending more than new releases and the films that will drag you out of the house this year.
Here’s the full list of everything mentioned in this episode:
Film
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Nia DaCosta – The Marvels
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
James Mangold – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Ari Aster – Beau Is Afraid
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Jamie Suk – Legally Blonde 3
Chinonye Chukwu – Till
Todd Field – Tár
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
SS Rajamouli – RRR
Chantal Akerman – Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Elizabeth Banks – Cocaine Bear
Ali Abbasi – Holy Spider
Music
Annie Mac – Before Midnight (club night)
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
Gerry Rafferty – Right Down the Line
William Onyeabor
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (documentary)
The Alessi Brothers – Seabird
Scott Walker – Next
Iggy Pop – Strung Out Johnny
John Cale – Mercy
Steve Lacy – Bad Habit (sped-up version)
Olivia Rodrigo – Drivers License (sped-up version)
A-ha – Take On Me (sped-up version)
Asake – Mr Money With the Vibe
Piri & Tommy – Soft Spot
Frank Ocean (at Coachella)
Rihanna (at Super Bowl halftime show)
Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire – Almeida theatre (London)
The Lehman Trilogy – Gillian Lynne theatre (London)
Squid Game Immersive Gamebox (London, Essex, Manchester, Yorkshire and more locations opening in 2023)
The Burnt City – Punchdrunk (London)
Guys & Dolls – Bridge theatre (London)
Art
Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle – Barbican (London)
Factory International (Manchester)
David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (Not Smaller & Further Away) – Lightroom (London)
Jenkin van Zyl: Surrender – Edel Assanti (London)
Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way – Turner Contemporary (Margate) and Leeds Art Gallery
Veronica Ryan – Turner prize exhibition in Tate Liverpool
TV
Happy Valley – Sally Wainwright (BBC)
Unforgotten – Chris Lang (ITV)
Storyville (BBC)
Books
Fernanda Melchor – Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor – This is Not Miami
• This podcast was amended on 3 January 2023 to remove a reference to the Asake gig in Brixton. The interview was prerecorded and the details of the incident provided by the guest were no longer accurate by time of publication.
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