Watching Olivier Assayas’ 1996 film IRMA VEP on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 masterpiece IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE again on The Criterion Channel. ❤️🎥
Watching Cathy Yan’s 2018 debut feature DEAD PIGS on MUBI. 🎥🐂
Watching the 1932 film BLONDE VENUS directed by Josef von Sternberg on the Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching William Greaves’ 1972 newly-restored documentary NATIONTIME on the Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching Jacqueline Audry’s 1951 film OLIVIA. 🎥
Watching the 1950 film noir / epidemic film THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK directed by Earl McEvoy on Noir Alley on TCM. 💉🍿
Watching the 2020 Hungarian film PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME directed by Lili Horvát in the TIFF Digital Lightbox. 🎥
Watching the new Criterion edition of Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 film GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Best new-to-me films for January 2021: MY SISTER’S GOOD FORTUNE, SHIRLEY, THE SMILING LIEUTENANT, MINARI, BLACK LEGION, UNMASKED, THE DIG, THE KILLERS.
Gently winding down from the week by watching Agnès Varda’s 1955 film LA POINTE-COURTE again on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
“It’s a sad and beautiful world.”
Celebrating Jim Jarmusch’s birthday by watching DOWN BY LAW again. 🎥
Watching Chantal Akerman’s 1974 film JE, TU, IL, ELLE again on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Time for some of the Lubitsch touch with the 1931 film THE SMILING LIEUTENANT on TCM. 🎥
Finally watching SHIRLEY directed by Josephine Decker on Prime. 🎥
Watching David Lean’s 1949 film THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
My favourite films 1-10 of 2020: FIRST COW, NOMADLAND, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, ANOTHER ROUND, KAJILLIONAIRE, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, DA 5 BLOODS, BEANPOLE, LET THEM ALL TALK, THE ASSISTANT.
My favourite films 11-20 for 2020: BAIT, FAMILY ROMANCE LLC, NO ORDINARY MAN, UNDINE, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD, WORLD OF TOMORROW EPISODE 3, LAST AND FIRST MEN, COLLECTIVE, I’M YOUR WOMAN, WHAT DID JACK DO?
Best new-to-me films December 2020: WHITE RIOT, THE ROYAL ROAD, DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA, HOW TO BE AT HOME, HERSELF, THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, WOMAN IN THE MOON, COLLECTIVE.
Watching the 2019 Romanian documentary film COLLECTIVE directed by Alexander Nanau on iTunes. 🎥
Catching up on the 1929 Fritz Lang silent film WOMAN IN THE MOON. 🎥
Watching IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE yet again. 🎥
Watching the 1980 film XANADU for the first time and kind of like the goofy blending of classic musicals and the 80s in a quirky remake of the Rita Hayworth musical DOWN TO EARTH. 🍿
Blasting off into the Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism program with the 1974 film SPACE IS THE PLACE directed by John Coney. 🎥
Watching the 2020 music documentary THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART. 🎥