SEEN, READ 2022
January 13, 2023
With apologies to Mr/Dr Soderbergh (and a few tweaks to the format) . . . .
All caps, bold: MOVIE
All caps, bold, italics: MOVIE (not a first viewing)
All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT FILM*
All caps: TV SERIES
Italics: Book
01/01 Hell Hound, Ken Greenhall; GUNSMOKE (1968) (6); THE UNTOUCHABLES (1961) (2)
01/02 Murder Is Not an Odd Job, Ralph Dennis; THE UNTOUCHABLES (1961-62) (5); GUNSMOKE (1968) (4)
01/03 GUNSMOKE (1968) (4)
01/04 Working For the Man, Ralph Dennis; GUNSMOKE (1968) (3)
01/05 THE UNTOUCHABLES (1962) (2); GUNSMOKE (1968) (3)
01/06 MIAMI VICE (1985) (4)
01/07 THE INSECT WOMAN (Kim Ki-young, 1972); YOU ARE A WIDOW, SIR! (Václav Vorlíĉek, 1971); Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office, Brian Baumgartner & Ben Silverman
01/08 THE BEAST MUST DIE (Roman Viñoly Barreto, 1952); THE BITTER STEMS (Fernando Ayala, 1956); KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (Hector Babenco, 1985)
01/09 The Face That Must Die, Ramsey Campbell; DREAMLAND (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, 2020); CAVALCADE (Frank Lloyd, 1933)
01/10 SERGEANT CORK (1963) (2)
01/11 POSSESSOR (Brandon Cronenberg, 2020)
01/12 GUEST OF HONOUR (Atom Egoyan, 2020); SMALL AXE: MANGROVE (Steve McQueen, 2020)
01/13 LES VAMPIRES: THE SEVERED HEAD*; THE DEADLY RING*; THE RED CRYPTOGRAM*; THE SPECTRE* (Louis Feuillade, 1915-16)
01/14 Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg; APPRENTICE TO MURDER (R.L. Thomas, 1988); WHITE FIRE (Jean-Marie Pallardy, 1984); MANIAC KILLER (Andrea Bianchi, 1987)
01/15 THE BLOODY BROOD (Julian Roffman, 1959); THE MASK (Roffman, 1961); FDR HYDE PARK* (Roffman, 1949); FREEDOM TO READ* (Roffman, 1954)
01/16 Dread Journey, Dorothy B. Hughes; LEPTIRICA; WARD*; THE MAIDEN’S TUNE* (Đorđe Kadijević, 1973)
01/17 LES VAMPIRES: THE CORPSE’S ESCAPE*; THE EYES THAT MESMERIZE* (Louis Feuillade, 1915-16)
01/18 SMALL AXE: LOVERS ROCK; RED, WHITE AND BLUE; ALEX WHEATLE; EDUCATION (Steve McQueen, 2020)
01/19 MIAMI VICE (1985) (4)
01/21 The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre That Revolutionized American Comedy, Janet Coleman; MIAMI VICE (1985-86) (2)
01/22 MIAMI VICE (1986) (4)
01/24 The 30 Rock Book, Mike Roe; HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA (Dmitry Vasyukov & Werner Herzog, 2013)
01/25 A Pagan Place, Edna O’Brien; ON DEATH ROW (2012) (3)
01/26 ON DEATH ROW (2012-13) (5); Dig My Grave Deep, Peter Rabe
01/28 Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood, Leonard Maltin; THE LADY REFUSES (George Archainbaud, 1931); THE WOMAN BETWEEN (Victor Schertzinger, 1931); KEPT HUSBANDS (Lloyd Bacon, 1931)
01/29 EX-LADY (Robert Florey, 1933); GIRL MISSING (Florey, 1933); I SELL ANYTHING (Florey, 1934); REGISTERED NURSE (Florey, 1934); SMARTY (Florey, 1934); MILLIE (John Francis Dillon, 1931)
01/30 The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis; FROM ONE SECOND TO THE NEXT* (Werner Herzog, 2013); LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD (Herzog, 2016)
01/31 INTO THE INFERNO (Werner Herzog, 2016)
02/01 QUEEN OF THE DESERT (Werner Herzog, 2017); SALT AND FIRE (Herzog, 2017)
02/02 KING IN THE WILDERNESS (Peter Kunhardt, 2018); Apparently There Were Complaints, Sharon Gless
02/03 HUMAN CAPITAL (Marc Meyers, 2020)
02/04 Union Street, Pat Barker; YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (David Koepp, 2020); BLOODSHOT (David S.F. Wilson, 2020); AVA (Tate Taylor, 2020);
THE INFORMER (Andrea Di Stefano, 2020); THE SECRETS WE KEEP (Yuval Adler, 2020)
02/05 TENET (Christopher Nolan, 2020); ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… (Regina King, 2020); ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola, 2020); LET HIM GO (Thomas Bezucha, 2020)
02/06 SUGARFOOT (1958) (2); BRONCO (1958) (2); Blue Blood, Craig Unger
02/07 MIAMI VICE (1986) (3)
02/08 PUBLIC DEFENDER (1954) (4); SUGARFOOT (1958) (2)
02/09 WANDER (April Mullen, 2020); ECHO BOOMERS (Seth Savoy, 2020)
02/10 FEELS GOOD MAN (Arthur Jones, 2020)
02/11 MEETING GORBACHEV (Werner Herzog & Andre Singer, 2019); NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN (Herzog, 2020)
02/12 The Mongolian Conspiracy, Rafael Bernal; PROMISE OF THE FLESH (Kim Ki-young, 1975); WOMAN CHASING THE BUTTERFLY OF DEATH (Kim, 1978); IO ISLAND (Kim, 1977)
02/13 LES VAMPIRES: SATANAS*; THE LORD OF THUNDER*; THE POISON MAN*; THE BLOODY WEDDING* (Louis Feuillade, 1916)
02/14 Blow Your House Down, Pat Barker
02/15 BILLIONS (2020) (4)
02/16 TIME (Garrett Bradley, 2020); ALONE* (Bradley, 2016)
02/17 SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (1956) (3)
02/18 CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (Edward L. Cahn, 1955); GIRLS IN PRISON (Cahn, 1956); SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (1956) (1); VOODOO WOMAN (Cahn, 1957); ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU (Cahn, 1957); INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN (Cahn, 1957)
02/19 IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (Edward L. Cahn, 1958); CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN (Cahn, 1958); HONG KONG CONFIDENTIAL (Cahn, 1958); GUNS GIRLS AND GANGSTERS (Cahn, 1959); RIOT IN JUVENILE PRISON (Cahn, 1959); INVISIBLE INVADERS (Cahn, 1959); GUNFIGHTERS OF ABILENE (Cahn, 1959); VICE RAID (Cahn, 1959)
