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Everything I Watched in 2019

Movies

The number in parentheses is year of release, asterisks denote a re-watch, and titles in bold are my favourite watches of the year.

01 The Death of Stalin (17) does a neat trick of building goodwill for Steve Buscemi’s Krushchev, then brutally pays that off in the last few minutes.

02 Sorry to Bother You (18)

03 Support the Girls (18)

04 Paddington (14)*

05 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (16)

06 Eighth Grade (18) probably the most terrifying movie I watched all year, if you didn’t watch it through your fingers, who even are you?

07 Morvern Callar (02) much less bleak than the book, but then, nearly anything would be

08 The Favourite (18) revolting and beautiful.

09 Columbus (17) a really lovely movie about architecture and parent-child relationships.

10 Bring it On (00)*

11 The Land of Steady Habits (18) feels wackier than your average Holofcener, but still a good watch.

12 Spotlight (15) i was really bowled over by this, and wasn’t expecting to be. Workmanlike filmmaking, but an extraordinary story, well-told.

13 The Killing of a Sacred Deer (17) Barry Keoghan is a blank, but somehow compelling screen presence. This one has an ending that made me bark with laughter.

14 Legends of the Fall (94)

15 Moneyball (11)* if you don’t feel like watching anything in particular, you can always watch Moneyball

16 If Beale St Could Talk (18) very beautiful, but I failed to connect with it on any other level.

17 For Keeps (88)

18 Abducted in Plain Sight (17)

19 Oscar Shorts (Animated) (18) the offerings were very sappy this year, but the winner was decent! Lots of Toronto content (weird).

20 Oscar Shorts (Live Action) (18) *unquestionably* the worst one of these won ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

21 Velvet Buzzsaw (19)

22 Vice (18) ugh

23 Friends with Money (06)

24 Can You Ever Forgive Me (18)

25 Bohemian Rhapsody (18) haha what. was. that.

26 Mars Attacks (96)*

27 Paddington 2 (18)

28 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (92)*

29 Shoplifters (18)

30 Blindspotting (18) jacked Ethan Embry in a supporting role?! Whither? Howso? Wherefore?

31 Witness (85)

32 Harry & the Hendersons (87)*

33 The Matrix (99)*

34 T2 Trainspotting (17)

35 Blockers (18)

36 The Slums of Beverly Hills (98)

37 Can’t Hardly Wait (98)*

38 Avengers: Infinity War (18)

39 Iron Man II (10)

40 Isle of Dogs (18)

41 Chinatown (74)*

42 To Live & Die in LA (85)

43 Age of Innocence (93) Daniel Day-Lewis manages to make Newland Archer compelling, where in the novel he’s...the worst?!

44 Shopgirl (05)*

45 The House (17) didn’t sustain all the way through, but then, that’s how mainstream comedies often go.

46 The Beguiled (17)

47 Badlands (73)*

48 Poetic Justice (93)

49 The Empire Strikes Back (80)*

50 Calibre (18)

51 The Kindergarten Teacher (18)

52 Hounds of Love (17) a nice little Aussie thriller, set in the 80s

53 Kicking & Screaming (95)*

54 Octopussy (83)*

55 Jaws (79)*

56 Lover Come Back (61)

57 Frenzy (72)

58 Always Be My Maybe (19)

59 Certain Women (16) took a while to get to this one, but it’s as great as they say it is.

60 Baby Driver (17) all flash, little substance.

61 Sneakers (92)

62 Roadhouse (87)*

63 Bull Durham (88)*

64 Ghostbusters (84)*

65 Booksmart (19) I think this will improve on multiple viewings, though I loved the soundtrack and the mix of characters.

66 Hereditary (18)

67 Rebecca (40) George Sanders as Rebecca’s cousin is BRILLIANT

68 Vertigo (58)*

69 The Dead Don’t Die (19)

70 Crawl (19)

71 Dazed & Confused (93)* If you don’t watch this once a summer, what is wrong with you?

72 Jackie Brown (97)

73 Talk Radio (88)

74 The Guilty (18)

75 Killing Heydrich (17)

76 Lady Bird (17)*

77 Billy Elliot (00)*

78 White House Down (13)* Channing Potatum saves the White House!

79 The Film Worker (17)

80 Whitney (18)

81 Mascot (16)

82 Apocalypse Now (79)* technically I’d only seen the Redux version from the early 2000s, so the regular cut is new to me.

83 Apollo 13 (95)*

84 Psycho 2 (83) the twist is very guessable, but there are a couple of nice-looking scenes.

85 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (04)*

86 The Bodyguard (92)*

87 Murder Mystery (19)

88 Wildlife (18)

89 The Stepford Wives (75)*

90 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (71)*

91 The Natural (84)

92 The Other Boleyn Girl (08)

93 Speed (94)*

94 Opera (87)

95 That’s my Boy (12) haha what?!

96 The Big Short (15)

97 Elizabeth the Golden Age (07)

98 The Glass Castle (17) when I read the book, I genuinely thought it was fiction, it’s so insane.

99 Dawn of the Dead (78)*

100 All About Eve (50) lady on lady violence is a special thing

101 La La Land (16)

102 Morning Glory (10) remember Rachel McAdams?

103 Casino (95)*

104 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (06)

105 Pet Sematary (19)

106 Clue (85)*

107 Her Smell (18) amazing soundtrack and the songs were well-chosen. Heartbreaking musical moment in the final act.

108 Bobby Sands: 66 Days (16)

109 She’s Gotta Have it (86)

110 Good Morning (59)

111 Hustlers (19) I didn’t connect with this as much as the reviews led me to believe I might.

112 Nocturnal Animals (16)

113 Kill Bill Vol 1 (03) I’d only ever seen the second one before, being a non-Tarantino completionist.

114 Fried Green Tomatoes (91)* I watch this more than anticipated...

115 Steel Magnolias (89)

116 Notting Hill (99)*

117 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (19) the tiny city models were inspired!

118 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (89)*

119 Let It Snow (19)

120 Frozen (13)

121 The Irishman (19) most interesting as a sort of pastiche/reckoning on the part of Scorsese about his other gangster films. Really outmoded view of unions. Definitely could have been edited down if anyone were able to come to it without undue reverence, but I did love the bit about the fish.

122 Girls Trip (17) actual plot is beside the point.

123 About a Boy (02)* I always think of this as the “vomit and sweaters” movie, anyone else?

124 Animal House (78)*

DOCUMENTARY : FICTION - 4:120

THEATRE : HOME - 9:115

TV Series

01 Russian Doll - I think I would have enjoyed this more if it hadn’t been bingeable - would have made a nice week-by-week discussion sort of show. I loved to watch the changes between re-ups of our major characters, and I think the actual plotting would reward re-watches.

02 Catastrophe S4 - A satisfying ending to an excellent show, with very charismatic leads (and deeply weird supporting characters). Had to write around Carrie Fisher’s death, and I’m sure did a better job of it than Star Wars did.

03 Friends from College S2 - More of the same, which is what I was after. A show like cotton candy (but with more infidelity).

04 High Maintenance S3 - A lot more of this season took place outside of New York City, which was a great change of pace. And a great deal more information about The Guy and his own life; both difficulties and successes included.

05 Losers - This was a great little docuseries on Netflix that I didn’t hear a lot of people talking about - it’s about sports losses, but unusual sports ie curling, figure skating and the like. You’d think it would get repetitive, being as it’s always about recovering after loss, but it doesn’t! I wish they would make another season….

06 Shrill - a tight six episode dramedy about an alt-weekly journalist in the Pacific Northwest, based on Lindy West’s memoir of the same name. John Cameron Mitchell as her boss (based on Dan Savage) stands out of the ensemble cast, as does Annie’s roommate played by a British standup Lolly Adefope.

07 Broad City S5 - I haven’t always kept up with Broad City, but I came back to it for its final season, and thought it did a good job of setting its characters up for big changes in their lives.

08 I Think You Should Leave - It’s easy to assume that all sketch comedy is terrible and always will be, but then you see this, and throw your TV out the window (due to all the laffs)

09 Fleabag S2 - Everything you’ve heard is true, this season is goddamn hilarious and ridiculously sexy. A huge step up from the first season, which was already pretty fantastic and incisive.

10 Fosse/Verdon - Musicals are not particularly my bag, so I’m sure there was a lot that I missed in terms of references, but the lead performances ably carried me through all of the time jumps and various performances.

11 Stranger Things S3 - Say it after me: d-i-m-i-n-i-s-h-i-n-g r-e-t-u-r-n-s! Maya Hawke kills it, though.

12 Big Little Lies S2 - Unnecessary, and (if possible) even sillier than the first season.

13 Lorena - Part of the ongoing quest to rehabilitate the maligned women of the 1990s, this gave me tons of context that I had no idea about at the time, due to being a dumb kid.

14 Glow S3 - I felt like I was losing steam on this series this year, but episodes like the camping ep kept me coming back. A great ensemble, though some unusual character choices (like a certain kiss *cough*) took me out of it by times.

15 Lodge 49 S1-3 - I’d kept hearing about this show, so I finally sought it out. I can’t say it was amazingly compelling (I almost dropped it after the first season) but it’s definitely an oddball of a show, slipping from setpiece to setpiece with little regard for logic. For me, a background show.

16 Chernobyl - This show really gave me the Bad Feeling, humans were definitely A Mistake.

17 On Becoming a God in Central Florida - Kiki in a trashy mode, not as infinitely appealing as the version she pulled off in the second season of Fargo, but scrappy and industrious nonetheless.

18 Show Me a Hero - I’d put off watching this for years, it felt like it was going to be too dull (housing policy in Yonkers?) but it’s great, and larded up with Bruce Springsteen songs, obvs.

19 Great British Bake Off S9-S10 - I’d also held off on watching this for a long time, out of loyalty to Mel, Sue, and Mary Berry. But I needed some comfort viewing towards the end of the summer, and the new hosts and judge do an able job, although the show’s tropes are feeling a bit well-worn at this point.

20 Righteous Gemstones S1 - A rollicking ride for sure, with a great cast. Your mileage/patience with Danny McBride may vary, so keep that in mind, naturally.

21 This Way Up S1 - A small show starring the fabulous Aisling Bea, about mental health and families and some nice comic physical acting. Oh, and in case you were watching The Crown and crushing on Tobias Menzies’ version of Prince Phillip, he plays a hot dad love interest in this, which gives you all the Tobias you’re looking for, without the PP racisms.

22 The Crown S3 - This is the first season of the big cast switchover, and I thought it stuck reasonably well, once we were in it an episode or two. This season concentrated even less on Elizabeth herself, preferring her sister, husband, and (newly!) her children.

