Moviegoing (Pandemic) October-November

I've already blogged about the election, which turned DJT out of office (if he leaves, that is, for which there is no guarantee) and will bring back Joe Biden, this time as president, with Kamala Harris as VP. So much else has gone on over the last few months that I basically smushed the two together, so instead of individual entries for October and November, here's my tally for both months. It's a long list, but an interesting one. One thing I'll note again is that it was refreshing to see both Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime respond, in their differing ways, to the Floyd murder and the Black Lives Matter push, with diverse and unexpected offerings. What remains to be seen is how long this lasts. The other streaming channels (Netflix notwithstanding), like the cable TV ones, need to up their games.

My list for the two months:

Beau Travail* (an old fave)

Career Girls* (I'd always heard about this film & it was worth the wait)

Suburbia

Tomboy*

Viridiana* 

Luminous Motion

Variety* (I watched it again!)

Born in Flames* (Lizzie Borden's masterpiece, IMHO)

Calendar

Lola Montès*

Henry Gamble's Birthday Party

The Gates* (I saw this in real time--the exhibit inaugurated this blog!--& the film was a delight)

The Headless Woman* (by the director of La Ciénaga--I definitely want to watch this again)

Pauline Alone

Salut les Cubains*

Vitalina Varela* (a performance so searing you won't soon forget it)

Affirmations* (Marlon Riggs--love love love)

100 Boyfriends Mix Tape* (Brontez Purnell)

Lovecraft Country* (series)

Two Drifters

A Drop of Sun Under the Earth

Anthem*

The Joy of Life

2001: A Space Odyssey* (one of my all-time faves)

Mildred Pierce* (Joan Crawford's greatest role)

The Ornithologist* (the incomparable João Pedro Rodrigues)

O Fantasma* (Rodrigues's first landmark film)

Videodrome* (an old fave)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum*

Burroughs: The Movie

The Night of Counting the Years*

Flores* (visually arresting)

Coffee Colored Children*

Jáaji* (Hopkinka films)

Anti-Objects of Space Without Boundaries*

Lore* 

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness* (whew!!!)

Nance films*: Swimming in Your Skin Again, Their Fall Our All, No Ward, Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky, You and I and You

8th Continent

Buck Privates

Accident*

Welcome to the Terrordome*

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

A Dream Is What You Wake From

Tender Game

Totally F***** Up* (watched it again)

Working Girls* (Excellent)

The Dark Past*

Mangrove (Small Axe)*

The Homecoming

Vente et Loquamur (Hopinka)

Wawa (Hopkina)

When You're Lost in the Rain (Hopinka)

The Crown (series, Season 4)

The Wise Kids

Portugays* (O Ninho)

Conframa* (series, new season)

Freefall

Borat