in 2023 I watched some movies
I was gonna catch up on all those best picture nominees from the last 5 years, but watched crap like Caligula 2 instead
The 1989 World Tour - Live (2015, dir. Jonas Åkerlund)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, dir. Rian Johnson)
Flight 666 (2008, dir. Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn)
Dracula (1931, dir. Todd Browning)
Moonraker (1979, dir. Lewis Gilbert)
The Pez Outlaw (2022, dir. Bryan Storkel and Amy Bandlien Storkel)
Encino Man (1992, dir. Les Mayfield)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998, dir. Jonathan Frakes)
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (2019, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Cleopatra (1963, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
The Alligator People (1959, dir. Roy Del Ruth)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991, dir. Thomas Demme)
Godzilla vs. Megalon (“ゴジラ対メガロ” 1973, dir. Jun Fukuda)
Invasion of Astro-Monster (“怪獣大戦争” 1965, dir. Ishirō Honda)
Breaking a Monster (2015, dir. Luke Meyer)
Terror at Orgy Castle (1971, dir. Zoltan G. Spencer)
Wake in Fright ("Outback" 1971, dir. Ted Kotcheff)
m.A.A.d. (2014, dir. Khalil Joseph)
Reservoir Dogs (1992, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002, dir. Steve Oedekerk)
House (1977, dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, dir. Steven Spielberg)
Dunkirk (2017, dir. Christopher Nolan)
Final Destination (2000, dir. James Wong)
Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia (2023, dir. Salima Koroma)
Basic Instinct (1992, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985, dir. Tim Burton)
Caligula 2: The Untold Story (“Caligola: La storia mai raccontata” 1982, dir. Joe D’Amato)
La noche del terror ciego (1972, dir. Amando de Ossorio)
Rocky IV (1985, dir. Sylvester Stallone)
Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)
House of Wax (1953, dir. Andre DeToth)
Thir13en Ghosts (2001, dir. Steve Beck)
Kashchey the Immortal (“Кащей Бессмертный” 1944, dir. Aleksandr Rou)
Ghost Ship (2002, dir. Steve Beck)
The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971, dir. Piers Haggard)
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965, dir. Don Sharp)
The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966, dir. Don Sharp)
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967, dir. Jeremy Summers)
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968, dir. Jesús Franco)
April Fool's Day (1986, dir. Fred Walton)
It's Pat 1994, dir. Adam Bernstein)
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969, dir. Jesús Franco)
Adam and Eve Meet the Cannibals ("Adam ed Eve, la prima storia d'amore" 1983, dir. Enzo Doria & Luigi Rosso)
The Mountain of the Cannibal God (“La montagna del dio cannibale” 1978, dir. Sergio Martino)
When Harry Met Sally… (1989, dir. Rob Reiner)
Beetlejuice (1988, dir. Tim Burton)
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001, dir. Peter Jackson, Long as Shit Version)
The Hobbit (1977, dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene)
The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, dir. Tobe Hooper)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003, dir. Rob Zombie)
Chopping Mall (1986, dir. Jim Wynorski)
Basket Case (1982, dir. Frank Henenlotter)
Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali)
Cube 2: Hypercube (2002, dir. Andrzej Sekula)
Practical Magic (1998, dir. Griffin Dunne)
Tropic Thunder (2008, dir. Ben Stiller)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, dir. J.J. Abrams)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, dir. Rian Johnson)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019, dir. J.J. Abrams)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Superbad (2007, dir. Greg Mottola)
Bruce Almighty (2003, dir. Tom Shadyac)
House of Flying Daggers (“十面埋伏” 2004, dir. Zhang Yimou)
Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell)
Grandma’s Boy (2006, dir. Nicholaus Goossen)
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023, dir. Emma Tammi)
Caligula and Messalina (“Caligula et Messaline” 1981, dir. Bruno Mattei)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, and Norman Taurog)
A Christmas Prince (2017, dir. Alex Zamm)
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (2018, dir. John Schulz)
The Knight Before Christmas (2019, dir. Monika Mitchell)
Goldfinger (1964, dir. Guy Hamilton)
Total Recall (1990, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
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Jul - Dec 2023 Reading List:
Bernard, Jessie. The Future of Marriage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese. The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries. San Francisco: Weiser, 2007.
