WATCH
LIST
2020

DECEMBER

  • Less Than Zero, dir. Marek Kanievska, 1987 (HBO Max)

  • Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, dir. Taylor Swift, 2020 (Disney+)

  • Part 1, Rue (Euphoria special ep), created by Sam Levinson, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Small Axe: Lover’s Rock, directed by Steve McQueen, 2020 (Prime)

  • The Crown: Season 4, created by Peter Morgan, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Gone Girl, dir. David Fincher, 2014 (HULU)

  • Strictly Ballroom, dir. Baz Luhrmann, 1992 (Prime) (Estelle’s bday)

  • Let Them All Talk, dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • First Cow, dir. Kelly Reichardt, 2019 (Showtime Anytime)

  • The Flight Attendant: Season 1, created by Steve Yockey, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Barking Dogs Never Bite, dir. Bong Joon-Ho, 2000 (Criterion Channel)

  • The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, dir. Frank Marshall, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Cliffhanger, dir. Renny Harlin, 1993 (HBO Max)

  • A League of Their Own, dir. Penny Marshall, 1992 (Prime)

  • Sabrina, dir. Sydney Pollack, 1995 (HBO Mac)

  • LILJA 4-EVER, dir. Lukas Moodysson, 2002 (YouTube)

  • Love Actually, dir. Richard Curtis, 2003 (iTunes)

  • Jack’s Back, dir. Rowdy Herrington, 1988 (Prime)

  • Soul, dir. Pete Docter and Kemp Powers, 2020 (Disney+)

  • Apocalypse Now, dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (iTunes)

  • Showbiz Kids, dir. Alex Winters, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • The Bachelorette: Season 16, created by Mike Fleiss, 2020 (HULU)

NOVEMBER

  • On the Rocks, dir. Sofia Coppola, 2020 (Apple+)

  • Knock Knock, dir. Eli Roth, 2015 (Netflix) (one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen?)

  • We Are Who We Are: Season 1, created by Sean Conway, Paolo Giordano, Luca Guadagnino, Francesca Manieri, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Dressed to Kill, dir. Brian de Palma, 1980 (Criterion Channel)

  • Save Yourselves!, dir. Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, 2020 (iTunes)

  • Gösta, created by Lukas Moodysson, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, dir. Kurt Kuenne, 2008 (Criterion Channel) (devastating)

  • The Binge, dir. Jeremy Garelick, 2020 (HULU)

  • Don’t Look Now, dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1973 (Criterion Channel)

  • How to with John Wilson, created by John Wilson, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Happiest Season, dir. Clea DuVall, 2020 (HULU)

  • The Undoing, created by David E. Kelley, 2020 (HBO Max)

OCTOBER

  • Girls: Seasons 1 & 2, created by Lena Dunham, 2012-13 (HBO Max)

  • Emily in Paris: Season 1, created by Darren Star, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Other Music, dir. Puloma Basu and Robert Hatch-Miller, 2019 (Prime)

  • Titanic, dir. James Cameron, 1997 (STARZ)

  • Videodrome, dir. David Cronenberg, 1983 (Criterion Collection)

  • The Vow: Season 1, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • The Trial of the Chicago 7, dir. Aaron Sorkin, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Hubie Halloween, dir. Steven Brill, 2020 (Netflix)

  • 28 Days, dir. Betty Thomas, 2000 (Netflix)

  • Fright Night, dir. Craig Gillespie, 2011

  • Along Came a Spider, dir. Lee Tamahori, 2001 (Starz)

  • Spree, dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko, 2020 (iTunes)

  • The Purge, dir. James DeMonaco, 2013 (iTunes)

  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe, dir. André Øvredal, 2016 (Netflix)

SEPTEMBER

  • Love on the Spectrum: Season 1, created by Cian O'Clery, 2020 (Netflix)

  • 10 Things I Hate About You, dir. Gil Junger, 1999 (Disney+)

  • Kate Plays Christine, dir. Robert Greene, 2016 (Criterion Channel)

  • Higher Learning, dir. John Singleton, 1995 (Showtime)

  • Fantasy Island, dir. Jeff Wadlow, 2020 (STARZ) (s0 so s0 bad)

  • SLC Punk!, dir. James Merendino, 1998 (Pluto TV)

  • i’m thinking of ending things, dir. Charlie Kaufman, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Streetwise, dir. Martin Bell, 1981 (Criterion Channel)

  • While We’re Young, dir. Noah Baumbach, 2014 (Netflix)

  • The Descendants, dir. Alexander Payne, 2011 (HBO Max)

  • Capturing the Friedmans, dir. Andrew Jarecki, 2003 (HBO Max)

