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SEEN, READ 2023

Mr/Dr Soderbergh @ 2024-01-03

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 BELOW DECK, PRINCE ANDREW THE MUSICAL, THE BEST OF COMEDY 2022

01/03 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT’S WOMAN

01/04 MADOFF: THE MONSTER OF WALL STREET (3)

01/05 ATHENA, MADOFF: THE MONSTER OF WALL STREET

01/06 BELOW DECK

01/07 DATELINE, BELOW DECK (3), A SPY AMONG FRIENDS

01/08 Think Like a Horse, Grant Golliher, RUSSIA 1985-1999: TRAUMAZONE, COPENHAGEN COWBOY

01/09 BELOW DECK, JIMI PLAYS MONTEREY

01/10 Aesthetica, Allie Rowbottom, THE WHALE

01/11 COPENHAGEN COWBOY (2), NO BEARS

01/12 COPENHAGEN COWBOY (3)

01/13 A LIFE OF HER OWN, BREAK POINT (5)

01/14 SAINT OMER

01/17 SUPER LEAGUE: THE WAR FOR FOOTBALL

01/18 BELOW DECK, SUPER LEAGUE: THE WAR FOR FOOTBALL

01/19 SUPER LEAGUE: THE WAR FOR FOOTBALL (2)

01/20 MISTER BUDDWINGS

01/21 DIVINITY

01/22 Gunk Baby, Jamie Marina Lau, The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen

01/23 BELOW DECK

01/26 American Caliph, Shahan Mufti

01/27 M3GAN

01/28 INHERITANCE, A SPY AMONG FRIENDS

01/30 BELOW DECK, 7 DAYS OUT

01/31 PUSSY ISLAND, MAGAZINE DREAMS, PAMELA:  A LOVE STORY

02/01  THE ART OF THE STEAL

02/05 NATE BARGATZE: HELLO WORLD

02/06 BELOW DECK,  THE HITCH-HIKER (’53)

02/07 TOM SEGURA: BALL HOG

02/08 HUNTERS ON A WHITE FIELD

02/10 A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, ALL I DESIRE, DATELINE

02/11 KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, PLANET OF THE APES (’68)

02/12 SUPER BOWL LVII

02/17 FLAMINGO ROAD

02/18 Nobody’s Perfect, Donald E. Westlake, BELOW DECK

02/20 My Nemesis, Charmaine Craig, FULL SWING

02/21 BELOW DECK, FULL SWING (5)

02/23 A SPY AMONG FRIENDS

02/25 The Guest Lecture, Martin Riker, A SPY AMONG FRIENDS

02/26 Big Swiss, Jen Beagin, F1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (3)

02/27 BELOW DECK

02/28 The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis, NAUGHTY BOOKS

03/01 I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai

03/02 The Laughter, Sonora Jha

03/03 F1:DRIVE TO SURVIVE

03/04 F1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (2), CASABLANCA, CHRIS ROCK: SELECTIVE OUTRAGE

03/05 7 DAYS OUT

03/06 PHANTOM LADY, BELOW DECK

03/07 7 DAYS OUT, WHO KILLED ROBERT WONE? (3)

03/10 MH370: THE PLANE THAT DISAPPEARED (3)

03/11 SIN EATER: THE CRIMES OF ANTHONY PELLICANO (2)

03/12 7 DAYS OUT, Everybody Knows, Jordan Harper, SUNSET BOULEVARD

03/13 BELOW DECK

03/14 7 DAYS OUT

03/15 MONSIEUR SPADE (3), THE HIDDEN FORTRESS

03/17 STRAIT-JACKET, SWARM

03/18 SWARM, EXTRAPOLATIONS, VIOLENCE AT NOON

03/19 SWARM (5), Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson

03/20 CAUGHT OUT

03/21 EXTRAPOLATIONS

03/22 BELOW DECK, All This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankam Mathews

03/23 KUBRICK BY KUBRICK

03/24 7 DAYS OUT, EXTRAPOLATIONS (2), OUT OF THE PAST

03/25 The Wanderers, Anna Ziegler

03/31 THE KILLER (’23)

04/01 REGGIE, SABOTAGE (’36), DATELINE

04/02 BIG MACK: GANGSTERS AND GOLD, SUCCESSION (2), HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES

04/04 EXTRAPOLATIONS (2)

04/05 THE DAY AFTER TRINITY

04/06 DAVE (2)

