2020 Wrap Up!

What a year, am I right folks? Well, here’s a list of everything I consumed in 2020. I’m writing it down because I plan to block this year from my memory as soon as possible. 

By the Numbers

• 200 films watched (20 from this year)
• 61 seasons of TV watched across 33 different series (23 from this year)
• 40 books read (2 from this year)

Various Writings

My Favorite First-Time Viewings of 2020
2020 Movie Log: January
2020 Movie Log: February
2020 Movie Log: March
2020 Movie Log: April
No Movies in May 😦
2020 Movie Log: June
2020 Movie Log: July
2020 Movie Log: August
2020 Movie Log: September
2020 Movie Log: October
2020 Movie Log: November
2020 Movie Log: December

2020 Television Log Part 1
2020 Television Log Part 2
My Favorite Shows of 2020

2020 Reading Log: Part 1
2020 Reading Log: Part 2

Trump in the Trial

Movies

January
The Souvenir – Joanna Hogg (2019)
White Material – Claire Denis (2009)
Smithereens – Susan Seidelman (1982)
Annihilation – Alex Garland (2018)
The Player – Robert Altman (1992)
Mikey and Nicky – Elaine May (1976)
Corpo Celeste – Alice Rohrwacher (2011)
Wanda – Barbara Loden (1970)
The Forest for the Trees – Maren Ade (2003)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Marielle Heller (2018)
Uncut Gems – The Safdie Brothers (2019)
Clue – Jonathan Lynn (1985)
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. – Leslie Harris (1992)
Ex Machina – Alex Garland (2014)
Mad Max – George Miller (1979)
Chevalier – Athina Rachel Tsangari (2015)
Cléo from 5 to 7 – Agnès Varda (1961)
Late Night – Nisha Ganatra (2019)
Set it Up – Claire Scanlon (2018)
Water Lilies – Céline Sciamma (2007)
Tomboy – Céline Sciamma (2011)
Paddington – Paul King (2014)
Paddington 2 – Paul King (2017)
Force Majeure – Ruben Östlund (2014)

February
Her Smell – Alex Ross Perry (2018)
Blaze – Ethan Hawke (2018)
Hail, Caesar! – The Coen Brothers (2015)
M.A.S.H. – Robert Altman (1970)
Purple Rain – Albert Magnoli (1984)
Girlhood – Céline Sciamma (2014)
The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson (2001)
81/2 – Federico Fellini (1963)
A League of their Own – Penny Marshall (1992)
Honey Boy – Alma Har’el (2019)
The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Céline Sciamma (2019)
The 400 Blows – François Truffaut (1958)
Minding the Gap – Bing Liu (2018)
Man Up – Ben Palmer (2015)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Wes Anderson (2004)
The Darjeeling Limited – Wes Anderson (2007)
Persona – Ingmar Bergman (1968)
Jason and the Argonauts – Don Chaffey (1963)
Everyone Else – Maren Ade (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson (2009)
A Brighter Summer Day – Edward Yang (1991)
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson (2013)
The French Connection – William Friedkin (1971)
Waiting for Guffman – Christopher Guest (1996)
Jerry Maguire – Cameron Crowe (1996)
Nashville – Robert Altman (1975)
In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar-wai (2000)
The Wonders – Alice Rohrwacher (2014)
Argo – Ben Affleck (2012)

March
The Invisible Man – Leigh Whannell (2020)
Happy as Lazzaro – Alice Rohrwacher (2018)
Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (2006)
Selma – Ava DuVernay (2014)
Toni Erdmann – Maren Ade (2016)
Frances Ha – Noah Baumbach (2012)
Mistress America – Noah Baumbach (2015)
The Meyerowitz Stories: New and Selected – Noah Baumbach (2017)
Enemy – Denis Villeneuve (2013)
Tremors – Ron Underwood (1990)
A Mighty Wind – Christopher Guest (2003)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – David Yates (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – David Yates (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One – David Yates (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two – David Yates (2011)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Chris Columbus (2002)
Only God Forgives – Nicolas Winding Refn (2013)

April
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Alfonso Cuarón (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Mike Newell (2005)
Middle of Nowhere – Ava DuVernay (2012)
River of Grass – Kelly Reichardt (1994)
Wendy & Lucy – Kelly Reichardt (2008)
Old Joy – Kelly Reichardt (2006)
It’s Complicated – Nancy Meyers (2009)
The Holiday – Nancy Meyers (2006)
You’ve Got Mail – Nora Ephron (1998)
Sleepless in Seattle – Nora Ephron (1993)
Julie & Julia – Nora Ephron (2009)
Meek’s Cutoff – Kelly Reichardt (2011)
The Intern – Nancy Meyers (2015)
Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola (2003)
History of the Eagles – Alison Ellwood (2013)
Obvious Child – Gillian Robespierre (2014)
Something’s Gotta Give – Nancy Meyers (2003)
Madeline’s Madeline – Josephine Decker (2018)
Near Dark – Kathryn Bigelow (1987)
Ghost World – Terry Zwigoff (2001)
The Birdcage – Mike Nichols (1996)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian – Terry Jones (1979)
Good Boys – Gene Stupnitsky (2019)

