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SEEN, READ 2021

Mr/Dr Soderbergh @ 2022-01-04

All caps, bold: MOVIE

All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT*

All caps: TV SERIES

Italics: Book

Quotation marks: “Play”

Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story”

 

01/01 SMALL AXE: ALEX WHEATLE, MINARI, LOVER COME BACK, DATELINE

01/02 MASQUES, BETWEEN THE LINES, TWENTIETH CENTURY

01/03 THE BURGLAR (’57)

01/04 Want, Lynn Seger Strong, STAGED, THE INVESTIGATION (3)

01/05 THE INVESTIGATION (3)

01/06 THE MALTESE FALCON

01/07 THE WITNESS

01/08 DATELINE

01/09 The Door, Magda Szabo, PANIC ROOM

01/10 TIGER

01/11 HOTEL

01/12 NO SUDDEN MOVE, 36 HOURS,  NIGHT STALKER (3)

01/14 Disloyal, Michael Cohen, NIGHT STALKER, SEARCH PARTY (3)

01/15 SERVANT, ZERO FOCUS, People Like Me, Ellery Lloyd

01/16 BOWHANI JUNCTION

01/23 CALL MY AGENT (2), TIGER, IN & OF ITSELF, OPERATION HALYARD: NO MAN LEFT BEHIND*

01/24 Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid, ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, SEARCH PARTY (3)

01/25 CALL MY AGENT (2)

01/26 CALL MY AGENT (2), THE NUTTY PORFESSOR (’63), NO SUDDEN MOVE

01/27 SERVANT, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

01/28 Land of the Blind, Jess Walter, SEARCH PARTY (4)

01/29 MALCOLM & MARIE, IN & OF ITSELF

01/30 DOG, SERVANT, THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK

01/31 THE LADY AND THE DALE (2)

02/01 Citizen Vince, Jess Walter, THE HILL

02/02 Mike Nichols: A Life, Mark Harris, WHERE DANGER LIVES, BELOW DECK (4)

02/03 BELOW DECK (4)

02/04 BELOW DECK (4)

02/05 BELOW DECK, THE LADY AND THE DALE, MOROCCO

02/06 Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler, FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS, DEAR COMRADES!

02/07 SUPER BOWL LV

02/08 BELOW DECK, Trio, William Boyd

02/10 My Year Abroad, Chang-rae Lee, THE VANISHING AT THE CECIL HOTEL (2)

02/11 Super Host, Kate Russo

02/12 STAR WARS (4K77 project version), SERVANT, PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME

02/13 Jack’s Life: A Biography, Patrick McGilligan, DATELINE, SHANGHAI EXPRESS

02/14 THE LADY AND THE DALE, NORTH BY NORTHWEST

02/15 BELOW DECK

02/17 WRITTEN ON THE WIND

02/19 IN & OF ITSELF

02/20 Luster, Raven Leilani, SERVANT, DATELINE

02/21 Born Standing Up, Steve Martin, ALLEN V. FARROW

02/22 MADE YOU LOOK

02/23 LAPSIS

02/25 SERVANT, Amoralman, Derek Delgaudio

02/27 WORLD’S MOST WANTED (2)

02/28 MONTANA STORY

03/02 NO SUDDEN MOVE

03/03 MURDER AMONG THE MORMONS

03/04 MURDER AMONG THE MORMONS (2)

03/05 SERVANT, NEVENKA

03/06 Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS, SOUND OF METAL

03/07 NEVENKA (2), HOUSE OF CARDIN

03/08 The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, THE PASSWORD IS COURAGE

03/09 THE CONVERSATION, The Smash-Up, Ali Benjamin

03/10 48HRS

03/11 UNSEAMLY (2)

03/12 UNSEAMLY,  SERVANT

03/13 UNSEAMLY, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

03/14 The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen, A MAN CALLED ADAM, THE 63RD GRAMMY AWARDS

03/15 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

03/16 THE FATHER

03/19 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE, SERVANT, NATE BARGATZE: THE GREATEST AVERAGE AMERICAN

03/20 Shooting Midnight Cowboy, Glenn Frankel, IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: AIRLANDER, PANIC ROOM

