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[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit & livemusic log Dec19

Pain and Glory [Dolor y gloria] (Pedro Almodóvar, 2019) [Broadway] The Report (Scott Z. Burns, 2019) [Amazon] Wounds (Babak Anvari, 2019) [Hulu] Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) [Netflix] The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019) [Netflix] Pasolini (Abel Ferrara, 2014) [Kanopy] Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 2019) [Century 16] Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher, 2019) [screener] Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (Irene Taylor Brodsky, 2019) [HBO] Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie, 2019) [screener] The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019) [screener] Regarding Susan Sontag (Nancy Kates, 2014) [Kanopy] Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018) [Kanopy] Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019) [screener]

continued & finished Watchmen (S1) [HBO] continued & finished Castle Rock (S2) [Hulu] continued The Twilight Zone (S1) [CBS] continued Room 104 (S1) [HBO] Transparent: Musicale Finale (Jill Soloway, 2019) [Amazon]

continued & finished Less (Andrew Sean Greer, 2017) started Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Audre Lorde, 1982) started & finished Rat Bohemia (Sarah Schulman, 1995) started The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami, 1993)

Yo La Tengo: The 8 Nights of Hannukah (Night 5) with The Amazing Kreskin and Sir Richard Bishop [12/26]

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit log Nov19

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019) [Century 16] Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) [Broadway] Doctor Sleep (Mike Flanagan, 2019) [Brewvies] End of the Century (Lucio Castro, 2019) [screener link] Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998) This Is Not Berlin [Esto no es Berlín] (Hari Sama, 2019) [Kanopy] Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017) [HBO] A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, 2018) [Hulu]

continued & finished BoJack Horseman (S6A) [Netflix] continued & finished Succession (S2) [HBO] started Castle Rock (S2) [Hulu] continued The Twilight Zone (S1) [CBS] started Watchmen (S1) [HBO] continued Room 104 (S1) [HBO]

continued & finished Trick Mirror (Jia Tolentino, 2019) continued & finished Palestine (Joe Sacco, 1993-95) continued & finished The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith, 2003) started Less (Andrew Sean Greer, 2017)

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit & livemusic log Oct19

Knife+Heart [Un couteau dans le coeur] (Yann Gonzalez, 2018) [Kanopy] The Cars That Ate Paris (Peter Weir, 1974) [Criterion Channel] Jennifer’s Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009) Train to Busan [Busanhaeng] (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016) [Netflix]

started & finished Mindhunter (S2) [Netflix] started & finished Succession (S1) [HBO] started Room 104 (S1) [HBO] started Succession (S2) [HBO] started BoJack Horseman (S6A) [Netflix]

continued The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith, 2003) continued Palestine (Joe Sacco, 1993-95) started Trick Mirror (Jia Tolentino, 2019)

[akadaniel]

film & VR & tv & lit & livemusic log Sept19

Always Shine (Sophia Takal, 2016) [Kanopy] 35 rhums [35 Shots of Rum] (Claire Denis, 2008) [Kanopy] The Proposal (Jill Magid, 2018) [Kanopy] The Gospel of Eureka (Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher, 2018) [Kanopy] Stonewall Uprising (Kate Davis & David Heilbroner, 2010) [Delta] The Cave (Feras Fayyad, 2019) [The Strand - Camden International Film Festival] Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019) [Megaplex Theatres - Valley Fair Mall]

The Atomic Tree (Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, 2019) [Storyforms Barn - Camden International Film Festival] Home with América (Alvaro Morales, 2019) [Storyforms Barn - Camden International Film Festival]

started & finished When They See Us [Netflix] started & finished Chernobyl [HBO] started & finished Los Espookys (S1) [HBO] started & finished Undone (Amazon) [S1] started Please Like Me (S1) [Hulu / Pivot / ABC2]

continued & finished Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (Ishmael Reed, 2003) continued Palestine (Joe Sacco, 1993-95) started The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith, 2002) started The Epistemology of the Closet (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1990)

Joanna Newsom at El Museo del Barrio [9/12]

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit & livemusic log Aug19

Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996) [Amazon] The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) [Tower] Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010) [Kanopy] Rat (Mark Lewis, 1998) [Kanopy] Cléo de 5 à 7 [Cléo from 5 to 7] (Agnès Varda, 1962) [Kanopy] Personal Problems (Bill Gunn, 1980) [Kanopy] The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz, 2019) [Century 16]

continued & finished Jane the Virgin (S5) [The CW] continued & finished Pose (S2) [FX] started & finished Ramy (S1) [Hulu] started Animaniacs (S1) [Hulu / Fox Kids] started Batman: The Animated Series (S1) [Hulu / Fox Kids] started & finished Fleabag (S1) [Amazon] started & finished Fleabag (S2) [Amazon] continued & finished Euphoria (S1) [HBO]

started & finished Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl, 1946) started Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (Ishmael Reed, 2003) started Palestine (Joe Sacco, 1993-95)

