Moviegoing (Pandemic) - April

Last month I tallied up all the films I'd watched throughout March as the pandemic wrought havoc, and I noted that I would try to continue doing so, if possible. The pandemic rages and my moviegoing (at home) proceeded accordingly. To quote last month's post: 

One thing I decided to do this month, since I have found it hard to concentrate on non-work-related reading, is to watch films, and so I'm listing the films and TV shows I watched this month, and plan to do so, if I can, for the foreseeable future. These films and TV shows have been a balm, an education, a conversation, points of departure, entryways into critique and deeper thought, and so forth. My filmwatching was not systematic and, as you'll see, heavier on features and shorts than on documentaries (though I did watch some). There may be duplicates and the list is likely incomplete, as my level of distraction is at an all-time high. I won't include descriptions for all of them but I may star films I felt stood out, and provide some other indicator for films that were particular duds. I also am listing them in the order I watched them and not alphabetically (unless otherwise indicated). I watched most on the Criterion Channel, Netflix, Kanopy, HereTV, Hulu, HBOMax, Youtube, and various cable channels, of course.

Here are my April 2020 films:

The Draughtsman's Contract* (Peter Greenaway's marvelously strange 1982 offering)

Vertical Features (remake)

Windows*

Intervals

Raging Sun, Raging Sky* (Julián Hernández's striking essay in queer desire--remarkable)

A Walk Through H

The Naked Prey

The Wonders

Corpo Celeste* (my intro to Alice Rohrwacher, one of Italy's best contemporary directors)

Blackboard Jungle* (an old fave)

Diva* (an old fave)

Day of the Condor*

Thank God It's Friday*

H is for House

The Eyes of Laura Mars*

Shaft*

Affair in Trinidad

So Dark the Night

Pixote* (always stuns me with its candor & brutality)

Slightly French

Canterbury Tales* (Pasolini's brilliance on display)

A Dandy in Aspic* (an Anthony Mann-Laurence Harvey confection, worth seeing)

Targets (very disturbing and apropos for today)

The Flying Ace* (early Black American cinema--do not miss this if you can catch it)

Veiled Aristocrats* (early Black American cinema)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters* (I was enthralled by this film when I was in my 20s) 

Brother (NF)

Surface Tension

And Breathe Normally* (interesting film about migration, social tension, etc. in Europe)

Miriam Miente* (a moving Dominican film about a young Afro-Dominican girl)

Sócrates* (what a performance by the lead)

Ka Bodyscapes* (queer Indian cinema)

Conframa (series)

Onisciente* (series)

Sintonia (series)

Martyr