03/21 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (4), IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: THE BLACK PEARL

03/22 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (2), CALLS

03/24 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (3)

03/25 It’s the Pictures That Got Small, Edited by Anthony Slide

03/26 CASINO

03/27 IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: SECRETS OF THE SUPER TANKER, DATELINE

03/28 REPULSION, THE LOST WEEKEND, The Decagon House Murders, Yukito Ayatsuji

03/30 Begin principal photography on KIMI

04/04 ROSEMARY’S BABY, Mona, Pola Oloixarac

04/09 THIS IS A ROBBERY: THE WORLD’S GREATEST ART HEIST

04/10 THIS IS A ROBBERY: THE WORLD’S GREATEST ART HEIST (2)

04/11 A KIND OF LOVING

04/16 THE LETTER (’40)

04/18 STORYVILLE: DECADENCE AND DOWNFALL, THE SHAH OF IRAN’S ULTIMATE PARTY

04/25 THE 93RD OSCARS

04/29 Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means To Be Alive, Carl Zimmer

04/30 “Hairball”, Margaret Atwood, The Jaws Log, Carl Gottlieb

05/01 CROUPIER

05/02 The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell, JAWS

05/03 THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY PART ONE

05/04 Second Place, Rachel Cusk, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY PART TWO

05/06 A Lonely Man, Chris Power

05/14 KIMI

05/17 The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz, EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, SHRILL (2)

05/18 NICHOLS AND MAY: TAKE TWO

05/20 Blow Your House Down, Gina Frangello

05/21 Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull, A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW

05/23 Home Land, Sam Lipsyte

05/24 BEAST, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, DANCE, GIRL, DANCE

05/25 Venus Drive, Sam Lipsyte

05/26 THE EXILES, WRATH OF MAN

05/27 The Subject Steve, Sam Lipsyte, NAIL BOMBER: MANHUNT, STATE FUNERAL

05/28 LIFE AT THE TOP, CAUGHT

05/29 SEBASTIAN

06/01 JOURNEY INTO FEAR, MOVIE MOVIE

06/02 The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dailia Harris

06/04 HACKS (2)

06/05 KIMI

06/06 HACKS (2), Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley

06/07 HACKS (2)

06/08 Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen

06/08 THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY

06/09 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

06/10 HACKS (2), JUGGERNAUT

06/11 MADE FOR LOVE (2)

06/12 Impersonation, Heidi Pitlor, MADE FOR LOVE (2), WENT THE DAY WELL?

06/13 The White Rose, Jean Hanff Korelitz

06/15 MADE FOR LOVE (2)

06/17 KIMI

06/20 From Reverence to Rape, Molly Haskell, DAVE (2), DANGEROUS (’35)

06/21 BELOW DECK

06/22 “A Very Expensive Posion”, Lucy Prebble, MADE FOR LOVE (2), I AM WAITING

06/23 THE BLUE GARDENIA

06/25 “Enron” Lucy Prebble

06/26 “The Effect”, “The Sugar Syndrome” Lucy Prebble, DEEP END (’70)

06/27 Double Blind, Edward St. Aubyn

06/28 The Damage, Caitlin Wahrer, BELOW DECK, GOLDEN (2)

06/29 GOLDEN, THE WHITE TIGER

06/30 SOPHIE: A MURDER IN WEST CORK

07/01 DAVE, SOPHIE: A MURDER IN WEST CORK

07/02 Steven Spielberg and Duel, Steven Awalt, SOPHIE: A MURDER IN WEST CORK

07/03 THE KILLERS (’46)

07/04 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART ONE

07/05 BELOW DECK

07/06 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART ONE

07/07 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART TWO, GOLDEN, Wayward, Dana Spiotta

07/08 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART THREE

07/09 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART FOUR, Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, ELIZA MAZUNAGA: ONCE UPON A CRIME (2), DAVE

07/10 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART FIVE, “Unread Messages” Sally Rooney, Everybody: A Book About Freedom, Olivia Laing, MACGREGOR VS. POIRIER 3, DUEL

07/11 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART SIX,  ELIZE MUZUNAGA: ONCE UPON A CRIME (2), THE WHITE LOTUS

07/12 BELOW DECK

07/14 GOLDEN

07/15 DAVE

07/16 NAOMI OSAKA (3)

07/17 MCCARTNEY 3.2.1.