  • The Devil All the Time, dir. Antonio Campos, 2020 (Netflix)

  • PEN15: Season 2, created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman, 2020 (HULU)

  • The Social Dilemma, dir. Jeff Orlowski, 2020 (Netflix)

AUGUST

  • Before Sunrise, dir. Richard Linklater, 1995 (HBO Max)

  • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, created by Liz Garbus, based on the book by Michelle McNamara, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Little Children, dir. Todd Field, 2006 (HBO Max)

  • While You Were Sleeping, dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1995 (Disney+)

  • The Americans: Season 4, created by Joseph Weisberg, 2017 (Prime)

  • Richard Jewell, dir. Clint Eastwood, 2019 (HBO Max)

  • Idiocracy, dir. Mike Judge, 2006 (HBO Max)

  • The Client, dir. Joel Schumacher, 1994 (HULU)

  • The High Note, dir. Nisha Ganatra, 2020 (iTunes)

  • The Americans: Season 5, created by Joseph Weisberg, 2017 (Prime)

  • Angus, dir. Patrick Read Johnson, 1995 (HBO Max)

  • The Trip to Greece, dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2020 (iTunes)

  • Fight Club, dir. David Fincher, 1999 (HBO Max)

  • Boys State, dir. Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, 2020 (Apple+)

  • The Morning Show, created by Jay Carson, 2019 (Apple+)

  • I May Destroy You, created by Michaela Coel, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • The Americans: Season 6, created by Joseph Weisberg, 2018 (Prime)

  • Class Action Park, dir. Chris Charles Scott and Seth Porges, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Henry Gamble's Birthday Party, dir. Stephen Cone, 2015 (Criterion Channel)

  • Up in the Air, dir. Jason Reitman, 2009

  • Birthday Girl, dir. Jez Butterworth, 2001 (HBO Max)

JULY

  • Sleepless in Seattle, dir. Nora Ephron, 1993 (Netflix)

  • Wolf, dir. Mike Nichols, 1994 (iTunes)

  • Walking & Talking, dir. Nicole Holofcener, 1996 (Criterion Channel)

  • The Night Clerk, dir. Michael Cristofer, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Twilight, dir. Catherine Hardwicke, 2008 (Prime)

  • Twilight: New Moon, dir. Chris Weitz, 2009 (Prime)

  • The Baby-Sitters Club: Season 1, created by Rachel Shukert, 2020 (Netflix)

  • The Truth About Cats & Dogs, dir. Michael Lehmann, 1996 (HULU)

  • The Hangover Part II, dir. Todd Phillips, 2011 (HBO Max) (why)

  • The Piano Teacher, dir. Michael Haneke, 2002 (Criterion Channel) (wow)

  • Palm Springs, dir. Max Barbakow, 2020 (HULU)

  • The Devil’s Advocate, dir. Taylor Hackford, 1997 (Netflix)

  • 2 Days in Paris, dir. Julie Delpy, 2007 (HULU)

  • Lenny Cooke, dir. Josh & Benny Safdie, 2013 (Criterion Channel)

  • Insecure: Season 4, created by Issa Rae, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Superbad, dir. Greg Mottola, 2007 (cable TV)

  • Jurassic Park, dir. Steven Spielberg, 1993 (cable TV)

  • House of Sand and Fog, dir. Vadim Perelman, 2003 (Prime)

  • The Last Dance, dir. Jason Hehir, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall, dir. Nicholas Stoller, 2008 (HULU)

  • The Weight of Gold, dir. Brett Rapkin, 2020 (HBO Max)

JUNE

  • Alien, dir. Ridley Scott, 1979 (HBO Max)

  • The Americans: Season 3, created by Joe Weisberg, 2014 (Prime)

  • My Own Private Idaho, dir. by Gus Van Sant, 1991 (Criterion Channel)

  • Walking and Talking, dir. by Nicole Holofcener, 1996 (can’t remember)

  • Malcolm X, dir. Spike Lee, 1992 (Netflix)

  • But I'm a Cheerleader, dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999 (Criterion Channel)

  • Call Your Father, dir. Jordan Firstman, 2016 (Criterion Channel)

  • Search Party: Season 3, created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter, 2020 (HBO Max)

  • Sideways, dir. Alexander Payne, 2004 (HBO Max)

MAY

  • TFW NO GF, dir. Alex Lee Moyer, 2020 (Prime)

  • Escape from New York, dir. John Carpenter, 1981 (Prime)

  • Normal People, dir. Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, 2020 (HULU)

  • Basic Instinct, dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1992 (Showtime)

  • The Stranger, created by Harlan Coben and Danny Brocklehurst, 2020 (Netflix)

  • La Cérémonie, dir. Claude Chabrol, 1995 (Criterion Channel)