04/07 THE PETRIFIED FOREST

04/08 Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld, BOOM! BOOM! THE WORLD VS. BORIS BECKER (2)

04/09 SUCCESSION

04/10 PRETTY BABY BROOKE SHIELDS (2)

04/11 LEANNE MORGAN: I’M EVERY WOMAN

04/13 The Making of The Shining, J.W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, Me and Hitch, Evan Hunter, DAVE, THE SHINING

04/14 HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES

04/15 PLAY MISTY FOR ME

04/16 The Body, Bill Bryson

04/18 SUCCESSION, The Lost Wife, Susanna Moore

04/19 SAVAGE (’73), EXTRAPOLATIONS, CLEOPATRA (’34), PRESSURE (’71)

04/20 DAVE

04/21 DEAD RINGERS (3), DATELINE

04/22 EXTRAPOLATIONS, DEAD RINGERS (3)

04/23 SUCCESSION

04/24 INSIDE THE EDGE: A PROFESSIONAL BLACKJACK ADVENTURE, Novelist as a Vocation, Haruki Murakami

04/25 DADDIO

04/26 “The Fears” Emma Sheanshang

04/27 BABY J

04/28 Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, Claire Dederer, DAVE

04/29 The Eden Test, Adam Sternbergh

04/30 SUCCESSION

05/01 ANDREW:THE PROBLEM PRINCE (2)

05/02 EXTRAPOLATIONS

05/03 HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE, Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell

05/04 DAVE

05/05 MONSIEUR SPADE, EVERYTHING GOES WRONG

05/09 SUCCESSION, MONSIEUR SPADE

05/10 “The Mousetrap” Agatha Christie, Last Witnesses, Svetlana Alexievich

05/13 AIR, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (’34)

05/14 PUSSY ISLAND, DATELINE, SUCCESSION, THE SHINING

05/15 MISSING: DEAD OR ALIVE (2), WAR AND PEACE PART I

05/16 MONSIEUR SPADE

05/19 DAVE, THE THIEF COLLECTOR

05/20 The Guest, Emma Cline, Bad News, Donald E. Westlake, MACGREGOR FOREVER, ALL THE QUEEN’S HORSES

05/21 SUCCESSION

05/22 RUSSIA 1985-1999: TRAUMAZONE (2)

05/23 MCGREGOR FOREVER (2), WAR AND PEACE PART II

05/24 DATELINE, HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES (2)

05/25 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON, HUNT V. LAUDA, DAVE, WAR AND PEACE PART III

05/26 WANDA SYKES: I’M AN ENTERTAINER

05/27 The Kennedy Imprisonment, Garry Wills, DATELINE, BEING MARY TYLER MOORE

05/28 SUCCESSION

05/29 SARAH SILVERMAN: SOMEONE YOU LOVE, The Employees, Olga Ravn, THE CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIA GARCIA

05/31 WAR AND PEACE PART IV, THE CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIA GARCIA (3)

06/01 DAVE, REALITY

06/03 THE GODDESS (’58), DATELINE

06/04 How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, Sarah Bakewell, HELL IN THE PACIFIC, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (’92), APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO

06/05 THE AGE OF INFLUENCE (3)

06/07 THE AGE OF INFLUENCE (2)

06/09 TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED (3)

06/10 FRENCH OPEN WOMEN’S FINAL, THE MAYFAIR HOTEL MEGABUILD, DELIVERANCE

06/11 RUSSIA 1985-1999: TRAUMAZONE (2)

06/13 AMY SCHUMER: EMERGENCY CONTACT

06/16 You Can’t Stay Here Forever, Katherine Lin

06/18 Bad Summer People, Emma Rosenblum, ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE

06/19 BLACK MIRROR (4)

06/20 BLACK MIRROR, SEXY BEAST

06/23 Pandora’s Box, Peter Biskind, KING OF CLONES, I’M A VIRGO

06/24 SISU, YOU HURT MY FEELINGS

06/25 I’M A VIRGO (6), TAKE CARE OF MAYA, X Y & ZEE

06/26 RUSSIA 1985-1999: TRAUMAZONE

06/28 The Imposters, Tom Rachman

06/30 MAN OF ARAN, YOJIMBO

07/02 INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

07/03 UNKNOWN: THE LOST PYRAMID, HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL (3)

07/04 The Librarianist, Patrick DeWitt, TOM SEGURA: SLEDGEHAMMER, THE SMALL BACK ROOM