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The Best Films of 2019, Part VI

Yes, I know that it’s almost March. Thanks for taking the ride. GREAT MOVIES

22. Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)- To disrespect this movie is to disrespect the moon landing itself so... I do like listening to the Walter Cronkite snippets about "the burdens and dreams of all mankind" and smirking at the idiots who talk about "back when people just read the news without editorializing." 21. Waves (Trey Edward Shults)- I could have done with five fewer shots of people holding each other, and the foreshadowing could be more subtle, but, man, Shults takes some huge swings here, for a more powerful effect than either of his previous films had. It isn't often that a colorist gets a single card in the opening credits, but it makes sense for a film that stands out as much as this loud, woozy piece does. I don't think there's anything as present-tense this year as a character drunk-driving to Kanye West's "I Am a God." 20. Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)- The dissenters of Jojo Rabbit have been pretty uniform in their negativity, and I think their stance has to do with not wanting to be told what to think or feel. (Putting "an anti-hate satire" on the poster has to fire up those haters.) This movie is not subtle or ambiguous, but you know what? Casablanca is a pretty didactic movie too. Let me back up from the C-word. For me, the film's emotional scenes are better than its comedic scenes, but in either form, Waititi directly engages with a ten-year-old in a way that neither romanticizes him nor condescends to him. That's such an imperfect, transformative age in a boy, and not enough movies are willing to wrestle with how ugly it can be. Roman Griffin Davis is pretty good, but he's spotted by sincere, compassionate performances by Thomasin McKenzie and Scarlett Johansson. It's possible that Johansson has never been better. I totally understand why someone with her sex symbol baggage would resist playing mothers; if I've done my homework, this is the first time she has done it, even though she's a parent in real life. But her maternal scenes here are heartbreaking in their patience, particularly in a scene for which her character "plays" herself and her absent husband. Besides uncorking a more vulnerable part of herself, Johansson nails the performative aspect of being a parent, resisting the urge to make everything a lesson but wanting so desperately to be a positive example for a kid who needs one. 19. Honeyland (Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska)- I greatly prefer the term "non-professional actor" or "first-time actor" to "non-actor" because it's only human nature to act differently when being filmed. The second even a camera filming a birthday party captures you, you start to perform. But in handmade stone houses in rural Macedonia, the subjects are true non-actors. They have no affect because, in all likelihood, they have not seen a movie before. So the way that Hatidze lived over the course of the three years of this project--with purpose, focus, and wisdom--seemed new to me. Honeyland is the gift that I always hope for from documentary and (especially) foreign documentary: a slice of life that I never knew I needed. 18. Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)- Andrew Garfield's Sam spends a lot of time on his balcony surveying his apartment complex, staring at a topless woman in a way that recalls Marlowe in The Long Goodbye, one reference point among hundreds. Sometimes he watches through binoculars, sometimes he watches through blinds--blind imagery that shows up over and over again in a movie about voyeurism. Anyway, this neighbor keeps parrots, who we're told as kids can "talk." Not that the animals have any conscious intention with their mimicking, but they replicate what they hear or are taught. The words are signified without any signifiers, so it's hard to even classify the noises as speech. Maybe those noises are everything--a tie to our species that reveals impressive intelligence--but maybe they're nothing--a silly hope of a world that seems less alone. And that subjective interpretation of code is the clearest metaphor in an otherwise elliptical, bizarre, sprawling, sui generis film. It's messy alright. Some of the threads lead nowhere, but in a movie about order and chaos, that's obviously the point. The scene with The Songwriter--barely any of the characters have names--is over ten minutes and might not have any narrative consequence. But in the moment it's earth-shattering and urgent. And maybe I'm the obvious audience, but I'm not going to complain about anyone taking a dance break for "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" 17. 1917 (Sam Mendes)- Weirdly enough, a Lauryn Hill line kept bouncing around in my head as I was nervously tapping my foot: "It could all be so simple, / But you had to make it hard." This is a direct story told with impossible technical aptitude. 1917 isn't saying anything new, but have you ever seen a plane crash ten feet away from the camera forty-five minutes into an unbroken take? No offense, but do you remember when we were all impressed that Creed had a five-minute fight in one take? Blimey. 16. American Factory (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)- It's a rare documentary that makes its case so gracefully and so forcefully at the same time. The film ends so conclusively that it could be considered labor activism, but it's so fair that the union-busting schmucks are willing to joke around with the filmmakers without obfuscating at all. The obvious forebearer for this sort of boots-on-the-ground snapshot of American labor is Harlan County U.S.A., but American Factory is more staid and less concerned with setting because, you know, this could be anywhere.The Chairman is the best villain since Thanos, and as he looked back on his life while walking around his empty cabana, I had to squint a bit to make sure he wasn't purple.

15. Ad Astra (James Gray)- Ad Astra declares so that it can suggest. The opening crawl says that the near future is a "time of hope and conflict," but all we see is the conflict: the pirates on a borderless moon that we've ruined with Applebee'ses, the neglected wife leaving her ring on a table, the voiceover that declares, "I always wanted to be an astronaut...for all mankind and all." This film will take place in four parts--Earth, Moon, Mars, Neptune--and each part will offer unique obstacles to challenge our phlegmatic but confused hero. But all of that table-setting allows James Gray to explore. There's a scene in which the Roy character uses a belt to pull himself, one tug at a time, deeper into the unknown, and we see the action through the reflection in his helmet as we're watching his face. We're seeing through his eyes but at a remove, and in this moment we're watching him heave himself into emptiness, thinking that the more distant and lonely and absent he gets, the more of a man he becomes. We know that's not true, but we kind of think it is from the movies, and Ad Astra has a happy ending if only because it wants to disprove that notion. Lots of artistes talk about how they could, without compromise, make grand, big-budget entertainments if they only wanted to. James Gray did. 14. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)- In a train on the way to her hometown, the protagonist Xiao casually tells a fellow passenger that she has seen a UFO. Although it comes up later in a sort of magic realism flourish, her statement seemed like a character moment for me. People who see UFOs are either guileless rubes or attention-seeking hucksters, and that's the dance of Tao Zhao's performance. Even after seeing the movie, I can't tell which one Xiao is. Often it changes in the course of a scene. The time when she shows the most agency, firing off her boyfriend's illegal gun to ward off his attackers, results in the time when she is the most helpless, being ordered around in jail. She might confess her ex-con status in a moment of vulnerability, then flake out at the next train stop in an attempt to seize her power back. (It's worth mentioning that there are lots of movies about flaky drifters who don't pay the tab, but few of them are about women.) Even the way that she holds her backpack--frontways--is street-smart and child-like at the same time. This is the second film that Jia has made with a triptych setting, (Mountains May Depart is slightly superior.) and he doesn't make the flash forwards obvious. He invites the performance's same sort of healthy confusion upon the viewer with the formal elements. I, for one, am willing to get probed by these foreign objects. 13. Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)- I questioned a late moment in the film, one of the plottier ones in which Woody goes back to save another toy one more laborious time. When I sighed, my wife reminded me, "He never leaves a toy behind." Toy Story 4 is a dazzling upgrade in the series from a visual standpoint, (I gasped again at Woody lying in a damp, sunny patch of concrete.) but it's more of a reminder of the consistent character development and weight that have been blanketing us for twenty-three years. Pixar isn't reinventing the wheel because it is the wheel. Sure, the characters are too numerous and separate now. I miss the OG's Rex and Hamm. But for one thing, that rogue's gallery makes it funnier when, say, Buttercup pops up with a joke out of nowhere. And the new characters, particularly Forky the Nihilist, are so lovable that I wouldn't know who to trade. Toy Story 4 is probably the worst of the franchise, but that franchise--especially when its subtext seems to be questioning people who want to stop intellectual property from evolving--might be the best we have. 12. Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)- In discussing the aftermath of an execution, Alfre Woodard's warden character Bernadine mentions the mother who will claim a prisoner's body, who will follow through with plans for burial. And I realized, to be honest, that I had never thought about how executed bodies are claimed and laid to rest, though obviously those sad practicalities persist. This whole film is a reminder of the numerous costs that arise from a system that is out of time and out of reason. To that end, every character is fully drawn with empathy. For example, the assistant warden, which could have been a nothing part, has ambitions and fears that give him an arc that shades the protagonist. The Richard Schiff and Wendell Pierce characters make the film about the compromised promises of retirement, but the assistant warden is there to tug us back into law enforcement. Neon ended up putting this movie on the awards circuit back burner, but Aldis Hodge deserves the world. Although the film piles on one indignity too many for my taste, drifting into miserableism, Hodge's performance has a rare possessive quality. Catatonic in his most crestfallen moments and antic when he clings to hope, Hodge drags the audience along with him. The character is quiet, but every word counts. 11. The Farewell (Lulu Wang)- I was not been more thoroughly charmed all year, especially by Awkwafina, who is a revelation in a tricky role. There are a few scenes that get comedic effect through repetition, and it's telling that the subtitles stop by the third or fourth run-through of a line. The movie assumes you're smart, which goes even further than its piercing emotion. Shout-out to Mr. Li, who made me crack up every time I saw him. The elderly sort-of-boyfriend is such a common figure in real life, but I'm not sure I've ever seen that character type on screen. I'm not sure I've seen any of this on-screen, and that's the reason the film exists.

10. Avengers: End Game (Joe Russo and Anthony Russo)- For a guy who grew up in the '30s, Captain America is pretty cool with gay people. 9. Gloria (Sebastian Lelio)- I saw Lelio's original Gloria, the one that he's remaking here, and it didn't do much for me, even though it hit some of the same beats as this one. I wonder what the difference could be...do you think the total commitment of one of the greatest actresses in the world matters? Lelio documents who this woman is to her children, to her mother, to her ex-husband, to her lover, to her co-workers, and it's by tracking the tiny compromises of those relationships that the viewer gets to see the fully realized her. The cyclical editing of those pieces--sing a disco song to herself in the car, rinse, repeat--ends up lulling the viewer into his role of seeing the complete Gloria. It ends up being a fun, absorbing process. I yelled out loud at Turturro for disrespecting my girl. Moore, who is in every scene, sells us on these different versions of the character through complete control of her instrument. She lets headphones slump along her body at work. She kneels down toward a street performer in a more maternal way than she ever presents with her actual daughter. She sits cross-legged with her best friend, as if they're little girls. I won't spoil what she does at the end, when she is at her most empowered. 8. Midsommar (Ari Aster)- I love this movie, but, boy, is it a friendship killer if you recommend it to the wrong person. Whether you liked Hereditary or not is a good predictor for your taste, but I think Ari Aster's follow-up is much better: Whereas the unpredictability of Hereditary makes the mysticism of its final fourth seem like a leap that you either accept or don't, Midsommar is driving so hard in one direction that its dread is even more pronounced. (The prologue is so masterfully deliberate and gloomy that it takes a long time for the film to get back to those depths.) For comparison's sake again, Aster was painting in the colors of hysteria and fractured relationships before, but the new film seems much more biting and vital in the way it depicts modern men and women. I'm thinking of the way Dani excuses herself at the risk of compromising her safety or rationalizes her boyfriend's forgetting her birthday with "Well, I didn't remind him." All of the characters become victims of a misinformed, selfish brand of multicultural tolerance that makes them rationalize evil instead of speaking up, and that acceptance serves the plot way better than the average horror movie's running up the stairs instead of out the door. For his part, Christian, who seems sympathetic at first, takes ideas, drugs, and even women for himself with impunity. (It's important that he's an anthropology student, and it's more important that his name is Christian.) When he colonizes his Black friend's thesis topic, it might seem like a tipping point, but he was one step ahead in using rules and approval for his purposes. None of the Americans bother to stop him, but that doesn't mean that no one stops him. 7. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)- "The sun shines on good and evil the same." In the baggy second hour of what might be Terrence Malick's most direct and linear film, martyr Franz Jagerstatter tosses off that line with grace and aplomb, at a time when most of us would have neither to spare. His captors are confused when he denies that his conscientious objection will make any difference in the war or when he doubts that he is more morally evolved than his countrymen. His refusal to pledge an oath to Hitler is a state with no outcome in mind, which the results-obsessed Nazis cannot understand. In that way he is the perfect Malickian hero, which means he is the perfect Heideggerian hero: a man who sees all planes of existence as equal--or at least equally unknowable to him. As a farmer, Franz observes and acts upon cycles, but he is smaller than Nature and the communion he finds with God there. So when he's torn from his family and daily life to be stuck in a prison, he is separated from that concord further and further. The key, however, is that he is no more or less powerful than before, and that knowledge is what gives him transcendental perspective. He is indifferent in the way that only a saint can be. Of course, what I'm describing also makes for a passive protagonist, which is why the cross-cutting to his wife Fani is so effective. She is the one who has to shoulder the burden of his ideals, and Valerie Pachner's stolid performance sells that sacrifice. The overall balance comes from the jagged but precise editing, and the production is all the more impressive for retaining the Malick style despite the absence of most of his regular collaborators. (This is the first time since The Thin Red Line that he hasn't worked with Jack Fisk, but there the production design is, crafting a 1940 Austrian town out of nothing and building a network of water symbolism that I don't understand yet.) In fact, the whirling steadicam and the avoidance of artificial light have more of a thematic purpose than ever if "the sun shines on good and evil all the same." Perhaps the greatest achievement of this film about unjust war is that it made me pray for Donald Trump today. Because if I want to be like Franz Jagerstatter, then I have to believe the light of God shines on him too. 6. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)- A third of the way into this imaginative, absorbing whodunit, I started to talk myself into the surface pleasures of cinema. "So what if it doesn't have much to say; look at these stars going for it with this spicy dialogue and these gleeful twists." Then the subtext asserts itself through a radiant Ana de Armas, and the subtext becomes the text in the final shot. Knives Out is the best of all worlds. Rian Johnson might be the first filmmaker for whom a Star Wars movie ends up being a footnote. 5. Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi)- There's a photograph hanging in the library (yes, the stately library) of the patrician family of my childhood best friend, and I'm in that picture. There I am, dressed a bit sloppier than everyone else, near the edge of the frame. Because I was there, as usual, and because they are kind. Everybody Knows is about one of those family friend outsiders, perhaps in a way that no other movie has been. When it's at its best, it's about what those marginal figures can and can't say, can and can't do. The film dips into soap opera territory, but only to sell its message of how secrets beget other secrets. For me, it's another Farhadi hit of approachable, modest conflict that bakes itself into an experience. 4. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)- The best divorce movie ever made--by the guy who wrote and directed the former belt holder of the best divorce movie ever made. These luminous lead performances aren't just about saying cutting, hurtful things or reacting to their child's preference for the other parent (or at least the other parent's toys). They're about the internal devastation of realizing you can never take back something you've said. Driver and Johansson each get a chance to sink into one of those moments, and they're joined by a head-tilting, blustery Laura Dern, who gets a Virgin Mary speech that won her an Oscar. And there are jokes! Underrated aspect of the movie: The son is kind of a dipshit. I like that he just hates math and wants to eat candy, as opposed to the cute prodigies we've seen before in this type of movie. They're fighting over a kid only a parent could love. INSTANT CLASSICS

