June 2026

Best First Viewings:

To Save Her Soul (D.W. Griffith, 1909)

Two Friends (Jane Campion, 1986)

Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt, 2026)

EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening (Naoyuki Asano, 2026)

The Devil's Hand (Maurice Tourneur, 1943)

The Halliday Brand (Joseph H. Lewis, 1957)

Monte Walsh (Simon Wincer, 2003)

Mists of Time (Patrick Carey, 1968)

Pistol Duel (Gabriel Veyre, 1896)

Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968)

The Fall of the Roman Empire (Anthony Mann, 1964)

David Lean: A Self Portrait (Thomas Craven, 1971)

Books Read:

They Also Serve by Donald E. Westlake (short story/ebook)

The Risk Profession by Donald E. Westlake (short story/ebook)

Confessions by Saint Augustine

Hombre by Elmore Leonard

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (BFI Film Classics) by Lucy Fischer

A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

May 2026

Best First Viewings:

The White Sister (Henry King, 1923)

La Croisée des Chemins (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1976)

Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

Devil’s Doorway (Anthony Mann, 1950)

A Day in Barbagia (Vittorio De Seta, 1958)

The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)

Aniki-Bóbó (Manoel de Oliveira, 1942)

'The Westerner' Episode 12: Hand on the Gun (Sam Peckinpah, 1960)

Books Read:

Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

The Gardener's Son: A Screenplay by Cormac McCarthy

Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood by Jim Kitses

Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata

Autism in Adults by Luke Beardon

April 2026

Best First Viewings:

The Blessed Ones (Ingmar Bergman, 1986)

Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956)

Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. DeMille, 1949)

Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950)

Wolf Lowry (William S. Hart, 1917)

The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King, 1926)

Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon, 1928)

Library (Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, 1970)

François Couperin: Music for a Dying King (Tony Scull, 1992)

City Hall (Frederick Wiseman, 2020)

Ingmar Bergman: On Life and Work (Jörn Donner, 1998)

What’s Wrong With The World (Jean-Luc Godard, 1996)

Books Read:

True Grit by Charles Portis

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis

The Seventh Seal (BFI Film Classics) by Melvyn Bragg

Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director by Geoffrey MacNab

Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor

The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form by Cormac McCarthy

Pick-Up by Charles Willeford