May

June
The Watermelon Woman – Cheryl Dunye (1996)
She’s Gotta Have It – Spike Lee (1986)
Inside Man – Spike Lee (2006)
Everybody Wants Some!! – Richard Linklater (2016)
School Daze – Spike Lee (1988)
Mo’Better Blues – Spike Lee (1990)
Clockers – Spike Lee (1995)

July
Hamilton- Thomas Kail (2020)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?– Mike Nichols (1966)
Taipei Story – Edward Yang (1985)
Terrorizers – Edward Yang (1986)
Down in the Delta – Maya Angelou (1998)
Palm Springs – Max Barbakow (2020)
High Heels – Pedro Almódovar (1991)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping – Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone (2016)
Another Year – Mike Leigh (2010)
Naked – Mike Leigh (1993)
Playtime – Jaques Tati  (1967)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Stanley Kramer (1963)
Happy-Go-Lucky – Mike Leigh (2008)
High Hopes – Mike Leigh (1988)
But I’m A Cheerleader – Jamie Babbit (2000)
My Own Private Idaho – Gus Van Sant (1991)
Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh (1996)

August
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Marielle Heller (2019)
Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi (2019)
Rear Window – Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
Battleship Potemkin – Sergei Eisenstein (1925)
Bringing Up Baby – Howard Hawks (1938)
Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
Singin’ in the Rain – Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen (1952)
The Big Short – Adam McKay (2015)
Arrival – Denis Villeneuve (2016)
The Searchers – John Ford (1956)
On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan (1954)
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
A Day in the Country – Jean Renoir (1946)
Police Story – Jackie Chan (1985)
Inside Out – Pete Docter (2015)
The Princess Bride – Rob Reiner (1987)
Career Girls – Mike Leigh (1997)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller – Robert Altman (1971)
Vera Drake – Mike Leigh (2004)
The Short & Curlies (short) – Mike Leigh (1988)
Life is Sweet – Mike Leigh (1990)
All or Nothing – Mike Leigh (2002)

September
Jungle Fever – Spike Lee (1991)
Ford v Ferrari – James Mangold (2019)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Charlie Kaufman (2020)
Zodiac – David Fincher (2007)
The Social Network – David Fincher (2010)
Magic Mike – Steven Soderbergh (2012)
My Best Friend’s Wedding – P.J. Hogan (1997)

October
Halloween – John Carpenter (1978)
Host – Rob Savage (2020)
Cameraperson – Kirsten Johnson (2016)
Sinister – Scott Derrickson (2012)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Philip Kaufman (1978)
The Host – Bong Joon-ho (2006)
The Neon Demon – Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Robert Wiene (1920)
Certain Women – Kelly Reichardt (2016)
Dick Johnson is Dead – Kirsten Johnson (2020)
The Exorcist – William Friedkin (1973)
Topsy-Turvy – Mike Leigh (1999)
Night Moves – Kelly Reichardt (2013)
Night of the Living Dead – George Romero (1968)
A Tale of Two Sisters – Kim Jee-woon (2003)
On the Rocks – Sofia Coppola (2020)
Idle Hands – Rodman Flender (1999)

November
Somewhere – Sofia Coppola (2010)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Jason Woliner (2020)
The Bling Ring – Sofia Coppola (2013)
A Very Murray Christmas – Sofia Coppola (2015)
First Cow – Kelly Reichardt (2019)
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941)
Beau Travail – Claire Denis (1999)
Dazed and Confused – Richard Linklater (1993)
School of Rock – Richard Linklater (2003)
High Fidelity – Stephen Frears (2000)
Sing Street – John Carney (2016)
Yes, God, Yes – Karen Maine (2019)
Chocolat – Claire Denis (1988)
Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July (2005)
Boyz n the Hood – John Singleton (1991)
The Last Waltz – Martin Scorsese (1978)
Happiest Season – Clea DuVall (2020)
The 40-Year-Old Version – Radha Blank (2020)
Fish Tank – Andrea Arnold (2009)