3. Uncut Gems (Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie)- Howard the jeweler lives somewhere in upstate New York, but he has an apartment in the city. It's an apartment that is close enough for him to cab over to his mistress who lives there, but it's far enough away that his family wouldn't bother popping in for a visit. That sort of gap is present throughout Uncut Gems: Family members act differently in the Diamond District than they do at seder, and we first see Howard from the literally vulnerable inside of a colonoscopy, not the animated brio of his tightrope-walking exterior. Of course, the gem of the title is the ultimate division: something pure that the characters are searching for, untouched by the process that Howard, by definition, does. And the film is about how little he can abide by purity. Until now, The Gambler (1974) was probably the best film of this type, a snapshot of a cursed man who seems to be gambling with forces way beyond the game in question. But Uncut Gems is more pathological, more authentic, more intense, and more decisively realized. By focusing more on character than the Safdie Brothers' other work, it offers a unique depiction of compulsive behavior and implicates the audience in rooting for Howard's (technically unrealistic) parlay. By doubling down on his bets or re-uniting with his girlfriend, Howard thinks that he can reinvent himself and start anew. But like the legacy of the Chosen People the film depicts, like the lines on all of these great New York faces, some things are permanent.

2. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)- "It's what it is." You wouldn't blame someone if he saw the logline and lineup of The Irishman and expected GoodFellas. In fact, this one quotes Scorsese's signature film continually. Instead of slicing onions with a razorblade, old convicts pitch bocce balls. Instead of tracking sumptuously through the Copa, Scorsese's camera wanders through a nursing home. Instead of pistol-whipping Karen's neighbor for getting handsy, our protagonist curb-stomps a grocery owner for shoving his daughter. But there's a GoodFellas staple that is missing. The first fourth of that crime saga closes as Young Henry, played by Christopher Serrone, gets rewarded for staying mum in court. All of his partners in crime cheer him, and he is told that he learned a valuable lesson (in protecting the family and subverting the law). Then we cut to Adult Henry, played by Ray Liotta now, because Young Henry has learned everything he has to know. The Irishman has no such moment of elevation or revelation. Frank is, crucially, played by Robert De Niro over the course of decades because his fall from grace--if there ever was grace--is too imperceptible for any before-and-after divide. The lessons that he learns are just as corrupting as what Henry discovers: Power comes from insularity. Having power means you don't have to prove it. Organized crime, organized labor, and the political process are all the same thing. A code is all a man has, but all codes have limits. However, Frank's corruption, the selling of his soul, doesn't even bring an Asian-inspired chiffonier or a Janice Rossi sidepiece. Frank doesn't get rich; he jams his hands into a plastic ice bucket at the bar next to his couch. He doesn't get powerful; he has to kill because Russell is too prominent to be in the same town as a hit. He doesn't get glory; even a celebration held in his honor is just an excuse for more influential men to do business. Frank is a tool, and he is trapped in a fruitless silence, at best an accessory at meetings. (De Niro is doing quoting of his own. There's a lot of Jackie Brown's Louis in his shrugs and smirks.) As boisterous as Scorsese's films can be, he also knows how to use silence. Robbie Robertson's score is weak, but luckily the film goes without for long stretches, including a suspenseful car ride that begins with a treacherous hug and ends with a malignant secret. The best performance comes from Joe Pesci, probably because his stolid stillness matches the overall atmosphere. Of course, the quietest moments correlate to the loneliest moments: Frank touring a cemetery or sitting with a door half-cracked to a complicit viewer. It's the silence of deliberate toil. Like the mobster ripping up carpet in the lake house, Scorsese is on his hands and knees destroying his own myths.

1. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)- Parasite is Bong Joon-Ho's masterpiece because it distills the worldview and passions that he previously flirted with into a condensed but elaborate statement. In the same way that Mean Streets is perfectly good but feels like a rehearsal for the slow boil of encircling gangster life in GoodFellas. In the same way that Hitchcock played with the impotent everyman voyeur in a confined setting but didn't perfect it until Rear Window. Like the examples above, Parasite, a true ensemble, is a case of the subtext becoming text. Back in his native country and language, working more or less with realism, Bong is free to take aim at class in a more direct but still wacky way. In all of its crowd provocation--there's so much pleasure in just a suspenseful winding down stairs--the film is destined to be a foreign film gateway drug. But really it just makes we want to take a half-star off my Snowpiercer review since I know Bong can do better now.

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[79] Silver Skates (2020)

Watching Russian cute movies is going to be my thing, I can feel it. The language sounds so aggressive to my Latin-speaking self and it's so odd to see that in a romantic cutesy context. The film is not terrible in that made for the web/hallmark/Netflix way, it actually has a plot and interesting characters and a woman that gets exactly what she wants in the end.

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Dracula (2020)

In this alternative spin on the classic book, we see many differences from the original text, but my favorite out of all of them must be making Van Helsing a non-believing skeptical nun. She is the glue that puts together this series. A much bigger start than Jonathan and Nina, or even Dracula himself.

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The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

You don't really need a lot of dialogue when you have Anya Taylor-Joy's expressive big eyes. They constantly saying a thousand words, telling a story in a few seconds. But luckily for us, this is much more than just that. It's a thrilling mini-series about chess, that makes a game hard to understand seem exciting and like a World Cup final at every game. It's also about addiction and the belief that without that thing we learned to rely on we are nothing. Finding out that is not true is hard work.

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2020 is over. The year in review.

I watched 140 movies in 2019 of my usual 100 goal. This past year, we all got stuck at home due to humanity fucking up the world. So I reached the impressive number of 190 movies.

I started the year with Christopher Robin and ended with Free Solo, in between, there were many rewatches, many movies that I had put off watching for the longest time, many great films, and just as many bad ones.

Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order:

A Ghost Story - one of the last films I saw in 2020, quiet, delicate, and beautiful. The art of cinema at it’s best.

Dogtooth - crazy, insane, unimaginable film where parents just take away their children’s liberty until they can’t possibly survive in the real world.

God’s Own Country - a film about love, just love understanding.

Holidate - that perfect Christmas movie where is not really about Christmas but truly about adulthood and it’s fuck ups.

Sound of Metal - Riz Ahmed’s future Oscar win. This movie is so loud it hurts, so silent that is peaceful and so touching that you can’t help but understand.

Little Monsters - I don’t know how to explain this movie, is this a kids movies? A romantic comedy? A zombie horror movie? Lupita is singing a Taylor Swift song while looking gorgeous in yellow and gore.

Parasite - 2020 started so great with Parasite absolutely destroying the Oscar’s and it’s the end of the year and I don’t think anything that was released after is as good as this.

1917 - I have seen very few films in cinemas this year and this was the one that I loved the most. I’m glad I got to see it and have the experience that is demanded.

Wild Rose - My favorite musical that is not really a musical. Jessie Buckley is bound to shy, as an actress, or as a singer, preferably both!

Apollo 11 - I always wondered how it was possible for the USA to have reached the moon with the technology that they had at the time and after watching this I understand even less. INCREDIBLE.

Lawrence of Arabia - a classic that took me far too long to see. I have seen a lot of war movies but none that actually gives us a glimpse of the economical reasons for so much death. And a fabulous Peter O’Toole in the role of a lifetime.

The Godfather - yet another classic that now I don’t really understand why I had not seen a thousand times before. I find it impossible now to not stop and watch it whenever I come across it on tv.

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu - the art of cinema is an amazing thing, a movie put together so perfectly that every second has something to say, transcending words.

Little Women - I have seen this twice and loved both times equally as much. Greta Gerwig turned a novel that I sort of enjoyed into a feminist manifest a la Jane Austen.

Jojo Rabbit - Taika Waititi is Hitler and there’s a little Nazi kid who we love, why? Because adults are shit and children should always be protected.

The Tale - I have seen many movies on the subject this year but this one with Laura Dern hurts the most. Pedophilia needs to be talked about, if we don’t our children will forever be vulnerable.

Morte a Venezia - I didn’t really like reading this Thomas Mann novel, it just didn’t click with me, the movie, on the other hand, is absolutely sublime.

Hotel Mumbai - I thought I was watching a white-savior movie but it turned out to be a movie about a real tragedy with real heroes that does a wonderful job not criminalizing religion or personal beliefs.

Romeo and Juliet - I was shocked to finally have read this play and realize it’s nothing like popular culture had me believe. Sure, it’s two very young people thinking that they found the love of their lives, and other teenagers going on with a fight that they really don’t understand. The tragedy of youth.

Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola can also be fun and irreverent while at the same time delivering amazing shots and insane use of shadows and references.

Amadeus - I thought this was bad at first and Mozart annoying with that loud laugh of his, but then his genius shine, and you can’t help but feel the touch of God.

I have read 95 books this past year of my usual goal of 70. In 2019 I read 76 novels, short stories, and graphic novels.

I started the year with Warleggan (The Poldark Saga #4) by Winston Graham and ended with Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster. Read many series, audiobooks, audioplays, plays, short stories, graphic novels, and bad historical romances.

Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order:

Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles #3) by Bernard Cornwell - this entire trilogy is amazing but the ending surpassed all my expectations.

Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade - I adore audiobooks read by the authors and this one had me in fits of laughter. Richard is great, even greater when he dedicates an entire book to a terrible movie.

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[53] The Father (2020)

Directed by Florian Zeller

A heart-wrenching, deeply touching movie. I don't think I have ever seen a movie about dementia/Alzheimer's quite like this. It's unnerving to be experiencing the point of view of someone who has lost himself in time and space, who can't recognize his surroundings, the people that he loves, who is constantly vividly reliving things that are long past. Anthony Hopkins is a fantastic actor, with many excellent films, but The Father is his true masterpiece.

