Saturday, November 30, 2024

WATCHLIST :: NOVEMBER 2024

1st
 
Disclaimer (1 episode) 

2nd

Saw (James Wan)

3rd

The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi)
Femme (Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping)

5th

The Queen's Gambit (1 episode)

6th

The Queen's Gambit (1 episode)

7th

The Queen's Gambit (1 episode)

8th

Disclaimer (1 episode)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)

9th

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Ken Hughes)
Joker: Folie a Deux (Todd Phillips)

12th

The Queen's Gambit (1 episode)
 
13th
 
The Queen's Gambit (1 episode)

14th

The Queen's Gambit (1 episode)

15th

The Queen's Gambit (1 episode)
 
16th
 
Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
 
17th
 
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez)

18th

The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)

19th

Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
 
22nd

Twister (Jan De Bont)

23rd

Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung)

24th

Regurgitator - Unit
Charlie xcx - Brat

25th

Kendrick Lamar - Section.80

26th

Devs (1 episode)

27th

Devs (1 episode)
Napoleon (Ridley Scott)

28th

Devs (1 episode)
Gladiator II (Ridley Scott)
Pushing Hands (Ang Lee)

29th

The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)

30th

Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee)
Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
Buddies (Arthur J Bressan Jr.)

Thursday, October 31, 2024

WATCHLIST :: OCTOBER 2024

4th

Portishead - Portishead
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)

5th

War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)

6th

The Church (Michele Soavi)

8th

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)

10th

Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)

11th

The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (Jan Švankmajer)

13th

Longlegs (Osgood Perkins)
Disclaimer (2 episodes)
I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House (Osgood Perkins)

15th

Road Trip (Todd Phillips)
Old School (Todd Phillips)
Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips)

16th

School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips)
The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
Due Date (Todd Phillips)
The Hangover Part II (Todd Phillips)
The Hangover Part III (Todd Phillips)

17th

War Dogs (Todd Phillips)
Joker (Todd Phillips)

18th

X (Ti West)
Pearl (Ti West)
We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Disclaimer (1 episode)

19th

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
Disclaimer (1 episode)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (John Harrison)

23rd

Silent Hill 2 (PS5)

25th

Disclaimer (1 episode)

26th

Alien (Ridley Scott)
Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (Kôji Shiraishi)

27th

Maxxxine (Ti West)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (PS4)
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)
 
30th
 
Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 02: Shivering Ghost (Kôji Shiraishi)

31st

Here (Robert Zemeckis)
Green Day - Warning

Monday, September 30, 2024

WATCHLIST :: SEPTEMBER 2024

1st

Oasis - Be Here Now
The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)

2nd

Charlie xcx - brat
Green Day - Father of All...
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

3rd

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)

4th

The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)

5th

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)

6th

Charlie xcx - brat
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

7th

The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola)
Gunsmith Cats (3 episodes)

8th

The Velvet Underground - Loaded
You're a Big Boy Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Metal Gear (PC)

9th

Finian's Rainbow (Francis Ford Coppola)

10th

The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola)

13th

Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)

14th

Ratatouille (Brad Bird)

15th

Charlie xcx - brat

16th

The Eric Andre Show (3 episodes)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)

17th

The Eric Andre Show (8 episodes)

18th

The Eric Andre Show (3 episodes)

19th

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PS4)

21st

Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)

22nd

The Devils (Ken Russell)

23rd

The Penguin (1 episode)

25th

David Bowie - 'hours...'
Alucarda (Juan López Moctezuma)

28th

Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)

30th

Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)

Saturday, August 31, 2024

WATCHLIST :: AUGUST 2024

1st

Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)

2nd

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)

3rd

I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)

8th

Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)

10th

Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

11th

Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

14th

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Masturbator's Heart (Michael Salerno)

15th

Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson)

17th

Eraserhead (David Lynch)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)

18th

Dune (David Lynch)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Twin Peaks (6 episodes)

19th

Twin Peaks (2 episodes)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

20th

Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Kafka (Steven Soderbergh)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
The Underneath (Steven Soderbergh)

21st

Gray's Anatomy (Steven Soderbergh)
Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)

22nd

Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

23rd

Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
K Street (1 episode)

24th

K Street (1 episode)
Civil War (Alex Garland)
K Street (4 episodes)

