2022 Wrap Up!

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I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling…fucking grateful that 2022 is over. That being said, I watched a lot of cool movies, read some dusty ol’ books, and waded through what I consider to be the best year of television maybe ever. For those curious, it’s all below. Tell me what I missed!

By the Numbers:

  • 147 Movies Watched (28 from this year)
  • 11 Books Read (0 from this year)
  • 36 seasons of TV watched across 30 series (29 series from this year)

Additions to the “A” List:

The films that were added to my running list of all A and A- movies since beginning this blog.

  • The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion (2021)
  • Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Fincher (2011)
  • The Beta Test – Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe (2021)
  • Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)
  • Dekalog: One -Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Drive My Car -Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021)
  • Flowers of Shanghai -Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1998)
  • The Worst Person in the World -Joachim Trier (2021)
  • Saving Private Ryan – Steven Spielberg (1998)
  • Cha Cha Real Smooth – Cooper Raiff (2022)
  • Irma Vep – Olivier Assayas (1996)
  • Big Trouble in Little China – John Carpenter (1986)
  • Thief – Michael Mann (1981)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (2022)
  • Top Gun: Maverick – Joseph Kosinski (2022)
  • Dekalog: Six – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • RRR – S. S. Rajamouli (2022)
  • Dekalog IX – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Dekalog X – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Clouds of Sils Maria – Olivier Assayas (2014)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1974)
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai – Jim Jarmusch (1999)
  • Come and See – Elem Klimov (1985)
  • Amarcord – Federico Fellini (1973)
  • There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
  • Contagion – Steven Soderbergh (2011)
  • Children of Men – Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
  • Under the Silver Lake – David Robert Mitchell (2018)
  • Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985)
  • The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach (2005)
  • Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg (2022)
  • His Girl Friday – Howard Hawks (1940)