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What's Coming to Netflix, Amazon, HBO, and Hulu in November

This month all eyes are on The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster drama. But until you can see it on November 27, there’s plenty of other highly-anticipated releases in TV and movies coming to Netflix, Amazon, HBO, and Hulu, including shows like Jack Ryan, The Crown, and Silicon Valley October Streaming Guide: The ‘Breaking Bad’ Movie, ‘Glass’, and More to Watch This Month Along with those new options, movies like Creed II, Step Brothers, The Matrix Series, the James Bond collection, and Rounders will be streaming on various sites. The Best Adventure Movies, TV Shows, and Documentaries You Can Stream Right Now Here’s everything new you can stream in November 2019:

What’s Streaming on Netflix

the King / The Irishman / NetflixNov. 1 Apache Warrior American Son Atypical: Season 3 Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures: Go Team Roberts: Season 1 Billy on the Street Christmas Break-In The Christmas Candle Christmas in the Heartlands Christmas Survival The Deep: Season 3 Drive Elliot the Littlest Reindeer Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fire in Paradise The Game Grease Hache Hello Ninja Holiday in the Wild Holly Star How to Be a Latin Lover The King Love Jones The Man Without Gravity Mars: Season 2 The Matrix The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: Seasons 1-2 Paid in Full Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! Rosemary’s Baby Rounders Santa Girl Sling Blade Spitfire: The Plane That Saved the World Step Brothers True: Grabbleapple Harvest Up North We Are the Wave Wild Child Zombieland Nov. 4 A Holiday Engagement Christmas Crush Dear Santa The Devil Next Door District 9 Nov. 5 The End of the F***ing World: Season 2 Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Season 4 Tune in for Love Undercover Brother 2 Nov. 6 Phillip Youmans Burning Cane SCAMS Shadow Nov. 7 The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Nov. 8 Busted!: Season 2 The Great British Baking Show: Holidays: Season 2 Greatest Events of WWII in HD Colour Green Eggs and Ham Let It Snow Paradise Beach Wild District: Season 2 Nov. 9 Little Things: Season 3 Nov. 10 Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj: Volume 5 Nov. 11 A Single Man Chief of Staff: Season 2 Nov. 12 Harvey Girls Forever!: Season 3 Jeff Garlin: Our Man in Chicago Nov. 13 Maradona in Mexico Nov. 14 The Stranded Nov. 15 Avlu: Part 2 The Club Earthquake Bird GO!: The Unforgettable Party House Arrest I’m With the Band: Nasty Cherry Klaus Llama Llama: Season 2 The Toys That Made Us: Season 3 Nov. 16 Suffragette Nov. 17 The Crown: Season 3 Nov. 19 Iliza: Unveiled No hay tiempo para la verguenza Nov. 20 Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator Dream/Killer Lorena, la de pies ligeros Nov. 21 The Knight Before Christmas Mortel Nov. 22 Dino Girl Gauko Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings The Dragon Prince: Season 3 High Seas: Season 2 Meet the Adebanjos: Season 1-3 Mon frere Nailed It! Holiday!: Season 2 Narcoworld: Dope Stories Nobody’s Looking Singapore Social Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 8 Nov. 23 End of Watch Nov. 24 Courtesy of Bold Films Shot Caller Nov. 25 Dirty John: Season 1 Nov. 26 Mike Birbiglia: The New One Super Monsters Save Christmas True: Winter Wishes Nov. 27 Broken The Irishman Nov. 28 Holiday Rush John Crist: I Ain’t Praying For That Merry Happy Whatever Mytho Nov. 29 ‘Atlantics’ Courtesy of TIFF Atlantics Chip and Potato: Season 2 I Lost My Body La Reina del Sur: Season 2 The Movies That Made Us Sugar Rush Christmas

What’s Streaming on Amazon Prime

Jack Ryan Season 2 / Amazon Prime Video / Paramount TelevisionNov. 1: A View To A Kill (1985) Bad Santa (2003) Big Top Pee-Wee (1988) Chinatown (1974) Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Die Another Day (2002) Double Jeopardy (1999) Dr. No (1962) Escape From Alcatraz (1979) Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid To Ask (1972) Fatal Attraction (1987) Fire with Fire (2012) Flashdance (1983) For Your Eyes Only (1981) Freelancers (2012) From Russia With Love (1963) Gloria (English Subtitled) (2014) Goldeneye (1995) Goldfinger (1964) Kingpin (1996) LicenceTo Kill (1989) Light Sleeper (1992) Live And Let Die (1973) Moonraker (1979) Never Say Never Again (1983) Octopussy (1983) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Overlord (2018) Reds (1981) Save the Last Dance 2 (2006) Soapdish (1991) Summer’s Moon (2009) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) The Firm (1993) The Living Daylights (1987) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) The Ring (2002) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) The World Is Not Enough (1999) Thunderball (1965) Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) Training Day (2001) Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011) Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (2012) Jack Ryan Nov. 6 Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) Nov. 8 One Child Nation (2019) Nov. 12 Angel Has Fallen (2019) Nov. 13 Anna and the Apocalypse (2018) Romans (2017) Nov. 14 Instant Family (2018) The Souvenir (2019) Nov. 15 Creed 2 (2018) The Man in the High Castle: Season 4 (Amazon Original) Nov. 19 Bottom of the 9th (2019) Nov. 20 The Fanatic (2019) Nov. 22 Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) (Amazon Original) Costume Quest: Christmas Special (Amazon Original) Nov. 29 The Report (2019) Nov. 30 Low Tide (2019) The Feed: Season 1 (Amazon Original)

What’s Streaming on Hulu

Nov. 1 America’s Cutest: Complete Seasons 2&3 (Animal Planet) Giada’s Holiday Handbook: Complete Seasons 1-3 (Food Network) Holiday Baking Championship: Complete Seasons 1-4 (Food Network) Into The Dark: Pilgrim: Episode Premiere (Hulu Original) Kids Baking Championship: Complete Season 4 (Food Network) Love Island: Australia: Complete Season 1 (ITV) Sex Sent Me to the ER: Complete Seasons 1&2 (TLC) Too Cute!: Complete Seasons 2&3 (Animal Planet) A Fairly Odd Christmas (2012) A Simple Plan (1998) Albert (2016) Big Top Pee-Wee (1988) Chinatown (1974) The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) Dinner for Schmucks (2010) Double Jeopardy (1999) The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain (1995) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, but were Afraid to Ask (1972) Fantastic Four (2005) Fatal Attraction (1987) Fever Pitch (2005) Fire with Fire (2012) The Firm (1993) Flashdance (1983) Freddy Vs Jason (2003) Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) Freelancers (2012) Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) Gloria (2014) Head of State (2003) Home for the Holidays (1995) I Heart Huckabees (2004) In Enemy Hands (2003) Interview with a Vampire (1994) Kingpin (1996) Light Sleeper (1992) Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011) Madea’s Witness Protection (2012) Magic Mike (2012) The Mexican (2001) The Nightingale (2019) Overlord (2018) The Pink Panther 2 (2009) Reds (1981) The Ring (2002) Santa Hunters (2014) Shall We Dance? (2004) Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2002) Soapdish (1991) Spy Next Door (2010) Summers Moon (2009) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) Terminator Salvation (2009) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) Tiny Christmas (2017) The Two Jakes (1990) Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) Undisputed (2002) Waiting… (2005) You Laugh but It’s True (2011) Available Nov. 4 Denial (2016) Nov. 5 Framing John Delorean (2019) Available Nov. 6 Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story (2017) The Biggest Little Farm (2019) Nov. 7 Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) Nov. 9 You’re the Worst: Complete Season 5 (FX) Nov. 13 Anna and the Apocalypse (2018) Ugly Dolls (2018) Nov. 14 Instant Family (2018) Veronica Mars (2014) Nov. 15 Dollface: Complete Season 1 Premiere (Hulu Original) Creed II (2018) Wings of the Dove (1997) Nov. 18 Booksmart (2019) The Tomorrow Man (2019) Nov. 19 Apple Tree Yard: Complete Season 1 (Fremantle) Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power (2019) The Quiet One (2019) Nov. 20 Some Kind of Beautiful (2015) Nov. 22 The Accident: Complete Season 1 Premiere (Hulu Original) Holly Hobbie: Complete Season 2 Premiere (Hulu Original) Vita & Virginia (2019) Nov. 24 Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2010) Nov. 25 Love & Mercy (2015) Nov. 26 NOS4A2: Complete Season 1 (AMC) Astronaut (2019) Nov. 27 Meeting Gorbachev (2019) Nov. 28 Mike Wallace is Here (2019)

What’s Streaming on HBO/HBO Now

Movies Big (11/1) Blindspotting (11/1) Bruce Almighty (11/1) Chocolat (11/1) Crazy, Stupid, Love (11/1) Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops (11/19) Flawless (11/1) For Love of the Game (11/1) Forget Paris (11/1) Head Full of Honey (11/2) Hope Floats (11/1) Indignation (11/1) Jingle All the Way (Director’s Cut) (11/1) King Arthur (Director’s Cut) (11/1) Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season (11/26) Little (11/16) Look Away (11/4) Mr. Bean’s Holiday (11/1) Nine Months (11/1) Pan (11/1) Reversal of Fortune (11/1) Shazam! (11/30) The Apollo (11/6) The Condemned (11/1) The Condemned 2 (11/1) The Darjeeling Limited (11/1) The Darkness (11/1) The Day After Tomorrow (11/1) The Kid Who Would Be King (11/9) The Town (11/1) True Lies (11/1) Us (11/23) Very Ralph (11/12) Wes Craven Presents Wishmaster (11/1) TV Daniel Sloss: X (11/2) Entre Nos: Erik Rivera: Super White (11/1) Halfway — HBO Access pilot (11/1) His Dark Materials (11/4) Message Erased (11/1) Pajaros de Verano (aka Birds of Passage) (11/8) Papi Chulo (11/15) Santos Dumont (11/11) Sesame Street (11/16) Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Celebration (11/9) Sobredosis de amor (aka Roommates) (11/1) Sterling — HBO Access pilot (11/1) Unimundo 45 — HBO Access pilot (11/1) Expiring 11/30 Blackkklansman Breakin’ All the Rules Captivity Crazy Rich Asians Darkman Darkman II: The Return of Durant Darkman III: Die Darkman Die The Darkest Minds Deja Vu The Diary of Anne Frank Disclosure Hop Insidious: The Last Key Legend Lions For Lambs The Lost Boys Macgruber (Extended Version) Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Manhattan Night My Friend Dahmer Paper Heart Paycheck Peter Pan Pride Ramona and Beezus Robin Hood Steve Jobs Stratton Read the full article

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND March 1, 2019 – TYLER PERRY’S A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL, GRETA

It’s my birthday weekend and while I’m not that interested in either of the two new wide releases -- both moderate releases opening in less than 3,000 theaters -- I probably will go watch some old movies around my work schedule. (Check out the full repertory line-up below!)

Either way, at least one of this weekend’s wide releases is being geared towards a very specific built-in fanbase, and that movie is…

TYLER PERRY’S A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL (Liongsate)

Written and Directed by Tyler Perry (Too many movies to list them all.) Cast: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Mike Tyson, Ciera Payton, KJ Smith MPAA Rating: PG-13

Every night I go to sleep hoping and praying that I never have to write about another Tyler Perry movie again, and apparently, I may finally get my wish, at least in terms of Perry making another Madea movie, since this is apparently his last movie in a franchise which began all the way back in 2005 with Diary of a Mad Black Woman. (Actually, Madea began a lot further back than that with Perry’s stageplays, but 2005 was when Madea first entered my limited worldview, and I’ve written about twenty of his movies while only seeing maybe three or four of them.)

And because this is my column and I can do whatever I want, that’s all I’m going to say about his latest movie. J

On the other hand, you can read more about the movie and its box office prospects over on The Beat!

GRETA (Focus Features)

Directed by Neil Jordan (Too many movies to list them all.) Written by Ray Wright and Neil Jordan Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, Stephen Rea MPAA Rating: R

This week’s other new wide release is a high-concept psychological thriller from Ireland’s Neil Jordan which stars Chloe Grace Moretz as a young New Yorker who finds a purse on the subway that belongs to a Greta Hideg, played by the effervescent Isabelle Huppert. I think some people will enjoy this movie more than others, although as you can read in my review below, I was rather disappointed by it. I have a feeling that this will get a “C” (or lower) CinemaScore, too.

Mini-Review: In what seems to be a genre that’s making a comeback, Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan returns with his most sellable (i.e. obvious) premise in a long time, pairing two strong actors in a fairly mundane thriller.