December
Boys State – Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss (2020)
Vice – Adam McKay (2018)
Mank – David Fincher (2020)
Da 5 Bloods – Spike Lee (2020)
Mangrove – Steve McQueen (2020)
Lover’s Rock – Steve McQueen (2020)
Red, White and Blue – Steve McQueen (2020)
Alex Wheatle – Steve McQueen (2020)
Time – Garrett Bradley (2020)
Rafiki – Wanuri Kahiu (2018)
Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari (2010)
Die Hard – John McTiernan (1988)
Education – Steve McQueen (2020)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Eliza Hittman (2020)
1917 – Sam Mendes (2019)
La Strada – Federico Fellini (1954)
Breathless – Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
Dirty Harry – Don Siegel (1971)

Books

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (1997)
Circe – Madeline Miller (2018)
Watchmen – Alan Moore (author) & Dave Gibbons (illustrator) (1987)
A Room of One’s One – Virginia Woolf (1929)
The Wes Anderson Collection – Matt Zoller Seitz (2013)
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller (2011)
The White Album – Joan Didion (1979)
Girl with Curious Hair – David Foster Wallace (1989)
The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai (2018)
Pastoralia – George Saunders (2000)
Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger (2013)
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman (1995)
The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman (1997)
The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman (2000)
The Iliad – Homer; Translation by Caroline Alexander (2015)
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon (1997)
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (1961)
1984 – George Orwell (1949)
This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger (2020)
TV (The Book) – Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz (2016)
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
The People in the Trees – Hanya Yanagihara (2013)
The Hundred-Year House – Rebecca Makkai (2014)
Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play to the Silver Screen – Paul Clee (2005) 
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (1847)
The Sopranos Sessions – Matt Zoller Seitz & Alan Sepinwall (2019)
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy (1985)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (1847)
Mike Leigh: Interviews – Ed. Howie Movshovitz (2000)
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver (2003)
The Lying Life of Adults – Elena Ferrante (2019) 
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward (2017)
Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams (2019)
Jazz – Toni Morrison (1992)
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin (1963)
All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire – Ed. Jonathan Abrams (2018)
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused – Melissa Maerz (2020)

Television

You (Season 1) – Greg Berlanti & Sera Gamble (Lifetime, 2018)
Ramy (Season 1) – Ramy Youssef, Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch (Hulu, 2019)
Escape at Dannemora -Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin (Showtime, 2018)
American Vandal (Season 2) -Dan Perrault & Tony Yacenda (Netflix, 2018)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 10) – Larry David (HBO, 2020)
Schitt’s Creek ( Seasons 1-6) – Eugene Levy & Dan Levy (POP, 2015-2020)
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, & Madness – Eric Goode, Rebecca Chaiklin (Netflix, 2020)
The Outsider – Richard Price (HBO, 2020)
Devs – Alex Garland (FX on Hulu, 2020)
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children – Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre and Joshua Bennett (HBO, 2020)
Survivor – Charlie Parsons, Mark Burnett, Jeff Probst (CBS)
(Season 40: Winners at War – 2020)
(Season 7: Pearl Islands – 2003)
(Season 15: China – 2007)
(Season 18: Tocantins – 2009)
(Season 20: Heroes Vs. Villains – 2010)
(Season 37: David Vs. Goliath – 2018)
(Season 32: Kaôh Rōng – 2015)
(Season 31: Cambodia – 2015)
The Last Dance – Jason Hehir (ESPN / Netflix, 2020)
Betty – Crystal Moselle (HBO, 2020)
The Wire -David Simon (HBO, 2002-2008)
The Sopranos – David Chase (HBO, 1999-2007)
Community – Dan Harmon (NBC / Yahoo! 2009-2015)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark – Liz Garbus (HBO, 2020)
What We Do in the Shadows (Seasons 1-2) – Jermaine Clement (FX on Hulu, 2019-2020)
I May Destroy You – Michaela Coel (HBO, 2020)
The Boys (Seasons 1-2) – Eric Kripke (Prime Video, 2019-2020)
Mrs. America – Dahvi Waller (FX on Hulu, 2020)
Mr. Robot (Season 1) – Sam Esmail (USA, 2015)
PEN15 (Season 2) – Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman (Hulu, 2020)
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst – Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Zac Stuart-Pointer (HBO, 2015)
The Vow  – Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer (HBO, 2020)
The Third Day – Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly (HBO, 2020)
The Queen’s Gambit – Scott Frank, Alan Scott (Netflix, 2020)
The Good Lord Bird – Ethan Hawke, Mark Richard (Showtime, 2020) 
The Great British Baking Show (Series 11) – (Channel 4 / Netflix, 2020)
Industry – Mickey Down, Konrad Kay (HBO, 2020) 
How To with John Wilson – John Wilson (HBO, 2020)
Murder on Middle Beach – Madison Hamburg (HBO, 2020)
Mad Men (Season 1) – Matthew Weiner (AMC, 2007)