145,000+ people in the US have officially died from Covid-19 and the totals of those who've gotten it once or multiple times far exceeds that number. The US continues to stagger forward, in crisis and chaos, under DJT's misrule. I kept up my moviewatching, though I tallied far fewer films this month than prior ones. Here's my July 2020 total:
Aguirre, Wrath of God*
Made in U.S.A.*
Detour
Their Own Desire
Red Road
The Human Factor
Between the Lines*
Me and You and Everyone We Know* (I loved this film when it came out but I felt a bit more critical of it this time through)
Love Is the Devil* (Francis Bacon!)
Sleepwalk
Soleil Ô* (Med Hondo's film was a highlight for the month)
Young Ahmed* (chilling but a sharp psychological portrait of fanaticism)
Dear Mom
Birthright
Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage*
My Own Private Idaho* (an old fave)
Death in Venice*
Sidewalk Stories* (an old fave--so good)
Stille Nacht
In Absentia (the Quay brothers, enough said)
The Scar of Shame* (I first saw this in a Black film class in college)
Border Radio* (rewatched)
The Exile
Barbarella* (very light entertainment)
Company: The Original Cast Album* (I love this film and the musical as well)
Vazante* (a lovely historical film from Brazil, by Daniela Thomas)
The Lovebirds (Issa Rae & Kumail Nanjani but it didn't gel for me)
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado* (magnificent!)
