Watched, read in 2023
BOLD ALL CAPS: movie, theatrical
ALL CAPS: movie, streaming
ITALIC ALL CAPS: movie, streamed over multiple days
Regular: TV show
Link: visual essay/short/music video (very incomplete; notables only)
Italic: book or comic
"*" - asterisk by material that made a outsized emotional impact on me
1/2 Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
1/3 Who’s really using up the water in the American West?
1/4 BUFFALO ’66*
1/5 ROBOCOP DIRECTOR’S CUT*
1/6 Welcome to Chippendale’s, How Spider-Verse Forced Animation to Evolve
1/7 Key & Peele
1/8 The Making of Arrested Development Was a Shit Show (Pt 2: Divisive Development); Why Tom Cruise’s Run Matters; David Fincher: And the Other Way is Wrong
1/10 Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Making of Casino Royale was a Shit Show
1/11 The magic of macaroni Lego brick
1/12 Oh Baby / LCD Soundsystem; Counting Song / Design Ah!
1/13 See with your ears / Nerdwriter; James Cameron breaks down his most iconic films; All My Friends / LCD Soundsystem; Spittin’ off the edge of the world, Wolf / Yeah yeah yeahs
1/14 AVATAR 2 (IMAX 3D)*
1/15 TITANIC; How humans became (mostly) right handed / PBS; Key & Peele
1/16 Welcome to Chippendale’s
1/17 The Most Complex Ecosystem in any Game
1/18 Truth is Essential / NYT; Oh Baby / LCD Soundsystem; Get back to what you love / Google; Star Guitar / Chemical Brothers; Panic Room title sequence; Best Opening Title Sequences of 2022 / Kottke
1/19 Blacktop: the story of the washing a school play yard / Eames; All My Friends / LCD Soundsystem
1/20 Welcome to Chippendale’s
1/21 DEEP COVER; Explaining George Santos / Bill Maher; Why Brad Pitt’s Eating Matters; The Making of the Abyss was a Shit Show; Why we all need subtitles now / Vox
1/22 WHITE FANG (2018, animated); PINOCCHIO (2022, Del Toro) The Bridge / Paws NY; Fun / Vince Staples
1/25 The Office
1/27 The Office, SORCERER
1/31 Coloris / Cornelius
2/1 RESERVOIR DOGS
2/2 Easy on the Eyes: a new way to think about beauty in art
2/5 The Mandalorian
2/7 2001 directed by George Lucas, The Breathtaking Horror of the Electric State / Curious Archive; The Mandalorian; HEAT
2/8 “Let’s Eat at Home” commercials by Hayao Miyazaki; But What Is a Neural Network? Ch1, Deep Learning / 3Blue1Brown; The Mandalorian
2/10 Mandalorian
2/11 Mandalorian
2/12 JOHN WICK
2/13 Mandalorian
2/17 MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
2/18 ALIENS*
2/21 STALKER; DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY (documentary)
2/24 STALKER; Your Best American Girl / Mitski*
2/25 Turn Down for What / DJ Snake & Lil John (Daniels)
2/26 STALKER
2/27 Playdough Surgery: Cochlear Implant; Your Best American Girl / Mitski; Geyser / Mitski; STALKER
2/28 Games we Play; Your Best American Girl / Mitski; Geyser / Mitski; Townie / Mitski; A Burning Hill / Mitski; A Pearl / Mitski; The Only Heartbreaker / Mitski
3/1 Mandalorian
3/2 THE STRAIGHT STORY
3/3 Grands Canons / Alain Biet; GAMER
3/4 THE HUNGER GAMES; CATCHING FIRE
3/5 THE STRAIGHT STORY
3/8 GERRY
3/10 Mandalorian; INTERSTELLAR; Everything Is A Remix, Finale (AI Art)
3/11 CRANK; STAR WARS
3/14 SICARIO
3/15 SICARIO
3/17 MILLER’S CROSSING
3/18 MILLER’S CROSSING
3/19 PONYO
3/20 HAYWIRE
3/23 CONTACT; PANIC ROOM
3/24 GERRY
3/25 Mandalorian
3/26 SPIRITED AWAY; GERRY
3/28 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA; BLACKKKLANSMAN
3/31 BLACKKKLANSMAN
4/1 RETURN OF THE JEDI; STAR TREK 2: THE WRATH OF KHAN; STAR TREK 3: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
4/2 Mandalorian
4/3 STAR TREK 3: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
4/5 INSIDE MAN; Capture the Rain & Rebuild the Economy / TreePeople; Climate Change: The Water Paradigm; Water in WNC: The Impact of Impervious Surfaces on the Mountain Watershed
4/6 INSIDE MAN; The Hidden Lives of Pets; The Making of the Bourne Identity was a Shit Show; Spielberg’s Living Hell: 2 Films, 1 Year