Various Writings

Movies

crimes

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – David Yates (2009)
  • The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion (2021)
  • The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal (2021)
  • France – Bruno Dumont (2021)
  • Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
  • Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! – Pedro Almodóvar (1989)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One – David Yates (2010)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Fincher (2011)
  • The Beta Test – Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe (2021)
  • Panic Room – David Fincher (2002)
  • Kimi – Steven Soderbergh (2022)
  • Tick, Tick…Boom! – Lin-Manuel Miranda (2021)
  • Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)
  • The Last Duel – Ridley Scott (2021)
  • The Other Guys – Adam McKay (2010)
  • Jackass: The Movie – Jeff Tremaine (2002)
  • Juliet, Naked – Jesse Peretz (2018)
  • Chocolat – Lasse Hallström (2000)
  • Turning Red – Domee Shi (2022)
  • Dekalog: One – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Dekalog: Two – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Red Rocket – Sean Baker (2021)
  • Dekalog: Three – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Heat – Michael Mann (1995)
  • Apollo 10 ½  – Richard Linklater (2022)
  • The Social Network – David Fincher (2010)
  • Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021)
  • Dekalog: IV – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Flowers of Shanghai – Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1988)
  • Ambulance – Michael Bay (2022)
  • Jumanji: The Next Level – Jake Kasdan (2018)
  • The Worst Person in the World – Joachim Trier (2021)
  • Saving Private Ryan – Steven Spielberg (1998)
  • National Treasure – Jon Turteltaub (2004)
  • National Treasure: Book of Secrets – Jon Turteltaub (2007)
  • Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny – Louis Black, Karen Bernstein (2016)
  • Brigsby Bear – Dave McCary (2017)
  • Shithouse – Cooper Raiff (2020)
  • Tampopo – Juzo Itami (1985)
  • Cha Cha Real Smooth – Cooper Raiff (2022)
  • A Scanner Darkly – Richard Linklater (2006)
  • Irma Vep – Olivier Assayas (1996)
  • Secret Sunshine – Lee Chang-dong (2007)
  • I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco – Sam Jones (2002)
  • Touki Bouki – Djibril Diop Mambéty (1973)
  • Repo Man – Alex Cox (1984)
  • Big Trouble in Little China – John Carpenter (1986)
  • Escape from New York – John Carpenter (1982)
  • Thief – Michael Mann (1981)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (2022)
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – David Yates (2022)
  • Top Gun: Maverick – Joseph Kosinski (2022)
  • The Warriors – Walter Hill (1979)
  • The Black Phone – Scott Derrickson (2022)
  • Dekalog: Five – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Dekalog: Six – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Dekalog: Seven – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • RRR – S. S. Rajamouli (2022)
  • Dekalog: Eight – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Dekalog: Nine – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Dekalog: Ten – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)
  • Fellini Satyricon – Federico Fellini (1969)
  • Clouds of Sils Maria – Olivier Assayas (2014)
  • The Bob’s Burger’s Movie – Loren Bouchard, Bernard Derriman (2022)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1974)
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai – Jim Jarmusch (1999)
  • Phantom Thread – Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)
  • The Story of a Three Day Pass – Melvin Van Peebles (1967)
  • Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story – Rawson Marshall Thurber (2004)
  • The Northman – Robert Eggers (2022)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Robert Zemeckis (1988)
  • Come and See – Elem Klimov (1985)
  • Amarcord – Federico Fellini (1973)
  • There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
  • Not Fade Away – David Chase (2012)
  • Synecdoche; New York – Charlie Kaufman (2008)
  • Contagion – Steven Soderbergh (2011)
  • Ocean’s Eleven – Steven Soderbergh (2001)
  • The Devil Wears Prada – David Frankel (2006)
  • Ocean’s Twelve – Steven Soderbergh (2004)
  • Meantime – Mike Leigh (1983)
  • Bull Durham – Ron Shelton (1988)
  • Happy Together – Wong Kar-wai (1997)
  • Ocean’s Thirteen – Steven Soderbergh (2007)
  • Children of Men – Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
  • Prisoners – Denis Villeneuve (2013)
  • Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
  • Spencer – Pablo Larraín (2021)
  • Munich – Stephen Spielberg (2005)
  • It Follows – David Robert Mitchell (2014)
  • Benedetta – Paul Verhoeven (2021)
  • Under the Silver Lake – David Robert Mitchell (2018)
  • Shutter Island – Martin Scorsese (2010)
  • Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer (2013)
  • Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore (2012)
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston (2018)
  • Moonage Daydream – Brett Morgen (2022)
  • Soul – Pete Docter (2020)
  • Sleepaway Camp – Robert Hiltzik (1983)
  • The Blair Witch Project – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (1999)
  • The Wicker Man – Robin Hardy (1973)
  • Scream – Wes Craven (1996)
  • Barbarian – Zach Cregger (2022)
  • Malignant – James Wan (2020)
  • House – Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
  • Malignant – James Wan (2020)
  • Nope – Jordan Peele (2022)
  • Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985)
  • Bros – Nicolas Stoller (2022)
  • Game Night – John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein (2018)
  • Girls Trip – Malcolm D. Lee (2017)
  • Badlands – Terrence Malick (1973)
  • Meet Me in the Bathroom – Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern (2022)
  • Swann in Love – Volker Schlöndorff (1984)
  • La Captive – Chantal Akerman (2000)
  • John Wick – Chad Stahelski (2014)
  • Fresh – Mimi Cave (2022)
  • Jungle Cruise – Jaume Collet-Serra (2021)
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp – Peyton Reed (2018)
  • Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund (2022)
  • Chevalier – Athina Rachel Tsangari (2015)
  • The Menu – Mark Mylod (2022)
  • Fire of Love – Sara Dosa (2022)
  • X – Ti West (2022)
  • Zodiac – David Fincher (2007)
  • Confess, Fletch – Greg Mottola (2022)
  • Time Regained – Raúl Ruiz (1999)
  • The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach (2005)
  • Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg (2022)
  • Bullet Train – David Leitch (2022)
  • Amélie – Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2001)
  • Minding the Gap – Bing Liu (2018)
  • Pather Panchali – Satyajit Ray (1955)
  • The Rules of the Game – Jean Renoir (1939)
  • After Yang – Kogonada (2021)
  • Misery – Rob Reiner (1990)
  • TÁR – Todd Field (2022)
  • La Jetée – Chris Marker (1962)
  • Side Effects – Steven Soderbergh (2013)
  • Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – Sidney Lumet (2007)
  • The Thin Red Line – Terrence Malick (1998)
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson (2022)
  • The Game – David Fincher (1997)
  • The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh (2022)
  • City of God – Fernando Meirelles (2002)
  • Close-Up – Abbas Kiarostami (1990)
  • His Girl Friday – Howard Hawks (1940)

