Stuff I’m Looking Forward to in August
We are now deep into the Summer. No holidays this month, but here is what’s on my radar:
Movies:
Dreamin' Wild
This musical biopic is about brothers recording an album in the 70s and then the album finally gets discovered thirty years later. There’s a lot of musicians who have had similar experiences (Death comes to mind) but this is based on Donnie Emerson and his family. Opens 8/4.
Strays
Alright, I admit a bunch of celebrities voicing dogs didn’t have me at first, but I’m looking forward to it because it’s directed by Josh Greenbaum, director of one of my favorite documentaries of the last decade Too Funny to Fail and the trailer got me laughing. Opening 8/18.
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Adam Sandler has been on a roll lately and in his newest starring / producing vehicle, his actual wife and daughters co-star in this bat mitzvah comedy. Netflix premiere on 8/25.
Music:
Neil Young Chrome Dreams
Recorded from 1974 to 1977, this Neil Young album was never released. In 2007, he released the sequel to the widely bootlegged album. Excited to see it’s official release on 8/11 (review coming soon).
Aerosmith Greatest Hits
In 1980, Aerosmith released their Greatest Hits album filled with 10 hits from the 70s. It is one of their biggest selling releases (12 times platinum). It was re-issued in 1997 with more tracks. There have been other compilations since then, but this new deluxe edition of 44 tracks is coinciding with their upcoming farewell tour. Album drops 8/18 (review coming soon).
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros Live at Acton Hall
Recorded on Nov. 15, 2002, this benefit concert was one of the final live appearances of Joe Strummer before his death on Dec. 22, 2002. Especially noteworthy about this concert is that Strummer was joined onstage for some songs by his old Clash bandmate Mick Jones. In 2012, there was a Record Store Day release of this, but this marks the first official release on vinyl and CD and remastered. Album drops 8/18 (review coming soon).
Alice Cooper Road
Call this my Summer of Alice Cooper: in June I got to review his super group Hollywood Vampires’ live album, then I got to cover the re-releases of School’s Out and Killer, and just last week I saw Hollywood Vampires live in Boston. Now the King of Shock Rock is back with his 22nd solo album, dropping 8/23 (review coming soon).
TV:
Ahsoka
Rosario Dawson stole some scenes as Ahsoka Tano on The Mandalorian. Now the character is getting her own limited series taking place post-Episode 6 around the time of Mandalorian. Disney + premiere on 8/23
Conventions:
FAN EXPO Boston
The annual Boston comic con hits the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Good news is that even with the WGA and SAG strikes, celebrities can attend and sign and even do some panels (as long as it’s not about struck work). This year’s guests include Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Hayden Christiensen, Jason Lee, Peter Weller, Robin Wright and more. The fun happens from 8/4 to 8/6.
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i watched 120 new-to-me films this year; here are the posters from a few of my favorites in no particular order!!