25th

K Street (4 episodes)
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)

26th

The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)

27th

Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
A Dog's Life (Charles Chaplin)
Che Part One (Steven Soderbergh)

28th

Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)
Che Part Two (Steven Soderbergh)

29th

Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

30th

Borderlands (Eli Roth)

31st

The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

WATCHLIST :: JULY 2024

1st

I Think You Should Leave (4 episodes)

4th

Wonka (Paul King)

5th

The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)

6th

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)

11th

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Neptune Frost (Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams)

13th

Every Man For Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
Historie(s) du Cinema (1 episode)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (Alfred Hitchcock)
Cats Don't Dance (Mark Dindal)

18th

Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Jeff Barnaby)

22nd

Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

26th

Yakuza 0 (PC)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze)

29th

Human Nature (Michel Gondry)

31st

We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)

Sunday, June 30, 2024

WATCHLIST :: JUNE 2024

1st

Hardcore (Paul Schrader)

2nd

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends

4th

American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)

5th

Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
Servant (2 episodes)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)

6th

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Servant (1 episode)
Cat People (Paul Schrader)

7th

Daft Punk - Homework
Servant (1 episode)
Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
Eels - Beautiful Freak

8th

Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - Weezer (Green)
Servant (1 episode)
The Beatles - Revolver

9th

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Servant (1 episode)

10th

The Watchers (Ishana Night Shyamalan)
Servant (1 episode)

11th

Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
Servant (2 episodes)

12th

Servant (1 episode)
Paddington 2 (Paul King)

13th

Servant (2 episodes)
Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)

14th

Servant (1 episode)

15th

Servant (1 episode)
The Smiths - The Smiths

16th

The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Servant (2 episodes)

17th

I Think You Should Leave (1 episode)
Servant (2 episodes)
I Think You Should Leave (2 episodes)

18th

I Think You Should Leave (1 episode)
Servant (2 episodes)

19th

I Think You Should Leave (2 episodes)
Servant (2 episodes)
I Think You Should Leave (1 episode)
The Wormwood Star (Curtis Harrington)
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
Eaux d'Artifice (Kenneth Anger)

20th

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Servant (1 episode)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)

21st

I Think You Should Leave (1 episode)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger)
Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)

22nd

A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuaron)
Servant (3 episodes)
Original Cast Album: Company (D. A. Pennebaker)

23rd

Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Servant (3 episodes)
Lou Reed - Lou Reed
Lou Reed - Transformer

24th

Super Mario Bros. (NES)
Lou Reed - Berlin
Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance
Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Heart
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Lou Reed - Live: Take No Prisoners
Servant (2 episodes)

25th

Lou Reed - The Bells
Lou Reed - Growing Up in Public
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
Thom Yorke - Anima
Tango (Zbigniew Rybczyński)

26th

Daft Punk - Discovery
Servant (3 episodes)

27th

The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)
Servant (6 episodes)

28th

Aggro Dr1ft (Harmony Korine)

29th

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Sam Fell)

30th

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (David Hinton)

Friday, May 31, 2024

WATCHLIST :: MAY 2024

1st

Lost (1 episode)
Twin Peaks (1 episode)

2nd

Twin Peaks (1 episode)

3rd

The Simpsons (1 episode)
Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

4th

The Abyss (James Cameron)
Cathy Come Home (Ken Loach)

7th

Coup de Chance (Woody Allen)

9th

R.E.M. - In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003
Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

10th

Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

11th

True Lies (James Cameron)

12th

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)

13th

Catching the Big Fish [David Lynch]
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

16th

Not for Resale (Kevin J. James)
Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

18th

Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola)
You're a Big Boy Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Prostitute (Tony Garnett)

19th

Finian's Rainbow (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola)

20th

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

22nd

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

23rd

Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
Furiosa (George Miller)
Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

24rd

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)

25th

Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

26th

Monkey Man (Dev Patel)

27th

Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby

28th

The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)

29th

Radiohead - Pablo Honey

30th

Columbo (1 episode)

31st

Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

WATCHLIST :: APRIL 2024

1st

The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)

2nd

Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)

6th

Air - Moon Safari
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Mel Brooks)
Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green)
Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat (Philip Brophy)

