Everything I watched and read in 2021. Sodey does these things for his blog, Extension 765. Thought I'd give it a whirl. I'm slowly but surely carving out the best stuff I've seen this year. That list should be up by the end of the month.
(R) indicates rewatch
italicized indicates book
JANUARY
1- Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) (R)
2- In the Blink of An Eye by Walter Murch (1991)
Born In Flames (1983)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) (R)
3- The Girl In Room 2A (1974)
The French Sex Murders (1972)
4- My Dear Killer (1972)
6- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) (short)
At Land (1944) (short)
7- A Study In Choreography for Camera (1945) (short)
The Private Life of A Cat (1946) (short)
Ritual In Transfigured Time (1946) (short)
Meditation on Violence (1948) (short)
8- Best In Show (2000) (R)
Waterworld (1995) (R)
Strip Nude For Your Killer (1975)
9- Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore (1996)
I Was A Teenage Serial Killer (1993)
10- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) (R)
11- Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Shadow of A Doubt (1943) (R)
Le Doulos (1962) (R)
12- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) (R)
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy (1988)
13- Pretty Poison (1968)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
14- Who Saw Her Die? (1972)
Orgasm (1969)
15- So Sweet...So Perverse (1969)
A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Knife of Ice (1972)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
16- Scanners (1981) (R)
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
17- McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) (R)
The Beastmaster (1982)
20- Kajillionaire (2020)
Wraiths of the Broken Land by S. Craig Zahler (2012)
21- Action U.S.A. (1989)
Brawl In Cell Block 99 (2017) (R)
22- Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer (2021)
Euphoria Special Episode Part 2: Jules
23- The AGFA Horror Trailer Show (2020)
Frankie and Johnnie Were Lovers (1973)
The Miss Layed Genie (1973)
COVID TIER 3 RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
24- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) (R)
25- Distant Star by Roberto Bolano (1996) (tr. by Chris Andrews)
The Perfume of the Lady In Black (1974)
26- MST3K: Escape 2000
30- I Start Counting! (1970)
31- The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) (R)
FEBRUARY
1- The Caller (1987)
Camille 2000 (1969)
2- Bad Black (2016) (R)
3- Shining Sex (1976)
5- Malcolm and Marie (2021)
Female Vampire (1974)
8- A Glitch In the Matrix (2021)
MST3K: The Undead
Promising Young Woman (2020)
9- Slows Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz
Truck Turner (1974)
10- Red Roses of Passion (1966)
11- Public Affairs (1983)
12- Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) (R)
The Love Witch (2016) (R)
13- Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
14- In the Mood For Love (2000) (R)
My Bloody Valentine (1981) (R)
15- Last Year At Marienbad (1961) (R)
16- Satanic Pandemonium (1975)
17- Violent Cop (1989)
This Man Is Dangerous: The Birth of Takeshi Kitano
18- Saint Maud (2020)
19- Shin Godzilla (2016)
20- The Scarlet Empress (1934)
"A Collapse of Horses" by Brian Evenson
"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov
21- Let My Puppets Come (1976)
22- True Lies (1994)
"The Circular Ruins" by Jorge Luis Borges
"The Town Manager" by Thomas Ligotti
23- M (1931) (R)
Conversations with Fritz Lang
RoboCop (1987) (R)
Birds of Prey (2019)
24- Green For Danger (1946)
Criss Cross (1949)
25- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1980)
27- Deep Cover (1992)
28- Petey Wheatstraw (1977)
MARCH
1- One, Two, Three (1961)
Affliction (1997)
Night Tide (1961)
2- Diary of A Mad Housewife (1970)
The Dangers of Smoking In Bed: Stories by Mariana Enriquez (2021)
3- Blue Collar (1978)
House of Clocks (1989)
4- A New Leaf (1971) (R)
5- The Parallax View (1974)
6- Burn! (1969)
8- Showgirls (1995) (R)
9- Get Carter (1971)
Blown Away (1994) (R)
Pretty Peaches (1978)
10- Deep End (1970)
The Beaver Trilogy (2000)
11- The Duke of Burgundy (2014) (R)
12- Bound (1996) (R)
13- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) (R)
15- Lost In America (1985)
Matilda (1996) (R)
16- Midnight Run (1988) (R)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
19- Lifeboat (1944) (R)
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (1997)
20- Loves of A Blonde (1965)
21- Death Proof (2007) (R)
At the Video Store (2019)
22- The Godfather Part II (1974) (R)
23- The Mighty Ducks (1992) (R)
Little Murders (1971)
The Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2016)
24- A Swim In the Pond In the Rain by George Saunders (2021)
25- SexWorld (1977)
27- The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Tribe by Sebastian Junger (2016)
29- That Thing You Do! (1996) (R)
Dune (1984)
30- Critters 2: The Main Course (1988) (R)
31- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
APRIL
1- F.T.A. (1972)
4- Defending Your Life (1991)
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (R)
5- Blood Simple (1984) (R)
8- Bad Trip (2021)
10- Portrait of A Lady On Fire (2019)
11- Freaky (2020)
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Baby Rosemary (1976)
12- The NeverEnding Story (1984) (R)
Duck Soup (1933)
13- Shiva Baby (2020)
15- Bullet In the Head (1990)
18- Mother's Day (1980)
21- Smooth Talk (1985)
22- The Wicker Man (1973) (R)
Jeremy (1973)
Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
25- House By the Cemetery (1981) (R)
27- Election by Tom Perrotta (1998)
Election (1999) (R)
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) (R)
29- Daisies (1966) (R)
A Heart So White by Javiar Marias (1992)
30- Cape Fear (1991) (R)
MAY
1- Real Genius (1985)
3- Seconds (1966) (R)
I'm Not Okay With This (2020)
4- The Mitchells Vs. the Machines (2021)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
6- A League of Their Own (1992) (R)
9- Mother (1996)
10- The Game (1997) (R)
11- My Girl (1991) (R)
13- The Nice Guys (2016) (R)
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2003)
14- We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) (R)
15- Dennis the Menace (1991) (R)
17- What About Bob? (1991) (R)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) (R)
18- Pather Panchali (1955) (R)
22- Commando (1985) (R)
23- White of the Eye (1987)
24- Midnight Run (1988) (R)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) (R)
25- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
26- The Bad News Bears (1976)
27- Napoleon Dynamite (2004) (R)
29- Black Summer (3 episodes)
31- Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
JUNE
1- Black Summer (3 episodes)
3- Black Summer (2 episodes)
The Empty Man (2020)
5- Throw Momma From the Train (1987)
7- High and Low (1963) (R)
Matinee (1993) (R) (The Music Box, 1st time in a theater since initial lockdown)
8- The Amusement Park (1973)
9- Desperate Living (1977)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
14- Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
15- Heavyweights (1995) (R)
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (2015)
17- Black Summer (1 episode)
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylveter (1975)
18- Black Summer (2 episodes)
19- Black Summer (3 episodes)
21- Black Summer (2 episodes)
27- Happy Birthday to Me (1981) (R)
Stay Tuned (1992) (R)
StageFright: Aquarius (1987) (R)
28- Jurassic Park (1993) (R)
29- Predator (1987) (R)
Charley Varrick (1973) (R)
30- Deliverance (1972) (R)
JULY
1- Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
2- Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998) (R)
No Sudden Move (2021)
3- Born On the Fourth of July (1989) (R)
5- Dead and Buried (1981) (R)
6- Malibu High (1978)
7- Zola (2021) (Marcus Cinemas, Orland Park)
8- The Goonies (1985) (R)
"Pauline Alone" (2014)
11- Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
12- The Hole (1960)
Chafed Elbows (1966)
13- Crash by J.G. Ballard (1973)
Curtains (1983)
Shiva Baby (2021)
Crash (1996)
14- Magic Mike XXL (2015) (R)
17- Smile (1975)
18- Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) (R)
19- Pig (2021) (The Music Box)
Amsterdamned (1988)
20- Seven (1979)
21- Once Upon A Time In Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (2021)
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) (AMC Crestwood 18)
22- Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (2019) (R)
26- Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage (2021)
Rolling Thunder (1977) (R)
The Empty Man (2020) (R)
27- A Brighter Summer Day (1991) (R)
29- Demolition Man (1993) (R)
31- Old (2021) (AMC Crestwood 18)
AUGUST
1- Long Weekend (1978) (R)
2- MST3K: Mr. B's Lost Shorts MST3K
There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane (2011)
The Green Knight (2021) (The Music Box)
3- Teenagers From Outer Space (MST3K)
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (1979) (tr. William Weaver)
4- The Green Knight (2021) (R) (AMC Crestwood 18)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (R)
5- Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes (2021) (3 episodes)
7- Wet Hot American Summer (2001) (R)
9- Matewan (1987) (R)
Duel (1971) (R)
10- Blackhat (2015) (R)
11- Road to Revenge aka Champagne and Bullets (1993)
13- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) (R)
15- 9 Lives of A Wet Pussy (1976)
16- That's Sexploitation! (2013)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Near Dark (1987) (R)
17- The Birds (1963) (R)
The Boxer's Omen (1983)
18- Lonesome (1929)
21- Sleazoid Express by Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford (2002)
22- Bullitt (1968) (R)
23- The Stepfather (1987) (R)
Dick Tracy (1990) (R)
24- Don't Panic (1988)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) (R)
26- The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996)
28- Wild Beasts (1983)
Candyman (1992)
30- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) (R)
Mute Witness (1995)
31- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Candyman (2021)
SEPTEMBER
4- A Bay of Blood (1971) (R)
The Ghastly Ones (1968)
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
5- The Pit (1981)
6- The Gate (1987) (R)
The Outing (1987)
Peeping Tom (1960) (R)
7- Body Parts (1991)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
9- Killer Workout (1987)
11- Grave of the Vampire (1972)
Baby Rosemary (1976)
12- Malignant (2021)
13- Les Diabolique (1955) (R)
Marianne (2019) (4 episodes)
14- Marianne (2019) (2 episodes)
The Card Counter (2021)
Evil Dead Trap (1988)
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke (2011)
15- Autopsy (1975)
Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (1982)
16- Xtro (1982)
18- They Look Like People (2016)
Count Dracula (1970)
19- Cuadecuc, Vampir (1971)
20- Marianne (2019) (2 episodes)
Don't Torture A Duckling (1972) (R)
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) (R)
21- Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
22- Retribution (1987)
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
23- The Untold Story (1993)
Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation (2018)
25- Midnight Mass (2021) (2 episodes)
26- Midnight Mass (3 episodes)
27- Midnight Mass (2 episodes)
28- The Centerfold Girls (1974)
29- Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Mulholland Dr. (The Music Box) (R)
30- The Manitou (1978)
Titane (2021) (AMC Crestwood 18)
OCTOBER
1- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
2- Satan's Blood (1978)
Absurd (1981)
3- The Phantom Carriage (1921) (R)
4- The Funhouse (1981) (R)
Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Crimson Clown, The Curious Camera, The Dream Girl
5- Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Phone Police, The Dollmaker
Flesh Eater (1988)
Castle Freak (1995)
Fear by Dario Argento (2020)
6- Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Thirteenth Floor
Repulsion (1965) (R)
A Women's Torment (1977)
Titane (2021) (R)
7- Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Bones (2001)
9- Are You Afraid of the Dark: Dead Man's Float
Blood For Dracula (1974)
Lisa and the Devil (1973)
10- Housebound (2014)
The Child (1977)
11- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Deathdream (1974)
Phantasm (1979) (R)
12- Young Frankenstein (1974) (R)
The Black Cat (1989)
The Black Cat (1934) (R)
13- The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
14- Halloween Kills (2021) (Marcus Theaters)
Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol Clover (1992)
15- House On the Edge of the Park (1980)
16- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (R)
Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
17- Black Sunday (1960)
18- Asylum (1972) (R)
It Follows (2014) (R)
19- Daughters of Darkness (1971) (R)
The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)
21- Inquisition (1977)
Alone In the Dark (1982)
23-24: Music Box of Horrors
-Strait-Jacket (1964) (35mm)
-Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1973) (35mm; William Crain Q & A)
-The Hands of Orlac (1924) (w/ live score)
-Ghostwatch (1992) (R)
-The Granny (1995)
-The Scary of Sixty-First (2021) (Dasha Nekrasova Q & A)
-The Faculty (1998) (35mm) (R)
-Tenebre (1982) (35mm Extended International cut) (R)
-Calvaire (2004) (35mm)
-Night of the Living Dead (1990) (35mm) (R)
-Phantasm II (1988) (35mm) (R)
-Arachnophobia (1990) (35mm) (R)
24- House (1977) (R)
25- Gretel and Hansel (2020) (R)
Possession (1981) (4K DCP) (The Music Box) (R)
26- Train to Busan (2016)
Censor (2021)
Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (2021)
28- Halloween: Season of the Witch (1982) (R)
Horror Rises From the Tomb (1973)
Mad Love (1935)
29- WNUF Halloween Special (2013) (R)
30- Dune (2021) (Landmark Theater)
Cemetery of Terror (1985)
31- Beetlejuice (1988) (R)
City of the Living Dead (1980) (R)
Rosemary's Baby (1968) (R)
Trick R Treat (2008) (R)
NOVEMBER
1- Succession (2 episodes)
Nightmare Alley (1947) (R)
2- Last Night In Soho (2021) (Marcus Theaters)
Succession
3- Election (2005)
4- Streetwise (1984)
7- When A Stranger Calls Back (1993)
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson (2020)
8- Le Cercle Rouge (1970) (R)
9- Thundercrack! (1975)
Succession
10- What Happened Was... (1994)
13- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (2020)
The French Connection (1971) (R)
14- New York Ninja (2021)
15- Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Ratcatcher (1999) (R)
16- Succession
Hearts and Minds (1974)
17- Mean Streets (1973) (R)
18- Double Indemnity (1944) (R)
20- Raiders of Atlantis (1983)
Thief (1981) (R)
21- Memories Within Miss Aggie (1974)
22- Fade to Black (1980) (R)
Breaking Bad (3 episodes)
23- Breaking Bad (2 episodes)
Rififi (1955) (R)
24- Succession
Blood Rage (1987) (R)
25- MST3K: Time Chasers (R)
The Beatles: Get Back Part 1: Days 1-7
27- The Beatles: Get Back Part 2: Days 8-16
28- The Beatles: Get Back Part 3: Days 17-22
Throw Down (2004)
29- Breaking Bad (4 episodes)
Images (1972) (R)
30- C'mon C'mon (2021) (Landmark Theater)
Detour (1945) (R)
Succession
DECEMBER
1- Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of the Devils by Richard Crouse (2012)
2- Trancers (1984)
Blast of Silence (1961)
4- Elves (1989)
Bergman Island (2021)
5- Everything Is Terrible! Holiday Special (2012)
Night Killer (1990) (R)
6- Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992) (R)
Breaking Bad (2 episodes)
7- Benedetta (2021) (Music Box Theater)
The Day of the Beast (1995) (Music Box Theater)
8- Succession
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
9- Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
Night Train Murders (1975) (R)
11- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
12- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)
The Snowman (1982) (R)
Succession
13- Breaking Bad (2 episodes)
14- Breaking Bad (2 episodes)
Walking the Edge (1985)
Scarlet Street (1945)
15- Black Christmas (1974) (R)
19- A Pistol For Ringo (1965)
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) (R)
20- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (R)
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) (R)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out (1989)
Breaking Bad (4 episodes)
21- Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)
Nightmare Alley (2021) (Marcus Theaters)
23- The Oracle (1985)
Blood Beat (1982) (R)
25- A Christmas Story (1983) (R)
Phantom Thread (2017) (R)
27- The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) (AMC River East)
Licorice Pizza (2021) (Music Box Theater- 70mm)
LA Confidential by James Ellroy (1990)
28- Throne of Blood (1957) (R)
Red Rocket (2021) (AMC Crestwood 18)
Don't Look Up (2021)
31- Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
