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)

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?

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

WATCHLIST :: JANUARY 2024

1st

 

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

 

2nd

 

Thief (Michael Mann)

The Keep (Michael Mann)

3rd

Manhunter (Michael Mann)

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

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

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Moby - Play

Fargo (1 episode)

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

4th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)

5th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Batman: The Animated Series (3 episodes)

6th

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante)

7th

Phil Collins - Face Value

8th

Ferrari (Michael Mann)

The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier)

9th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

10th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

Fargo (1 episode)

The X-Files (1 episode)

11th

The X-Files (1 episode)

12th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)

13th

Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland)

14th

The X-Files (2 episodes)

15th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

The X-Files (1 episode)

16th

David Bowie - David Bowie

17th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Fargo (1 episode)

Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi)

Saltburn (Emerald Fennell)

18th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

19th

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

20th

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)

The Beatles - Please Please Me

21st

The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

 

22nd

 

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

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

Lou Reed - The Blue Mask

The National - Boxer

 

23rd

 

Lou Reed - Transformer

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)

24th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)

25th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

26th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

27th

The Palace (Roman Polanski)

Permanent Green Light (Zac Farley, Dennis Cooper)

28th

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

29th

El Camino (Vince Gilligan)

30th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention

The Smile - Wall of Eyes

Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation

Genesis - Trespass