Books

time regained

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling (2005)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling (2007)
  • In Search of Lost Time Volume I: Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust (1913)
  • In Search of Lost Time Volume II: Within a Budding Grove – Marcel Proust (1918)
  • In Search of Lost Time Volume III: The Guermantes Way – Marcel Proust (1921)
  • In Search of Lost Time Volume IV: Sodom & Gomorrah – Marcel Proust (1921)
  • In Search of Lost Time Volume V: The Captive – Marcel Proust (1923)
  • In Search of Lost Time Volume VI: The Fugitive – Marcel Proust (1925)
  • In Search of Lost Time Volume VII: Time Regained – Marcel Proust (1927)
  • Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time: A Reader’s Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past – Patrick Alexander (2007)
  • White Noise – Don DeLillo (1985)

Television

station eleven

  • 100 Foot Wave (Season 1) – Chris Smith (HBO)
  • Station Eleven – Patrick Somerville (HBO MAX)
  • Yellowjackets (Season 1) – Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson (Showtime)
  • South Side (Seasons 1 & 2) – Diallo Riddle, Bashir Salahuddin, Sultan Salahuddin (HBO Max)
  • The Righteous Gemstones (Season 2) – Danny McBride (HBO) 
  • The Afterparty (Season 1) – Christopher Miller (Apple TV+)
  • Severance (Season 1) – Dan Erickson (Apple TV+) 
  • Abbott Elementary (Season 1)– Quinta Brunson (ABC) 
  • Pachinko (Season 1) – Soo Hugh (Apple TV+) 
  • Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (Season 1)– Max Borenstein, Jim Hecht (HBO) 
  • Atlanta (Season 3) – Donald Glover (FX) 
  • Survivor (Season 42)– Charlie Parsons, Mark Burnett, Jeff Probst (CBS) 
  • Under the Banner of Heaven – Dustin Lance Black (Hulu) 
  • Barry (Season 3) – Bill Hader, Alec Berg (HBO)
  • Hacks (Season 2) -Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky (HBO Max) 
  • SearchParty (Seasons 1-5) – Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter (TBS/HBO Max)
  • Stranger Things (Season 4) – The Duffer Brothers (Netflix)
  • The Bear (Season 1) – Christopher Storer (FX on Hulu) 
  • Irma Vep –Olivier Assayas (HBO) 
  • Better Call Saul (Season 6) – Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould (AMC) 
  • The Last Movie Stars – Ethan Hawke (HBO) 
  • The Rehearsal (Season 1) – Nathan Fielder (HBO) 
  • Only Murders in the Building (Season 2) – Steve Martin & John Hoffman (Hulu) 
  • What We Do In The Shadows (Season 4) – Jermaine Clement (FX) 
  • Industry (Season 2) -Mickey Down, Konrad Kay (HBO)
  • Reservation Dogs (Season 2) – Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo (FX on Hulu) 
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season 1) – J.D. Payne, Patrick McKay (Amazon Prime) 
  • House of the Dragon (Season 1) -Ryan Condal, George R. R. Martin (HBO) 
  • The Vow (Season 2)– Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer (HBO) 
  • Survivor (Season 43)– Charlie Parsons, Mark Burnett, Jeff Probst (CBS) 
  • The White Lotus (Season 2) – Mike White (HBO) 
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