Alright! Here is the comprehensive list of everything I read and watched in 2019. Entries from this year are in bold type. I’ll come back to rank my favorites in the next few weeks. I (fortunately or unfortunately) still have plenty of 2019 content to get to first.
You can find full recaps and reviews at the links below. I’ve also attached a few other pieces of writing from the year. Cheers!
2019 Movie Log: January
2019 Movie Log: February
2019 Movie Log – March
2019 Movie Log: April
2019 Movie Log: May
2019 Movie Log: June
2019 Movie Log: July
2019 Movie Log: August
2019 Movie Log: September
2019 Movie Log: October
2019 Movie Log: November
2019 Movie Log: December
Game of Thrones S8E1: “Winterfell”
Game of Thrones S8E2: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”
Mindhunter Season 2 Review
The first-ever, most legitimate, inarguable, completely accurate ranking of the films of Hayao Miyazaki
The Definitive Guide to Bruce Springsteen’s “Street” Songs
Movies
Magic Mike – Steven Soderbergh (2012)
I Heart Huckabees – David O. Russell (2004)
The Kindergarten Teacher – Sara Colangelo (2018)
Bernie – Richard Linklater (2011)
A Serious Man – The Coen Brothers (2009)
Fyre – Chris Smith (2019)
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins (2018)
Mascots – Christopher Guest (2016)
Black Panther – Ryan Coogler (2018)
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
Bohemian Rhapsody – Brian Singer (2018)
Green Book – Peter Farrelly (2018)
A Star is Born – Bradley Cooper (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – The Coen Brothers (2018)
Solo – Ron Howard (2018)
Heat – Michael Mann (1995)
High Flying Bird – Steven Soderbergh (2019)
Chinatown – Roman Polanski (1974)
The Graduate – Mike Nichols (1967)
Reality Bites – Ben Stiller (1994)
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot – Gus Van Sant (2018)
Clueless – Amy Heckerling (1995)
Before Sunset – Richard Linklater (2004)
Transit – Christian Petzold (2018)
Support the Girls – Andrew Bujalski (2018)
Captain Marvel – Anna Boden + Ryan Fleck (2019)
The Fabulous Baker Boys – Steve Kloves (1989)
Good Time – The Safdie Brothers (2018)
Us – Jordan Peele (2019)
The Beach Bum – Harmony Korine (2019)
Sightseers – Ben Wheatley (2012)
Guava Island – Hiro Murai (2019)
Dune – David Lynch (1984)
High Life – Claire Denis (2019)
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950)
Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica (1948)
Everybody Wants Some!! – Richard Linklater (2016)
Widows – Steve McQueen (2018)
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig (2017)
Saved – Brian Dannelly (2004)
Rocketman – Dexter Fletcher (2019)
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson (2002)
LOTR: The Two Towers – Peter Jackson (2003)
LOTR: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson (2004)
Stranger than Fiction – Marc Forster (2006)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story – Martin Scorsese (2019)
The Dead Don’t Die – Jim Jarmusch (2019)
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Peter Weir (1979)
The Virgin Suicides – Sofia Coppola (1999)
Thunder Road – Jim Cummings (2018)
Midsommar – Ari Aster (2019)
Girlfriends – Claudia Weill (1978)
Midnight Family – Luke Lorentzen – MIFF (2017)
His Master’s Voice – Gyorgi Palfi – MIFF (2018)
Moneyball – Bennett Miller (2011)
A Quiet Place – John Krasinski (2018)
Rupture (short) – Pierre Étaix and Jean-Claude Carrière (1961)
Bottle Rocket – Wes Anderson (1996)
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday – Jacques Tati (1953)
Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino (2019)
The Love Witch – Anna Biller (2016)
The Suitor – Pierre Etiax (1962)
Modern Times – Charlie Chaplin (1936)
City Lights – Charlie Chaplin (1931)
Safety Last! – Harold Lloyd (1923)
Fry Day (short) – Laura Moss (2017)
Dance, Girl, Dance – Dorothy Arzner (1940)
Babette’s Feast – Gabriel Axel (1987)
Before Midnight – Richard Linklater (2013)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – André Øvredal (2019)
Baby Face – Alfred E. Green (1933)
Howl’s Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki (2004)
Blinded by the Light – Gurinder Chada (2019)
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams – Akira Kurosawa (1990)
Performance – Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg (1970)
Harold and Maude – Hal Ashby (1971)
First Man – Damien Chazelle (2018)
Christopher Strong – Dorothy Arzner (1933)
Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Gone Girl – David Fincher (2014)
Matador – Pedro Almadóvar (1986)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Pedro Almodóvar (1988)
The Farewell – Lulu Wang (2019)
Kiki’s Delivery Service – Hayao Miyazaki (1989)
The 39 Steps – Alfred Hitchcock (1935)
It Chapter Two – Andy Muschietti (2019)
Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, & Rodney Rothman (2018)
Personal Shopper – Olivier Assayas (2016)
Porco Rosso – Hayao Miyazaki (1992)
Network – Sidney Lumet (1976)
Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
Perfect Blue – Satoshi Kon (1997)
Princess Mononoke – Hayao Miyazaki (1997)
Yi Yi – Edward Yang (2000)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – Hayao Miyazaki (1984)
Days of Heaven – Terrence Malick (1978)
The Wind Rises – Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
The Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont (1994)
The Castle of Cagliostro –Hayao Miyazaki (1979)
The Third Man – Carol Reed (1949)
Ponyo – Hayao Miyazaki (2008)
Ad Astra – James Gray (2019)
Joker – Todd Phillips (2019)
Castle in the Sky – Hayao Miyazaki (1986)
American Gigolo – Paul Schrader (1980)
Eyes Without a Face – Georges Franju (1960)
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi + Vincent Paronnaud (2007)
El Camino – Vince Gilligan (2019)
Mean Streets – Martin Scorsese (1973)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)