07/18 Should We Stay or Should We Go, Lionel Shriver, THE WHITE LOTUS, MCCARTNEY 3.2.1. (2)

07/19 MCCARTNEY 3.2.1 (2), BELOW DECK, STORMY WEATHER

07/21 GOLDEN, SHIVA BABY

07/22 DAVE

07/23 ZOLA, The Vixen, Francine Prose

07/24 Intimacies, Katie Kitamura, THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, THE WHITE LOTUS, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

07/25 Bath Haus, P.J. Vernon, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

07/26 BELOW DECK, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

07/27 A Separation, Katie Kitamura, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

07/28 Always Crashing in the Same Car, Matthew Specktor, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

07/29 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

07/30 TO LESLIE, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

07/31 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

08/01 The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE WHITE LOTUS

08/02 SUMMER OF SOUL, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, BELOW DECK, DAVE

08/03 “Riding the Bull”, Skye Falling, Mia McKenzie, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

08/05 THE LOCKET

08/06 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES

08/07 Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE SCAPEGOAT, MURDER MOST FOUL

08/08 The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr, The Beginners, Anne Serre, THE WHITE LOTUS, DAVE, UFO

08/09 THE TRIAL (’18), AIR CONDITIONER, BELOW DECK

08/10 TROUBLE IN PARADISE

08/11 YOUTH OF THE BEAST, COCAINE COWBOYS (2)

08/12 Extreme Economies, Ricard Davies, COCAINE COWBOYS (2), DAVE

08/13 THE LEATHER BOYS, COCAINE COWBOYS

08/14 Hunger, Knut Hamsun, THE DEBUSSY FILM, THE MUSIC LOVERS, MISHA AND THE WOLVES, AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (’56)

08/15 COCAINE COWBOYS, THE WHITE LOTUS

08/16 Edge Case, YZ Chin, BELOW DECK

08/17 The Startup Wife, Tahmina Anam,

08/18 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS (2) 

08/19 The Guest List, Lucy Foley, DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE

08/20 We Are The Brennans, Tracey Lange

08/21 The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley, PATTERNS

08/22 Running Against the Tide, Captain Lee with Michael Shohl, NEAL BRENNAN: 3 MICS, STILLWATER

08/25 Steven Spielberg: A Life in Film, Molly Haskell

08/27 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, BELOW DECK

08/28 BOB ROSS: HAPPY ACCIDENTS, BETRAYAL AND GREED

08/30 NINOTCHKA

08/31 DESIGN FOR LIVING

09/03 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, US OPEN

09/04 Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman, US OPEN

09/05 “The Call to Action Mom” George Saunders, US OPEN

09/06 Mrs. March, Virginia Fieto, US OPEN

09/07 US OPEN

09/08 Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney, US OPEN

09/09 US OPEN

09/10 US OPEN, AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, AMERICAN MASTERS: MIKE NICHOLS

09/11 US OPEN, Aurora, David Koepp

09/12 US OPEN, THE LOST LEONARDO

09/13 BELOW DECK

09/14 SHARE

09/20 BELOW DECK, SCHUMACHER

09/22 The Darkroom of Damocles, Willem Frederik Hermans, SOLITARY, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, 1941

09/24 Competing with Idiots, Nick Davis

09/25 “Magic Mike Live” Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin

09/27 The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan, BELOW DECK, WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL

09/28 DINNER AT EIGHT, Double Feature, Donald E. Westlake

09/30 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

10/01 The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman, Castle in the Air, Donald E. Westlake, RHYTHM THIEF, TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

10/02 THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (’32), PSYCHO (’60)

10/03 Forever and a Death, Donald E. Westlake

10/04 BELOW DECK

10/05 DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE CLOSER, UNTOLD: DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