Cady Stanton, Elizabeth, “The Destructive Male.” 1868. http://edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/stanton_destructive_male.html
Chollet, Mona. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women are Still on Trial. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022.
Christ, Carol P. Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Cloninger, Sally J. “A Rhetorical Analysis of Feminist Agitation.” The University of Michigan Papers in Women’s Studies 1, no. 1 (February 1974): 44-50. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mfs/acp0359.0001.001/46:4
Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1973.
Dworkin, Andrea. Right-Wing Women. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1983.
Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America: 1967-75. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. New York: HarperCollins, 1987.
Faludi, Susan. Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.
Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
Griffin, Susan. Pornography and Silence: Culture’s Revenge Against Nature. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
Harding, M. Esther. Woman’s Mysteries: Ancient and Modern. Boston: Shambhala, 1990.
Janega, Eleanor. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
Johnson, Sonia. From Housewife to Heretic. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1981.
Jones, Ann. Women Who Kill. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1980.
Jones, Beverly and Judith Brown. “Toward a Female Liberation Movement.” Jul 1968. https://www.redstockings.org/index.php/main/classics-of-1968
Judd, Elizabeth. “Women Before the Conquest: A Study of Women in Anglo-Saxon England.” The University of Michigan Papers in Women’s Studies 1, no. 1 (February 1974): 127–49. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mfs/acp0359.0001.001/129:8
Koedt, Anne. “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.” 1970. https://www.cwluherstory.org/classic-feminist-writings-articles/myth-of-the-vaginal-orgasm#
New York Radical Women, Notes From the First Year (June 1968). https://www.redstockings.org/index.php/main/classics-of-1968
Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017.
Reed, Evelyn. “The Myth of Women’s Inferiority.” The Myth of Women’s Inferiority by Evelyn Reed 1954. Accessed July 9, 2023. https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed-evelyn/1954/myth-inferiority.htm.
Spender, Dale. There’s Always Been a Women’s Movement This Century. London: Pandora Press, 1983.
Starhawk. The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
Women’s Majority Union, Lilith (Dec 1968). https://www.redstockings.org/index.php/main/classics-of-1968
Zeisler, Andi. We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement. New York: BBS PublicAffairs, 2016.
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an absolute list of films i’d like to watch (so far)
thanks to the Letterboxd community for always recommending the most unhinged pieces ever
Gummo, Harmony Korine (1997)
Hard Candy, David Slade (2005)
House, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike (2001)
Kids, Larry Clark (1995)
Léon: The Professional, Luc Besson (1994)
Oldboy, Park Chan-wook (2003)
Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone, (1984)
Fantastic Planet, René Laloux (1973)
Punch Drunk-Love, Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)
[REC], Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman (1975)
Shock Treatment, Jim Sharman (1981)
Sleepaway Camp, Robert Hiltzik (1983)
The Warriors, Walter Hill (1979)
Videodrome, David Cronenberg (1983)
Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (1976)
The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty (1980)
Flowers for Algernon, Jeff Bleckner (2000)
Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan (1986)
The Machinist, Brad Anderson (2004)
Miller’s Crossing, Joel Coen (1990)
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
The Farewell, Lulu Wang (2019)
Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine (2009)
Pixote, Héctor Babenco (1980)
Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine (1999)
Last Night, Don McKellar (1998)
Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta (2018)
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
The Pianist, Roman Polanski (2002)
Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino (1992)
Blue Velvet, David Lynch (1986)
At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel (2018)
Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)
Climax, Gaspar Noé (2018)
Shirkers, Sandi Tan (2018)
A Ghost Story, David Lowery (2017)
Carol, Todd Haynes (2015)
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro, Hayao Miyazaki (1979)
Baby Driver, Edgar Wright (2017)
The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)
She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee (1986)
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Macon Blair (2017)
It Comes at Night, Trey Edward Shults (2017)
Buster’s Mal Heart, Sarah Adina Smith (2016)
Cam, Daniel Goldhaber (2018)