Chloë Grace Moretz plays Frances, a new New Yorker working as a waitress, who finds a purse on the subway belonging to a Greta Hideg (Huppert), politely bringing the older woman the purse. Having lost her mother a year prior, Frances at first finds a kindly substitute in Greta, but Greta starts to get clingierj, especially when Frances learns that leaving purses on subways is the way Greta finds new “friends.” As Frances tries to break off the relationship, Greta keeps showing up and her presence becomes more threatening.

To avoid spoilers, that’s probably all you need to know about the fairly basic plot that gets some credit for filming New York City as New York, complete with Greta’s NYC ID card

I’ve seen better work from Moretz, but it’s not like the role of Frances gives her much to do besides acting scared or freaked out, depending on the circumstances. By comparison, Huppert gives a delicious nutty performance as the title character, and it’s obvious she’s having fun behaving badly. Possibly the biggest shocker of Greta is how great Maika Monroe is as Frances’ flaky and shallow roommate, who actually instills the film with a deliberate sense of humor rather than when you’re laughing at how weird it get.

Overall, the writing isn’t great and whoever composed the score goes so overboard with some of the cues, you might find yourself wondering whatever happened to subtlety?

Some things work, for sure, but much of the movie just seems to be so overwrought with Moretz overreacting to everything, and it’s clear Jordan was trying to make something more mainstream to feel pertinent again after a series of odder arthouse offerings.

Greta is fairly ridiculous and blatantly obvious, and frankly, don’t we deserve more or at least a little better from an Isabelle Huppert film?

Rating: 6/10

A last minute addition here: Since the Oscars were on Sunday, a number of theaters whose movies won prizes will re-expand the movies, some of them with new material. For instance, Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born is being rereleased with 12 minutes of new music after “Shallow” won Best Original song, while Universal will likely expand Green Book into more theaters and Sony will do the same with Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Granted, two of these are already available via home video, but they’re also worth seeing in theaters, and I might actually go see A Star is Born a third time.

LIMITED RELEASES

This is actually a fairly decent weekend for foreign fare with films by auteurs from Germany, Iceland, Austria, France and England, but the movie I’m most excited about is APOLLO 11 (Neon), the new documentary from Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13). If you were a fan of Damien Chazelle’s First Man (or even if you’re not), when it comes to space travel, the first Moon landing in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is still one of the greatest moments in history. With their historic trip to the Moon hitting its 50thanniversary in July, Miller has gone through never-before-seen footage and audio that’s been sitting in the National Archives to assemble an amazing film that tells the story using the REAL footage and audio to tell the story. Apollo 11 will open exclusively on IMAX screens for one week only – I certainly will be seeing it again in this format -- and then expand nationwide on March 8. I was able to see this before its premiere at Sundance in January, and it’s already become one of my favorite movies of the year.

Easily one of the finest German filmmakers making movies these days, Christian Petzold returns with his new film TRANSIT (Music Box Films), a loose adaptation of Anna Seghers’ 1942 novel “Transit Visa” starring Happy End star Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer from Frantz and Never Look Away. Franz plays Georg, a German expat living in Marseille among refugees who falls for the mysterious Marie (Beer) whose husband has disappeared with Georg taking his identity. I’m not quite sure that what Petzold was trying to do with this, especially with the decision to set the story in present day despite clearly being a story set in Nazi-occupied with Georg having escaped from the concentration camps, but he set the story in modern-day France. I can understand that Petzold might not have wanted to do another WWII set story after the excellent Phoenix, but he seems to be reaching here, and I’m not sure the idea worked. It probably also didn’t help that I had just rewatched two far superior films about immigrants made in the ‘40s, The Third Man and Casablanca, as bookends to seeing Transit for the first time. I think some might like this better than I did, and if you’re a fan of Petzold’s previous work, you can see this in New York at the IFC Centerand Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Another fine filmmaker with a new movie this week is England’s Michael Winterbottom, who returns with the crime-thriller THE WEDDING GUEST (IFC Films), starring Dev Patel. It’s the filmmaker’s second film made in India after 2011’s Trishna, starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed, and now he’s working with the other Slumdog Millionaire star. Patel plays a man hired to kidnap a woman who is about to get married (played by the smokin’ hot Radhika Apte), but things don’t exactly go as planned. It’s a slow-moving, moody film that once again shows off what an amazing actor Patel has become, something that continues into the real-life thriller Hotel Mumbai released later this month. This ALSO opens at the IFC Center.

French filmmaker Gaspar Noë returns with another strange movie, this one called CLIMAX (A24), which follows a French dance troupe as they start to go insane after having a party in which the alcohol is spiked with acid. I generally like Noë’s films, especially Irreversible and Into the Void, but this one goes off the rails quite a bit without being nearly as edgy or perverse as his previous work. I’m not sure if this is just more

From Iceland comes Benedikt Erlingsson’s WOMAN AT WAR (Magnolia), an amazing film starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir in a dual role. First, she plays 50-year-old Halla, a woman who has been involved as an environmental activist in vandalism and outright sabotage until she learns that her request to adopt a little girl from the Ukraine has been accepted, forcing her to rethink her life choices. Geirharðsdóttir also plays Halla’s twin sister who gets pulled into her sister’s machinations. I saw Iceland’s Oscar entry a while back and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially Geirharðsdóttir’s performance and that Erlingsson doesn’t try to make this too serious of a drama by including a score performed by a band that appears in random scenes. A Woman at War also opens in New York at the IFC Center and Landmark 57th, as well as in a few theaters in California. You can see the full release schedule on the Official Magnolia site.

And then, there’s Austrian filmmaker Wolfgang Fischer’s STYX (Film Movement), which will open onWednesday at the Film Forum, another one-woman film starring Susanne Wolff as a doctor sailing on her own when she encounters a sinking boat full of refugees. She calls for help but is told to sail away but she instead takes in one of the refugees who falls overboard. This is an amazing film, one that will inevitably be compared to Robert Redford and Chandor’s All is Lost because so much is focused on Wolff’s performance, but it’s an extremely timely film in terms of what’s going on in the world today and much more effective than Transit in that respect.

After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, Ondi Timoner’s biodrama MAPPLETHORPE (Samuel Goldwyn), starring Matt (Doctor Who) Smith as the famed and often controversial New York City photographer, is finally opening. I remember generally liking this, especially the performance by newcomer Marianne Rendón as a young Patti Smith, and I hope Timoner, who has made some fantastic docs over the years, will continue making forays into narrative films like this. Mapplethorpe opens in New York at the Cinépolis Chelsea and at the Landmark Nuart in L.A. with director Ondi Timoner in person for QnAs on Friday and Saturday night at the latter.

Fresh from its premiere as part of the midnight section of Sundance and a month-long run on DirecTV, Lee Cronin’s directorial debut The Hole in the Ground (A24/DirecTV) involves a mother and her young son Chris moving to a home in the Irish countryside next to a forest that hides a sinkhole. When Chris vanishes than reappears, his mother thinks that it might not be her son at all. (So basically, it’s a rip-off of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.)

Opening in quite a few theaters across the country is one of my favorite actors, Michelle Monaghan, as immigration attorney Judy Wood in Sean Hanish’s Saint Judy (Blue Fox Entertainment). Wood fought for immigration rights by defending a woman being persecuted by the Taliban in a case that changed American asylum laws, while at the same time also juggling life as a single mother. Also starring Common, Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard and Peter Krause, it’s getting a fairly decent release into roughly 100 theaters this weekend.

I also haven’t had a chance to watch Danishka Esterhazy’s LEVEL 16 (Dark Sky Films) yet, but I was intrigued by the trailer I saw at the Alamo a few weeks back. It involves a girls’ school called the Vestalis Academy, who put its students through rigorous training to become a “clean girl.” The ultimate level of training is (you guessed it) Level 16. The film focuses on Vivien (Katie Douglas from Every Day) who runs into a former friend Sophia (Celina Martin) with whom she shares a dark past. It’s playing in select theaters on Friday including a special screening at the Alamo Brooklyn on Saturday night at 10pm as a former Fantastic Fest selection. It will also pay the Alamos in Yonkers, Houston, Austin, as well as in Columbus, Ohio and a few select cities, as well as on VOD.

Opening at the Angelika in New York and then in L.A. and other cities March 8 is Keith Behrman’s Giant Little Ones (Vertical), a coming-of-age story starring Josh Wiggins and Darren Mann as high school besties whose lives are changed forever after an incident at the former’s 17thbirthday party. The film also stars Maria Bello and Kyle MacLachlan.

Two years after Sharkwater director Rob Stewart’s death while filming his final project Sharkwater Expedition, the doc will be released by Freestyle into select cities. In the film, Stewart was following and exposing the billion-dollar illegal shark fin industry, travelling from West Africa to Spain to Panama, Costa Rica and France.

Joe Sill’s Stray (Screen Media) stars Karen Fukuhara (Suicide Squad) as an orphaned teen who teams with a detective (Christine Woods) in trying to find her mother’s murderer, discovering a supernatural force in the bargain. The film also stars Japanese pop star Miyavi and Ross Partridge. Select cities and On Demand.

Stephen Portland’s psychological horror film Something opens at the Cinema Village in New York and the Laemmle Music Hall in L.A. Friday before its VOD/Digital release next Tuesday. It stars Michael Gazin and Jane Rowen as a young couple trying to deal with life as new parents who suspect a stranger is watching their home.

Lastly, we have the Brazilian horror hit Cannibal Club (Uncork’d Entertainment) deemed by some as the “goriest film in years” about a wealthy Brazilian couple who eat their employees. It opens in theaters Friday and On Demand March 5.

LOCAL FESTIVALS

If you’re in New York City, there’s a couple options for movie-watching, including the 9TH ANNUAL ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL, an amazing grassroots woman-run festival dedicated to showcasing women filmmakers and female-centric films. This year’s opening night film is Julia Hart’sFast Color starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman with superhuman powers., but some of the other films being screened are Mimi Leder’s On the Basis of Sex, The Favourite, the docs What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael and On Her Shoulders and many more. I still haven’t made it to the festival mainly because it’s just too far uptown.

On top of that, The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents its annual RENDEZVOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA, running from Feb. 28 through March 10 and featuring some of the finest films from France, many of which might never get U.S. distribution. Opening Night is the NY Premiere of Pierre Salvadori’s The Trouble with You, and there’s lots of new films from the likes of Bruno Dumont (Coincoin and the Extra-Humans), Mikhaël Hers (Amanda), Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr. Ouizo) (Keep an Eye Out!), the amazing Mia Hansen-Love (Maya), Louis-Julien Petit’s Invisiblesand lots more! I rarely know where to begin with the festival, but there’s always a few gems in there.

STREAMING AND CABLE

Streaming on Netflix Friday is Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND, based on the true story of William Kamkwamba, a 13-year-old Malawi boy who comes with an inventive way to end famine in his African village. The movie premiered at Sundance and recently opened the 22ndNew York International Children’s Film Festival, but unfortunately, I haven’t seen it.

Also, HBO will air the controversial two-part Michael Jackson doc Leaving Neverland on Sunday and Monday nights. Again, haven’t seen it, so can’t add too much beyond what’s already out there.

(I’m going to ditch this section altogether if some of the publicists working on these movies don’t make more of an effort to get me screeners or invite me to screenings. I’m not PAID to go to so much effort to promote these films.)

