Consumption: 2021
In 2021, Year Two of the pandemic, I saw three movies in the theater. Pretty pathetic for someone who used to average one a week. But three movies is still three more than I managed to attend the year before. Not coincidentally, 2021 was also Year Two of Yelling About Movies, a.k.a. my social life on Zoom.
I never recommend anyone watch this film discussion podcast thing my friends and I do. Nevertheless, some of the titles below are linked to our Yelling About Movies discussion. You can’t say I didn’t warn you. A few titles, when clicked, instead take you to more info on the film: an iMDB page or whatnot. And then lots of them don’t do anything because I got lazy. But, linked or not, most of these titles are Yelling About Movies picks and if it is, a discussion can be found on YouTube. If you’re curious, here are all the videos.
In our year-end-wrapup show, each of us picked the best things we’d seen last year. You’ll see my favorites highlighted in the list below by an asterisk.
MOVIES ON THE BIG SCREEN (3)
Dune (2021)
The Velvet Underground
The Matrix Resurrections
MOVIES ON THE SMALL SCREEN (76)
Antarctica
Insomnia (1997)
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
A Prophet*
Thirst
Another Round (Druk)*
WR: Mysteries Of The Organism
The Little Things
Come and See
Sound Of Metal
Hero (2002)
Targets
The Last Picture Show
Compliance
Burning
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Buck
A Woman In Berlin
Hannah Arendt
Synchronic
One From The Heart
The Petite Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
Mikey And Nicky
Alphaville
Begotten
The Skin I Live In
Inherent Vice
Four Against The Bank
Stander
Asperger’s Are Us
The Big Sleep
A Ghost Story*
Oxygene
Blowout
The Bad and the Beautiful
All About Eve*
The Terminal Man
Alfie
The Mole Agent
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Warlock
Grizzly 2: Revenge
Pumpkin
Irma Vep
The Flat
Der Lachende Mann (The Laughing Man)
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Derek Delgaudio’s In and Of Itself*
The Sleepless
Barry Lyndon
Rebellion in Patagonia (La Patagonia Rebelde)
Odd Man Out
Blue Collar
Crawl
Before Sunset
Point Blank (1967)
The Yellow Sea
Coup de Grâce (1976)
Zardoz
The Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Haunting (1963)
Margaret (Extended Cut)
Introducing, Selma Blair
Morning Glory
Before Midnight
Thelma
Real Life
Beasts of No Nation
The Rules of the Game
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Enter the Dragon
Into The Inferno
Salesman
Encanto
Beast (2017)
REWATCHES (30)
The H-Man
Force Majeure
Miami Blues
Bohemian Rhapsody
Elle
Battleship Potemkin
Happy Go Lucky
Timecrimes
I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore
J.T.
Fish Tank
Henry Fool
Mulholland Drive
The Mother and the Whore
World of Tomorrow
In The Bedroom
The Wild Bunch
Sing Street
Narc
Before Sunrise
Paris, Texas
The Hidden
Sorry To Bother You
Kentucky Fried Movie
Uncut Gems
The Hurt Locker
Total Recall (1990)
TELEVISION
The Crown
Mom
Star Trek: Lower Decks
How To With John Wilson
Avenue 5
Resident Alien
Wandavision
Expecting Amy
Ghosts (UK version)
Debris
Ted Lasso
Bo Burnham: Inside
The Great
BOOKS (1)
Cessation by Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas
* Highly recommended!
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