  • Please Give, dir. Nicole Holofcener, 2010 (Criterion Channel)

  • Spaceship Earth, dir. Matt Wolf, 2020 (HULU)

  • Bio-Dome, dir. Jason Bloom, 1996 (HULU)

  • Can’t Hardly Wait, dir. Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, 1998 (Netflix)

  • My Brilliant Friend: Story of a New Name, created by Saverio Costanzo, 2020 (HBO Go)

  • Cast Away, dir. Robert Zemeckis, 2000 (HULU)

  • Talk Radio, dir. Oliver Stone, 1988 (iTunes)

  • Slums of Beverly Hills, dir. Tamara Jenkins, 1998 (HULU)

  • Encounters at the End of the World, dir. Werner Herzog, 2007 (iTunes)

  • Search Party: Season 2, created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter, 2017 (HBO Max)

  • The Americans: Season 2, created by Joe Weisberg, 2014 (Prime)

  • The Town, dir. Ben Affleck, 2010

  • Jennifer’s Body, dir. Karyn Kusama, 2009

  • The Half of It, dir. Alice Wu, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Back to the Future, dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1985

APRIL

  • Shampoo, dir. Hal Ashby, 1975 (Criterion Channel)

  • The O.C.: Seasons 2, 3, and 4, created by Josh Schwartz, 2004-5 (HULU/Prime/iTunes)

  • Adaptation, dir. Spike Jonze, 2002 (Criterion Channel)

  • Devs: Season 1, created by Alex Garland, 2020 (HULU)

  • Hair, dir. Milos Forman, 1979 (Prime)

  • First Wives Club, dir. Hugh Wilson, 1996 (Netflix)

  • Top Five, dir. Chris Rock, 2014 (iTunes)

  • Circus of Books, dir. Rachel Mason, 2019 (Netflix)

  • Permanent Midnight, dir. David Veloz, 1998 (Prime)

  • Bad Education, dir. Cory Finley, 2019 (HBO)

  • Prisoners, dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2013 (iTunes)

  • Pleasantville, dir. Gary Ross, 1998 (Prime)

  • Fleabag: Season 2, created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 2019 (Prime)

MARCH

  • The Daytrippers, dir. Greg Mottola, 1997 (Criterion Channel)

  • Art School Confidential, dir. Terry Zwigoff, 2006 (Criterion Channel)

  • I Am Not Okay with This, created by Jonathan Entwistle, Christy Hall, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Safe, dir. Todd Haynes, 1995 (Criterion Channel)

  • The Gift, dir. Joel Edgerton, 2015 (Netflix)

  • The Outsider: Season One, created by Richard Price, 2020 (HBO Go)

  • Gangs of New York, dir. Martin Scorsese, 2002 (Netflix)

  • The Age of Innocence, dir. Martin Scorsese, 1993 (iTunes)

  • Lost Girls, dir. Liz Garbus, 2020 (Netflix)

  • The Beach Bum, dir. Harmony Korine, 2019 (HULU)

  • The Skulls, dir. Rob Cohen, 2000 (STARZ)

  • Side Effects, dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2013 (HBOGo)

  • Emma., dir. Autumn de Wilde, 2020 (iTunes)

  • Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, created by Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode, 2020 (Netflix)

  • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2019 (STARZ)

FEBRUARY

  • Judy, dir. Rupert Goold, 2019 (iTunes)

  • Ma, dir. Tate Taylor, 2019 (HBO Go)

  • Shrill: Season Two, created by Aidy Bryant, Alexandra Rushfield, Lindy West, 2020 (HULU)

  • Mother, dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2009 (iTunes)

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, dir. David Fincher, 2011 (STARZ)

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019 (BAM)

  • You Can Count on Me, dir. Kenneth Lonergan, 2000 (Amazon Prime)

  • The Farewell, dir. Lulu Wang, 2019 (Amazon Prime)

JANUARY

  • Mrs. Doubtfire, dir. Chris Columbus, 1993 (HBO Go)

  • Spanglish, dir. James L. Brooks, 2004 (HBO Go)

  • Hard Eight, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996 (Amazon Prime)

  • Bowfinger, dir. Frank Oz, 1999 (STARZ)

  • You: Season Two, created by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, 2019 (Netflix)

  • The Bachelor: Season 13, created by Mike Fleiss, 2009 (Netflix)

  • Cheer: Season 1, created by Greg Whiteley, 2020 (Netflix)

  • My Girl, dir. Howard Zieff, 1991 (Netflix)

  • Little Women, dir. Greta Gerwig, 2019 (screener, second viewing)

  • 1917, dir. Sam Mendes, 2020 (Williamsburg Cinemas)