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

Celebrating some of the work of the Chinese filmmaker who died last April, this weekend sees the start of Ringo Lam X3 featuring three of the master’s films: 1992’s Full Contact (which I saw for the first time this past weekend, and it wasn’t great), 1987’s City on Fire and Prison on Fire, all three of them starring Chow Yun-Fat. On Friday night, The Academy will present a new 4k restoration of Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy classic Some Like It Hot, which will screen all weekend. This week’s Late Nites at Metrograph is Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film Weekend, while the Playtime: Family Matinees offering is Tim Burton’s 1988 classic Beetlejuice, starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

What’s quickly becoming the best reason to live in L.A. is the amazing repertory programming at the Tarantino-owned New Beverly. This week sees double features of Operation Mad Ball (1957) and Good Neighbor Sam (1964), both starring Jack Lemmon, on Weds and Thursday; the rockin’ double feature of Let the Good Times Roll (1973) and American Hot Wax (1978) on Friday and Saturday; and then a Gidget double feature of Gidget Goes to Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) on Sunday and Monday. The weekend’s Kiddee Matinee is Tim Hunter’s Sylvester (1985) starring Melissa Gilbert, while the midnight offerings are Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol 1 on Friday and The Kentucky Fried Movie on Saturday.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

As part of its series Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures, celebrating the filmmaker and the Adina Hoffman’s new biography of him, MOMI is showing Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) on Friday, Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld (1927) – which will include a book signing by Hoffman -- and Hecht’s own films* Crime Without Passion (1934) and The Scoundrel (1935) on Saturday, Howard Hawks’ Twentieth Century (1934), and Otto Preminger’sWhere the Sidewalk Ends (1950). This month’s Fist and Swordoffering is Lu Yang’s Brotherhood of Blades II from 2017. As part of MOMI’s ongoing tribute to the recently-departed Jonas Mekas, they’ll show the filmmaker and Anthology Film Archives co-founder’s 1964 film The Brig a few times over the weekend.

*Apparently, these movies were filmed at the Astoria-based Paramount studio where MOMI now resides. How cool is that?

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Henry-Georges Clouzot’s 1956 doc The Mystery of Picasso (Milestone Films) will premiere at the Film Forum in a new 4k restoration on Friday, showing the master painter at work. The Film Forum is also starting a new month-long series Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, curated by Bret Wood. This weekend’s offerings are Narcotic (1933), Mom and Dad (1945) and 1938’s Child Bride. One of my all-time favorite comedies, Stanley Kramer’s star-studded 1963 film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World will screen as part of Film Forum Jr. on Saturday and Sunday.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

The Luchino Visconti: Cinematic Nobility series continues on Wednesday with Bellissima (1951), screening with “The Job,” a 55-minute segment from the 1962 anthology film Boccacio ’70. Thursday is a double feature of White Nights (1957) and The Witches (1967), Friday screens1960’s Rocco and His Brothers, and Saturday is a double feature of Conversation Piece (1974) and The Innocent (1975) with Burt Lancaster’s daughter Joanna Lancaster appearing in person to answer questions about the former.

AERO (LA):

The Aero’s Hitchcock, Truffaut and Jones (as in the Film Society’s Kent Jones, who made a documentary about the two filmmakers?!?) begins on Friday with a double feature of Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Hitchcock’s Rope (1948). Saturday is Jules and Jim (1962) and 1964’s Marnie, while Sunday sees a double feature of The 39 Steps (1935) and Confidentially Yours (1983). No word on whether Kent Jones will be in attendance but the two filmmakers won’t be. Also on Sunday, as part of the series Albert Finney Remembered, the Aero will show the 1982 John Huston musical Annie.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

The George Romero retrospective Living with the Dead: The Films of George Romerocontinues with Diary of the Deadon Weds, Survival of the Deadon Thursday, Stephen King’s The Dark Halfon Friday, Creepshowon Saturday and both Knight Ridersand Martin (1978) on Sunday, as well as the 3D version of Dawn of the Dead. I’ll be seeing Martin if anyone needs to find me.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Waverly Midnights: The Feds shows a 35mm print of the John Woo action-thriller Face/Off (1977)starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, as well as Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), Weekend Classics: Early Godard presents the master’s 1965 film Alphaville, while Late Night Favorites for the weekend is David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, David Fincher’s Se7en AND once again, Ridley Scott’s Alien.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

The West Village theater is still showing Joan Micklin Silver’s 1977 movie Between the Lines through the weekend. Also, the Quad will premiere a 4k restoration of Christopher Munch’s The Hours and Times (1992), which looks at a trip John Lennon (Ian Hart) and Beatles manager Brian Epstein (David Angus) took to Barcelona in April 1963.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

This Friday’s midnight movie is Takashi Miike’s Audition (1999) – can’t believe that came out 20 years ago now!

MOMA (NYC):

Modern Matinees: Sir Sidney Poitier ends on Thursday with 1965’s A Patch of Bluewith Wednesday showing 1961’s A Raisin in the Sun.

And that’s it for this week. Next week, Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel!

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To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias

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As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA has started Artemis, a program that aims “to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024, including the first woman and the next man.”

Although both astronauts have enormous challenges ahead, the first woman will face added hurdles simply because everything in space carries the legacy of Apollo. It was designed by men, for men.

Not deliberately for men, perhaps, but women were not allowed in the astronaut program until the late 1970s, and none flew until Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, in 1983. By this point, the space program was built around male bodies.

If we do not acknowledge the gender bias of the early space program, it becomes difficult to move past it. One of the most compelling things about NASA is its approach to failure. Failure is not penalized in its culture; it is valued for the things that it can teach to save lives or resources in the future. As Bobak Ferdowsi, a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has said, “our best mistakes are the ones we can learn from.”

What are the lessons to be learned from NASA’s failure to fly women during the Apollo era?

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The most recent lesson emerged in April, when NASA had scheduled a spacewalk that was, quite by accident, staffed by two female astronauts. The agency had to restaff the spacewalk because it had only one spacesuit that was the correct size for both women.

This is not an indictment of NASA in 2019. But it does demonstrate a causal chain that begins with the Apollo program and leads through to present-day staffing choices.

The suits, known as extravehicular mobility units, were designed more than 40 years ago, based on the designs of the Apollo missions, at a time when all astronauts were men. Only four of the original 18 suits are still rated for spaceflight, and all of those are on the space station.

NASA first planned to have extra-small, small, medium, large and extra-large suits. For budget reasons, the extra-small, small and extra-large suits were cut. However, many of the male astronauts could not fit into the large suits, so the bigger size was brought back.

The smaller sizes never were.

Cady Coleman, an astronaut who has flown on two space shuttles and traveled to the space station, stands 5 feet 4 inches tall and remains the smallest person to ever do a spacewalk. While she was training in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab, she had to improvise padding to wear inside her spacesuit.

Without that, smaller people would have an air bubble inside their suits that would make them spin in the lab’s pool as if a beach ball were strapped to their stomachs. It would not be a problem in space, Ms. Coleman told me. “But the N.B.L. was where people decided if you had what it takes to do a spacewalk,” she said.

And complaints? Well, no one else previously had that problem, so it must just be the person who complained. As a result, this gender bias became a mistake that we did not learn from, because the female astronauts compensated.

Inside the spacesuits, astronauts wear the liquid cooling and ventilation garment. This looks like long underwear covered with meters of tubes. It pumps water around the astronauts to cool them. Men and women wear the same style of garment despite the fact that we have different sweat patterns. Men sweat more than comparably fit women, and the areas where they sweat the most occur in different parts of the body. In other words, when it comes to temperature-controlling garments, the needs are different for men and women.

We are already aware of this in relation to office temperatures. Temperatures are set for men, which leaves women carrying sweaters to work.

A 2015 study by Dutch researchers found that indoor climate regulations were based on “an empirical thermal comfort model” developed in the 1960s. “Standard values for one of its primary variables — metabolic rate — are based on an average male, and may overestimate female metabolic rate by up to 35 percent,” they concluded.

NASA took pride in advertising the space shuttle as being a shirt-sleeve environment. And yet, if you watch “The Dream Is Alive,” a 1985 documentary made by crews aboard the shuttles, take note of the thick wool slippers on Kathryn Sullivan’s feet.

Women are asked to compromise about seemingly small things in order to participate. Every time we do that, we carry those imprints forward into the future.

It is worth looking back to the 1950s, when it seemed that women might be included in the early space program.

In the 1950s, before we had put anyone into space at all, Dr. Randolph Lovelace wondered how women would fare as space travelers. He had designed the tests for the Mercury astronauts and proceeded to put 19 women through the first round of assessments. Thirteen passed. In fact, from testing the “First Lady Astronaut Trainees,” Dr. Lovelace discovered that women might be better suited to space than men.

They were smaller, which would reduce the weight of payloads. They had better cardiovascular health and lower oxygen consumption. And they tolerated higher G-forces and outperformed men on isolation and stress tests. (One of the women was a mother of eight, and I imagine her looking at the tests and wondering when things would get difficult.)

Despite all this, the tests were stopped. The women, later known as the Mercury 13, went to Congress to try to fight the ruling, but by then, the United States was in a moon race. Putting a woman into space was seen as a distraction, in part because the Soviet Union had already sent the first woman into space, Valentina Tereshkova, and that was derided as being just a publicity stunt.

This decision meant that by 1962 it was confirmed policy, as one NASA official wrote in a letter to a young girl who was interested in becoming an astronaut, that “we have no present plans to employ women on spaceflights because of the degree of scientific and flight training, and the physical characteristics, which are required.”

The gender bias in this statement is, to a modern reader, unmistakable.

During project Mercury, astronauts did not need scientific training — they simply needed a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. John Glenn did not even have a degree.

And the flight training — what did this mean, exactly? For project Mercury, astronauts needed to be a graduate of test pilot school, with a minimum of 1,500 hours flying time, and a qualified jet pilot.

The requirement to be a test pilot was a logical choice, not so much because of the nerves of steel required to fly experimental aircraft, but because test pilots are trained to take notes while piloting and to deliver clear reports afterward. But this criterion eliminated female pilots, because the only qualified test pilot schools were military and they did not accept women.

Mind you, during World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots were responsible for training pilots and towing planes for live-ammunition practice, as well as for ferrying and testing aircraft. In many cases, these women logged more flight hours than their male counterparts. They did not, however, have a certificate from a test pilot school.

Kari Love, a former spacesuit designer, once told me that “while we can look back and understand why women were an afterthought in aerospace to this point, we are at serious risk for that to be reproduced as we move into the commercial spaceflight era.”

Without conscious thought, the design of the ship and the lunar platform for the Artemis missions is likely to reproduce design choices made in the Apollo era when astronauts were all men.

Ladder rungs are set at the optimum distance for the average man. The pistol-grip tool, or cordless drill, is sized for a man’s hand. The distance from the seats to the control panels in SpaceX’s Dragon Crew capsule is being tested and optimized for an all-male crew.

Then there are the questions that we cannot answer simply because we have too little data. Since 1961, when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, over 500 people have been in space and only 64 of them have been women. We know that astronauts receive more radiation in space. Studies on Earth show that radiation can affect women at a rate 10 times higher than men. How will that play out in space?

As we look back at the Apollo mission and forward to Artemis, it is important to examine the gender biases of the early space program for lessons learned. If we want to land the first woman on the moon, let’s make sure she has tools designed with her in mind. Eliminating the legacy of gender bias is just one small step.

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Mary Robinette Kowal, a Hugo Award winner, is the author of “The Glamourist Histories” series, “Ghost Talkers” and the “Lady Astronaut” duology. Her work has appeared in Uncanny, Cosmos and Asimov’s.

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Apollo, E3 2019 & The Division

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – Nerds Amalgamated Go! We are here once again with your irregular dose of fun, news, entertainment and educational synopsis that we like to call a show. We hope everyone is surviving the rigours and tortures of university, college, school, work, life, or whatever else it is you do. This week we have another exciting show for you all filled with space, games, and some viewing material to look forward to. We hope you enjoy and let us know what you think, we do listen.

First up it is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions and Buck has brought us links to a number of different stories regarding them. Also, some of the myriad events that are happening around the world involved in the celebration for everyone to enjoy. We also talk about the movies inspired by events and documentaries about the rock stars who ride the bullet into space. What is your favourite Apollo story, movie, mission, or general piece of trivia? Drop us a line or post in the comments on the facebook page.

Next up we look at this year’s less than stellar E3. The major highlight moments were the Keanu Reeves appearance at the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. Where he showed once again that indelible charm that makes everyone love him when people yelled out from the crowd. Why can’t he be the President of America? He would be a darn tooting sight better than almost everyone they have had for a long time. We also take a moment to acknowledge the fabulous Ikumi Nakamura, the director of Ghostwire Tokyo who just had fun. We also take a moment to glance at Devolver Studios and the madcap mayhem that is the ongoing saga of their E3 show. It is still so much more fun then must be legal. The biggest failure was the announcement that Bethesda is making Fallout 76 a battle royale (yayyyy, another one…yawn) in an attempt to save the game from becoming a complete failure (too late).

