My Coronaviral Curriculum, Not Necessarily in Any Order

Series I’ve Watched Since Quarantine Began:

  • The Roosevelts: An Intimate History/PBS (in process)
  • Last Week Tonight/HBO (ongoing)
  • The Last Dance/ESPN
  • Westworld/HBO-Season 3 (in process)
  • Love is Blind-Season 1//Netflix
  • Euphoria-Season 1/HBO
  • Narcos: Mexico-Season 2/Netflix 
  • Silicon Valley/HBO-Season 6
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm/HBO-Season 10
  • Hillary/Hulu
  • Divorce/HBO-Season 3
  • Big Little Lies/HBO-Season 2
  • Zooey’s Extraordinary Playlist/Hulu-NBC-Season 1-2
  • Run-Season 1/HBO
  • Ramy-Seasons 1-2/Hulu
  • The Deuce-Season 3/HBO
  • Mrs. America/Hulu 
  • We’re Here/HBO (in process)
  • America to Me/Hulu (in process)
  • The Man in the High Castle-Season 1-2/Amazon (in process)
  • Normal People/Hulu 
  • Killing Eve-Seasons 1-2/Hulu
  • The Imagineering Story/Disney Plus (in process)
  • Succession-Season 1-2/HBO Max 
  • Watchmen/HBO Max
  • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark/HBO Max
  • Insecure-Seasons 1-4/HBO Max
  • Schitt’s Creek-Season 1-6/IMDB-TV
  • City So Real/National Geographic
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion/HBO Max
  • Industry/HBO Max (in process)
  • I Hate Suzie/HBO Max
  • Dream of Italy-Season 1 (in process)/Amazon
  • The Flight Attendant/HBO Max
  • How To with John Wilson/HBO Max
  • Love Life/HBO Max
  • The Mandalorian -Season 1 (in process)/Disney Plus
  • WandaVision/Disney Plus
  • This Is Us-Season 5/NBC
  • Allen v. Farrow/HBO Max

 

Movies I’ve Watched Since Quarantine Began

* means I’ve already seen it before

  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor/HBO
  • Panic in the Streets/DVD
  • Moon Over Miami/DVD
  • Saboteur/Blu-Ray
  • Shadow of a Doubt/Blu-Ray
  • Chocolat/DVD*
  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco/Amazon Prime
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always/Amazon Premium
  • Icarus/Netflix
  • Sophie’s Choice/HBO
  • Juliet, Naked/Hulu
  • Transit (2018)/Amazon Prime
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)/Blu-Ray*
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire/Hulu
  • Ema/Mubi
  • All About Eve/Amazon*
  • Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind/HBO
  • 306 Hollywood/Amazon 
  • The Man With the Golden Arm/MUBI
  • The Southerner/MUBI
  • Downton Abbey/HBO
  • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)/DVD
  • On the Record/HBO Max
  • Gloria: In Her Own Words/HBO
  • Rope/Blu-Ray*
  • Rear Window/Blu-Ray*
  • Uncut Gems/Netflix
  • Da 5 Bloods/Netflix
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Blu-Ray*
  • Palm Springs/Hulu
  • Every Little Step/Amazon
  • Once Were Brothers/Hulu
  • North by Northwest/Blu-Ray*
  • The Last Waltz/DVD
  • Knives Out/Hulu
  • The Assistant/Hulu
  • By Sidney Lumet/Amazon Prime
  • I Am Not Your Negro/Amazon Prime
  • Malcolm X/Blu-ray
  • At the Drive-In/Amazon Prime
  • Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins/Hulu
  • The Hero/Amazon Prime
  • La Dolce Vita/Blu-Ray
  • Long Gone Summer/ESPN Plus
  • I Used to Go Here/ChiTown Movies Drive-in
  • Judy/Blu-ray
  • Tenet/Showplace Icon
  • Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine/Music Box Virtual Cinema
  • The Late Shift/Showplace Icon
  • Time/Amazon Prime
  • The Trial of the Chicago Seven/Netflix
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm/Amazon
  • Other Music/Amazon
  • The Booksellers/Amazon
  • The Sunlit Night/Hulu
  • Borg vs. McEnroe/Hulu
  • A Very Charming Christmas Town/Lifetime
  • Christmas A La Mode/Lifetime
  • Feliz NaviDAD/Lifetime
  • First Cow/Showtime
  • Laura/DVD
  • Let Them All Talk/HBO Max
  • Nashville/Blu-Ray
  • All That Heaven Allows/Blu-Ray
  • Why Must I Die?/Blu-Ray
  • Mangrove/Small Axe/Amazon
  • Lovers Rock/Small Axe/Amazon
  • Wonder Woman 1984/HBO Max
  • Red, White and Blue/Small Axe/Amazon
  • The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart/HBO Max
  • Black Art: In the Absence of Light/HBO Max
  • BUtterfield 8/HBO Max
  • Nomadland/Hulu
  • Little Things/HBO Max
  • One Night in Miami/Amazon
  • The United States vs. Billie Holliday/Hulu
  • Judas and the Black Messiah/HBO Max
  • Sound of Metal/Amazon
  • Minari/Showplace Icon

 

Books I’ve Read Since Quarantine Began

  • Woodcutters/Thomas Bernhard
  • Severance/Ling Ma
  • The River at Night/Kevin Huizenga
  • Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking/Annie Atkins
  • The Modern Magazine: Visual Journalism in the Digital Era/Jeremy Leslie
  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist/Adrian Tomine
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less/Greg McKeown
  • City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago/Gary Krist
  • Once I Was Cool/Megan Stielstra
  • In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing/Walter Murch
  • American Rose-A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee/Karen Abbott
  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich/Timothy Ferriss
  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company/Robert Iger
  • Paul at Home/Michel Rabagliati
  • King-Cat Classic/John Porcellino
  • Map of My Heart/John Porcellino
  • Perfect Example/John Porcellino
  • Mental Traveler: A Father, A Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia/W.J.T. Mitchell
  • The Book Tour/Andi Watson
  • Bookstores/Horst A. Friedrichs and Stuart Husband
  • The Talented Miss Farwell/Emily Gray Tedrowe