FILMS I SAW IN 2025 (unless dated, released this year)
- The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
- My First Film (2024)
- The Damned (2024)
- A Real Pain (2024)
- Bigger Than Life (1956)
- The Andersonville Trial (1970)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Secret Weapon (1942)
- The Spider Woman (1944)
- The Woman in Green (1945)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
- Destination Tokyo (1943)
- Dressed to Kill (1946)
- Terror By Night (1946)
- Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
- The Scarlet Claw (1944)
- Queer (2024)
- Sherlock Homes Faces Death (1943)
- David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
- The Pearl of Death (1944)
- The House of Fear (1945)
- Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
- Nosferatu (2024)
- Hitchcock: Blackmail (2024)
- It’s a Gift (1934)
- Oh, Canada (2024)
- The Damned
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- Alice in Wonderland (1933)
- This is the Tom Green Documentary
- 50 Years of Music on SNL
- Tom Green: I Have a Mule!
- My Little Chickadee (1940)
- Baby Girl (2024)
- Green Border (2023)
- Conclave (2024)
- Secret of the Sacred Fig (2024)
- This is Bob Hope (2017)
- The Paleface (1948)
- My Favorite Blonde (1947)
- Daytime Revolution (2024)
- King Lear (1987)
- Anselm (2023)
- Nickel Boys (2024)
- Hard Truths (2024)
- Sly’s Lives!
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
- The Brutalist (2024)
- The Last Showgirl
- Who By Fire (2024)
- The Room Next Door (2024)
- Bonjour Tristesse (2024)
- 100, 100, 100, 100, 100 (2024)
- A Complete Unknown (2024)
- The Zodiac Killer Project
- When the Phone Rang (2024)
- Sanctuary Station
- Suspended Time
- Being Maria
- The Fifth Shot of La Jette
- Chaos: The Manson Murders
- Chronicles of the Absurd
- Diccianovvo
- A Want in Her
- The Ship Wrecked Triptych
- Songs of Slow Burning Earth
- Visiting Hours
- The Second Act
- Ghost Trail
- I’m Still Here
- The Doors Are Open
- Cleaner
- We Are As Gods (2021)
- American Pastoral (2016)
- Invention
- Thank You Very Much (2023)
- Black Bag
- Becoming Led Zeppelin
- Sacramento (2024)
- We Want the Funk
- Texas Highway Killing Fields
- Dark Money
- Merchant Ivory Doc (TCM)
- Inflatable Sex Dolls of the Wasteland (1967)
- Mickey 17
- Decoding Turner (2023)
- Microbudget
- Warfare
- A Desert
- Summer of ’69
- Old Woman With A Knife
- One on One: John & Yoko
- Becoming Kathryn Graham
- Pee Wee As Himself
- Up in Smoke (1978)
- The Code
- How Dark My Love
- Salt of the Earth (2014)
- Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie
- The Grand Tour
- Mountainhead
- The Encampments
- Out of the Blue (1980)
- On Swift Horses (2024)
- Self Driver
- The Traveling Companion
- Magic Farm
- Man Finds Tape
- A Tree Falls in the Wood
- La Planeto (2021)
- The Maintenance Artist
- The Shrouds (2024)
- Leads
- Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
- Natchez
- Billy Idol Should Be Dead
- Nobu
- A Bright Future
- Empire Skate
- Deep Cover
- Friendship (2024)
- Universal Language (2024)
- Bodyguard of Lies
- Are We Good?
- Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan
- Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation
- Thank You Very Much
- The Amateur
- The Phoenician Scheme
- Untold: The Liver King
- Inheritance
- My Mom Jayne
- People and Meat
- The Sound
- Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
- Good Night & Good Luck
- On the Road (2012)
- Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print
- Tabu (2012)
- Manhunter (1986)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- The Fog of War (2003)
- Everything Is Going To Be Great
- Presence (2024)
- Apocalypse in the Tropics
- Eddington
- Billy Joel: And So It Goes
- Ash
- Drive, He Said (1971)
- Bonnie Blue & 1000 Men
- Bring Her Back
- Marc Maron: Panicked
- Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager
- AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
- Sorry, Baby!