My Neighbor Totoro – Hayao Miyazaki (1988)
Parasite – Bong Joon-Ho (2019)
Carrie – Brian De Palma (1978)
Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
Black Swan – Darren Aranofsky (2010)
The Lost Boys – Joel Schumacher (1987)
The Invitation – Karyn Kusama (2015)
Gangs of New York – Martin Scorsese (2002)
The Lighthouse – Robert Eggers (2019)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith – George Lucas (2005)
Green Room – Jeremy Saulnier (2015)
Snowpiercer – Bong Joon-ho (2013)
American Psycho – Mary Harron (2000)
Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski (1968)
Zombieland – Ruben Fleischer (2009)
I Love You, Man – John Hamburg (2009)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Tobe Hooper (1974)
The Thing – John Carpenter (1982)
The Irishman – Martin Scorsese (2019)
The Martian – Ridley Scott (2015)
Rounders – John Dahl (1998)
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Anthony Minghella (1998)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Gareth Edwards (2016)
The Matrix – The Wachowskis (1999)
Gattaca – Andrew Niccol (1997)
Who’s That Knocking At My Door – Martin Scorsese (1967)
The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
Booksmart – Olivia Wilde (2019)
Spring Breakers – Harmony Korine (2012)
Stockholm – Robert Budreau (2018)
The Witches – Nicolas Roeg (1990)
Knives Out – Rian Johnson (2019)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Richard Linklater (2019)
Thor: Ragnarok – Taika Watiti (2017)
Iron Man – Jon Favreau (2008)
Guardians of the Galaxy -James Gunn (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – James Gunn (2017)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – George Lucas (1977)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back – Irvin Kershner (1980)
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach (2019)
Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi – Richard Marquand (1983)
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens – J.J. Abrams (2015)
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi – Rian Johnson (2017)
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker – J.J. Abrams (2019)
The Laundromat – Steven Soderbergh (2019)
Minding the Gap – Bing Liu (2018)
The Long Shot – Jonathan Levine (2019)
The Nightingale – Jennifer Kent (2018)
35 Shots of Rum – Claire Denis (2008)
Little Women – Greta Gerwig (2019)
Hustlers – Lorene Scafaria (2019)
Uncut Gems – Safdie Brothers (2019)
The Report – Scott Z. Burns (2019)
Television
True Detective (Season 3) – Nic Pizzolatto (HBO, 2019)
My Brilliant Friend – Saverio Costanzo (HBO, 2019)
Veep (Season 7)– David Mandel (HBO, 2019)
Trigger Warning – Killer Mike (Netflix, 2019)
Pen15 – Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman (Hulu, 2019)
Killing Eve (Season 1 & 2) – Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emerald Fennell (BBC America, 2018-2019)
Game of Thrones (Season 8) – David Benioff and D.B Weiss (HBO, 2019)
Tuca & Bertie – Lisa Hanawalt (Netflix, 2019)
BoJack Horseman (Season 5) – Raphael Bob-Waksberg (Netflix, 2018)
I Think You Should Leave – Tim Robinson (Netflix, 2019)
Fleabag (Season 1 & 2) – Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Amazon, 2016 & 2019)
Deadwood (Season 1) – David Milch (HBO, 2004)
Chernobyl – Craig Mazin (HBO, 2019)
Barry (Season 2) – Bill Hader & Alec Berg (HBO, 2019)
Stranger Things (Season 3) – The Duffer Brothers (Netflix, 2019)
The Knick (Season 1) – Steven Soderbergh (Cinemax, 2014)
Broad City (Season 5) – Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson (Comedy Central, 2018)
Vice Principals – Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill (HBO, 2016 – 2017)
Mindhunter (Season 2) – Joe Penhall (Netflix, 2019)
Succession (Season 1* & Season 2) – Jesse Armstrong (HBO, 2018-2019)
The Righteous Gemstones – Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill (HBO, 2019)
Watchmen – Damon Lindelof (HBO, 2019)
Unbelievable – Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon (Netflix, 2019)
You (Season 2)-Greg Berlanti & Sera Gamble (Netflix, 2019)
The Mandalorian – Jon Favreau (Disney +, 2019)
Lodge 49 (Season 1) – Jim Gavin (AMC, 2018)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Season 14) – Rob McElhenney (FXX, 2019)
Books
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante (2012)
The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante (2013)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Elena Ferrante (2014)
The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante (2015)
The Days of Abandonment – Elena Ferrante (2002)
Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner (1987)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig (1974)
Dune – Frank Herbert (1965)
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Suttree – Cormac McCarthy (1979)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami (2007)
The Hundred Secret Senses – Amy Tan (1995)
Seven Plays – Sam Shepard: {True West (1980), Buried Child (1979), Curse of the Starving Class (1976), The Tooth of the Crime (1972), La Turista (1967), Tongues (1978), Savage / Love (1981)}
Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger (2013)
Calypso – David Sedaris (2018)
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (1927)
Pet Sematary -Stephen King (1983)
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson (1959)
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (1970)
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (1868)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery (2006)
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd (2001)
The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Philipp Sendker (2002)
Tenth of December – George Saunders (2013)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (1979)
The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway (1951)
Sam Writes Shit 
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