4/8 THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 (Tony Scott); THIRTEEN DAYS; LINCOLN
4/9 The Hidden Lives of Pets; The techniques that gave AKIRA its unprecedented quality; Whiplash (short)
4/10 GLORY
4/11 GLORY
4/12 Borne (Jeff Van Der Meer)
4/15 Succession, Parks and Rec
4/16 Succession, Parks and Rec
4/17 The Big Shave (Scorsese); A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
4/18 This Giant Model Stopped a Terrible Plan; Why AI art struggles with Hands (Vox); Gregory Chaitin Lecture in 2000 (via Frank Lantz’s newsletter); A MOST VIOLENT YEAR; Parks and Rec; Below Deck; FIRST REFORMED
4/19 FIRST REFORMED; ARRIVAL
4/20 Below Deck; TANGLED
4/21 Below Deck; The Hidden Lives of Pets
4/22 INSOMNIA (2002); Below Deck
4/23 Below Deck; Wild Babies
4/24 Succession; Below Deck
4/26 Below Deck; TÁR
4/27 More of life Brought to life: Gravity / New York Times; TÁR
4/28 Tensegrity Explained; I made a water computer and it actually works; 1999 MTV Music Awards Shorts / Wes Anderson; Chuck Jones: Evolution of an Artist / Every Frame a Painting; Humanity game trailer; LIVING IN OBLIVION
4/29 FIRST MAN; Parks and Rec
4/30 THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE, Succession
5/1 Below Deck
5/2 Parks & Rec
5/3 Parks & Rec
5/4 Parks & Rec
5/5 SILENCE
5/6 MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL; SILENCE
5/7 MICHAEL CLAYTON; Succession
5/9 Parks & Rec
5/11 TAXI DRIVER*
5/14 Succession
5/17 Cheers
5/20 BEST IN SHOW, Parks and Rec
5/21 AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD
5/22 AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD
5/24 Cheers, Parks and Rec
5/25 Cheers; CRAZY STUPID LOVE
5/26 CRAZY STUPID LOVE, HORRIBLE BOSSES, Cheers
5/27 HORRIBLE BOSSES, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
5/28 Cheers; Succession; Parks and Rec
5/29 THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023); LILO AND STITCH; Cheers; BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
5/30 Cheers
5/31 Elder Race (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
6/1 FUNNY PEOPLE
6/2 FUNNY PEOPLE
6/3 Parks and Rec
6/4 Parks and Rec
6/6 Parks and Rec
6/7 Cheers, Parks and Rec
6/8 Cheers; Saved by the Bell; KNOCKED UP; DUNE (1984)
6/9 DUNE (1984); DUNE (2021); EX MACHINA; MONEYBALL
6/10 MONEYBALL; THE BIG SHORT; SYRIANA
6/11 AIR*
6/12 I Love Lucy
6/13 Why Lego Won; I Love Lucy; Muster Dogs
6/14 Muster Dogs; Parks and Rec
6/15 Counting Song / Design Ah!; INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE; Parks & Rec
6/16 Muster Dogs; BLACK HAWK DOWN
6/18 BLACK HAWK DOWN; UHF
6/20 I Love Lucy; Muster Dogs
6/21 More of Life Brought to Life: Sneakers / New York Times
6/22 ASTEROID CITY; BEAU TRAVAIL*
6/23 BEAU TRAVAIL*
6/24 SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE; SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
6/26 The Heart Part / Kendrick Lamar
6/27 The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics; I Love Lucy; Parks and Rec
6/28 SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
6/29 SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE; Muster Dogs; HE GOT GAME
6/30 A Place to Stand; AT&T Pitch Video from Saul Bass archives; A Brief History of John Baldessari; LORD OF THE RINGS (2001)
7/1 HE GOT GAME*
7/10 The Windshield Wiper; STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS
7/11 Parks & Rec
7/14 Parks & Rec
7/15 Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky); STAR TREK
7/16 Parks & Rec
7/18 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
7/20 THE NEVERENDING STORY
7/21 THE NEVERENDING STORY*; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
7/22 65
7/23 TARZAN* ; BETTER OFF DEAD; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT; BLACKBERRY
7/25 ANNIHILATION
7/26 Parks & Rec
7/27 Parks & Rec
7/28 INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE
7/29 Muster Dogs; ANNIHILATION ; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3
7/30 PROSPECT