02/20 FIVE GUNS TO TOMBSTONE (Edward L. Cahn, 1960); BILLIONS (2020) (3)
02/21 The Elementals, Michael McDowell; THE CROWN (2020) (3)
02/22 BILLIONS (2021) (5)
02/23 Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices, Noah Feldman; SNOWPIERCER (2020) (3)
02/24 Memoirs of Hecate County, Edmund Wilson; OKLAHOMA TERRITORY (Edward L. Cahn, 1960); NOOSE FOR A GUNMAN (Cahn, 1960)
02/25 FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS (Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer, 2020)
02/26 THREE CAME TO KILL (Edward L. Cahn, 1960); CAGE OF EVIL (Cahn, 1960); THE WALKING TARGET (Cahn, 1960); YOU HAVE TO RUN FAST (Cahn, 1961); The Bushwhacked Piano, Thomas McGuane
02/27 BOY WHO CAUGHT A CROOK (Edward L. Cahn, 1961)
03/01 Balcony in the Forest, Julien Gracq; THE CROWN (2020) (3)
03/02 King Cophetua, Julien Gracq; SNOWPIERCER (2020) (3)
03/03 THE CROWN (2020) (4); POSE (2021)
03/04 THREE LIVES AND ONLY ONE DEATH (Raul Ruiz, 1996); GENEALOGIES OF A CRIME (Ruiz, 1997)
03/05 THE REFLECTING SKIN (Philip Ridley, 1990); THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON (Ridley, 1995); CLEARCUT (Ryszard Bugajski, 1991)
03/06 POSE (2021) (2)
03/07 The Store, Bentley Little; POSE (2021) (2)
03/08 SNOWPIERCER (2020) (4)
03/09 The House on Coliseum Street, Shirley Ann Grau; POSE (2021) (3)
03/10 GUN FIGHT (Edward L. Cahn, 1961); GUN STREET (Cahn, 1961); INCIDENT IN AN ALLEY (Cahn, 1962)
03/11 NAKED LUNCH (David Cronenberg, 1991)
03/12 EL PISITO (Isidoro M. Ferri & Marco Ferreri, 1958); LOS CHICOS (Ferreri, 1959)
03/13 HUMANS (2015) (2); The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
03/14 Being There, Jerzy Kosinski; YELLOWSTONE (2021) (5)
03/15 THE OMEGA MAN (Boris Sagal, 1971); SOYLENT GREEN (Richard Fleischer, 1973); Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, James Andrew Miller
03/16 THE AGONY OF JERUSALEM (Julien Duvivier, 1927)
03/17 Quicksand, Nella Larsen; YELLOWSTONE (2021-22) (5)
03/18 DER FAN (Eckhart Schmidt, 1982); DECODER (Muscha, 1984)
03/19 THE INHERITORS (Walter Bannert, 1983); ANGST (Gerald Kargl, 1983); FRANKFURT KAISERSTRASSE (Roger Fritz, 1981); THE DAY IT RAINED (Gerd Oswald, 1959); SHIP OF THE DEAD (Georg Tressler, 1959)
03/20 SUKKUBUS (Georg Tressler, 1989); Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale, J.J. Phillips
03/21 A HOLY PLACE (Đorđe Kadijević, 1990)
03/22 Passing, Nella Larsen; HUMANS (2015) (3)
03/23 The Connoisseur, Evan S. Connell
03/24 THE MARRIAGE OF MADEMOISELLE BEULEMANS (Julien Duvivier, 1927); THE MAELSTROM OF PARIS (Duvivier, 1928)
03/25 The Fabulous Clipjoint, Fredric Brown; HER SMELL (Alex Ross Perry, 2019); THE INVISIBLE MAN (Leigh Whannell, 2020); THE QUARRY (Scott Teems, 2020); THE KID DETECTIVE (Evan Morgan, 2020)
03/26 RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, 2019); CRY MACHO (Eastwood, 2021); BAD EDUCATION (Cory Finley, 2020); NEWS OF THE WORLD (Paul Greengrass, 2020)
03/27 HUMANS (2015) (3); So Many Doors, Oakley Hall
03/28 MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard, 2021)
03/29 Fireworks, Angela Carter; THE MYSTERY OF THE EIFFEL TOWER (Julien Duvivier, 1928)
03/30 BODY CAM (Malik Vitthal, 2020)
03/31 I AM THE NIGHT (2019) (6)
04/01 Make Room! Make Room!, Harry Harrison; A WHITE SPOT ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD* (Viðar Víkingsson, 1979); DRAUGASAGA (Víkingsson, 1985); TILBURY* (Víkingsson, 1987)
04/02 THE AWFUL DR. ORLOF (Jess Franco, 1962); DEATH WHISTLES THE BLUES (Franco, 1962); RIFIFI IN THE CITY (Franco, 1963); DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTER (Franco, 1964); MARQUIS DE SADE’S “JUSTINE” (Franco, 1969); The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century, Margaret Talbot
04/03 THE DIVINE VOYAGE (Julien Duvivier, 1929); Jack’s Return Home, Ted Lewis
04/04 MIAMI VICE (1986) (3)
04/05 LEAVING NEVERLAND (Dan Reed, 2019)
04/06 BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (Curt Siodmak, 1951); KID MONK BARONI (Harold Schuster, 1952)
04/07 Froth on the Daydream, Boris Vian; ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN (Morgan Neville, 2021); THE ONE AND ONLY DICK GREGORY (Andre Gaines, 2021)
04/08 POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper, 1982); TOOTSIE (Sydney Pollack, 1982); THE DIARY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER* (Peter Watkins, 1959); THE FORGOTTEN FACES* (Watkins, 1961); CULLODEN (Watkins, 1964)
04/09 THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, 1965); PRIVILEGE (Watkins, 1967); THE GLADIATORS (Watkins, 1969); PUNISHMENT PARK (Watkins, 1971)
04/10 THE MATCHBOX MAN* (Gorman Bechard, 2021); MAIL ORDER MURDER: THE STORY OF W.A.V.E. PRODUCTIONS (Ross Snyder & William Hellfire, 2020)
04/11 NARCOS: MEXICO (2018) (2)
04/12 NARCOS: MEXICO (2018) (3)
04/13 They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema, Caelum Vatnsdal
04/14 NARCOS: MEXICO (2018) (5); Storm, George R. Stewart
04/15 POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE (Brian Gibson, 1986); POLTERGEIST III (Gary Sherman, 1988); WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE (Sherman, 1986)
