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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