2021: Seen/Read

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)