04/16 LA LLORONA (Ramón Peón, 1933); THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY (Fernando de Fuentes, 1934); TWO MONKS (Juan Bustillo Oro, 1934); RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, 1994); DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (Julie Dash, 1991)
04/17 The Surprise Party Complex, Ramona Stewart; EDVARD MUNCH (Peter Watkins, 1974); EVENING LAND (Watkins, 1977)
04/19 THE STATE OF TEXAS VS. MELISSA (Sabrina Van Tassel, 2020)
04/20 I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE (2020) (3)
04/21 I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE (2020) (3); The Hungry Moon, Ramsey Campbell
04/22 BLOOD THEATRE (Rick Sloane, 1984); THE VISITANTS (Sloane, 1987); HOBGOBLINS (Sloane, 1988); VICE ACADEMY (Sloane, 1989); VICE ACADEMY PART 2 (Sloane, 1990); Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store, Daniel Herbert
04/23 NECROMANCER (Dusty Nelson, 1988); EVIL TOWN (Various, 1977/87); DEADLY DAPHNE’S REVENGE (Richard Gardner, 1981/87); HELL RIDERS (James Bryan, 1984); THE AFTERMATH (Steve Barkett, 1982)
04/24 TRANSFORMATIONS* (Barbara Hirschfeld, 1972); NIGHT CALLER* (Dan Gilbert, 1973)
04/25 Apartment in Athens, Glenway Wescott; THE MIRACULOUS LIFE OF THERESA OF LISIEUX (Julien Duvivier, 1929)
04/26 EUREKA (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
04/27 BACKWATER (Shinji Aoyama, 2013); POLTERGEIST (Gil Kenan, 2015); Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls
04/28 DESTINATION TOKYO (Delmer Daves, 1943); HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN (Daves, 1944)
04/29 THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (Jules Dassin, 1944); TWO SMART PEOPLE (Dassin, 1946); THE CROSS OF LORRAINE (Tay Garnett, 1943); THE VALLEY OF DECISION (Garnett, 1945); Voices From the Moon, Andre Dubus
04/30 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES (Arthur Lubin, 1944); SUMMER STORM (Douglas Sirk, 1944); A SCANDAL IN PARIS (Sirk, 1946); SLEEP, MY LOVE (Sirk, 1948)
05/01 SLIGHTLY FRENCH (Douglas Sirk, 1949); THE RED MENACE (R.G. Springsteen, 1949); OUT OF THE BLUE (Leigh Jason, 1947); THE KID FROM CLEVELAND (Herbert Kline, 1949)
05/03 DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, 2020)
05/04 The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million, Nathanael West; MIDNIGHT COWBOY (John Schlesinger, 1969)
05/05 Shooting Midnight Cowboy, Glenn Frankel; SHAMELESS (2017) (3)
05/06 JOHNNY COME LATELY (William K. Howard, 1943); THE CRYSTAL BALL (Elliott Nugent, 1943); JOURNEY FOR MARGARET (W.S. Van Dyke II, 1942)
05/07 THE RED HOUSE (Delmer Daves, 1947); DARK PASSAGE (Daves, 1947); TASK FORCE (Daves, 1949); A KISS IN THE DARK (Daves, 1949)
05/08 The Last Worthless Evening, Andre Dubus; MIAMI VICE (1986) (5)
05/09 LURED (Douglas Sirk, 1947); NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Eliza Hittman, 2020)
05/11 SHAMELESS (2017) (4)
05/12 The Truth and Other Stories, Stanisław Lem; SHAMELESS (2017-18) (2)
05/13 DOWNFALL (John Moxey, 1964); THE VERDICT (David Eady, 1964); WE SHALL SEE (Quentin Lawrence, 1964); FACE OF A STRANGER (Moxey, 1964); THE SICILIANS (Ernest Morris, 1963)
05/14 WHO WAS MADDOX? (Geoffrey Nethercott, 1964); ACT OF MURDER (Alan Bridges, 1964); NEVER MENTION MURDER (John Nelson Burton, 1964); THE MAIN CHANCE (John Knight, 1964); GAME FOR THREE LOSERS (Gerry O’Hara, 1965); CHANGE PARTNERS (Robert Lynn, 1965); STRANGLER’S WEB (John Moxey, 1965); DEAD MAN’S CHEST (Patrick Dromgoole, 1965)
05/15 Eden, Stanisław Lem; SHAMELESS (2018) (3)
05/16 MOTHER HUMMINGBIRD (Julien Duvivier, 1930)
05/18 The N’Gustro Affair, Jean-Patrick Manchette
05/19 RED JOAN (Trevor Nunn, 2019); HOPE GAP (William Nicholson, 2020)
05/20 IN FABRIC (Peter Strickland, 2019); THE GENTLEMEN (Guy Ritchie, 2020); ROGUE (MJ Bassett, 2020)
05/21 YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2020); ANOTHER ROUND (Thomas Vinterberg, 2020); AMMONITE (Francis Lee, 2020)
05/22 Dancing After Hours and uncollected stories in The Cross Country Runner, Andre Dubus; SERGEANT CORK (1963) (2)
05/23 DR. DEATH (2021) (3)
05/24 THE AVENGERS (1963) (2)
05/25 The Hanging on Union Square, H.T. Tsiang; DR. DEATH (2021); THE HOT ZONE: ANTHRAX (2021)
05/26 DR. DEATH (2021) (4); Townie, Andre Dubus III
05/27 THE HOT ZONE: ANTHRAX (2021) (5); Meditations From a Moving Chair, Andre Dubus
05/28 THRILLER (1974) (5)
05/29 PUBLIC EYE (1971) (8); THRILLER (1974); Dark Entries, Robert Aickman
05/30 THRILLER (1975) (6); ROGUE MALE (Clive Donner, 1976)
05/31 LOVE’S BERRY* (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1926); THE DIPLOMATIC POUCH* (Dovzhenko, 1927)
06/01 ZVENIGORA (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1928)
06/02 CSI: VEGAS (2021) (3)
06/03 Binstead’s Safari, Rachel Ingalls; SERENITY (Steven Knight, 2019); ARSENAL (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1929)
06/04 EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930); HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018); PETERLOO (Mike Leigh, 2019)
06/05 Call Me a Cab, Donald E. Westlake; THE GOOD FIGHT (2020) (5)
