COVID-19
Pandemic Cinema, Year 4
A chronological list of non-current or non-theatrical movies (feature length and short films) that I watched at home during the continuing COVID-19 crisis in 2023. The great majority of them were new to me. Cleaning House (1938)House of Dark Shadows (1970)Night of Dark Shadows (1971)Ventriloquist Cat (1950)The Green Ray (1986)The Freshman (1925)Drag-a-Long Droopy (1954)Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)Thunder Road […]
Movie Review: The Night of the 12th
4 stars out of 5When I’ve been in a steady art-movie groove, I have had a reliable pleasure: French thrillers. They’re generally a notch above Hollywood thrillers, or at least the cool accents and unfamiliar settings make them seem that way. But the pandemic has been particularly hard on art-house theaters, with their audiences apparently […]
Pandemic Cinema, year 3
A chronological list of non-current movies (feature length and short films) that I watched at home during the continuing COVID-19 crisis in 2022. The great majority of them were new to me. Foxes (1980)Poultry Pirates (1938)The Circus (1928)Metropolitan (1990)Saboteur (1942)The Velvet Underground (2021)The Screwy Truant (1945)The Swarm (1978)Wild at Heart (1990)Vertigo (1958)The Stork’s Holiday (1943)The […]
Pandemic Cinema, Year 2
A chronological list of movies (feature length and short films) that I watched at home during the continuing COVID-19 crisis in 2021. The great majority of them were new to me. The Chimp (1932)A Night at the Opera (1935)Doubt (2008)The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)Block-Heads (1938)A King in New York (1957)Smithereens (1982)Adventures in Babysitting (1987)Dogfight […]
Pandemic Cinema, Year 1
A chronlogical list of movies (feature length and short films) that I watched at home during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. The great majority of them were new to me. Paris, Texas (1984)American Graffiti (1973)More American Graffiti (1979)Boxcar Bertha (1972)The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)The Lady From Shanghai (1947)Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)Blackboard Jungle […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/3/20
EPISODE #372: CORONAVIRUSThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Minutemen — “Corona”Mudhoney — “Touch Me I’m Sick”Shop Assistants — “Somewhere in China”The Mountain Goats — “Beautiful Gas Mask”Alex Chilton — “No Sex”Reese McHenry — “Fever”Notches — “Fever Dream”The Promise Ring — “Emergency! Emergency!”The Who — “Doctor, Doctor”Sleater-Kinney — “Call the Doctor”Big Boy Henry — “Take My Baby […]
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