Read / Watch
A list of things that grabbed my attention
● recommended
2021
Books
| Belt and Road | Bruno Maçães |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoi |
| Wrong about Japan | Peter Carey |
| The Outlaw Ocean ● | Ian Urbina |
| How Music Works ● | David Byrne |
Movies
| Tenet ● | Christopher Nolan |
| Nobody | Ilya Naishuller |
| Sorry to Bother You | Boots Riley |
| Night in Paradise ● | Park Hoon-jung |
| Made You Look | Barry Avrich |
| I Care a Lot | J Blakeson |
| Voyage to Greenland | Sébastien Betbeder |
| Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| The White Tiger ● | Ramin Bahrani |
| Soul ● | Pete Docter |
| Ghost in the Shell ● | Mamoru Oshii |
| Lupin III : The Castle of Cagliostro | Hayao Miyazaki |
Stand-Up
| The Greatest Average American ● | Nate Bargatze |
| To Catch a D*ck | London Hughes |
| Total Blackout | Chris Rock |
| Upon on the Roof ● | Sam Morril |
Shows
| Pretend It’s a City ● | Martin Scorcese |
| The Mandalorian | Jon Favreau |
| Lupin ● | George Kay |
| Hilda I & II ● | Luke Pearson |
2020
Books
| Earthlings ● | Sayaka Murata |
| Kissa by Kissa ● | Craig Mod |
| What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir | Haruki Murakami |
| Exciting Times | Naoise Dolan |
| Almost Transparent Blue | Ryu Murakami |
| In The Miso Soup | Ryu Murakami |
| The Night Manager ● | John Le Carré |
| Convenience Store Woman ● | Sayaka Murata |
| Utopia for Realists ● | Rutger Bregman |
| Men without Women | Haruki Murakami |
| Transit ● | Rachel Cusk |
| Outline | Rachel Cusk |
| The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism | Kyle Chayka |
| Kudos ● | Rachel Cusk |
| Weather ● | Jenny Offil |
| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami |
| Last Things ● | Jenny Offil |
| Dept. of Speculation ● | Jenny Offil |
| Killing Commendatore | Haruki Murakami |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli |
| Sapiens ● | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Agent Running in The Field | John le Carré |
Shows
| Song Exploder ● | Hrishikesh Hirway |
| Fargo IV ● | Noah Hawley |
| Ted Lasso ● | Jason Sudeikis & Bill Lawrence |
| Raised by Wolves | Aaron Guzikowski |
| The Boys | Eric Kripke |
| Ozark ● | Bill Dubuque & Mark Williams |
| The Eddy ● | Jack Thorne |
| The Kominsky Method I & II | Chuck Lorre |
| Westworld III | Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy |
| La Casa de Papel IV | Álex Pina |
| After Life ● | Ricky Gervais |
| 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki ● | Kaku Arakawa |
| Giri/Haji | Joe Barton |
| Fleabag I & II ● | Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
Stand-Up
| Out to Lunch ● | Mark Normand |
| I Got This ● | Sam Morril |
| Middleditch & Schwartz ● | Ryan Polito |
| Double Negative | Ari Shaffir |
| Ball Hog | Tom Segura |
| Hey Big Boy | Burt Kreischeir |
| Quarter-Life Crisis | Taylor Tomlinson |
| You’re Doing Great | Tom Papa |
| Equanimity ● | Dave Chapelle |
| Overthinker ● | Demetri Martin |
| Sweet & Salty | Fortune Feimster |
| A Speak of Dust | Sarah Silverman |
| Joke Show ● | Michele Wolf |
| Asian Comedian Destroys America! ● | Ronny Chieng |
| The New One | Mike Burbuglia |
Movies
| On The Rocks | Sofia Coppola |
| Divines ● | Houda Benyamina |
| Shoplifters ● | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Das 5 Bloods | Spike Jonze |
| The King of Comedy ● | Martin Scorcese |
| This Magnificent Cake! | Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roel |
| Elisa & Marcela | Isabel Coixet |
| Dick Tracy | Warren Beauty |
| In the Mood for Love ● | Wong Kar-Wai |
| Lovebirds | Michael Showalter |
| Ya no estoy aqui ● | Fernando Frías de la Parra |
| Zimna Wojna ● | Pawel Pawlikowski |
| Marie Antoinette | Sofia Coppola |
| Mon Oncle d’Amérique ● | Alain Resnais |
| Blue Jasmine ● | Woddy Allen |
| My Happy Family ● | Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross |
