It seems almost unreal that 2020, this tumultous year, is coming to an end. There are positive signs on the horizon when it comes to Covid-19--vaccines, with more on the way!--though we are still not out of the woods. The same is true with the US as a whole; it remains to be seen if DJT will leave office peacefully, since he has continued to claim the election was stolen--it wasn't, he lost handily--and the recovery, on every level, after four years of his tenure, particularly the horrendous year that just concluded, will require a herculean effort. I did keep watching movies during December (Criterion featured an Afrofuturist-focused curated set to end the year) and here they are:
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Afronauts*
White In, Black Out* (one of Brazil's most exciting young Afro-Brazilian filmmakers, from Brasília & a revelation)
Robots of Brixton*
Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jane*
The Awful Truth
Zombies*
Once There was Brasilia*
The Changing Same*
Entertainment
The Becoming Box
Hannah Arendt*
Torch
Jonah
Holiday* (Katharine Hepburn is so peppy & brittle in this film it's unreal)
1968 < 2018 > 2018
The Go-Between*
The Eloquent Peasant
To Die Like a Man
The Undoing
Four Women*
Illusions* (a Julie Dash fave)
Pool Sharks*
The Golf Specialist
Queen Sono
Cat People
The Legend of Rita
The Ogre (nowhere near as good as the Tournier novel)
Tchoupitoulas*
Wild Strawberries* (Bergman is so severe but so talented)
Caché* (a Haneke psychological thriller that's unsolvable through logic)
The Best Man*
The Public Enemy*
The Comedy
The Body Beautiful
The Chase
My Favorite Wife
Industry* (series)
Cheer* (series)
Catharsis
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