For the greater half of this last year, I did not have a fully functioning computer. I was forced to make due with the Surface Pro 3 that I brought with me to New York. I originally bought the thing in high school with the first thousand dollars I ever saved. But as time went on, the type cover stopped typing, the lower half of its touchscreen didn’t respond to touch, in addition to the expectation of manufactured obsolescence after a protracted seven years.
I don’t know why people do this, it’s fucking awful. Absolutely no one cares, but some of these dates are certainly wrong and I am certainly forgetting about some of the things I watched. This exercise honestly might still be a success, because I will never recordkeep the dogshit I consume ever again. I have stopped doing it altogether, as of this new year. This is beyond ridiculous; however, I had to see it through.
7/2: Au revoir les enfants (1987, Louis Malle)*; Fireworks (1947, Kenneth Anger)*; Rabbit’s Moon (1950–70, Kenneth Anger); Eaux d’artifice (1953, Kenneth Anger); Scorpio Rising (1963, Kenneth Anger); Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965, Kenneth Anger)
7/3: Don Quxiote (1605, Miguel de Cervantes)—Finished; The Coming (1996, Busta Rhymes)
7/7: Brat (2024, Charli xcx); Closer (1980, Joy Division)*
7/8: Uncut Gems (2019, Josh and Benny Safdie)*
7/13: Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma); Special Effects (1984, Larry Cohen)
7/17: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)
7/25: Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
7/29: Le Doulos (1962, Jean-Pierre Melville) 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946, Jean-Pierre Melville); Le silence de la mer (1949, Jean-Pierre Melville)
8/2: Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953, Jacques Tati)
8/3: Trap (2024, M. Night Shyamalan)
8/20: Trick Baby (1972, Larry Yust)
8/22: Shaft (1971, Gordon Parks)*
9/2: Afraid (2024, Chris Weitz)
9/3: New Morning (1970, Bob Dylan)*; Smile (2022, Parker Finn)*
9/4: Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville); Daughters of the Dust (1991, Julie Dash)*
9/9: Blink Twice (2024, Zoë Kravitz); High Fidelity (2000, Stephen Frears)
9/10: Blade (1998, Stephen Norrington)*; 27 Dresses (2008, Anne Fletcher)
9/11: Southland Tales: The Cannes Cut (2006, Richard Kelly)
9/12: In Utero (1993, Nirvana)*; Bleach (1989, Nirvana)*; What a Way to Go! (1964, J. Lee Thompson)
9/16: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! “What a Night for a Knight!” and “Hassle in the Castle” (1969); Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005, Tim Maltby)*
9/17: The First Band on the Moon (1996, The Cardigans)*
9/18: Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976, Wings); Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (2024, Tim Burton)
9/19: Close Your Eyes (2023, Víctor Erice); Blade II (2002, Guillermo del Toro)*
9/20: Mama’s Gun (2000, Erykah Badu)
9/23: Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula); Blade: Trinity (2004, David S. Goyer); Ghost Rider (2007, Mark Steven Johnson)*
9/24: The Substance (2024, Coralie Fargeat); Alien: Resurrection (1997, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
9/25: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009–2010, Yasuhiro Irie)*—Started
9/28: Trancers (1984, Charles Band)
9/29: The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson); Moonlighting (1985)—”Read the Mind… See the Movie,” “The Next Murder You Hear,” “Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?”; Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980)—”Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: Part 1″
9/30: The Greatest Backflip of All Time (2023, Enrico Drago); Megalopolis (2024, Francis Ford Coppola)
10/2: Weekend (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)*; Mona Lisa (1986, Neil Jordan)
10/3: My Dinner with Andre (1981, Louis Malle); The Driller Killer (1979, Abel Ferrara)*
10/9: Chan Is Missing (1982, Wayne Wang); The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
10/13: Saturday Night (2024, Jason Reitman)
10/15: Joker: Folie à Deux (2024, Todd Phillips)
10/16: The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson)*
10/18: All about Lily Chou-Chou (2001, Shunji Iwai)*; Breathe (2001, Lily Chou-Chou)
10/20: The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
10/21: Bride of Chucky (1998, Ronny Yu); The Exorcist III (1990, William Peter Blatty)
10/22: Lancelot du Lac (1974, Robert Bresson); The Blair Witch Project (1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez)*
10/23: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000, Joe Berlinger); Smile 2 (2024, Parker Finn)
10/25: Anora (2024, Sean Baker); Gummo (1997, Harmony Korine); The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
10/26: Hubie Halloween (2020, Steven Brill)
10/27: In Rainbows (2007, Radiohead)
10/28: In Rainbows (2007, Radiohead)*
10/29: The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
10/31: Normal People—“Episodes 3–5” (2020); Final Exam (1981, Jimmy Huston)
11/1: Normal People—“Episode 6–11” (2020); Mixtape Pluto (2024, Future)
11/2: Normal People—“Episode 12” (2020, Hettie Macdonald); Sex in the City—“The Real Me,” “Defining Moments” (2001)
11/3: Modern Times (1936, Charlie Chaplin); Here (2024, Robert Zemeckis); Conclave (2024, Edward Berger); Juror #2 (2024, Clint Eastwood)
11/5: The Apprentice (2024, Ali Abbasi)
11/6: The Fan (1996, Tony Scott)
11/10: Il grido (1957, Michelangelo Antonioni)
11/13: Naked and Afraid of Love—“The Accidental Erection” (2021); Fade to Black (1980, Vernon Zimmerman); Sex and the City (2008, Michael Patrick King)
11/15: Raising Arizona (1987, Joel and Ethan Coen)
11/16: Frasier—“The Candidate,” “Adventures in Paradise” (1994)
11/17: The Lo-Fis (2020, Steve Lacy)*
11/18: Cheers—“Endless Slumper” (1982)
11/20: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)
11/21: Fear City (1984, Abel Ferrara); Tulsa King—“Go West, Old Man” and “Center of the Universe” (2022); Dirty Work (1998, Bob Saget)
11/22: Lost—”Tabula Rasa,” “Walkabout,” “White Rabbit,” “House of the Rising Sun,” “The Moth,” “Confidence Man” (2004)*
11/26: Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)*
11/28: Lost—”Man of Science, Man of Faith,” “Adrift,” “Orientation,” “Everybody Hates Hugo,” “…And Found,” “Abandoned,” “The Other 48 Days,” “Collision,” “What Kate Did,” “The 23rd Psalm” (2005–2006)*
11/30: Very Important People—“Hayes Steele” (2024)
12/2: A Real Pain (2024, Jesse Eisenberg)
12/4: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood*—Finished
12/6: Live at Reading (2009, Nirvana); 10 Things I Hate about You (1999, Gil Junger)*; My Cousin Vinny (1992, Jonathan Lynn)
12/8: Joker: Folie à Deux (Music from the Motion Picture) (2024, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga)
12/10: Babygirl (2024, Halina Reijn); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)*
12/12: Tulsa King—“Caprice,” “Visitation Place” (2022)
12/13: Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott)*; Gladiator II (2024, Ridley Scott)
12/17: Y2K (2024, Kyle Mooney)
12/19: Flow (2024, Gints Zilbalodis); Jackass: The Movie (2002, Jeff Tremaine)*; Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987, Lee Harry)
12/27: Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati)
12/31: De Retour (1988, Henri)
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