This week the DJ has the story of Netflix planning a new series based on Tom Clancy’s The Division. The discussion runs through the idea, worrying at the potential failure of yet another game to cinema/television cross over. Further the potential overload of too many post-apocalyptic shows (no, not with zombies either, we discussed that). We do know two of the cast members Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal, so it starts with two beautiful people surviving… or do they?

This week’s games are:

Buck is playing Assassins Creed 2 (Not Unity).

Professor is still playing Cataclysm: Dark days ahead (Listen in for how he dies this week).

DJ is once again playing Apex Legends

We have the usual list of shout outs, remembrances, birthdays and special events. Hidden somewhere in the show is Buck telling us about a delightful Pug that doesn’t like being licked in return. Listen out for that, we have the link provided, it is funny. Other than that, we just wish to say thank you once again for listening and supporting us. We do appreciate it. Please remember to take care of yourselves and look out for each other, and drink lots of water to stay hydrated. Peace out.

EPISODE NOTES:

Apollo 50th Anniversary

- http://www.astronomy.com/bonus/apollo_home

- https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/events.html

E3 2019 - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jun/10/e3-2019-biggest-news-xbox-bethesda-ubisoft-nintendo-square-enix

The Division now on Netflix - https://variety.com/2019/film/news/jessica-chastain-jake-gyllenhaal-the-division-movie-netflix-1203238700/

Games Currently playing

Buck

– Assassin Creed 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/33230/Assassins_Creed_2_Deluxe_Edition/

Professor

– Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - https://cataclysmdda.org/

– Apex Legends - https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/apex-legends-ps4/

Other topics discussed

[un]featured Articles (That’s Not Canon Podcast)

- https://thatsnotcanon.com/ufapodcast

Margaret Hamilton (Software engineer)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)

The Dish (2000 Australian movie)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish

Past Apollo programs

- Apollo 8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

- Apollo 13 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13

List of Apollo missions

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions#Crewed_Apollo_missions

Funny Flat Earth and Anti Vax Shirt

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Mars One

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

How long does it take to go to Mars from Earth?

- https://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars/

Falltout 76 battle royale: Nuclear Winter

- https://www.gamesradar.com/au/fallout-76-battle-royale-mode-nuclear-winter/

Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2

- https://www.gamespot.com/articles/legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-2-revealed-for-/1100-6467700/

Keanu Reeves in Cyberpunk 2077

- https://www.gameinformer.com/e3-2019/2019/06/11/keanu-reeves-is-more-than-a-cameo-in-cyberpunk-2077

Battle Royale game from Devolver Studios: Fall Guys

- https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/fall-guys-is-a-kinder-gentler-battle-royale/

Devolver Bootleg

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066260/Devolver_Bootleg/

Ikumi Nakamura captures internet hearts

- https://www.cnet.com/news/e3-2019-ghostwire-tokyo-director-ikumi-nakamura-captures-the-internets-heart/

Netflix games announced on E3

- https://www.techradar.com/au/news/netflix-teases-new-games-at-e3-2019-including-a-location-based-stranger-things-mobile-rpg

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics

- https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/06/11/dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-tactics-announced-e3-2019

Collection and Trials of Mana now available on the Switch

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2019/06/12/collection-of-mana-is-now-available-on-the-switch-and-trials-of-mana-is-released-next-year/#4b9cd85b4876

Revolution (TV Series)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_series)

Prince of Persia : The Sand of Time (2010 film)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia:_The_Sands_of_Time_(film)

Prince of Persia (game franchise)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia

Movies Jake Gyllenhaal acted

- City Slickers (1991 movie) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Slickers

- Zodiac (2007 movie) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_(film)

- Nightcrawler (2014 movie) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(film)

Movies Jessica Chastin acted

- Lawless (2012 movie) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawless_(film)

Pug doesn’t like being licked

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatthefuckgetitoffme/comments/77pqrb/pug_doesnt_like_to_taste_its_own_medicine/

Michael Jordan (American former professional basketball player)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan

Wayne Gardner (Australian former professional Grand Prix motorcycle and touring car racer)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner

Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva

Shoutouts

8 Jun 2019 - Ashleigh Barty Wins the French Open - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/sports/french-open-ashleigh-barty-marketa-vondrousova.html

11 Jun 1955 - The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France on 11 June 1955. A major crash caused large fragments of debris to fly into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Bouillin (who raced under the name Pierre Levegh) and injuring nearly 180 more. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport history, and it prompted Mercedes-Benz to retire from motor racing until 1989.

11 Jun 1963 - Buddhist monk Quang Duc publicly burns himself to death in a plea for President Ngo Dinh Diem to show “charity and compassion” to all religions. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/buddhist-immolates-himself-in-protest

Remembrances

11 Jun 1979 - John Wayne, nicknamed 'Duke', was an American actor, filmmaker and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. He was among the top box office draws for three decades. He starred in 142 motion pictures altogether. According to one biographer, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth." He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era and made his last public appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979. He died of stomach cancer at 72 in Los Angeles, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne

11 Jun 1999 - DeForest Kelley, known to colleagues as "De", was an American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer known for his roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966–1991). He died of stomach cancer at 79 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeForest_Kelley

12 Jun 2003 - Gregory Peck, was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Academy Award for Best Actor nominations, and won once – for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck also received Oscar nominations for his roles in The Keys of the Kingdom, The Yearling, Gentleman's Agreement, and Twelve O'Clock High. Other notable films in which he appeared include Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 mini-series), The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), How the West Was Won, The Omen (1976), and The Boys from Brazil. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema, ranking him at No. 12. He died in his sleep at home from bronchopneumonia at 87 in Los Angeles, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Peck

13 Jun 1871 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, was a French magician. He is widely considered the father of the modern style of conjuring such as second sight, the ethereal suspension, the marvelous orange tree, robert-houdin's portfolio, the light and heavy chest. His reputation was so great that he was requested during the 1850s by the French government to help put down a tribal rebellion in Algeria using his skills. This is surely a feat that not many magicians can boast about. He died of pneumonia at 65 in Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Eug%C3%A8ne_Robert-Houdin

Famous Birthdays

11 Jun 1910 - Jacques Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau described his underwater world research in a series of books, perhaps the most successful being his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, published in 1953. Cousteau also directed films, most notably the documentary adaptation of the book, The Silent World, which won a Palme d'or at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. He remained the only person to win a Palme d'Or for a documentary film, until Michael Moore won the award in 2004 for Fahrenheit 9/11. He was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau

11 Jun 1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author. Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wilder is known for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and for his four films with Richard Pryor:Silver Streak, Stir Crazy,See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Another You. Wilder directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder

11 Jun 1959 - Hugh Laurie, English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian and author. Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry. The duo acted together in a number of projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. Laurie's other roles during the period include the period comedy series Blackadder (in which Fry also appeared) and the films Sense and Sensibility, 101 Dalmatians, The Borrowers and Stuart Little. Laurie portrayed the title character in the U.S. medical drama series House on Fox, for which he won two Golden Globe Awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours, both for services to drama. He was born in Blackbird Leys, Oxfordshire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laurie

11 Jun 1969 - Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer. Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). He has since appeared in movies like Elf (2003), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007),The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Pixels (2015), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Infinity War among other movies. Dinklage received universal acclaim for portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones, for which he won three Primetime Emmys from seven nominations. He also received a Golden Globe for the role in 2011. He was born in Morristown, New Jersey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dinklage

Events of Interest

11 Jun 1959 - Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960) - https://www.onthisday.com/history/events/june/11

11 Jun 1976 - Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain - https://www.onthisday.com/date/1976/june/11

11 Jun 1982 - "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore, is released in the United States. It opened at number one with a gross of $11 million, and stayed at the top of the box office for six weeks; it then fluctuated between the first and second positions until October, before returning to the top spot for the final time in December during a brief Holiday Season re-release of the film. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial#Release_and_sales

12 Jun 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/anne-frank-receives-a-diary

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Artist – Goblins from Mars

Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)

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What’s On in Copenhagen: April 2019

April in Copenhagen is a bit like a piñata: you don’t knouw what you get but it’s going to be a wild ride, that’s for sure. On a sunny day you can taste the beautiful Scandinavian summer on your lips. Then cloudy skies, wind, and rain take over and make you want to stay in bed, a cup of coffee within reach. Thankfully, Copenhagen’s cultural life is as diverse as its weather.

Here are the best things to do in Copenhagen this month:

Monday 1st April

ISTID at Depanneur Deli

Get a taste of Nørrebro in the city centre! Nitrogen ice cream concept ISTID launches their pop-up and will be serving ice cream and milkshakes from noon – 5pm during Depanneur deli hours for the rest of the coming summer 2019.

Tuesday 2nd April

Guided Tour with Copenhagen’s city architect Camilla van Deurs

Get out on the streets and let Copenhagen’s city architect Camilla van Deurs guide you through the best new architecture projects. The tour is organized by the Copenhagen Architecture Festival which takes place from 4th – 14th April. The event will be in English and tickets are available via the festival website.

Wednesday 3rd April

Danish Rainbow Awards

Every Year, the LGBTQ community celebrates individuals and organizations that have had a positive effect on the community. Join in Cirkusbygningen or watch the awards on TV 2 Zulu from 4 – 11 pm. Tickets are available here.

Thursday 4th – Sunday 7th April

Won Hundred and Maria Black Stock Sale

Get your hands on one (or several) of the beautiful pieces by Danish clothing brand Won Hundred and jewelry brand Maria Black without breaking the bank. During their stock sale in Nørrebrohallen they offer up to 80 % off their minimalist, high-quality designs.

Thursday 4th – Sunday 14th April

Copenhagen Architecture Festival

Scandinavia’s largest annual public event with a focus on architecture, design, and urban development brings 11 days of films, exhibitions, seminars, walks, and talks. Go on a guided photo tour to the city’s most interesting new architecture or watch a documentary about Moscow’s city development just after the October revolution; there is something for everyone. Find the full program for events in Copenhagen as well as in Aarhus, and Odense on the festival website. From Thursday 4th – Sunday 14th April.

Thursday 4th April

Sustainable Brand Index Awards

Who will be this year’s most sustainable brand in Denmark according to Danish consumers? Over 200 brands across a variety of industries in Denmark have been analyzed; the top ten are unveiled in this ceremony. There will be an introduction to the Sustainable Brand Index and the chance to mingle. Admission is free and the event takes place in Danish and English. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.

Aperitivo at Depanneur

Bring on the sweet summer vibes and join Depanneur’s Italian-inspired happy hour. Every Thursday there will be special deals on Aperol Spritz, Negroni, and natural wines as well as some snacks. From 4 – 8 pm.

Friday 5th April

Roastery Tour and Coffee Tasting at Coffee Collective

Coffee lovers alert! Every first Friday of the month, Coffee Collective’s roast master gives a tour of the popular company’s roastery, inviting guests to a cupping (fancy coffee language for tasting). The 150 DKK ticket price includes a bag of fresh roasted coffee to start off the weekend on the right note. No need for reservations, just show up.

Uniqlo Opening Day Celebrations

Minimalist, affordable Japanese basics brand UNIQLO celebrates the opening of the brand’s first store in Denmark with special deals, coffee, tea from Sing Tehus, and cake from Andersen’s Danish Bakery. The doors open at 9:30 am, accompanied by Japanese Taiko drummers.

Saturday 6th April

Knowledge Sessions by Relevance

Learn about music production, the famous Article 13, and meet electronic music-lovers in workshops and talks organized by Relevance Festival. Then stay for the party and dance until the early hours. Admission to the Knowledge Sessions events is free and tickets for the party are available via Billetto.

Open rehearsal of the Royal Danish Ballet

Look behind the scenes of the Royal Danish Ballet at this open rehearsal of Afterrite. Admission is free but follows the first come, first served principle. So come early to secure yourself a spot. From 11:30 am – 1 pm.