7/31 CONAN THE BARBARIAN; Parks & Rec
8/1 OPPENHEIMER; PROSPECT
8/2 LITTLE WOMEN*
8/3 LITTLE WOMEN
8/4 THE PIANO
8/5 PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR; BEE MOVIE; THE PIANO
8/11 LOST IN TRANSLATION
8/12 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
8/13 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
8/14 Parks & Rec; Suits
8/15 Parks & Rec; Suits; LOST IN TRANSLATION
8/16 LOST IN TRANSLATION*
8/17 Parks & Rec
8/18 Parks & Rec
8/24 JURASSIC WORLD; TANGLED
8/25 Blindsight (Peter Watts)
8/26 THE PRINCESS BRIDE; Parks & Rec
8/27 Seinfeld; THE GODFATHER
8/28 THE GODFATHER
8/29 THE GODFATHER PART 2
8/30 THE GODFATHER PART 2
8/31 THE GODFATHER PART 2
9/1 DONNIE BRASCO
9/2 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM; DONNIE BRASCO
9/3 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
9/4 U-571
9/5 Parks & Rec
9/6 Parks & Rec
9/7 U-571; ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
9/8 ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES; Parks and Rec
9/9 THIRTEEN DAYS; Parks and Rec
9/10 THIRTEEN DAYS; Parks and Rec
9/11 THIRTEEN DAYS
9/13 THE CROW
9/14 THE CROW; DRIVE
9/15 DRIVE
9/16 Parks and Rec
9/17 GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS; THE DEER HUNTER; Band of Brothers; The Pacific
9/18 Huge Lego Salmon Fish Cutting; Parks and Rec; LIAR LIAR; OUT OF SIGHT
9/19 First Steadicam test shots; Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs short from 1991 Sundance Film Lab; OUT OF SIGHT; K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER
9/20 LIAR LIAR*; K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER; CHI-RAQ
9/21 How A nuclear war will start, minute by minute / Kurzgesagt; CHI-RAQ
9/22 MASTER & COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
9/23 Super Mario Bros 4:54 world record speedrun; Why 4:54 is the perfect speedrun; Tool-assisted speed running explained; Entropy: The Most Misunderstood concept in physics / Veritasium
9/24 The Unseen Side of Speedrunning (all 5162 attempts); Is It Cake?
9/25 Run Fast / Vaeda Black; Cheers; Parks & Rec
9/26 Cheers
9/29 THE DARK KNIGHT; Predators (Netflix); I Love Lucy; Big City Greens
9/30 THE DARK KNIGHT
10/1 MORNING GLORY; DAS BOOT
10/2 DAS BOOT
10/4 THE BREAKFAST CLUB; Animation vs. Math; All the math references frame by frame from Animation vs Math; The Making of The Fugitive was a Shit Show; Ruth Bader Biden / Bill Maher
10/5 THE BREAKFAST CLUB; One Revolution Per Minute; HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
10/6 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL; HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
10/8 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL; ALL IS LOST
10/10 SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
10/11 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
10/12 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
10/13 THE ACCOUNTANT
10/14 THE ACCOUNTANT; The worst punishments in human history; [Israel/Palestine explainers]: PBS Newshour; The Economist; Vox; Israeli settlements explained, Part 1 / Vox; Nakba explainer / Vox; Israel’s 9-11 / Bill Maher
10/17 THE FIGHTER
10/18 THE FIGHTER
10/20 DONNIE DARKO
10/21 SPIDER-MAN; PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH; DONNIE DARKO
10/22 Bachelor in Paradise
10/23 CASINO
10/24 The Sicilian scene, True Romance; Shark Tank; What is a neural network REALLY?; Why do convolutional neural networks work so well?; Building a cathedral without science or mathematics: the engineering method explained
10/25 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN; EMILY THE CRIMINAL
10/26 EMILY THE CRIMINAL; Lego Masters; American Express 1 hr Photo commercial with Martin Scorsese
10/27 Cheers; Computer Scientist Explains Zero Knowledge Proofs at 5 levels of complexity / Wired; How David Fincher Hijacks your Eyes / Nerdwriter*; Why you are alive: Life, energy, and ATP / Kurzgesagt; ARBITRAGE