07/05 THE KING WHO NEVER WAS (3), HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL (3)

07/07 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (B&W version)

07/10 LORD LUCAN: MY HUSBAND, THE TRUTH

07/11 THE KILLER (’23)

07/12 QUARTERBACK (2)

07/13 THE JEWEL THIEF, QUARTERBACK

07/14 DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, BORIS, THE LORD AND THE RUSSIAN SPY, QUARTERBACK (2), SINCERELY YOURS

 07/15 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, QUARTERBACK, BETRAYAL: THE PERFECT HUSBAND (3)

07/17 QUARTERBACK, UNKNOWN: CAVE OF BONES

07/18 CASQUE D’OR

07/21 PEPSI, WHERE’S MY JET? (4), TO END ALL WAR: OPPENHEIMER AND THE ATOMIC BOMB

07/22 The Absolutes, Molly Dektar, UNDERRATED

07/23 EXPRESSO BONGO, LA LOI

07/24 THE HEIRESS AND THE HEIST (3)

07/25 Hope, Andrew Ridker

07/27 MISSING: THE LUCIE BLACKMAN CASE, THE LADY OF SILENCE, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: FIND A PUBLIC RESTROOM

07/28 JIM GAFFIGAN: DARK PALE, DATELINE

07/29 KEVIN HART: REALITY CHECK, FIRES ON THE PLAIN, CRAWFORD V. SPENCE

07/30 OPPENHEIMER, SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

07/31 Ripe, Sarah Rose Setter

08/01 STEWART

08/04 How Basketball Can Save the World, David Hollander, MURF THE SURF (4)

08/05 The Theory of Everything Else, Dan Shreiber, BILLIONAIRE MURDERS (2)

08/07 TO DUST

08/09 Tune In: The Beatles All These Years Vol. 1, Mark Lewisohn, HARD KNOCKS, BARBIE, ADALEN 31

08/10 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? (3)

08/11 MARK CAVENDISH: NEVER ENOUGH, ESCAPE TO ATHENA

08/12 THE SCANDAL STORY, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: WORK OUT, ELVIRA MADIGAN

08/13 An English Affair, Richard Davenport-Hines, Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood, Patrick Humphries

08/14 TELEMARKETERS

08/15 An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Paul Murray, My Life with Cleopatra, Walter Wanger and Joe Hyams, BILLION DOLLAR HEIST, HARD KNOCKS

08/15 UNTOLD: HALL OF SHAME

08/17 The Cleopatra Papers, Jack Brodsky and Nathan Weiss, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, Ian Penman

08/18 CHIMP EMPIRE (2)

08/19 The Bee Sting, Paul Murray, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: WATCH A GAME, DATELINE, CHIMP EMPIRE (2), THE THIRD GENERATION

08/21 TELEMARKETERS

08/22 HARD KNOCKS

08/23 JAWS

08/24 Nothing, Henry Green

08/24 BS HIGH

08/26 Concluding, Henry Green

08/28 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: WATCH BIRDS, TELEMARKETERS

08/29 HARD KNOCKS

08/30 SACRAMENTO, WANTED: THE ESCAPE OF CARLOS GHOSN

08/31 Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Moseley

09/02 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: TRACK YOUR PACKAGE, THE BRIDGE (’59)

09/03 WANTED: THE ESCAPE OF CARLOS GHOSN (3)

09/04 THE DEVIL DOLL

09/08 Begin principal photography on PRESENCE

09/09 US OPEN WOMEN’S FINAL, OUT OF THE PAST

09/10 US OPEN MEN’S FINAL, The Fraud, Zadie Smith

09/11 My Husband, Maud Ventura

09/16 Nothing Special, Nicole Flattery, MICHELLE WOLF: IT’S GREAT TO BE HERE (3)

09/17 THE OLD DARK HOUSE

09/20 The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman

09/21 The Bradshaw Variations, Rachel Cusk

09/22 HARLEY AND KATYA

09/23 HOW DID THEY BUILD THAT?, A PRIVATE FUNCTION

09/24 “The Shark is Broken” Joseph Mixon, Ian Shaw

09/25 The Temporary, Rachel Cusk, PRESENCE

09/27 Cocktails with George and Martha, Philip Gefter

09/30 ICE COLD: MURDER, COFFEE, AND JESSICA WONGSO, NO ONE WILL EVER SAVE YOU, THE FORTY-FIRST

10/01 Don’t Look at Me Like That, Diana Athill, Tracy Flick Can’t Win, Tom Perotta, PRESENCE

10/03 I BASILISCHI

10/04 KING BOY*

10/05 PAST LIVES, ENCOUNTERS (2)

10/06 SAVIOR COMPLEX (2), DATELINE

10/07 SAVIOR COMPLEX, FAIR PLAY

10/08 Brooklyn Crime Novel, Jonathan Lethem, Down the Drain, Julia Fox

10/10 Surely You Can’t Be Serious, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, PAINKILLER: THE TYLENOL MURDERS (5)

10/11 AIRPLANE!

