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Top 25 of 2018

01. BURNING

02. PRIVATE LIFE

03. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

04. SHOPLIFTERS

05. FIRST REFORMED

06. THE DEATH OF STALIN

07. MADELINE’S MADELINE

08. LEAVE NO TRACE

09. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

10. ANNIHILATION

11. BLACKKKLANSMEN

12. WHO WE ARE NOW

13. HEREDITARY

14. SOLLERS POINT

15. CAM / UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB

16. PADDINGTON 2 

17. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU 

18. A STAR IS BORN

19. SUPPORT THE GIRLS

20. UNSANE

21. WIDOWS

22. ROMA

23. THIS IS OUR LAND 

24. THE FAVOURITE

25. THE MULE 

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This could easily be a shot in The Royal Tenenbaums.

West End Ave, 1970s

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May 2018 Movie Log

Author: The JT Leroy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2016)

The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, 1976, 2nd viewing)

The Death of Stalin (Armando Ianucci, 2017, DCP)

Entertainment (Rick Alverson, 2015)

Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, 2018)

Hair (Milos Forman, 1979)

Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater, 2017)

Mom and Dad (Brian Taylor, 2017)

Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009, 2nd viewing)

Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999, many viewings)

The Paperboy (Lee Daniels, 2012)

Passengers (Morten Tyldum, 2016)

Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968, about 3rd viewing)

Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie, 1972)

The Rachel Divide (Laura Brownson, 2018)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981, many viewings)

A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)

Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, 2018, DCP)

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, 2nd viewing)

Things To Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016)

TV: Atlanta (Season 1)

Books: The Idiot (Batuman)

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April 2018 Movie Log

The Disaster Artist (James Franco, 2017)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, 2008, 2nd viewing)

Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008, 2nd viewing)

The Internship (Shawn Levy, 2013)

Landline (Gillian Robespierre, 2017)

Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsey, 2002)

Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)

Queen of the Damned (Michael Rymer, 2002)

A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018, DCP)

You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsey, 2017, DCP)

TV: Better Call Saul (Season 3)

Books: Open City (Cole)

Podcasts: none

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2018 Q1 Album Picks

Azymuth Azimuth

Deerhoof Friend Opportunity

Hermeto Pascoal Cerebro Magnetico

Hoops Routines

Jimmy Giuffre Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1961

Jonny Greenwood Phantom Thread OST

Madonna Ray of Light

Quarteto Em Cy Caminhos Cruzados

Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life

Wally Badarou Echoes

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March 2018 Movie Log

The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993, 2nd viewing)

Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974)

Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017)

À nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)

Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017, DCP)

The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)

The Emperor’s New Groove (Mark Dindal, 2000, 2nd viewing)

Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014, 2nd viewing)

The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958)

Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

The House (Andrew Jay Cohen, 2017)

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Chris Smith, 2017)

The Little Hours (Jeff Baena, 2017)

News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)

Ocean’s Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004)

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017, DCP, 2nd viewing)

Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)

The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988, 2nd viewing)

Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley, 2017, DCP)

Unsane (Steven Soderbergh, 2018, DCP)

Wind River (Taylor Sheridan, 2017)

TV: The Bachelor (Season 22), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 1)

Books: The Age of Innocence (Wharton)

Podcasts: none

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February 2018 Movie Log

Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018, DCP)

Ape (Joel Potrykus, 2012)

The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004, about 3rd viewing)

Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1981)

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997, many viewings)

The Chambermaid (Ingo Haeb, 2014)

Cool Runnings (Jon Turteltaub, 1993, many viewings)

Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow, 2017)

For the Plasma (Bingham Bryant, 2014)

Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002, 2nd viewing)

High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, 1998)

Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017, DCP)

Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017, DCP)

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017, DCP)

Stinking Heaven (Nathan Silver, 2015)

There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007, about 3rd viewing)

Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence, 2002)

When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner, 1989, 2nd viewing)

The Witches (Nicolas Roeg, 1990)

TV: Nathan For You (Season 4), Peep Show (Series 1-2, rewatch)

Books: Mildred Pierce (Cain), Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus (Rushkoff)

Podcasts: various Paul Thomas Anderson interviews

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Happy Winter Olympics! This was my favorite film between ages 8 and 11.

COOL RUNNINGS (1993). Jon Turtletaub directs a comedy of Jamaica’s Olympic bobsled team.

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January 2018 Movie Log 

Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999, 2nd viewing)

Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002)

Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978)

Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler, 2017)

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017, DCP)

Cheap Thrills (E.L. Katz, 2013, 2nd viewing)

Drinking Buddies (Joe Swanberg, 2013, 2nd viewing)

The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980, about 20th viewing)

The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, about 5th viewing)

The Good Son (Joseph Rubens, 1993)

Green (Sophia Takal, 2011)

High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973)

The Love Guru (Marco Schnabel, 2008)

The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach, 2017, 2nd viewing)

Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)

Morgan (Luke Scott, 2016)

The Number 23 (Joel Schumacher, 2007)

Paddington (Paul King, 2014)

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017, 70mm)

The Post (Steven Spielberg, 2017, DCP)

The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003, about 10th viewing)

Skidoo (Otto Preminger, 1968)

Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977, about 20th viewing)

Super Dark Times (Kevin Phillips, 2017)

Three Men and a Little Lady (Emile Ardolino, 1991)

TV: Dark (Season 1), Nathan For You (Season 3)

Books: Fire and Fury (Wolff), The World of Yesterday (Zweig), Your Favorite Band is Killing Me (Hyden)

Podcast: Dirty John 

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Top 25 of 2017

1. Good Time

2. The Florida Project

3. Person to Person

4. Strong Island

5. The Salesman

6. Get Out

7. mother!

8. Personal Shopper

9. The Square

10. It

11. Okja

12. The Big Sick

13. The Last Jedi

14. The Meyerowitz Stories

15. Logan

16. The Lovers

17. John Wick Chapter 2

18. Norman

19. Baby Driver

20. Ingrid Goes West

21. Lady Bird

22. Marjorie Prime

23. The Lost City of Z

24. A Ghost Story

25. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

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Top 25 of 2016

1) Toni Erdmann

2) Manchester by the Sea

3) Moonlight

4) The Witch

5) Elle

6) Aferim!

7) Love and Friendship 

8) Right Now, Wrong Then

9) Hail, Caesar!

10) Cloverfield Lane

11) Indignation

12) Hell or High Water

13) The Lobster

14) The Invitation

15) The Neon Demon

16) Embrace of the Serpent

17) Arrival

18) The Handmaiden

19) The Nice Guys

20) Weiner

21) Everybody Wants Some!!

22) Valley of Love

23) In the Shadow of Women

24) Nocturnal Animals

25) Dirty Grandpa

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David Bowie as Nikolai Tesla in The Prestige.

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Replace “putting butter up my ass” with “sleeping in a horse carcass” and you’ve got my feelings on The Revenant perfectly captured.

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Top 25 of 2015

01. The Mend

02. Inside Out

03. Heaven Knows What

04. Phoenix

05. Mad Max: Fury Road

06. Sicario

07. Ex Machina

08. The Hateful Eight

09. The Gift

10. Clouds of Sils Maria

11. Buzzard

12. Love and Mercy

13. Unfriended

14. Maps to the Stars

15. Bridge of Spies

16. Timbuktu

17. Spotlight

18. Spy

19. 99 Homes

20. Appropriate Behavior

21. James White

22. The Duke of Burgundy

23. Something, Anything

24. Chi-Raq

25. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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