January 2021: Viewing-Reading-Listening
Log of motion pictures viewed, books read, music listened to for January 2021
(Starred titles I've seen, read, or heard before.)
VIEWED
January 1
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
January 2
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
*Streets of Fire (1984)*
January 3
*Black Narcissus (1947)*
January 4
*The Red Shoes (1948)*
January 8
Pretend It’s a City, Episode 1, “Pretend It’s a City” (2021)
Pretend It’s a City, Episode 2, “Cultural Affairs” (2021)
Pretend It’s a City, Episode 3, “Metropolitan Transit” (2021)
Pretend It’s a City, Episode 4, “Board of Estimate ” (2021)
January 9
Pretend It’s a City, Episode 5, “Department of Sports & Health” (2021)
Pretend It’s a City, Episode 6, “Hall of Records” (2021)
Pretend It’s a City, Episode 7, “Library Services” (2021)
Broadcast News (1987)
January 10
*The Small Back Room (Hour of Glory) (1949)*
January 11
The Elusive Pimpernel (The Fighting Pimpernel) (1949)
January 12
Gone to Earth (1950)
January 14
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Season 22, Episode 4, “Sightless in a Savage Land” (2021)
January 15
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Season 22, Episode 5, “Turn Me on Take Me Private” (2021)
January 16
*Lost in America (1985)*
January 19
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
January 22
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Season 22, Episode 6, “The Long Arm of the Witness” (2021)
January 23
*Bride of Chucky (1998)*
January 25
It’s a Sin, Episode 1 (2021)
It’s a Sin, Episode 2 (2021)
It’s a Sin, Episode 3 (2021)
It’s a Sin, Episode 4 (2021)
It’s a Sin, Episode 5 (2021)
January 26
*My Voyage to Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia) (1999)*
The Neighborhood (2001)
January 27
*Oh…Rosalinda!! (1955)*
January 28
*Twin Peaks, Part 1 & Part 2, “My Log Has a Message for You” & “The Stars Turn and a Time Presents Itself” (2017)*
*Twin Peaks, Part 3, “Call for Help” (2017)*
*Twin Peaks, Part 4, “…Brings Back Some Memories” (2017)*
*Twin Peaks, Part 5, “Case Files” (2017)*
*Twin Peaks, Part 6, “Don’t Die” (2017)*
January 30
*Gangs of New York (2002)*
*Harold and Maude (1971)*
January 31
The Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee) (1956)
The Blues, “Feel Like Going Home” (2003)
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty (2004)
READ
In the Spirit of Jazz: The Otis Ferguson Reader (1982/1997), Edited by Dorothy Chamberlain and Robert Wilson, Foreword by Malcolm Cowley, p. 264-end
The Novices of Sais (1802/1949/2005/2020), Novalis, with illustrations by Paul Klee, Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (1979), Selected and Edited by Sally Fitzgerald, p. 176-192
Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka (2016), Selected and translated from the German by Peter Wortsman, p. 129-330
A Life in Movies: An Autobiography (1986), Michael Powell, p. 200-262
The Primal Screen: Essays on Film and Related Subjects (1973), Andrew Sarris, p. 1-53
Fantastic Tales (1869/1992/2020), Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, Translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti, p. 1-30
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays (2021), Karl Ove Knausgaard, Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken, p. 1-17
LISTENED
Faith (1981), The Cure
Pornography (1982), The Cure
The Top (1984), The Cure
The Head on the Door (1985), The Cure
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987), The Cure
Thanks so much for your nice reply. Writing and experiencing art are indeed a calling, and to a certain 'healthy' extent an obsessive necessity. No one is ever satisfied by the quantity and quality of their own achievements, especially those who should.
Your site is well curated and I hope it'll get the attention it deserves. It's kind of shocking I am the first one here, but let's blame social media and 'fast-content' for that.
I appreciated what you said on the podcast regarding the value of seeking one's own art in life and how rare that is to find it. The X-Files saved my 2020 (yes, I'm that late to it!), and I'm still looking for a film that will steal my heart the way Wings of Desire did a trillion years ago.
PS - here's my letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/da_/
I'm curious as to how you organize your time in order to achieve this, plus the time to write about it. (I listened to your excellent episode of the X-Files Diaries, which got me here). I'm currently having a look at your one shot X-Files series on Tumblr. Great insight there as well! Keep it up :)