06/06 WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL (Matt Wolf, 2008)
06/08 Three Summers, Margarita Liberaki; THE GOOD FIGHT (2020-21) (5)
06/09 THE GOOD FIGHT (2021) (7)
06/10 DRIVEN (Nick Hamm, 2019); THE KITCHEN (Andrea Berloff, 2019); COLD PURSUIT (Hans Petter Moland, 2019); LONG SHOT (Jonathan Levine, 2019); 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED (Johannes Roberts, 2019); Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
06/11 FORD V FERRARI (James Mangold, 2019); THE BEACH BUM (Harmony Korine, 2019); UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (David Robert Mitchell, 2019); CHARLIE SAYS (Mary Harron, 2019)
06/12 TRIAL BY FIRE (Edward Zwick, 2019)
06/13 JOJO RABBIT (Taika Waititi, 2019); SHIRAZ (Franz Osten, 1928)
06/14 The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson; LOST BATTALION (Eddie Romero, 1960)
06/15 THE RAVAGERS (Eddie Romero, 1965)
06/16 CASTLE ROCK (2019) (4); Everybody Thought We Were Crazy, Mark Rozzo
06/17 Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies, Blaise Cendrars; BLOOD THIRST (Newt Arnold, 1965); THE BLOOD DRINKERS (Gerardo de León, 1964); THE WALLS OF HELL (de León & Eddie Romero, 1964)
06/18 CURSE OF THE VAMPIRES (Gerardo de León, 1966); BRIDES OF BLOOD (de León & Eddie Romero, 1968); MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND (de León & Romero, 1969); BEAST OF BLOOD (Romero, 1970); BACK DOOR TO HELL (Monte Hellman, 1964); FLIGHT TO FURY (Hellman, 1964)
06/19 AMBUSH BAY (Ron Winston, 1966); IMPASSE (Richard Benedict, 1969); One For Hell, Jada M. Davis
06/20 LITTLE WOODS (Nia DaCosta, 2019); CLEMENCY (Chinonye Chukwu, 2019); LUCE (Julius Onah, 2019)
06/21 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2017) (6)
06/22 The Mad and the Bad, Jean-Patrick Manchette; MARSHA HUNT’S SWEET ADVERSITY (Roger C. Memos, 2015); HOLLYWOOD CHINESE (Arthur Dong, 2008); THE MAN WHO SHOT CHINATOWN: THE LIFE & WORK OF JOHN A. ALONZO (Axel Schill, 2007)
06/23 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2017) (4)
06/24 GUNSMOKE (1968-69) (7)
06/25 GUNSMOKE (1969) (10)
06/26 MY LIFE AS A DOG (Lasse Hallström, 1985); SALAAM BOMBAY! (Mira Nair, 1988)
06/27 BERLIN STATION (2016) (2)
06/29 Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara; MIAMI VICE (1986) (4)
06/30 THE DISCOVERY OF BRAZIL (Humberto Mauro, 1937); BRASILIANAS* (6) (1946-56, Mauro); O JOAO DE BARRO* (Mauro, 1956); SAO JOAO DEL REI* (Mauro, 1958); THE SPINNING OLD WOMAN* (Mauro, 1964); THE OXCART* (Mauro, 1974)
07/01 MIDWAY (Roland Emmerich, 2019); MOONFALL (Emmerich, 2022); ESCAPE ROOM (Adam Robitel, 2019); ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (Robitel, 2021)
07/02 THE MASTER OF APIPUCOS* (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1959); THE POET OF CASTELO* (Andrade, 1959); CAT SKIN* (Andrade, 1960); GARRINCHA JOY OF THE PEOPLE (Andrade, 1963); ASSAULT ON THE PAY TRAIN (Roberto Farias, 1962); SAO DIOGO QUARRY* (Leon Hirszman, 1962); ABSOLUTE MAJORITY* (Hirszman, 1964); THE DECEASED (Hirszman, 1965); SAO PAULO, SOCIEDADE ANONIMA (Luiz Sergio Person, 1965)
07/03 TURNING WIND (Glauber Rocha, 1962); THIS WORLD IS MINE (Sergio Ricardo, 1964); THE PRIEST AND THE GIRL (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1966); MACUNAIMA (Andrade, 1969); BRASILIA: CONTRADICTIONS OF A NEW CITY* (Andrade, 1967); THE LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION* (Andrade, 1970)
07/04 COME, SWEET DEATH* (Sérgio Bernardes Filho, 1967); DESPERATE (Bernardes, 1968); HITLER THIRD WORLD (Jose Agrippino de Paula, 1968); SWEET BITTERNESS* (André Luiz Oliveira, 1968); METEORANGO KID, INTERGALACTIC HERO (Oliveira, 1969); THE FOUNTAIN* (Oliveira, 1970); AN EYE FOR AN EYE* (Andrea Tonacci, 1966); BLA BLA BLA* (Tonacchi, 1968); Midnight Road, Jada M. Davis
07/05 ANTONIO DAS MORTES (Glauber Rocha, 1969); MY NAME IS … TONHO (Ozualdo R. Candeias, 1969); THE MONSTERS OF BABALOO (Elyseu Visconti Cavalleiro, 1970); BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG (Andrea Tonacci, 1971)
07/06 THE ALIENIST (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1970); HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN (Pereira dos Santos, 1971); COPACABANA MON AMOUR (Rogério Sganzerla, 1970); NO WAY, SPIDER (Sganzerla, 1970); THE END OF MAN (José Mojica Marins, 1971)
07/07 Watergate: A New History, Garrett M. Graff; ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula, 1976); ZEZERO* (Ozualdo R. Candeias, 1974); THE OLD MAN’S VISIT* (Candeias, 1976); ECOLOGY* (Leon Hirszman, 1973); MEGALOPOLIS* (Hirszman, 1973); WORK SONGS* (3) (Hirszman, 1975-76); MARIA ESTHER: DANCES IN AFRICA*; SKY OVER WATER* (Jose Agrippino de Paula, 1978); TICUMBI*; FEIRA DE CAMPINA GRANDE*; CAVALO MARINHO*; BOI CALEMBA* (Elyseu Visconti Cavalleiro, 1978-79); THIS IS RUE TAO AUGUSTA* (Carlos Reichenbach, 1969); BUCCANEER BLOOD*; THE “M” OF MY HAND* (Reichenbach, 1979)
07/08 LILIAN M. (CONFIDENTIAL REPORT) (Carlos Reichenbach, 1975); THE KING OF THE NIGHT (Héctor Babenco, 1975); LUCIO FLAVIO: PASSENGER OF AGONY (Babenco, 1977)