10/12 JIMMY SAVILLE: A BRITISH HORROR STORY (2), Every Man a King, Walter Moseley

10/15 ZAZIE DANS LE METRO

10/16 Activities of Daily Living, Lisa Hsiao Chen, THE RIPPER (4)

10/18 COLEEN ROONEY: THE REAL WAGATHA CHRISTIE (3)

10/19 THE STARLING GIRL

10/20 The Man in the Corduroy Suit, James Wolff

10/21 “Trent and Trudy Lee: A Touch of VegasGenna Ryan and Kyle Barisich

10/23 Beside the Syrian Sea, James Wolff

10/25 SHAMPOO

10/28 How to Betray Your Country, James Wolff

10/31 VJERN TOMIC: THE SPIDER-MAN OF PARIS, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, Robert M. Sapolsky

11/05 Americanah, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, ACROSS THE BRIDGE

11/06 THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY, THIS ENGLAND (2)

11/08 COLD WALLET, THE BILLIONAIRE, THE BUTLER, AND THE BOYFRIEND (3)

11/09 Mapping the Darkness, Kenneth Miller

11/10 THE SEARCH FOR THE WORLD’S WORST FRAUD (2)

11/11 I’m a Fan, Sheena Patel, THE PIGEON TUNNEL, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE

11/12 Steven Spielberg: All the Films, Olivier Bousquet, Arnaud Devillard, Nicolas Schaller, Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley, FABERGE: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND, CRY TERROR!, THE CURSE

11/14 THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL (’88)

11/15 BRAWN: THE IMPOSSIBLE FORMULA ONE STORY (2)

11/17 23 PACES TO BAKER STREET

11/18 BRAWN: THE IMPOSSIBLE FORMULA ONE STORY (2)

11/19 The Clasp, Sloane Crosley, THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT (2)

11/20 THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT (2)

11/21 SALTBURN

11/22 FALLEN LEAVES, ANATOMY OF A FALL

11/24 FERRARI

11/25 SEBASTIAN (’68), THE CURSE

11/26 THE CURSE

11/27 PRESENCE

11/28 “Magic Mike Live” Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin

11/29 The New Leviathans, John Gray, HANGOVER SQUARE, THE MIRROR CRACK’D

12/02 The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie, Notes on Grief, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

12/04 Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead

12/05 THE CURSE, THIS ENGLAND

12/06 MURDER IN BOSTON, EILEEN

12/07 ILS

12/09 DREAM SCENARIO

12/10 Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film, Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, “The Addams Family” Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, Andrew Lippa, Wellness, Nathan Hill

12/12 NAPOLEON (’23)

12/13 MURDER IN BOSTON, THE ERAS TOUR

12/14 THE BOYS IN THE BOAT

12/15 CHRISTMAS AT THE CAMPBELLS, THE ZONE OF INTEREST, DATELINE

12/16 The Rachel Incident, Caroline O’Donoghue, AMERICAN FICTION, The World is Yours, Glenn Kenny

12/17 THE CURSE (2), ZARDOZ

12/18  EYES WIDE SHUT

12/19 THIS ENGLAND (2), SCARFACE (’83)

12/20: MURDER IN BOSTON

12/21 The Path to Paradise, Sam Wasson, THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

12/22 MAY DECEMBER, DATELINE

12/24 SMILEY’S PEOPLE (3)

12/25 Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

12/26 BRIDGE OF SPIES, SMILEY’S PEOPLE

12/27 SMILEY’S PEOPLE (2), THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW

12/28 Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY

12/29 Candace Pert, Pamela Ryckman, HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL, THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE, CATCH-22, GRAN TURISMO

12/30 Genealogy of a Murder, Lisa Belkin

12/31 ORIGIN, DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE DREAMER, MICHAEL CLAYTON