And in the the order I saw them. All are 2023 releases unless otherwise noted. [re] = a film I’ve seen before. * = one of my faves of the year. – Herbert Gambill
- Corsage (2022)
- American Experience: Saul Bellow (PBS)
- Am I Black Enough For You (2022)
- PBS Experience: The Lie Detector
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
- In Bruges (2008)
- Succession (5 seasons, HBO)
- EO (2022) *
- Deep Water (2022)
- M3GAN (2022)
- Out of Print (2014)
- To Leslie
- Dead for a Dollar
- I Love My Dad (2022)
- Pacification (2022) *
- You People
- Klondike (2022)
- When You’re Done Saving the World
- Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone (7 episodes, BBC)
- Babylon *
- Barton Fink (1991)
- Directed by John Ford (2006)
- They Were Expendable (1945)
- Oh, Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
- Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
- All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
- All That Breathes
- Saint Omer (2022)
- Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022)
- Empire of Light
- A Serious Man (2009)
- Jethica
- True Grit (2010)
- Body Parts (2022)
- Infinity Pool
- Fremont
- A Little Love Package
- The Art Talent Show
- Shrinking (9 episodes, Apple+)
- All Quiet on the Western Front *
- Women Talking (2020)
- The Whale *
- Knock on a Cabin Door (2022)
- The Consultant (8 episodes, Amazon Prime)
- Miller’s Crossing (1990)
- A Man Called Otto
- Navalny
- A House Full of Splinters
- Living
- The Reluctant Traveler (8 episodes, Apple+)
- Nocebo
- The Five Leaves
- Close (2022)
- The Night of the 12th
- Other People’s Children (2022)
- New Strains
- Argentina, 1985 *
- Tori and Lokita *
- Marlowe
- Cocaine Bear
- Up in the Air (2009)
- Negativeland
- Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
- Sick of Myself *
- Boston Strangler
- Lucky Hank (10 episodes, Apple+)
- Mister Organ
- American Masters: Dr. Fauci (PBS)
- Petrol
- Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster
- The Worse Ones
- Champions
- A Woman Kills
- Tetris
- Sam Now
- The 25th Hour (2003)
- Crime of Passion (1956)
- Very Semi-Serious: A Portrait of New Yorker Cartoons (2015)
- Plan 75
- King Hu
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- Shanty Tramp
- Ghosted
- Moonlighting (1982)
- Inland Empire (2006)
- America and the Taliban (3 episodes, PBS)
- Fanny: The Right to Rock
- Dead Ringers (2023, 6 episodes, Amazon Prime)
- Basic Instinct (1992)
- White House Plumbers (5 episodes, HBO)
- Bad Timing (1980)
- Revoir Paris
- American Masters: Nam June Paik (PBS)
- Dead Ringers (1988)
- High Desert (8 episodes, Apple+)
- Love to Love You, Donna Summer
- Giving Birth to an Angel (2021)
- Not Financial Advice
- Sara Silverman: Someone You Love
- Reality *
- The Guspang Miracle
- A Little White Lie
- Blackberry
- The Game (1997)
- Margins
- Squaring the Circle – The Story of Hipgnosis (2022)
- Smoking Tigers
- Hi Victor! *
- Rather
- Stan Lee
- The Line
- Beau is Afraid *
- Blood for Dust
- Americonned
- Maggie Moores
- The Basic
- The Cypher
- The Righteous Gemstones, Season 3 (9 episodes, MAX)
- All Up In the Biz
- New Religion
- Ted Lasso, 3 Seasons (Apple+)
- Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know (2022)
- Master Gardener *
- You Hurt My Feelings
- Close to Vermeer
- Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
- Showing Up *
- The Blackening
- Lola *
- Oppenheimer *
- Asteroid City *
- American Masters: Hemingway (3 episodes, PBS) [re]
- Poundcake
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
- The Last Slam Dunk
- Turquoise Sky (2021)
- Single 8