Sunday 7th April

The Young and the Damned by Luis Buñuel at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The film “Los Olvidados,” about a group of destitute children in Mexico City, is one of the most well known works of director Luis Buñuel. As part of the Copenhagen Architecture Festival, the screening will be accompanied by an introduction by architect Tatiana Bilbao as well as a talk with Pernille Maria Bärnheim. From 11:30 am – 1:45 pm.

Monday 8th April

Snack and Blues Opening at Copenhagen Zoo

Snack and Blues is launching a venue within the lovely Copenhagen Zoo. From now on, you can enjoy your favorite burger in the sun while visiting a variety of wildlife.

CHART Architecture Kick-off 2019: Exploring Materiality at Apollo Kantine

CHART Architecture is an annual pavilion competition for students, young architects, designers and artists. The five winning teams will build their designs in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s courtyard during the international CHART art fair from 30th August – 1st September 2019. The competition kicks off with a lecture by artist Lea Porsager and senior curator Pippo Ciorra about this year’s theme: materiality. From 5 – 7 pm.

Tuesday 9th April

Open mic for Red Barnet Ungdom

Laugh for a good cause! Every Tuesday, Huset-KBH hosts a stand up session with new and experienced comedians to support Red Barnet Ungdom. Doors to Musikcaféen open at 7:30 pm and admission is 25 DKK.

Friday 12th – Wednesday 17th April

Future Food Today at SPACE10

Research and Design Lab SPACE10 invites you to celebrate its first cookbook. Check out the exhibition and make sure to sample a few goodies from the newly opened Test Kitchen. The cook book Future Food Today is a collection of delicious, sustainable, and future-proof recipes and also includes guides to producing and sourcing food locally and sustainably with the help of alternative ingredients and technology. You can reserve your copy via the website or buy one at the gallery. From 10 am – 5 pm every day, closed on Sunday. Admission is free.

Friday 12th April

Friday Bar: Big Talk at Think

Tired of small talk? Dive into the big topics

Vernissage “Drawing Attention” at De Frie Udstilling

“Drawing Attention” puts the spotlight on the art of drawing. Swing by the vernissage between 5 – 8 pm and be among the first people to see the exhibition which runs from 13th April – 22nd May.

Afgang 2019 – Exhibition by graduates from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Join the vernissage of the degree show of the graduates of The Art Academy. From video and painting to sculpture and performance art; the styles and modes of expression vary, giving an insight into the potential future of contemporary Danish art. The exhibition runs from 13th April – 19th May.

Monday 15th – Saturday 20th April

Copenhagen International Improv Festival

Laugh until your face hurts when performers from all over Europe and North America come to Copenhagen. Improv comedy is created on the spot, making it an especially entertaining and impressive experience. There will be more than 60 shows on two stages as well as workshops and dinners. Find your ticket on the festival website.

Monday 15th April

Mogli at Lille Vega

Mogli’s dreamy sound is inspired by her travels across North America in an old, renovated schoolbus. Let her take you on a journey to open plains and turquoise lakes. Doors open at 8 pm and tickets are 200 DKK.

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Tuesday 16th April

Women in Data Science

Take this opportunity to hear about the latest data science research and applications. The event is part of the global Women in Data Science initiative, organized by Stanford University. The conference features exclusively female speakers and mentors from industry and academia who are doing outstanding work in Data Science. Tickets cost 100 DKK and include lunch and coffee. From 9 am – 6 pm.

Wednesday 17th – Saturday 20th April

Den sidste nadver at Xenon

Based on Paolo Genovese’s film “Perfetti Sconosciuti,” this play follows a group of friends as they turn a dinner party into a game. Every call, text, email or instagram notification that is received during the dinner has to be shared with everyone at the table. How much do we really want to know about our friends and partner? The new group PULS explores honesty, sexuality, and egoism in the digital age. Doors open at 7 pm.

Wednesday 17th April

Welcome to the World Wide Web – Language at SPACE10

The language of the internet is transforming. Memes, emoji, voice recordings and video-stories change our conversations and whose voices get amplified. In the World Wide Web series, Research and Design Lab SPACE10 explores how digital technologies empower people across the world. Language is the third and last event of that series. Curious? Get your ticket via Eventbrite. From 5 – 8 pm.

Friday 19th – Sunday 21st April

CPH Art Space

Get your dose of art on the easter weekend and browse the works of over 60 artists at Docken. The three day ticket costs 40 DKK on pre-sale.

Friday 19th

Andy Warhol presents: “Trash” and “Frankenstein” at Husets Biograf

Two of the most compelling underground films of the early 70s are screened at Husets Biograf. Both were created by Warhol’s in-house film director Paul Morrissey and star his most famous acting discovery, Joe Dallesandro. Doors open at 6 pm and the first film, “Trash,” starts at 7 pm. Admission is 60 DKK.

Saturday 20th April

Okay Kaya at Ideal Bar

Kaya Wilkins started publishing music on SoundCloud in 2014 while working as a model for brands such as Calvin Klein. Last year, she dropped her debut album Both. When she sings about mental health, alcohol abuse, and sex, her warm voice creates a feeling of intense intimacy. Doors to Ideal Bar open at 7 pm and tickets are 145 DKK.

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Sunday 21st April

Danish on a Sunday: Wildwitch at Cinemateket

A black cat, a girl and a pinch of magic, the recipe for a cosy Sunday afternoon with the whole family. When 12-year-old Clara is scratched by a mysterious black cat, she discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of wild witches. Not only does she have a strong connection to nature and animals, her blood can also set free an ancient and evil witch. Watch Kaspar Munk’s powerful adventure, in Danish with English subtitles at 2:15 pm.

Monday 22nd April

Nanjing talk and screening of Spring Fever at Cinemateket

First, Professor and China expert Jørgen Delman talks about contemporary China. After that, there will be a screening of the award-winning Chinese-French movie “Spring Fever“ by Lou Ye. The film is in defiance of a five-year ban on filmmaking imposed by the Chinese government. It is a poetic depiction of a love pentagon that blurs the lines of heterosexual and homosexual relationships. The talk is in Danish and the movie is screened with English subtitles. The event starts at 4:15 pm. If you can’t make this one, don’t worry: there will be another screening on 30th April at 9:15 pm.

Tuesday 23rd April

Science & Cocktails – Panel Debate: The State of the Climate

Science & Cocktails presents a debate on the current state of the climate. Speakers are Katherine Richardson, who studies the impact of climate change in the oceans, Jørgen Olesen who focuses on the effect of climate on agriculture and food systems, former head of climate research at the Danish Meteorological Institute, Jens Hesselbjerg, and Kirsten Halsnæs who has taken a leading role as an economist in the IPCC panel. Admission is free and the doors open at 7 pm.

Thursday 25th April

The Future of Tech & Politics: Imagining 2050 at Talent Garden Rainmaking

Fast forward to the year 2050 with this thought experiment in which speakers and participants are challenged to imagine a society 30 years from now. Free tickets are available via the Facebook event and via Eventbrite. From 5:30 – 8 pm.

Friday 26th – Sunday 28th April

Street Food Festival Copenhagen

Get some fresh spring air and treat yourself to yummy street food. Hans Tavsens Park turns into a culinary oasis with some of Denmark’s most interesting food concepts cooking up delicacies for you to try.

48Timer Festival

Get a taste of Nørrebro’s cultural life and join the several workshops, concerts, exhibitions and street parties taking place in the neighborhood. Find the program on the festival website.

Friday 26th April

&Tradition x 506 Friday bar

The courtyard café of Danish design company &Tradition celebrates the arrival of spring together with food lab 506. Be the first to get a taste of the new spring menu developed by 506, and check out the newly launched to-go picnic basket – perfect for lazy days in The King’s Garden just across the street. The celebration starts at 4 pm at Kronprinsessegade 4.

Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th April

Sakura Festival

Celebrate the beautiful cherry blossom and Japanese culture at the Sakura Festival. There’s nothing quite like those fluffy pink blooms, and they’re around for such a short time. The program will be available on the festival website.

Saturday 27th April

Plantemarkedet i Absalon

Welcome spring and flex your green thumb when Absalon turns into a plant paradise. There will be plants of all kinds as well as interior and ceramics for sale. Admission is free and doors are open from 10 am – 4 pm.

Sunday 28th April

Loppemarked og musik 48Timer

Go on treasure hunt on this indoor flea market in Nørrebrohallen. Admission is free and the market runs from 10 am – 3 pm. If you’d rather free up some space at home, you can rent a stall for 275 DKK via Billetto.

Tuesday 30th April

Elias Boussnina at Lille Vega

Having started his career under the rap alias Young Coke while studying at Copenhagen Business School, Elias Boussnina is back under his own name and with a new sound. On his debut EP Shameboy from February, he pairs R&B/pop with electronic beats and builds on the success of last year’s single “05:30.” See him perform at Lille Vega. Doors open at 7 pm and tickets are 145 DKK.

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Ongoing in April

Wine O’Clock at MULGEO Blini Bar

Every Friday from 4 – 6 pm, enjoy a complimentary glass of wine with your blini purchase. MULGEO is a blini bar having a long-term pop-up at Torvehallerne. Their fluffy blinis are topped with seasonal, local ingredients; a perfect bite! You can buy the blinis individually for a snack, or three for a meal. On Mondays from 2 – 5, they’re sharing information about oysters, including tasters!

The Thirst at Galleri Nikolai Wallner

In Marie Lund’s exhibition “The Thirst, six copper sculptures are placed in the gallery. Their shape is determined by a single form. Shown in full, in part, flipped, inverted, the sculptures appear like the grammatical conjugation of a single word unfolding or a body moving through different poses. The exhibition runs until 27th April.

Sonja Ferlov Mancoba at Statens Museum for Kunst

SMK is presenting the largest exhibition ever staged of the sculptures, paintings, collage and drawings created by Danish-French artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba. Inter-human connectedness and a global outlook are core themes in her art as well as her life. The exhibition runs from 9th February until 5th May.

Kids Easter Workshop at SMK

Get inspired by the current exhibition on sculptor Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and make your own plaster sculptures and easter eggs with a twist. The workshop is free for everyone, however adults need a valid ticket for the museum. From 11 am – 4 pm on 13th – 22nd April (except of 15th April).

Afgang 2019 – Exhibition by graduates from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts

The exhibition celebrates and presents new works created by the graduates of the academy. From video and painting to sculpture and performance art, the modes of expression vary and give an insight into the future of contemporary Danish art. The exhibition runs from 13th April – 19th May.

Sart og sjældent set (Delicate and rarely seen) at Glyptoteket

See selected works from Glyptoteket’s stock rooms. Experience fine drawings, fragile plaster, and easily degradable materials such as cardboard, gravel, and rubber that are rarely made available to the public due to their delicacy. The exhibition focuses on materiality and sensibility and features works of artists such as Astrid Noack, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Mirò, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Until 28th April.

Bauhaus – It’s All Design at Designmuseum Danmark

Designmuseum Danmark takes part in the international celebration of 100 years of Bauhaus with the research-based exhibition “Bauhaus – #itsalldesign.” Developed by Vitra Designmuseum and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the exhibition explores all aspects of this design school’s activities and how contemporary design passes and builds on the heritage of Bauhaus. From 14th March – 1st December.

The Vitality of Colour at Kunstforeningen GL Strand

Having been declared a “degenerate” artist by the National Socialist regime, Hans Purrmann was one of Germany’s most significant modernist artists. Kunstforeningen GL Strand is showing a retrospective of his works along with a selection of the artists who he collaborated with or was inspired by. These include Max Liebermann, Henri Matisse, and Mathilde Vollmoeller as well as writer Hermann Hesse. From 27th April – 15th September.

Interplantery Cabinet at Gallery Christoffer Egelund

Jonas Phil’s artworks are painted directly on the surfaces of the original model planets from The Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen, which he purchased at an auction. Experience his creative expression situated somewhere between painting and sculpture as well as paintings on canvas that imagine other worlds. The exhibition opening event is on 12th April from 4 – 7 pm, and runs until 11th May.

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