07/09 IRACEMA (Jorge Bodanzky & Orlando Senna, 1975); THE CONSPIRATORS (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1972); CONJUGAL WARFARE (Andrade, 1975); TROPICAL LANE* (Andrade, 1977); O ALEIJADINHO* (Andrade, 1978); THE BRAZILWOOD MAN (Andrade, 1981); The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Angela Carter
07/10 The Open Road, Jean Giono
07/11 BURIED (2021) (4)
07/13 Ennemonde, Jean Giono; GUNSMOKE (1969) (6)
07/14 SONG OF LONGING (Humberto Mauro, 1952); THE BANDIT (Lima Barreto, 1953)
07/15 VIOLENCE AND FLESH (Alfredo Sternheim, 1981); PORNO (David Cardoso, Luiz Castellini, John Doo, 1981); THE CHICK’S ABILITY (Doo, 1984); BARE BEHIND BARS (Osvaldo de Oliveira, 1980); AMAZON JAIL (Oliveira, 1982)
07/16 PIXOTE: THE LAW OF THE WEAKEST (Héctor Babenco, 1981); THEY DON’T WEAR BLACK TIE (Leon Hirszman, 1981); MIDNIGHT MASS* (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1982); RIO MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE POLITICAL PLAN* (Sergio Bernardes Filho, 1982); A MAN SIGNED TO DIE: TWENTY YEARS LATER (Eduardo Coutinho, 1984)
07/17 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2020) (5)
07/19 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2020) (5); The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
07/20 THE AVENGERS (1963) (2); SERGEANT CORK (1963) (2)
07/21 MIAMI VICE (1986-87) (4); Conjugal Love, Alberto Moravia
07/22 GOLDEN HOOFS (Lynn Shores, 1941); DEAD MEN TELL (Harry Lachman, 1941); THE LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (Lachman, 1942); DR. RENAULT’S SECRET (Lachman, 1942)
07/23 SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS (Lewis Seiler, 1944); MOLLY AND ME (Seiler, 1945); Hollywood Godfather: The Life and Crimes of Billy Wilkerson, W.R. Wilkerson III
07/24 MASTERS OF SEX (2015) (4)
07/25 MASTERS OF SEX (2015) (2)
07/26 Almost Innocent, Sheila Bosworth; MOTHER DIDN’T TELL ME (Claude Binyon, 1950); A TICKET TO TOMAHAWK (Richard Sale, 1950)
07/27 MASTERS OF SEX (2015) (3)
07/28 STATE TROOPER (1956-57) (6); THE RESTLESS GUN (1958) (2)
07/29 WHITE COMANCHE (Gilbert Lee Kay, 1968); CATLOW (Sam Wanamaker, 1971)
07/30 MALENKA: THE NIECE OF THE VAMPIRE (Amando De Ossorio, 1969); PHANTOM KILLER (Xavier Setó, 1969); CAULDRON OF BLOOD (Santos Alcocer, 1970)
07/31 The Drinker, Hans Fallada; MASTERS OF SEX (2015) (3)
08/01 THE BIG FAMILY (Fernando Palacios, 1962)
08/03 GUNSMOKE (1969) (4); The Diary of a Rapist, Evan S. Connell
08/04 GUNSMOKE (1969) (2); STATE TROOPER (1957) (6); The Man Who Seduced Hollywood, B. James Gladstone
08/05 HAPPY HOUR (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015)
08/06 THE ASSISTANT (Kitty Green, 2020); THE LAST SHIFT (Andrew Cohn, 2020)
08/07 WORKING MAN (Robert Jury, 2020); A Graveyard For Lunatics, Ray Bradbury
08/08 ASAKO I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2019)
08/09 HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY* (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2016); WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi, 2021)
08/10 THE GILDED AGE (2022) (3)
08/11 THE RIGHT OF WAY (Frank Lloyd, 1931); CAPTAIN APPLEJACK (Hobart Henley, 1931); THE GILDED AGE (2022)
08/12 DRIVE MY CAR (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021); THE GILDED AGE (2022) (2)
08/13 CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman, 2020); BLOODY NOSE EMPTY POCKETS (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross, 2020); JASPER MALL (Bradford Thomason & Brett Whitcomb)
08/14 Back in the World, Tobias Wolff; THE GILDED AGE (2022) (3)
08/15 GUNSMOKE (1969-70) (3)
08/16 GUNSMOKE (1970) (4); Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
08/17 THE LOST SQUADRON (George Archainbaud, 1932); STATE’S ATTORNEY (Archainbaud, 1932); RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS (Richard Boleslavsky, 1932)
08/18 MADAME BUTTERFLY (Marion Gering, 1932); THE BARBARIAN (Sam Wood, 1933); ALEXANDER HAMILTON (John G. Adolfi, 1931); Directed by James Burrows, James Burrows with Eddy Friedfeld
08/19 PARTY HUSBAND (Clarence Badger, 1931); THE HOT HEIRESS (Badger, 1931); WEEK-END MARRIAGE (Thornton Freeland, 1932); SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE (Edward Sutherland, 1932); THIRTEEN WOMEN (George Archainbaud, 1932); HELL’S HIGHWAY (Rowland Brown, 1932)
08/20 BEAUTY FOR SALE (Richard Boleslavsky, 1933); PENTHOUSE (W.S. Van Dyke, 1933); ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON (Stephen Roberts, 1933); THE WOMAN ACCUSED (Paul Sloane, 1933)
08/21 BILLIONS (2022) (8)
08/22 Native Son, Richard Wright; BILLIONS (2022) (4)
08/23 GUNSMOKE (1970) (4); STATE TROOPER (1957) (2); Paul Lynde: A Biography, Cathy Fitzgibbon Rudolph
08/24 GUNSMOKE (1970) (3); STATE TROOPER (1957) (2)
08/26 STRIKE COMMANDO (Bruno Mattei, 1986); ELEVEN DAYS ELEVEN NIGHTS (Joe D’Amato, 1987); KILLING BIRDS (D’Amato, 1988); PRIMAL RAGE (Vittorio Rambaldi, 1988)
08/27 ORDER OF DEATH (Roberto Faenza, 1983); THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE (Cesare Ferrario, 1986); WILD BEASTS (Franco Prosperi, 1984); PAGANINI HORROR (Luigi Cozzi, 1989); STRIKE COMMANDO 2 (Bruno Mattei, 1988)
08/28 Dopefiend, Donald Goines; LA BREA (2021) (2)
08/29 BELFAST (Kenneth Branagh, 2021); SUPERNOVA (Harry Macqueen, 2021)
08/30 Uncle Tom’s Children, Richard Wright; HACKS (2021) (4)
