Celebrating the birthday of the singular Agnès Varda by watching her fun and colourful 1967 short UNCLE YANCO again. It is crammed with a remarkable amount of history and self-awareness. 🎥
Watching Jean Renoir’s 1955 Technicolor musical FRENCH CANCAN on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Remembering Ray Liotta by watching Martin Scorsese’s masterful 1990 film GOODFELLAS again. 🎥
Watching Jonathan Demme’s 1986 film SOMETHING WILD for the first time on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching the 1958 musical DAMN YANKEES directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen. 🎥
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching the brilliant 2016 thriller 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE again. 🎥
Thanks to Roman Mars appearing on the Blank Check podcast I’m now watching the 1995 Sam Raimi film THE QUICK AND THE DEAD again. 🎥
Watching the 1934 film LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? directed by Frank Borzage on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching the 1933 pre-Code film TORCH SINGER directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes on The Criterion Channel . 🎥
Watching Pedro Almodóvar’s brilliant, complex, and moving 2021 film PARALLEL MOTHERS again. 🎥
Watching Agnès Varda’s remarkable 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T which is about female friendship and reproductive rights and a whole lot more. 🎥
Watching Richard Linklater’s 2006 animated adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel A SCANNER DARKLY on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Best new-to-film films watched in April 2022:
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN (2021), NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021), LATE SPRING (1949), THE FEMALE CLOSET (1998), ALL IN THIS TEA (2007), FUTURA (2021), A BROTHER’S LOVE (2019), COLMA: THE MUSICAL (2006).
Watching Nicholas Ray’s dark and disturbing 1956 film Bigger Than Life on TCM. 🎥
Watching Monia Chokri’s 2019 film A BROTHER’S LOVE on Netflix. 🎥
Watching Věra Chytilová’s anarchic, subversive, and surreal 1966 film DAISIES again on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching Angela Schanelec’s extraordinary and intricately-composed 2010 film ORLY on MUBI. 🎥
Watching the 2021 Italian documentary Futura directed by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, and Alice Rohrwacher on MUBI. 🎥🇮🇹
Watching the 2007 documentary film ALL IN THIS TEA directed by the great Les Blank. 🎥🫖
Watching the 2017 documentary about the late Gilbert Gottfried – GILBERT directed by Neil Berkeley. 🎥
Watching Chantal Akerman’s brilliant 1978 film THE MEETINGS OF ANNA on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Finally watching Guillermo del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY. 🎥
Watching the 2021 Belgian film ZERO FUCKS GIVEN directed by Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre on MUBI.🎥
Watching Richard Linklater’s 2022 animated film APOLLO 10½: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD on Netflix. 🎥