faults (riley stearns, 2014)
out of the blue (dennis hopper, 1980)
wake in fright (ted kotcheff, 1971)
entergalactic (fletcher moules, 2022)
histoires d'amérique: food, family and philosophy (chantal akerman, 1989)
the woman king (gina prince-bythewood, 2022)
waking life (richard linklater, 2001)
on the count of three (jerrod carmichael, 2021)
thank you and good night (jan oxenberg, 1991)
i’ll tag @lesbiancolumbo / @draftdodgerag / @localpubliclibrary / @calicoskiesacoustic / @jerrylandis / @columbosunday / @harrierdoobie / @sightofsea and anyone else who’d like to do this!! 🌟
entire watchlist from 2022 is below the cut:
the world to come (mona fastvold, 2020)
nancy (christina choe, 2018)
la bouche de jean-pierre (lucile hadžihalilović, 1996)
run (aneesh chaganty, 2020)
the mosquito coast (peter weir, 1986)
mass (fran kanz, 2021)
a field in england (ben wheatley, 2014)
angels wear white (vivian qu, 2017)
a cape cod christmas (john stimpson, 2021)
shook (jennifer harrington, 2021)
outing riley (pete jones, 2004)
love & mercy (bill pohlad, 2014)
small engine repair (john pollono, 2021)
the fallout (megan park, 2021)
clemency (chinonye chukwu, 2019)
red elvis (thomas latter, 2022)
calendar girls (nigel cole, 2003)
the little hours (jeff baena, 2017)
out of the blue (dennis hopper, 1980)
aya of yop city (marguerite abouet and clement oubrerie, 2013)
fresh (mimi cave, 2022)
jesus camp (rachel grady, 2006)
bamboozled (spike lee, 2000)
master (mariama diallo, 2022)
the world of us (yoon ga-eun, 2016)
jezebel (numa perrier, 2019)
the cat, the reverend and the slave (alain della negra and kaori kinoshita, 2009)
cohabitation (lauren barker, 2022)
the queen of versailles (lauren greenfield, 2012)
secret ceremony (joseph losey, 1968)
the northman (robert eggers, 2022)
the silent partner (daryl duke, 1978)
in secret (charlie stratton, 2013)
the ground beneath my feet (marie kreutzer, 2019)
the man who haunted himself (basil dearden, 1970)
woodlands dark and days bewitched: a history of folk horror (kier-la janisse, 2021)
the miseducation of cameron post (desiree akhavan, 2018)
roadrunner: a film about anthony bourdain (morgan neville, 2021)
karen dalton: in my own time (richard peete and robert yapkowitz, 2020)
fire music (tom surgal, 2018)
histoires d'amérique: food, family and philosophy (chantal akerman, 1989)
fruit of paradise (věra chytilová, 1969)
a different image (alile sharon larkin, 1982)
preparations to be together for an unknown period of time (lili horvát, 2020)
candyman (nia dacosta, 2021)
fan girl (antoinette jadaone, 2020)
chicago 10 (brett morgen, 2007)
pray away (kristine stolakis, 2021)
mavis! (jessica edwards, 2015)
M (yolande zauberman, 2018)
wake in fright (ted kotcheff, 1971)
thomasine & bushrod (gordon parks, 1974)
desire me (released uncredited; jack conway, george cukor, mervyn le roy, and victor saville, 1947)
faults (riley stearns, 2014)
premature (rashaad ernesto green, 2019)
mother joan of the angels (jerzy kawalerowicz, 1961)
the loft (erik van looy, 2014)
the black phone (scott derrickson, 2022)
no exit (damien power, 2022)
nope (jordan peele, 2022)
paprika (satoshi kon, 2006)
our eternal summer (émilie aussel, 2021)
playground (laura wandel, 2021)
not okay (quinn shephard, 2022)
everything everywhere all at once (daniel kwan and daniel scheinert, 2022)
pressure point (hubert cornfield, 1962)
sharp stick (lena dunham, 2022)
on the count of three (jerrod carmichael, 2021)
martha marcy may marlene (sean durkin, 2011)
waking life (richard linklater, 2001)
sicaro (denis villeneuve, 2015)
arrival (denis villeneuve, 2016)
this magnificent cake! (emma de swaef and marc james roels, 2018)
chevalier (athina rachel tsangari, 2015)
young and wild (marialy rivas, 2012)
alice (krystin ver linden, 2022)
shame (steve mcqueen, 2011)
good madam (jenna cato bass, 2022)
black bear (lawrence michael levine, 2020)
speak no evil (christian tafdrup, 2022)
wet sand (elene naveriani, 2021)
the catholic school (stefano mordini, 2021)
poly styrene: i am a cliché (celeste bell and paul sng, 2021)
the violators (helen walsh, 2015)
the woman king (gina prince-bythewood, 2022)
the killing kind (curtis harrington, 1973)
oleanna (david mamet, 1994)
entergalactic (fletcher moules, 2022)
the more the merrier (george stevens, 1943)
primrose path (gregory la cava, 1940)
watcher (chloe okuno, 2022)
enemy (dennis villenueve, 2013)
darlin' (pollyanna mcintosh, 2019)
sissy (kane senes and hannah barlow, 2022)