Vince Staples with Leikeli47 at Gallivan Center (Twilight Concert Series) [8/8] Courtney Barnett with Snail Mail at Gallivan Center (Twilight Concert Series) [8/15] Iron & Wine and Calexico with Orville Peck at Ogden Ampitheater (Ogden Twilight) [8/21] Santigold at Gallivan Center (Twilight Concert Series) [8/30]

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit log July19

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016) [Amazon] Quiet Heroes (Jenny Mackenzie, Amanda Stoddard, and Jared Ruga, 2018) [Amazon] The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot, 2019) [Broadway] Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019) [Tower] Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) [Cinemark Sugarhouse]

continued & finished Broad City (S5) [Comedy Central/Hulu] started Pose (S2) [FX] continued Jane the Virgin (S5) [The CW] started Euphoria (S1) [HBO] continued & finished Big Little Lies (S2) [HBO]

continued & finished Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion, 1968) started & finished If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin, 1974) started & finished Homos (Leo Bersani, 1995) started & finished Black Boy (Richard Wright, 1945)

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit log June19

Ma (Tate Taylor, 2019) [Cinemark Sugarhouse] Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2000) [Sundance Resort Screening Room] The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019) [Broadway]

started Big Little Lies (S2) [HBO] continued Jane the Virgin (S5) [The CW] started & finished Black Mirror (S5) [Netflix] started & finished Shrill (S1) [Hulu] started Fleabag (S1) [Amazon Prime] started Schitt’s Creek (S1) [CBC Television/Netflix] Wanda Sykes: Not Normal (Linda Mendoza, 2019) [Netflix]

continued & finished The Round House (Louise Erdrich, 2012) continued Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion, 1968)

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit & livemusic log May19

Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018) [Hulu] High Life (Claire Denis, 2018) [Tower] Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019) [Tower] Close Encounters of the Gay Kind: Blue Boy (Manuel Abramovich, 2019); Haus (Joseph Amenta, 2018); Homecoming (Jennifer Blair, 2018); Infinite While It Lasts (Akira Kamiki, 2019); Pepper (Jayil Pak, 2018); Stepdaddy (Lisa Steen, 2019); Sweater (Nick Borenstein, 2018); Tadpole (Jovan James, 2018) [Seattle International Film Festival - SIFF Cinema Uptown] Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen, 2019) [Seattle International Film Festival - AMC Pacific Place, Press Screening] DJ NicFit presents Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux, 1973) [Seattle International Film Festival - SIFF Cinema Egyptian] In Fabric (Peter Strickland, 2018) [Seattle International Film Festival - SIFF Cinema Egyptian]

started Street Food (S1) [Netflix] continued The Twilight Zone (S1) [CBS] continued & finished Veep (S7) [HBO] continued & finished Barry (S2) [HBO] continued Jane the Virgin (S5) [The CW] started & finished Easy (S3) [Netflix]

continued The Round House (Louise Erdrich, 2012) started Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion, 1968)

Julia Jacklin at Urban Lounge [5/15]

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit log Apr19

Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, 2016) [Hulu] Us (Jordan Peele, 2019) [Brewvies SLC] Pet Sematary (Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer, 2019) [Century 16] Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, 2018) [HBO] Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016) [Amazon] The Female Brain (Whitney Cummings, 2017) [Hulu] The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935) [Roku] Guava Island (Hiro Mirai, 2019) [Amazon] Sauvage [Wild] (Camille Vidal-Naquet, 2018) [Film Forum] Burning Cane (Phillip Youmans, 2019) [Tribeca Film Festival - Village East] A Taste of Sky (Michael Lei, 2019) [Tribeca Film Festival - Regal Battery Park]

started Veep (S7) [HBO] started The Twilight Zone (S1) [CBS/Amazon] Paterno (Barry Levinson, 2018) [HBO] Amanda Seales: I Be Knowin’ (Stan Lathan, 2019) [HBO] Whitney Cummings: I’m Your Girlfriend (Marty Callner, 2016) [HBO] continued Barry (S2) [HBO] started What We Do in the Shadows (S1) [FX] started Killing Eve (S2) [BBC America/AMC]

continued & finished The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead, 2016) started The Round House (Louise Erdrich, 2012)

