Watch-List 02/22
A list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen recently.
L’événement (Happening) – ★★★★
The great 2021 French drama L’événement (Happening) by directress Audrey Diwan was released recently. It follows young promising literature student Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) in the 60’s who gets pregnant before her final exams and tries to get an abortion, which was illegal at the time, bore great health dangers and could even lead to her
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Rosalía Released Her New Album Motomami
The Spanish Singer and Songwriter released her third LP titled Motomami. A concept album that leaves the sound of her previous great album El Mal Querer of beautiful melodic vocals and urban beats mixed with flamenco elements for more experimental pop, alternative reggaeton and avant-garde styles.
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Kanye Releases Video for Donda Single Hurricane
Kanye West released a new computer animated music video for his single Hurricane with The Weeknd featuring Lil Baby.
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jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy – ★★★★
The three-part documentary “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” filmed and directed by Coodie & Chike about the life of rapper, record producer and fashion designer Kanye West was released on Netflix. It features a detailed collage of natural moments and off-screen narration by Coodie, who knew Kanye from when he wasn’t famous yet and started filming
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Chinese Portrait – ★★★★
我的镜头 – (Chinese Portrait) is a great documentary film by Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai (So Long, My Son) from the year 2018. It features around 60 finely composed shots filmed over seven years showing people or the director himself in different locales and situations in China standing still and looking into the camera while life
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76 Days – ★★★★
The 2020 Chinese-American Documentary film 76 Days directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and an anonymous third is available on YouTube and Dogwoof. It documents the situation in a Wuhan Hospital in China shortly after the beginning of the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of the city in February 2020 that lasted for 76 days. In
Cow – ★★★★
The great nonverbal documentary film “Cow” by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold that premiered last year at Cannes is now finally available for streaming on Mubi. The film is an intimate portrait of a milking cow and follows her in her everyday life on a farm in the UK. It’s style is naturalistic and contemplative with
Listen To Big Thief’s Great New Album
New York Indie Rock/Indie Folk Band Big Thief have released their new album: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You.
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