Films Watched September 2023

These are the films I’ve watched for September 2023America America (Elia Kazan, 1963)Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes (Michael Harte, 2021)In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009)Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)Passenger Side (Matt Bissonnette, 2009)The Naked Civil Servant (Jack Gold, 1975)My Blind Brother (Sophie Goodhart, 2016)A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson, 1970)The Vicious Kind (Lee…

Books Read August 2023

These are the books I’ve read for August 2023The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson, 2009)The Librarianist (Patrick deWitt, 2023)

Films Watched August 2023

These are the films I’ve watched for August 2023The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 2017)Win Win (Tom McCarthy, 2011)The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Hettie Macdonald, 2023)Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004)Nobody Lives Forever (Jean Negulesco, 1946)The Black Godfather (Reginald Hudlin, 2019)Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2014)Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Mads Brügger, 2019)The Mole: Undercover in North Korea…

Audio Commentary August 2023

These are the audio commentaries I’ve listen to for August 2023The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) – Audio commentary with Italian cinema expert David ForgacsThe Naked Civil Servant (Jack Gold, 1975) – Audio commentary with director Jack Gold, actor John Hurt, and producer Verity LambertThe Warriors (Walter Hill, 1978) – Audio commentary with film critic/author Walter…

Books Read July 2023

These are the books I’ve read for July 2023A Pale View of Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1982)

Audio Commentaries July 2023

These are the commentaries I’ve listen to for July 2023The President’s Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker, 1967) – Audio commentary with film historian Tim LucasMy Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) – Audio commentary with author Scott Eyman and Wyatt Earp IIIThe Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise, 1966) – Audio Commentary with director Robert Wise and Actors Richard…

Films Watched June 2023

These are the films I’ve watched for June 2023Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)The Covenant (Guy Ritchie, 2023)School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips, 2006)First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)Master Gardener (Paul Schrader, 2022)Fear Strikes Out (Robert Mulligan, 1957)The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard, 2018)Paddleton (Alex Lehmann, 2019)Story of Judas (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2015)Sparta (Ulrich Seidl, 2022)Somewhere in Queens (Ray Romano,…

Books Read June 2023

These are the books I’ve read for June 2023A History of Loneliness (John Boyne, 2014)The Zone of Interest (Martin Amis, 2014)The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West, 1939)

Audio Commentaries June 2023

These are the commentaries I’ve listen to for June 2023Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948) – Audio commentary with film historian Jeremy ArnoldDeathline aka Raw Meat (Gary Sherman, 1972) – Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Director Gary Sherman, Producer Paul Maslansky, and Assistant Director Lewis More O’FerrallSid and Nancy (Alex Cox, 1986) – Audio commentary with co-writer Abbe…

Books Read May 2023

These are the books I’ve read for May 2023Scorsese on Scorsese (David Thompson and Ian Christie, 1989)