till (chinonye chukwu, 2022)
black panther: wakanda forever (ryan coogler, 2022)
the hunt (thomas vinterberg, 2012)
the other side of the underneath (jane arden, 1972)
barbarian (zach cregger, 2022)
the intervention (clea duvall, 2016)
sorry to bother you (boots riley, 2018)
the silent twins (agnieszka smoczyńska, 2022)
tahara (olivia peace, 2020)
arranged (diane crespo and stefan schaefer, 2007)
swimming (luzie loose, 2018)
#like (sarah pirozek, 2019)
babysitter (monia chokri, 2022)
chico and rita (tono errando, fernando trueba, and javier mariscal, 2010)
pleasure (ninja thyberg, 2021)
john the violent (tonia marketaki, 1967)
fat girl (catherine breillat, 2001)
lemon (janicza bravo, 2017)
thank you and good night (jan oxenberg, 1991)
what about me (rachel amodeo, 1993)
the KKK boutique ain’t just rednecks (camille billops and james hatch, 1994)
sun don’t shine (amy seimetz, 2012)
zero fucks given (emmanuel marre and julie lecoustre, 2021)
piggy (carlota pereda, 2022)
ladyworld (amanda kramer, 2018)
wolf's hole (věra chytilová, 1987)
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i was tagged by the wonderful maddie @leonardcohenofficial to post the posters from my favorite new-to-me watches of the year!! (in purely aesthetic order)
rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)
sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)
deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)
i’m not there - todd haynes (2007)
brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)
carol - todd haynes (2015)
ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)
what’s up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)
the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)
i'll tag @frogeye-pierce @thebuffalospringfeild @iwrotemrtambourineman and @juliebarnes!!!!
i only made it through half my goal of 100 new-to-me movies this year (life was. crazy) but the 52 i did watch will be under the cut!
edge of the city - martin ritt (1957)
the grand budapest hotel - wes anderson (2014)
licorice pizza - paul thomas anderson (2021)
dazed and confused - richard linklater (1993)
brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)
the tragedy of macbeth - joel coen (2021)
my own private idaho - gus van sant (1991)
my beautiful laundrette - stephen frears (1985)
dead reckoning - john cromwell (1947)
keep off my grass! - shelley berman (1975)
raising arizona - joel & ethan coen (1987)
top hat - mark sandrich (1935)
the man who fell to earth - nicolas roeg (1976)
chicago - rob marshall (2002)
the blues brothers - john landis (1980)
little miss sunshine - jonathon dayton & valerie faris (2006)
sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)
i'm not there - todd haynes (2007)
love & mercy - bill pohlad (2014)
walk hard - jake kasdan (2007)
mysterious skin - gregg akari (2004)
whip it - drew barrymore (2009)
sophie scholl: die letzten tage - marc rothemund (2005)
when harry met sally - rob reiner (1989)
the watermelon woman - cheryl dunye (1996)
shiva baby - emma seligman (2020)
juno - jason bateman (2007)
carol - todd haynes (2015)
what's up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)
the philadelphia story - george cukor (1946)
die fälscher - stefan ruzowitzky (2007)
but i'm a cheerleader - jamie babbit (1999)
the twilight saga: eclipse - david slade (2010) <- THIS WAS NOT MY CHOICE but it was technically new to me. i want to emphasize my friend forced me to watch this with her
velvet goldmine - todd haynes (1998)
magical mystery tour - bernard knowles & the beatles (1967)
the shape of water - guillermo del toro (2017)
all that heaven allows - douglas sirk (1955)
i was a male war bride - howard hawks (1949)
the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)
ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)
the breakfast club - john hughes (1985)
airplane! - jerry & david zucker & jim abrahams (1980)
maleficent - robert stromberg (2014) <- twilight friend pick lmfao
chi-raq - spike lee (2015)
a league of their own - penny marshall (1992)
rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)
pearl - ti west (2022)
get out - jordan peele (2017)
one cut of the dead - shinichiro ueda (2017)
deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)
the hours and times - christopher munch (1991) <- random number generator decided my gay john lennon fate with this one :/
glass onion - rian johnson (2022)
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