08/31 PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, 2021); SPENCER (Pablo Larraín, 2021); Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story, Joe Florenski & Steve Wilson
09/01 LOVE AND DUTY (Bu Wancang, 1931); JOAN THE MAID I: THE BATTLES (Jacques Rivette, 1994); JOAN THE MAID II: THE PRISONS (Rivette, 1994)
09/02 THE SERVILE (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1994); MAN OF THE STORY (Gopalakrishnan, 1995); ANCHORESS (Chris Newby, 1993)
09/03 THE KILLERS* (Andrei Tarkovsky et. al., 1956); THE STEAMROLLER AND THE VIOLIN* (Tarkovsky, 1960); IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (Tarkovsky, 1962); THE UNCKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR (Jean-Louis Roy, 1967); WHO’S CRAZY? (Tom White, 1967); The Late Breakfasters, Robert Aickman
09/04 MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975); STALKER (Tarkovsky, 1979); THE SACRIFICE (Tarkovsky, 1986)
09/05 Scratch a Thief, John Trinian (Zekial Marko); NATIVE SON (Pierre Chenal, 1951); ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR (Karen Shakhnazarov, 1991)
09/06 MARIUS (Alexander Korda, 1931); FANNY (Marc Allegret, 1932); CESAR (Marcel Pagnol, 1936); UP DOWN FRAGILE (Jacques Rivette, 1995)
09/07 MY FRIEND IVAN LAPSHIN (Aleksei German, 1985); COME AND SEE (Elem Klimov, 1985); WOMAN FROM THE KILLED VILLAGE* (Viktor Dashuk, 1975); HANDFUL OF SAND* (Dashuk, 1975); MUTE SCREAM* (Dashuk, 1975)
09/08 AMAL* (James Blue, 1960); THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE (Blue, 1962); DRY SUMMER (Metin Erksan, 1964); MANILA IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT (Lino Brocka, 1975); INSIANG (Brocka, 1976)
09/09 CAIN AND ABEL (Lino Brocka, 1982); THIS IS MY COUNTRY (Brocka, 1984); AFTER THE CURFEW (Usmar Isma’il, 1954); FAREWELL (Elem Klimov, 1983)
09/10 ANGELE (Marcel Pagnol, 1934); HARVEST (Pagnol, 1937); THE BAKER’S WIFE (Pagnol, 1938)
09/11 THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, 2022); The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough; HACKS (2021) (3)
09/12 Night Voices, Robert Aickman; HACKS (2021) (3)
09/13 ROBERT AICKMAN: AUTHOR OF STRANGE TALES* (R.B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, 2015); Cabot Wright Begins, James Purdy
09/14 IMPROVISED AND PURPOSEFUL (CINEMA NOVO)* (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1967); LET ME SPEAK (Eduardo Escorel, 2007)
09/15 GUNSMOKE (1970) (6)
09/16 NO TIME TO DIE (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021); THE PROTEGE (Martin Campbell, 2021); THE COURIER (Dominic Cooke, 2021); THE FATHER (Florian Zeller, 2021)
09/17 BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles); BENEDETTA (Paul Verhoeven, 2021); TITANE (Julia Ducornau, 2021); LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (Edgar Wright, 2021); THE DUKE (Roger Michell, 2021)
09/18 THE SPARKS BROTHERS (Edgar Wright, 2021); House of Evil, John Trinian (Zekial Marko)
09/19 THE WHITE LOTUS (2021) (3)
09/20 THE WHITE LOTUS (2021) (3)
09/21 THE INTERNS (1970-71) (4)
09/22 GUNSMOKE (1970) (6); THE INTERNS (1971) (2)
09/23 TRIBES (Joseph Sargent, 1970); MY SWEET CHARLIE (Lamont Johnson, 1970); HAUSER’S MEMORY (Boris Sagal, 1970); WEEKEND OF TERROR (Jud Taylor, 1970); LOVE HATE LOVE (George McCowan, 1971); THE MEN FROM SHILOH (1970)
09/24 THE YOUNG LAWYERS (7) (1970-71); THE BILL COSBY SHOW (1971) (5)
09/25 GUNSMOKE (1970-71) (4); White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief, Donald Goines
09/26 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2021) (3)
09/27 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2021) (3)
09/28 POOL SHARKS* (Edwin Middleton, 1915); THE DELICIOUS LITTLE DEVIL (Robert Z. Leonard, 1919); Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence, Ken Auletta
09/29 THE COVERED WAGON (James D. Cruze, 1923)
09/30 SHADOW IN THE CLOUD (Roseanne Liang, 2021); MALIGNANT (James Wan, 2021); ANTLERS (Scott Cooper, 2021); CITY OF LIES (Brad Furman, 2021); CRISIS (Nicholas Jarecki, 2021)
10/01 NOBODY (Ilya Naishuller, 2021); @ZOLA (Janicza Bravo, 2021); THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK (Alan Taylor, 2021); THE FRENCH DISPATCH OF THE LIBERTY, KANSAS EVENING SUN (Wes Anderson, 2021)
10/02 FOUR GOOD DAYS (Rodrigo Garcia, 2021); THE WORLD TO COME (Mona Fastvold, 2021)
10/03 Flowers of Grass, Takehiro Fukunaga; CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2021) (4)
10/04 JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS (Susan Lacy, 2018)
10/05 The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata
10/06 MIAMI VICE (1987) (5)
10/07 DEATH SPA (Michael Fischa, 1989); THE DEAD PIT (Brett Leonard, 1989); NIGHTWISH (Bruce R. Cook, 1989); Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, Alexandra Lange
10/08 THE FIRST TEXAN (Byron Haskin, 1956); OREGON PASSAGE (Paul Landres, 1957); THE HIRED GUN (Ray Nazarro, 1957)
10/09 COLE YOUNGER, GUNFIGHTER (R.G. Springsteen, 1958); KING OF THE WILD STALLIONS (Springsteen, 1959); Powers of Darkness, Robert Aickman
10/10 BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF (Robert D. Webb, 1953); THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA (Don Weis, 1954); NIGHT PEOPLE (Nunnally Johnson, 1954); DADDY LONG LEGS (Jean Negulesco, 1955)