10/06 Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead

10/09 AMERICAN GRAFFITI

10/11 A Calling for Charley Barnes, Joshua Ferris

10/13 THE BADLANDERS

10/14 EXTRAPOLATIONS

10/16 Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World, Wil Haygood

10/17 The Pessimists, Bethany Bell

10/23 How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong, Psycho, Robert Bloch, DUNE (’21)

10/24 SUCCESSION, THE COBWEB

10/25 BELOW DECK (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

10/28 Island, Thomas Perry, BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL

10/29 BURBERRY: OPEN SPACES*, THE MOTIVE (4)

10/30 EXTRAPOLATIONS, THE FLY (’58), PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, 1971, HITCHCOCK ON CAVETT, THE THING (’82)

10/31 SUCCESSION

11/02 DATELINE

11/03 THE MALTESE FALCON, WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS

11/04 METROPOLIS (’84, Moroder)

11/05 JULIA (’21), PURPLE NOON

11/06 UNCLENCHING THE FISTS, ALVAREZ VS PLANT, JAWS

11/07 SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

11/08 BELOW DECK

11/09 The Four, Scott Galloway

11/11 “The Shark is Broken”, Ian Shaw and Joseph Mixon

11/12 My Body, Emily Ratajkowski, PASSING, BLACK WIDOW (’54)

11/13 THE FRENCH CONNECTION

11/14 PHOEBE ROBINSON: SORRY, HARRIET TUBMAN, SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

11/16 BELOW DECK

11/17 CLOVERFIELD, THE WIMBLEDON KIDNAPPING, NIAGARA

11/18 I HATE SUZIE, RYAN’S DAUGHTER

11/19 JOCKEY, NASHVILLE

11/20 The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, BLACK CHRISTMAS (’74), DEAN MARTIN: KING OF COOL, CRAWFORD VS PORTER

11/21 SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

11/22 Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart, Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, Sarah Cooper, THE CURSE OF VON DUTCH (3), BELOW DECK

11/23 EXTRAPOLATIONS

11/24 ONLY FANS: SELLING SEXY

11/25 THE BEATLES GET BACK PART ONE, SOUTH PARK: POST COVID

11/26 THE BEATLES GET BACK PART TWO, DIG DEEPER: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BIRGIT MEIER (2), ALICE IN THE CITIES, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: INVEST IN REAL ESTATE

11/27 THE BEATLES GET BACK PART THREE, THE HAND OF GOD, ALIEN

11/28 SUCCESSION

11/29 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BELOW DECK

11/30 DIG DEEPER: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BIRGIT MEIER (2)

12/01 ENEMIES OF THE STATE

12/03 THE REF, THE SOUVENIR PART II

12/04 Thieve’s Dozen, Donald E. Westlake, DRIVE MY CAR, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: APPRECIATE WINE, JAWS

12/05 THE UNSUSPECTED, SUCCESSION, CITIZEN KANE

12/06 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BELOW DECK

12/08 PEN15, MURDER ON THE COAST

12/09 A Line to Kill, Anthony Horowitz, WEST SIDE STORY (’21)

12/10 ‘TWAS THE FIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK

12/11 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: FIND A SPOT, A SWAN LAKE

12/12 Who is Maud Dixon?, Alexandra Andrews, WEST SIDE STORY (’61)

12/13 The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz, SUCCESSION

12/14 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, A MURDER AT STARVING ROCK (2)

12/15 BELOW DECK, A MURDER AT STARVING ROCK

12/16 LOUIS CK: SORRY

12/18 The Sentence is Death, Anthony Horowitz

12/19 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: THROW OUT YOUR BATTERIES

12/20 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BELOW DECK

12/22 LICORICE PIZZA

12/23 THE 39 STEPS, Assembly, Natasha Brown

12/24 THE VERDICT (’46), HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: REMEMBER YOUR DREAMS, THE APARTMENT

12/25 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

12/26 RED ROCKET

12/27 WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, SUPER HEIST

12/28 PEN15, THE KILLING

12/29 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (3), MONA LISA

12/30 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROD (3), Self Care, Leigh Stein

12/31 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (4), Why Me?, Donald E. Westlake, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: BE SPONTANEOUS, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

 

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