Art Consumption, 2021 [on-going]
A running list of cinema, literature, music, & performance in 2021
07/25 Old — M. Night Shyamalan
07/23 Naomi Osaka — Garrett Bradley
07/21 Chris Stuck in conversation with Dana Johnson
07/17 Black Widow — Cate Shortland
07/16 Thor: Ragnarok — Taika Waititi
07/15 Chris Stuck in conversation with Chris Terry
07/13 Give My Love to the Savages — Chris Stuck
07/12 Inside — Bo Burnham
07/11 The Aviator — Martin Scorsese
07/11 Euro Cup Championship (Eng v Ita)
07/11 Wimbledon Men’s Championship (Djokovic v Berretti)
07/07 Olive Kitteridge — Lisa Cholodenko
07/05 Mulholland Drive — David Lynch
07/05 No Sudden Move — Steven Soderbergh
07/04 Disturbia — D.J. Caruso
07/03 The Office of Historical Corrections — Danielle Evans
06/27 Hacks — Lucia Aniello, et al
06/21 Mare of Easttown — Craig Zobel
06/19 Do The Right Thing — Spike Lee
06/13 The Underground Railroad [complete series] — Barry Jenkins
06/13 In The Heights — John Chu
06/11 Stand By Me — Rob Reiner
06/06 A Week’s Vacation — Bertrand Tavernier
06/05 The Last Movie — Dennis Hopper
06/05 What Happened Was… — Tom Noonan
05/31 A Quiet Place, Pt. 2 — John Krasinski
05/30 M.A.S.H. — Robert Altman
05/30 Ivan’s Childhood — Andrey Tarkovsky
05/29 To Sleep With Anger — Charles Burnett
05/28 French Exit — Azazel Jacobs
05/27 Star Wars: The Bad Batch, 101 — Brad Rau
05/26 Master Of None — Aziz Ansari
05/25 Whereabouts — Juhmpa Lahiri
05/24 Every Breath You Take — Vaughn Stein
05/23 Midsommar — Ari Aster
05/22 The Woman In The Window — Joe Wright
05/21 Those Who Wish Me Dead — Taylor Sheridan
05/19 Nationtime — William Greaves
05/17 You Are Free (stories) — Danzy Senna
05/16 New Leaf — Elaine May
05/16 The Tall Men — Raoul Walsh
05/15 Friday the 13th [2009] — Marcus Nispel
05/15 Pather Panchali — Satyajit Ray
05/14 The Underground Railroad Chpt. 1 — Barry Jenkins
05/11 Men Of Honor — George Tillman Jr.
05/10 LOST [started series from beginning) — JJ Abrams
05/07 Mean Girls — Mark Waters
05/04 Nashville — Robert Altman
05/03 Tenet — Christopher Nolan
05/02 Say Anything — Cameron Crowe
05/01 Rosewood — John Singleton
04/26 Lot — Bryan Washington
04/25 The 2020 Oscars — Steven Soderbergh, et al
04/24 The Father — Florian Zeller
04/23 Ray — Taylor Hackford
04/23 Devil in a Blue Dress — Carl Franklin
04/22 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Yves Simoneau
04/22 Dances With Wolves — Kevin Costner
04/21 Stowaway — Joe Penna
04/20 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies — Deesha Philyaw
04/18 The Paperboy — Lee Daniels
04/17 Schitt’s Creek [all 6 seasons] — Dan Levy
04/16 Buffalo Soldiers — Charles Haid
04/11 Birds of Prey — Cathy Yan
04/11 Dante’s Peak — Roger Donaldson
04/11 Godzilla vs. Kong — Adam Wingard
04/10 Thomasine and Bushrod — Gordon Parks, Jr.
04/04 Bad Trip — Kitao Sakurai
04/04 Viridiana — Luis Bunuel
04/03 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — Luis Bunuel
04/02 8 1/2 — Federico Fellini
04/02 Days of Being Wild — Wong Kar-Wai
03/31 As Tears Go By — Wong Kar-Wai
03/30 Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile
03/28 Badlands — Terrence Malick
03/28 Buck and the Preacher — Sidney Poitier
03/28 Olaudah Equiano — The Interesting Narrative of the Life of…
03/27 Gaslight — George Cukor
03/27 Wounded — Percival Everett
03/27 Black Rodeo — Jeff Kanew
03/26 The United States Vs. Billie Holiday — Lee Daniels
03/24 Good Will Hunting — Gus Van Sant
03/21 Zack Snyder’s Justice League — Zack Snyder
03/20 L.A. Confidential — Curtis Hanson
03/19 The Americans — Joe Weisberg
03/19 Prophets — Brandon Taylor
03/17 The Learning Tree — Gordon Parks
03/14 Duel at Diablo — Ralph Nelson
03/14 Middle Passage — Charles Johnson
03/13 Underwater — William Eubank
03/13 Grand Piano — Eugenio Mira
03/12 Sergeant Rutledge — John Ford
03/11 Moxie — Amy Poehler
03/11 When I Get Home — Solange Knowles
03/10 Posse — Mario Van Peebles
03/08 Skin Game — Paul Bogart
03/07 Pieces of a Woman — Kornel Mundruczo
03/06 Knocked Up — Judd Apatow
03/06 The Way of the Writer — Charles Johnson
03/05 Coming 2 America — Craig Brewer
03/05 Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
02/27 I Care A Lot — J Blakeson
02/23 The Player — Robert Altman
02/21 Images — Robert Altman
02/21 Four of the Apocalypse — Lucio Fulci
02/20 Short Cuts — Robert Altman
02/20 The Covert War Against Malcolm X
02/19 Nomadland — Chloe Zhao
02/18 Oreo — Fran Ross
02/16 We Cast A Shadow — Maurice Ruffin
02/14 Black No More — George S. Schuyler
02/14 Sorcerer — William Friedkin
02/13 Judas and the Black Messiah — Shaka King
02/06 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — George C. Wolfe
02/06 Malcolm & Marie — Sam Levinson
02/05 Groundhog Day — Harold Ramis
01/31 Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
01/30 The Piano Teacher — Michael Haneke
01/29 Percival Everett by Virgil Russell — Percival Everett
01/27 Irma Vep — Olivier Assayas
01/24 Total Recall — Paul Verhoeven
01/23 You Should Have Left — David Koepp
01/23 Doctor Sleep — Mike Flannagan
01/17 Promising Young Woman — Emerald Fennell
01/17 One NIght in Miami — Regina King
01/16 Network — Sidney Lumet
01/16 Sex, Lies and Videotape — Steven Soderbergh
01/14 American Skin — Nate Parker
01/13 Another Round — Thomas Vinterberg
01/13 Narrative of the Life — Frederick Douglass
01/14 Minari — Lee Isaac Chung
01/13 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs
01/10 Rim of the World — McG
01/09 The Birdcage — Mike Nichols
01/09 The Mercenary — Sergio Corbucci
01/09 A History of the African-American People [proposed] By Strom Thurmond as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid — Percival Everett
01/03 Industry — Mickey Down & Konrad Kay
01/03 Navajo Joe — Sergio Corbucci
01/03 Swing Time — Zadie Smith
01/03 Deacon King Kong — James McBride
01/02 The Great Silence — Sergio Corbucci
01/02 Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
01/01 Bamboozled — Spike Lee