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, Irek Dobrowolski (2018)
I Think We’re Alone Now, Reed Morano (2018)
Skins, Eduardo Casanova (2017)
The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett (2016)
About Time, Richard Curtis (2013)
The Bad Batch, Ana Lily Amirpour (2016)
The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock (2019)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh (2017)
Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone (1994)
XX, Karyn Kusama & Jovanka Vuckovic & Roxanne Benjamin & St. Vincent (2017)
Cargo, Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke (2017)
Residue, Alex Garcia Lopez (2015)
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Griffin Dunne (2017)
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Joe Piscatella (2017)
Chasing Trane, John Scheinfeld (2016)
Tallulah, Siân Heder (2016)
Expedition Happiness, Felix Starck & Selima Taibi (2017)
Bottom of the World, Richard Sears (2017)
Super Dark Times, Kevin Phillips (2017)
Notes on Blindness, Pete Middleton & James Spinney (2016)
Newness, Drake Doremus (2017)
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Kelly Duane de la Vega (2019)
Paddleton, Alexandre Lehmann (2019)
Juanita, Clark Johnson (2019)
Temple, Michael Barrett (2017)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Bob Hercules & Rita Coburn Whack (2016)
P, Paul Spurrier (2005)
I Am Happiness on Earth, Julián Hernández (2014)
Carrie Pilby, Susan Johnson (2016)
Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses, David Stubbs (2015)
I Called Him Morgan, Kasper Collin (2016)
A Family Affair, Tom Fassaert (2015)
Q, Sanjeev Gupta (2017)
Boyhood, Richard Linklater (2014)
Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott (1991)
Brick, Rian Johnson (2005)
The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson (2001)
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins (2016)
Mulholland Drive, David Lynch (2001)
Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
Lake Mungo, Joel Anderson (2008)
War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg (2005)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)
Mady, Panos Cosmatos (2018)
Raw, Julia Ducournau (2016)
The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
The Love Witch, Anna Biller (2016)
Tusk, Kevin Smith (2014)
Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky (2010)
A Serbian Film, Srđan Spasojević (2010)
Antichrist, Lars von Trier (2009)
Paprika, Satoshi Kon (2006)
Audition, Takashi Miike (1999)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam (1998)
Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon (1997)
Suspiria, Dario Argento (1977)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
Irreversible, Gaspar Noé (2002)
Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)
Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood, Hideshi Hino (1985)
I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noé (1998)
Begotten, E. Elias Merhige (1989)
Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieślowski (1989)
Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier (2000)
Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)
Honey Boy, Alma Har’el (2019)
The Inner Scar, Philippe Garrel (1972)
The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook (2016)
Funny Games, Michael Haneke (1997)
$9.99, Tatia Rosenthal (2008)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)
In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai (2000)
Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984)
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam (1979)
Blow-Up, Michaelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee (1989)
Christiane F., Uli Edel (1981)
Grey Gardens, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Muffie Meyer & Ellen Hovde (1975)
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (2014)
Uncut Gems, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie (2019)
Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman (1957)
The Silence, Ingmar Bergman (1963)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma (2019)
The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers (2019)
Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell (2020)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer, Masaki Kobayashi (1961)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)
X, Ti West (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan (2022)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican (2022)
The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Live, Aaron Craig & Alex Craig (2017)
La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
My Life as a Zucchini, Claude Barras (2016)
The Wolf House, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña (2018)
Come and See, Elem Klimov (1985)
Noisy Requiem, Yoshihiko Matsui (1988)
Eyes Without a Face, Georges Franju (1960)
Angel’s Egg, Mamoru Oshii (1985)
Dogville, Lars von Trier (2003)
Pink Flamingos, John Waters (1972)
Are you lost in the world like me?, Steve Cutts (2016)
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