| La Verité ● | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Basquiat ● | Julian Schnabel |
| Julian Schnabel : A Private Portrait | Pappi Corsicato |
| The Wind rises | Hayao Miyazaki |
| J’Accuse | Roman Polanski |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Edward Norton |
| Shirkers | Sandi Tan |
| Holmes & Watson | Etan Cohen |
| Tigertail | Alan Yang |
| Heart of Sky ● | Jenny Moussallem |
| Pom Poko ● | Isao Takahata |
| Ponyo ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Matrimonio all’Italiana ● | Vittorio di Sicca |
| Nausicaä | Hayao Miyazaki |
| The Gentlemen | Guy Ritchie |
| Onward | Dan Scanlon |
| Whale Valley | Gudmundur Arnar Gudmunsson |
| Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu ● | Céline Sciamma |
| Mudbound | Dee Rees |
| The Drug King | Woo Min-ho |
| Call me Dolemite ● | Craig Brewer |
| Mononoke Princess ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Queen & Slim ● | Melina Matsoukas |
| Spirited Away ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Little Women | Greta Gerwig |
| Porco Rosso ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 37 Seconds | Hikaru |
| Where’d you go Bernardette | Richard Linklater |
| Uncut Gems ● | Josh & Ben Safdie |
| 1917 | Sam Mendes |
| Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria |
| Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang ● | Kevin MacDonald |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey ● | Standley Kubrick |
| Knives Out | Rian Johnson |
| Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles |
| The Irishman | Martin Scorcese |
| Parasite ● | Bong Joon Ho |
| Ad Astra ● | James Gray |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ● | Quentin Tarantino |
| Joker | Todd Phillips |
| The Art of Self-Defence | Riley Stearns |
| Dolor y Gloria ● | Pedro Almodóvar |
2019
Books
| 1Q84 ● | Haruki Murakami |
| A Wild Sheep Chase ● | Haruki Murakami |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ● | Haruki Murakami |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami |
| A Perfect Spy ● | John le Carré |
| The Little Drummer Girl ● | John le Carré |
| The Russia House | John le Carré |
| The Looking Glass War | John le Carré |
| Smiley’s People | John le Carré |
| Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice | Francesco Careri |
| Shark Drunk ● | Morten Stroksnes |
| Tokyo Totem ● | Gardner & Fruneaux |
Shows
| La Casa de Papel I, II & III ● | Álex Pina |
| Russian Doll ● | Leslye Headland (& others) |
| Game of Trones | Benioff & Weiss |
| The Night Manager ● | Susanne Bier |
| The Bodyguard | Jed Mercurio |
| Escape at Dannemora ● | Ben Stiller |
Glow ● | Flahive & Mensch |
Stand-Up
| Fire in the Maternity Ward ● | Anthony Jeselnick |
| Thank God for Jokes | Mike Burbuglia |
| Tamborine ● | Chris Rock |
| Sticks and Stones ● | Dave Chapelle |
| Paper Tiger | Bill Burr |
| Disgraceful ● | Tom Segura |
| Mostly Stories | Tom Segura |
| Kid Gorgeous ● | John Mulhaney |
| Comeback Kid ● | John Mulhaney |
Movies
| The Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| The Meyerowitz Stories ● | Noah Baumbach |
| Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan |
| Blade Runner 2047 | Denis Villeneuve |
| Blade Runner ● | Ridley Scott |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Graham King |
| Always Be my Maybe | Nahnatchka Khan |
| Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ● | Bob Persichetti |
| The Green Book | Peter Farrelly |
| Black Panther | Kevin Feige |
| Logan Lucky ● | Steven Soderbergh |
| BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee |
| The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci |
| Roma ● | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley |
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer ● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird |
| Isle of Dogs ● | Wes Anderson |
| The Lobster ● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Paterson ● | Jim Jarmush |