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
- Plastic
- Convenience Store
- I Am What I Am
- Nothing Compares (2022)
- Sympathy for the Devil *
- The Trials of Robert Oppenheimer (2000, PBS) [re]
- Wild River (1960)
- War Pony
- A Compassionate Spy
- Sorry, We’re Closed
- The Beasts *
- American Experience: American OZ (PBS)
- Carpet Cowboys
- No Hard Feelings
- The Adults *
- Heart of Stone
- Scrapper
- Noam Chomsky Masterclass
- Cornel West Masterclass
- The Iceman Cometh (1973)
- Annie Liebovitz Masterclass
- Gangs of New York (2002)
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica *
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Barbie
- Telemarketers (3 episodes, HBO)
- Blue Note Records (2018)
- Remembering Every Night
- Shortcomings *
- Jules
- Theater Camp *
- Spike Lee’s Master Class
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Inside Man (2006)
- Bringing Out The Dead (1989)
- Fear and Desire (1953)
- Bottoms *
- Little Richard: I Am Everything
- The Prowler (1951)
- Pickup On South Street (1953)
- Crime Wave (1953)
- The Dark Past (1948)
- Shmenges: The Last Polka
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar *
- Poison
- The Swan
- The Rat Catcher
- I Was A Shoplifter (1950)
- Pitfall (1948)
- Equalizer 3
- The Equalizer (2014)
- Mission Impossible 5 Part 1
- Rolling Stones & Brian Jones
- I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
- American Buffalo (3 episodes, PBS)
- I, The Jury (1951)
- The Pigeon Tunnel
- Old Dads
- Waikiki
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Tropic Thunder (2008)
- Lynch/OZ (2022)
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Both of Us
- Appointment With Danger (1951)
- The War on Disco (PBS)
- The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
- Anatomy of a Fall *
- Killer’s Kiss (1955)
- Afire
- Quiz Lady
- The 7th Victim (1943)
- 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Cime
- How to Come Alive: With Norman Mailer
- Uncropped
- Psychedelicized: The Electric Circus Story
- The Trials of Alan Dershowitz
- Defending My Life: Albert Brooks
- Silver Dollar Road
- The Killer *
- Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between
- Mehdi
- Full Time
- James Ellroy: The Demon Dog of Crime Fiction (1999) [re]
- Narrow Margin (1952)
- 20 Days in Mariupol
- The Untold History of the United States, 13 episodes (2012) [re]
- Please Don’t Destroy: Foggy Mountain
- The Holdovers
- The Smell of Money
- Past Lives *
- May December *
- Beyond Utopia
- The Eternal Memory
- How To Have a Baby in America
- Killers of the Flower Moon *
- A Disturbance in the Force
- Leave the World Behind
- Cat Person
- Apollonia, Apollonia
- Madame Bovary (2014)
- Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
- Priscilla
- The Teacher’s Lounge
- Taking Venice
- Maestro *
- Saltburn *
- Radical Wolfe
- Armageddon (Ricky Gervais standup special)
- Dream Scenario *
- Unrest (2022)
- Shame (2011)
- A Murder at the End of the World (7 episode mini-series)
- The Lesson
- Undercover Girl (1950)
BOOKS I READ
“A People’s History of the United States” (Howard Zinn)
“Red Harvest” (Dashiell Hammet)
“The Chill” (Ross MacDonald)
“Madame Bovary” (G. Flaubert, Lydia Davis translation)
“Roman Stories” (Jhumpa Lahiri)
“Pop. 1080” (Jim Thompson)
“Poverty in Amerca” (Matthew Desmond)
“Crime & Punishment” (Dostoevsky) [will finish in late Jan 2024]
“Gravity’s Rainbow” (Pynchon) [will finish in late Feb 2024]
“Armies of the Night” (Norman Mailer) [will finish in Feb 2024]
PLAYS I SAW
“Leopoldstadt” (Tom Stoppard, Longacre Theater)
MUSICAL CONCERTS
Beck with Phoenix and Weyes Blood, MSG