- Brute 1976
- As I Lay Dying (2013)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Lily Lives Alone
- The Fantastic Mr. Golem
- Pay For It (2024)
- Linda Linda Linda (2005)
- The Dude Goes West (1948)
- By Design: The Joe Caroff Story (2022)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Hearts of Darkness (1991)
- The Naked Gun
- Nobody 2
- Amoeba
- Honey Don’t
- Weapons
- Miroirs No. 3
- The Mastermind
- Late Fame
- Americana (2023)
- Riefenstahl (2024)
- Shut Up Little Man! (2011)
- Relay
- The Fence
- The Last One For the Road
- Kontinental ’25
- Lillith Fair
- Duse
- Nouvelle Vague
- The Leopard (1963)
- Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- Caught Stealing
- It Was Just An Accident
- Paddy Chayesky: Collector of Words
- Father Mother Sister Brother
- Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
- The Lost Bus
- It’s Never Over Jeff Buckley
- Cover-Up
- The House is Black (1963)
- Sátántangó (1994)
- John Candy I Like Me
- Uncle Buck (1989)
- The Alabama Solution
- Anything That Moves
- Mr. Scorsese (5 part doc series)
- Downey Wrote That
- The Roses
- Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)
- A House of Dynamite
- Good Boy
- French Italian
- Coexistence, My Ass
- Lurker
- The Man Who Saved the World
- Ballad of a Small Player
- Hedda
- Museum of the Night
- Artists in Residence
- The Six Billion Dollar Man
- If These Walls Could Talk
- Steal This Story, Please!
- Fugs
- Santacon
- WTO: 1999
- Cast of Shadows
- Lost For Words
- Zelensky
- Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
- Sallywood
- Quiet Voices in a Noisy World: The Struggle for Change in Jasper, Texas
- A Place of Absence
- Angel’s Egg
- Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk
- When We Went MAD!
- If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Anniversary
- The Age of Disclosure
- No Mercy
- 20,000 Meters to Andriivka
- Bugonia
- Blue Moon
- After the Hunt
- Train Dreams
- Beat the Devil (1953)
- Jesus’ Son (1999)
- Dogtooth (2009)
- Alps (2017)
- Frankenstein
- Jay Kelly
- The New Yorker at 100
- Anemone
- Predators
TV SERIES (unless dated, released this year)
- Severance Season 02
- SNL 50th Anniversary Special
- White Lotus Season 03
- The Righteous Gemstons Season 04
- The Studio Season 01
- Ari Schaffir: America’s Sweetheart
- Adolescence Season 01
- Dana Gould Standup Special (2023)
- Bill Burr Standup Special
- Your Friends & Neighbors Season 01
- Turning Point: The Vietnam War
- Sarah Silverman: Postmortem
- The Eternaut Season 01
- Joe List: Small Balls
- Todd Barry: Domestic Shorthair
- Shift limited doc series (Adam Curtis, BBC)
- Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
- Jim Jeffries Standup Comedy Special
- Ken Burns PBS doc series on Mark Twain (2003)
- Hannah Arendt PBS doc
- Jordan Jenon Standup Comedy Special
- Andrew Santimo: White Noise Standup Comedy Special
- LBJ American Experience Doc ()
- The Low Down Season 01
- Mussolini: Son of the Century Season 01 (2024)
- Dom Irrera: Live in Las Vegas
- Ken Burns PBS doc series on The American Revolution
- Pluribus Season 01
- Beatles Anthology (Remastered/reedited)
BOOKS I READ IN 2025
- Ulysses (James Joyce, began in 2024)
- + book of annotations on Ulysses
- Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
- A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
- Weather (Jenny Offill)
- Dept. of Speculation (Jenny Offill)
- American Pastoral (Phillip Roth)
- Underworld (Don DeLillo)
- Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- The Best & the Brightest (David Halberman)
- Movie Freak (Owen Gleiberman)
- An American Dream (Norman Mailer)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
- As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
- Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
- Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
- A Thief’s Journal (Jean Genet)
- Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn (Thomas Mann)
- Better Living Through Criticism (A. O. Scott)
- Everything is Now! (J. Hoberman)
- A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989-1999 (Tom Maxwell)