10/11 A MAN CALLED PETER (Henry Koster, 1955); LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (Charles Vidor, 1955); MY SISTER EILEEN (Richard Quine, 1955); THE OPPOSITE SEX (David Miller, 1956)
10/12 HELL ON FRISCO BAY (Frank Tuttle, 1956); HILDA CRANE (Philip Dunne, 1956); THE BURNING HILLS (Stuart Heisler, 1956); WORLD WITHOUT END (Edward Bernds, 1956)
10/13 SPACE MASTER X-7 (Edward Bernds, 1958); QUANTRILL’S RAIDERS (Bernds, 1958); BLOOD AND STEEL (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1959); WALK TALL (Maury Dexter, 1960)
10/14 SEARCH FOR PARADISE (Otto Lang, 1957); SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE (Various, 1958); WINDJAMMER: THE VOYAGE OF THE CHRISTIAN RADICH (Bill Colleran & Louis de Rochemont III, 1958); RENAULT DAUPHINE* (1959)
10/15 Sub Rosa, Robert Aickman; THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (Edward Nassour & Ismail Rodríguez, 1956); THE LIVING IDOL (Albert Lewin, 1957); LISBON (Ray Milland, 1956); TAMANGO (John Berry, 1958)
10/16 Cimino, Charles Elton
10/19 STATE TROOPER (1957) (2)
10/20 STATE TROOPER (1957) (3); SHAMELESS (2018) (3); Waltz, Francesc Trabal
10/21 CANDYMAN (Nia DaCosta, 2021); SPIRAL (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2021); REMINISCENCE (Lisa Joy, 2021)
10/22 THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, 2021); OLD (M. Night Shyamalan, 2021); THOSE WHO WANT ME DEAD (Taylor Sheridan, 2021); RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, 2021)
10/23 JOE BELL (Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2021); MY SALINGER YEAR (Philippe Falardeau)
10/25 SHAMELESS (2018) (4)
10/26 MIAMI VICE (1987) (3)
10/27 GUNSMOKE (1971) (5)
10/28 Mockingbird, Walter Tevis; A FILM LIKE ANY OTHER (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); PRAVDA (Godard, 1969); BRITISH SOUNDS* (Godard, 1969); WIND FROM THE EAST (Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1969); STRUGGLES IN ITALY (Godard & Gorin, 1969); VLADIMIR AND ROSA (Godard & Gorin, 1971); SCHICK AFTER SHAVE* (Godard, 1971)
10/29 A PAGE OF MADNESS (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926); LIMITE (Mário Peixoto, 1931); NUMBER TWO (Jean-Luc Godard, 1975); HERE AND ELSEWHERE* (Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, 1976); HOW’S IT GOING? (Godard & Miéville, 1976)
10/30 SHAMELESS (2019) (4)
10/31 SHAMELESS (2019) (3)
11/01 The Floating Opera, John Barth; GUNSMOKE (1971) (3)
11/02 SUCCESSION (2021) (4)
11/03 RUTHERFORD FALLS (2021) (2); Hell’s Half-Acre, Susan Jonusas
11/04 THE MARKSMAN (Robert Lorenz, 2021); FREE GUY (Shawn Levy, 2021)
11/05 THE MAURITANIAN (Kevin MacDonald, 2021); THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE (Michael Showalter, 2021); C’MON C’MON (Mike Mills, 2021)
11/06 FLAG DAY (Sean Penn, 2021); LAND (Robin Wright, 2021); The End of the Road, John Barth
11/07 61ST ST (2022) (3)
11/08 RUTHERFORD FALLS (2021) (2); MR. MAYOR (2021) (3)
11/09 SUCCESSION (2021) (5)
11/10 Life’s Work, David Milch; THE CHECKERED FLAG (William Grefé, 1963); THE DEVIL’S SISTERS (Grefé, 1966); WILD REBELS (Grefé, 1967); THE NEST OF THE CUCKOO BIRDS (Bert Williams, 1965); SHE-MAN: A STORY OF FIXATION (Bob Clark, 1967)
11/11 STING OF DEATH (William Grefé, 1966); DEATH CURSE OF TARTU (Grefé, 1966); THE HOOKED GENERATION (Grefé, 1968); THE NAKED ZOO (Grefé, 1970); ELECTRIC SHADES OF GREY (Stewart Merrill, 1971); ZAAT (Don Barton, 1971)
11/12 PASSION IN THE SUN (Dale Berry, 1964); HOT BLOODED WOMAN (Berry, 1965); HIP HOT AND 21 (Berry, 1966); HOT THRILLS AND WARM CHILLS (Berry, 1967)
11/13 THEY CAME FROM THE SWAMP: THE FILMS OF WILLIAM GREFE (Daniel Griffith, 2016); THE CROWN JEWELS: AMERICA’S OLDEST INDIE FILM COMPANY* (Griffith, 2016)
11/14 RUTHERFORD FALLS (2021) (6)
11/15 HILL STREET BLUES (1983) (3)
11/16 GUNSMOKE (1971) (5)
11/17 GUNSMOKE (1971) (2); The Witch and the Priest, Hilda Lewis
11/18 Mr. S: My Life With Frank Sinatra, George Jacobs & William Stadiem; WRATH OF MAN (Guy Ritchie, 2021); COPSHOP (Joe Carnahan, 2021); TOM CLANCY’S WITHOUT REMORSE (Stefano Sollima, 2021); DON’T BREATHE 2 (Rodo Sayagues, 2021); THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT (Michael Chaves, 2021)
11/19 A QUIET PLACE PART II (John Krasinski, 2021); THE LITTLE THINGS (John Lee Hancock, 2021); LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021); STILLWATER (Tom McCarthy, 2021); JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Shaka King, 2021)
11/20 THE LOST LEONARDO (Andreas Koefoed, 2021); SOME KIND OF HEAVEN (Lance Oppenheim, 2021); ATTICA (Stanley Nelson, 2021)
11/21 The House of Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, Yasunari Kawabata; GUNSMOKE (1971) (4)
11/22 KILLING EVE (2022) (5)
11/23 THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS (Nobuo Adachi, 1949); THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (Mitsuo Murayama, 1957); THE GREAT WHITE TIGER PLATOON (Katsuhiko Tasaka, 1954); The Shooting Gallery and Other Stories, Yuko Tsushima
11/24 YOUTH OF THE SON* (Masaki Kobayashi, 1952); SINCERE HEART (Kobayashi, 1953); THREE LOVES (Kobayashi, 1954)