[build-me-a-home]

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit log Mar19

Fusion Gala Shorts: About A Short Film (Kevin Yee, 2018); Origin (Simone Lyles, 2019); Full Beat (Kase Pena, 2018); Engaged (David Scala, 2019); Military Dog (Pingwen Wang, 2018); Razor Tongue, Ep. 1: The Colonizer (Natalie Heltzel, 2019); Ponyboi (River Gallo & Sadé Clacken Joseph, 2019) [Outfest Fusion - Egyptian] Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me (Dan Reed, 2019) [HBO] United Skates (Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown, 2018) [HBO] High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh, 2019) [Netflix] Columbus (Kogonada, 2017) [Hulu] Field Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2015) [Grasshopper Film Transmission] Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018) [HBO] The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Chiwetel Ejiofor, 2019) [Netflix] Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980) [Amazon] Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) [Tubi] Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) [Tubi] The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (Alex Gibney, 2019) [HBO] Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018) [Century 16] Monsters and Men (Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2018) [Hulu] Abducted in Plain Sight (Skye Borgman, 2018) [Netflix] The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999) [Hulu]

continued & finished High Maintenance (S3) [HBO] Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland [HBO] started & finished PEN15 (S1) [Hulu] started & finished The Bisexual (S1) [Hulu] started & finished Castle Rock (S1) [Hulu] started & finished Barry (S1) [HBO] started Jane the Virgin (S5) [The CW] started Barry (S2) [HBO]

continued The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead, 2016)

[justmanlust2]

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit log Feb19

Koko-di Koko-da (Johannes Nyholm, 2019) [Sundance Film Festival - Library] Queen of Hearts (May el-Toukhy, 2019) [Sundance Film Festival - Holiday] Velvet Buzzsaw (Dan Gilroy, 2019) [Netflix] They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Morgan Neville, 2018) [Netflix] Fyre (Chris Smith, 2019) [Netflix] If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018) [Clairidge] Fyre Fraud (Jenner Furst & Julia Willoughby Nason, 2019) [Hulu] Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018) [Netflix] ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (Kelly Duane, 2019) [Netflix] RBG (Julie Cohen and Betsy West, 2018) [Hulu] Free Solo (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2018) [Broadway] In & Out (Frank Oz, 1997) [Amazon] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, 2018) [Century 16] River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994) [Hulu] Generation Wealth (Lauren Greenfield, 2018) [Amazon]

continued & finished Friends from College (S2) [Netflix] started High Maintenance (S3) [HBO] started Broad City (S5) [Comedy Central] started & finished Russian Doll (S1) [Netflix] started & finished Lorena [Amazon]

continued & finished Native Son (Richard Wright, 1940) started & finished Heavy: An American Memoir (Kiese Laymon, 2018) started The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead, 2016)

[agelessphotography]

Untitled (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Working #1), Lee Jaffe, 1983

Digital chromogenic print

[akadaniel]

film & tv & lit log Jan19

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Sara Driver, 2017) [Hulu] Dark Money (Kimberly Reed, 2018) [Amazon Prime] The Gospel According to André (Kate Novack, 2018) [Hulu] Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Sophie Fiennes, 2017) [Hulu] Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley, 2018) [Hulu] The Living End (Gregg Araki, 1992) [DVD] Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (David Slade, 2018) [Netflix] Nancy (Christina Choe, 2018) [Amazon Prime] Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018) [Tower] Shooting the Mafia (Kim Longinotto, 2019) [Sundance Film Festival - Egyptian] Monos (Alejandro Landes, 2019) [Sundance Film Festival - Park Ave] Shorts Program 3: Lockdown (Celine Held & Logan George, 2018); Aziza (Soudade Kaadan, 2019); Fainting Spells (Sky Hopinka, 2018); Fuck You (Anette Sidor, 2018); Easter Snap (RaMell Ross, 2019); The Minors (Robert Machoian, 2018); The Silence of the Dying Fish (Vasilis Kekatos, 2018) [Sundance Film Festival - Temple] The Mountain (Rick Alverson, 2018) [Sundance Film Festival - MARC] The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018) [Sundance Film Festival - Prospector] Native Son (Rashid Johnson, 2019) [Sundance Film Festival - Library] Honey Boy (Alma Har’el, 2019) [Sundance Film Festival - The Ray] Pahokee (Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan, 2019) [Sundance Film Festival - Redstone]

continued & finished Killing Eve (S1) [BBC America/Hulu] started Friends from College (S2) [Netflix]

continued Native Son (Richard Wright, 1940)

[moonwest]

[akadaniel]

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