7th

Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
Magic Mike's Last Dance (Steven Soderbergh)
Full Circle (4 episodes)

8th

Full Circle (2 episodes)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Command Z (2 episodes)
Irma Vep (1 episode)
Command Z (6 episodes)

9th

The Fall (Jonathan Glazer)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
Beau Trevail (Claire Denis)

10th

Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)

12th

Fallout (2 episodes)

13th

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Fallout (3 episodes)

14th

Fallout (3 episodes)
The Birch Tree (Ante Babaja)

15th

Civil War (Alex Garland)
Suicide - Suicide
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
Lost (1 episode)

16th

Lost (1 episode)

17th

Lost (5 episodes)

18th

Lost (1 episode)
Lou Reed - Transformer

19th

Rebel Moon Part One - A Child of Fire (Zack Snyder)
Rebel Moon Part Two - The Scargiver (Zack Snyder)
Lost (3 episodes)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

20th

Dune Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
Lost (2 episodes)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (Ethan Coen)

21st

Pearl Jam - Ten
Lost (4 episodes)

22nd

Lost (1 episode)
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
Lost (3 episodes)

23rd

Lost (1 episode)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

24th

Lost (1 episode)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Lost (2 episodes)

27th

One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (Spike Lee)

28th

Lost (3 episodes)

29th

Speed Racer (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)

30th

Twin Peaks (2 episodes)

Saturday, March 30, 2024

WATCHLIST :: MARCH 2024

1st

Metal Gear (PS5)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

2nd

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Dune (Denis Villeneuve)

4th

Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)

8th

Schmigadoon! (1 episode)

9th

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
Stir (Stephen Wallace)

10th

Schmigadoon! (2 episodes)

11th

Schmigadoon! (3 episodes)

12th

Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)

15th

Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Green Day - Saviors

16th

Shark Tale (Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman)

20th

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson)
The Swan (Wes Anderson)
The Rat Catcher (Wes Anderson)
Poison (Wes Anderson)

22nd

Men (Alex Garland)

23rd

Matilda (Danny DeVito)

24th

Vampire Weekend - Contra
Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

25th

Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
Blonde Death (James Robert Baker)

27th

Green Day - Warning
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods

28th

New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies

30th

Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito)
Always for Pleasure (Les Blank)

31st

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog)

Saturday, March 9, 2024

96TH ACADEMY AWARDS PICKS

Note: Missing categories means I haven't seen any of the films listed in them.

Picture - Oppenheimer

Director - Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Actor - Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Actress - Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Supporting Actress - America Ferrera (Barbie)

Adapted Screenplay - Tony McNamara (Poor Things)

International Feature - The Zone of Interest

Score - Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Song - I'm Just Ken (Barbie)

Sound - The Zone of Interest

Production Design - Killers of the Flower Moon

Cinematography - Hoyte van Hoytema (Oppenheimer)

Makeup and Hairstyling - Poor Things

Costume Design - Poor Things

Editing - Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer)

Visual Effects - The Creator

Thursday, February 29, 2024

WATCHLIST :: FEBRUARY 2024

1st
 
Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

2nd

Better Call Saul (1 episode)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

3rd

Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
Silent Hill: The Short Message (PS5)

4th

Metal Gear (PS2)

5th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)
The Fall (Jonathan Glazer)

6th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)
Genesis - Nursery Cryme

7th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones)

8th

Johnny Mnemonic [William Gibson]
The Gernsback Continuum [William Gibson]
Fragments of a Hologram Rose [William Gibson]
The Belonging Kind [John Shirley, William Gibson]
Hinterlands [William Gibson]

9th

Red Star, Winter Orbit [Bruce Sterling, William Gibson]

10th

Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)
Young Sherlock Holmes (Barry Levinson)
Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (Douglas Buck)

12th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

13th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

14th

The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Better Call Saul (1 episode)

15th

Dune [Frank Herbert]
Better Call Saul (1 episode)
The People vs Paul Crump (William Friedkin)

16th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

17th

The Exorcist [William Peter Blatty]

18th

The Friedkin Connection [William Friedkin]

19th

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92
Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

20th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

21st

Red Dragon [Thomas Harris]

22nd

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

23rd

Better Call Saul (1 episode)
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds (Glen Milner)

24th

Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)

26th

The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode)

27th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)