11/25 LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF THE SEA (Hideo Sekigawa, 1950); HIROSHIMA (Sekigawa, 1953); SOMEWHERE BENEATH THE WIDE SKY (Masaki Kobayashi, 1954); BEAUTIFUL DAYS (Kobayashi, 1955); The Deadly Isles, Jack Vance
11/26 KILLING EVE (2022) (3); THE INVISIBLE AVENGER (Motoyoshi Oda, 1954); BLUE SKY MAIDEN (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957)
11/27 WARM CURRENT (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957); FLESH PIER (Teruo Ishii, 1958); FOUNTAINHEAD (Masaki Kobayashi, 1956); No Room at the Morgue, Jean-Patrick Manchette
11/28 GUNSMOKE (1971-72) (6)
11/29 ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021-22) (4)
11/30 LE HAVRE (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011); THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (Kaurismäki, 2017)
12/01 GUNSMOKE (1972) (3); Do, Lord, Remember Me, George Garrett
12/02 RIKYU (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1989); GÔ-HIME (Teshigahara, 1992)
12/03 THE LIFT (Dick Maas, 1983); AMSTERDAMNED (Maas, 1988); ORION’S BELT (Ola Solum, 1985)
12/04 Cagney & Lacey … And Me, Barney Rosenzweig; OFF THE MENU: THE LAST DAYS OF CHASEN’S (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, 1997); THE YOUNG AND THE DEAD (Berman & Pulcini, 2001)
12/05 STAR TREK: PICARD (2022) (3)
12/06 STAR TREK: PICARD (2022) (7)
12/07 HILL STREET BLUES (1984) (3); The Steps of the Sun, Walter Tevis
12/08 PAM & TOMMY (2022) (8)
12/09 THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (Kazuo Hara, 1987); ANTONIO GAUDÍ (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1984); GAUDÍ, CATALUNYA* (Teshigahara, 1959); HOKUSAI* (Teshigahara, 1953); IKEBANA* (Teshigahara, 1956); TOKYO 1958* (Teshigahara et. al., 1958); VITA – SCULPTURES BY SOFU* (Teshigahara, 1963); Isle of Dreams, Keizo Hino
12/10 A CHRISTAS DREAM* (Bořivoj Zeman, 1945); A HORSESHOE FOR LUCK* (Karel Zeman, 1946); INSPIRATION* (Karel Zeman, 1949); KING LAVRA* (Karel Zeman, 1950); JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME (Karel Zeman, 1955); INVENTION FOR DESTRUCTION (Karel Zeman, 1958); THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Karel Zeman, 1961); THE MANSTER (George Breakston & Kenneth G. Crane, 1959)
12/11 WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg, 2021)
12/12 RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT (Mariem Pérez Riera, 2021)
12/13 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY (W. Kamau Bell, 2022) (4); Scandal, Shūsaku Endō
12/14 SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER (2022) (7)
12/15 GUNSMOKE (1972) (4); THE ROOKIES (1973) (3); PETROCELLI (1975) (3); All the Way, Charles Williams
12/16 THE ROOKIES (1973) (3); MANNIX (1974) (5)
12/17 The Sailcloth Shroud, Charles Williams; HAWKINS (1973) (3); SHAFT (1973) (4)
12/18 GUNSMOKE (1972) (3); THE F.B.I. (1972) (3); BARNABY JONES (1973) (5)
12/19 SEARCH (1972) (2); THE F.B.I. (1972-73) (4); BARNABY JONES (1973) (3)
12/20 Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz; THE ROOKIES (1973) (2); MANNIX (1974) (4); SEARCH (1973)
12/21 MANNIX (1974) (4); THE ROOKIES (1973) (3); SEARCH (1973) (2)
12/22 THE F.B.I. (1973) (5); BARNABY JONES (1974) (5)
12/23 God Save the Mark, Donald E. Westlake; BARNABY JONES (1974) (3); THE F.B.I. (1973) (4); SEARCH (1973) (2)
12/24 HAWKINS (1973-74) (4); SHAFT (1974) (3); PETROCELLI (1975) (2)
12/25 POLICE STORY (1975) (5); PETROCELLI (1975) (2); Slow Days, Fast Company, Eve Babitz
12/26 CANNON (1975) (4); PETROCELLI (2) (1975)
12/27 POLICE STORY (1975-76) (8); PETROCELLI (1975)
12/28 Tales of Love and Death, Robert Aickman; CANNON (1975) (6)
12/29 MANNIX (1975) (6); POLICE WOMAN (1975) (4); The Barbizon, Paulina Bren
12/30 POLICE STORY (1976) (9); PETROCELLI (1975) (2); Fletch, Gregory Mcdonald
12/31 POLICE WOMAN (1975) (8); POLICE STORY (1975); Broken Vessels, Andre Dubus
For anyone who made it that far, I’ll also offer the modest update that I expect to start posting the occasional long read in this space again soon. Time to start earning my keep again . . . .
January 16, 2023 at 3:52 pm
Welcome back.
Looking forward to your long form reads, hopefully including your appraisals of some of those shows you watched.
Nice to see The Canterville Ghost from the ’40s in there.
You may enjoy this version I found awhile back – a one hour TV special with David Niven, Flora Robson, Maurice Evans and James Whitmore.
Link:
Best regards, bobby
January 18, 2023 at 9:13 am
Hooray for a new post! Looking forward to more. Any updates about your Four Star project?
January 18, 2023 at 11:19 am
I’m not sure I had a Four Star project, per se…? Just an interest in it as an indie with more creative successes and a more dramatic real-life arc than most. Stupidly, though, I let most of the likely sources (like Stan Kallis and Norman Powell) get away without ever quizzing them about it.
February 12, 2023 at 10:55 pm
Cannot wait for something new.
I have in recent years followed the blog of Ralph Senensky, who is going strong at like 90 years of age.
He gives some terrific insights. Ironic he directed several episodes in the 60s and 70s of the Insight television show, which had notable actors in episodes.