Favorite rock docs watched this year:
1. Athens GA Inside/Out and Two Headed Cow (Tony Gayton)
2. Zorn I-III (Mathieu Amalric)
3. The Little Richard Story (1980, William Klein)
4. The Elephant 6 Recording Co. (2022, Chad Stockfleth)
5. Hot Pepper (1973, Les Blank)
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017, Stephen Schible)
7. Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (2022, Ethan Coen)
8. Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall (2022, Bob Smeaton)
9. Oulaya’s Wedding and The Divine River (Hisham Mayet)
10. Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You (2023, Ryan Daly & Will Oldham)
11. The Other One (2023, Henry Threadgill)
12. Bad 25 (2012, Spike Lee)
Favorite shorts watched this year:
1. Bouquets (Rose Lowder)
2. Pas de deux (1968, Norman McLaren)
3. Persian Series / I Take These Truths / Yggdrasill (Stan Brakhage)
4. Face Like a Frog / Quasi at the Quackadero (Sally Cruikshank)
5. E-Ticket (2019, Simon Liu)
6. The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933, Clyde Bruckman)
7. The Secret Cinema (1968, Paul Bartel)
8. Hedgehog in the Fog / The Heron and the Crane (Yuri Norshteyn)
9. Contractions (2024, Lynne Sachs)
10. Cowboy Jimmy / Cow on the Moon / The Playful Robot (Dusan Vukotic)
11. Remedial / Institutional / Saxon (Owen Land)
12. Scénario de Sauve qui peut la vie (1979, Jean-Luc Godard)
13. Sand or Peter and the Wolf (1969, Caroline Leaf)
14. Wee Wee Monsieur (1938, Del Lord)
Needs further study:
Me (2024, Don Hertzfeldt)