10/28 Lego Masters; American Ninja Warrior; The Scene that changes the entire meaning of The Wolf of Wall Street; The Clapperboard — How to use a film slate;
10/29 Lego Masters; The Simpsons; CAPE FEAR
10/30 CAPE FEAR*
10/31 Seinfeld; THE SOCIAL NETWORK; Dividing by zero / Eddie Woo; Why is 0! = 1? / Eddie Woo
11/1 SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE; THE SOCIAL NETWORK; GONE GIRL
11/2 Parks & Rec
11/3 Shark Tank, Lego Masters, BACKDRAFT
11/4 Shark Tank; Lego Masters; IN THE LINE OF FIRE
11/5 I Love Lucy; INTERSTELLAR
11/6 SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE; Life on Our Planet (Netflix nature show)
11/7 Bachelor in Paradise; FLATLINERS; NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
11/8 Life on Our Planet (Netflix nature show); FLATLINERS; SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE; NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
11/9 THE KILLER (Fincher); NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN; Hermit crabs line up to swap shells / BBC
11/10 NYAD; THE KILLER (Fincher)
11/11 NYAD*; The making of The Social Network; How Spielberg directs your attention; SAVING PRIVATE RYAN; CATCH ME IF YOU CAN; How I would explain calculus to a 6th grader;
11/12 Parks & Rec; CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
11/13 Parks & Rec; CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
11/14 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN; Parks & Rec; America’s Funniest Videos; Machiavelli: be the wolf among sheep / Horses; Something Weird happens when you keep squeezing / Vox
11/15 DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA (OMSI); How to win an interstellar war/Kurzgesagt
11/16 Shark Tank; Lego Masters; LOOPER
11/17 Bachelor in Paradise; Parks & Rec; Fincher’s cinematographer breaks down the opening scene of The Killer
11/18 CHRONICLE; Parks & Rec; ; Ridley Scott’s favorite shots from his own movies
11/19 JAWS
11/20 UNCUT GEMS
11/21 DIE HARD; Shark Tank; Lego Masters
11/22 Shark Tank; Parks & Rec
11/23 SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING; SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME
11/24 SPIDER-MAN 3; Parks & Rec
11/25 GREMLINS; Parks & Rec
11/26 Shark Tank; Parks & Rec
11/27 NAPOLEON; Parks & Rec; TRUE ROMANCE
11/28 TRUE ROMANCE*
11/29 ANCHORMAN; SPIDER-MAN 3; BURNT
11/30 Best Shots of All Time / Cinefix: Part 1, Part 2, Part 6; BURNT*; INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
12/1 ANCHORMAN; THE UNTOUCHABLES
12/2 SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME
12/3 WISH; HOME ALONE
12/5 HOME ALONE; Parks & Rec
12/6 THE ABYSS
12/7 Lego Masters; L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
12/8 L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
12/10 ELF; Bachelor in Paradise
12/11 Parks & Rec
12/14 STAR WARS; SHATTERED GLASS*
12/15 STAR WARS; RETURN OF THE JEDI
12/16 RETURN OF THE JEDI
12/17 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
12/18 Shark Tank; SHATTERED GLASS; VALKYRIE
12/19 VALKYRIE; THE REPORT
12/20 THE REPORT
12/21 Cheers; I Love Lucy; Seinfeld; THE CREATOR
12/22 THE CREATOR; Life on Our Planet; MINARI
12/23 A CHRISTMAS STORY; Seinfeld; Cheers; MINARI
12/24 MINARI
12/25 MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO; Parks and Rec
12/26 How vinyl records are made / Wired; Every logical fallacy explained in 11 minutes; Dan Harmon’s story circle; The 5 core principles of life / Big Think
12/27 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
12/28 MI: GHOST PROTOCOL; Seinfeld; MASTER GARDENER
12/29 Seinfeld
12/30 Shark Tank; Greta Gerwig & James Cameron / Directors on Directors ; process of making pencils in a Japanese factory ; why fake punches in movies look real / Vox ; the mechanical integrator: a machine that does calculus
12/31 ALADDIN; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK; INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM; JURASSIC PARK