Greatest Hits: Sahara, To the Lighthouse.
Lowest Lows: The Bear, Rocky III.
July 2nd
— MobLand (2025), Episode 1.1 “Stick or Twist”
Directed by Guy Ritchie; written by Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth.
Starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, and Geoff Bell.
Premiered on Paramount+ on March 30, 2025; episodes released weekly through June 1, 2025.
July 3rd
— Sahara (1943), half hour
Directed by Zoltán Korda; screenplay written by John Howard Lawson, based on an incident in the novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, and Dan Duryea.
Released in the United States on November 11, 1943.
July 4th
— Woolf, To The Lighthouse, 25 pp.
— Arendt, “Lying in Public”, 10 pp.
— Rocky III (1982), last hour
Directed and written by Sylvester Stallone.
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Mr. T, and Burgess Meredith.
Released in the United States on May 28, 1982.
July 7th-9th
— Mobland, 1.2-7
July 10th
— Woolf, To The Lighthouse, “Time Passes”
July 12th
— Materialists (2025)
Directed and written by Celine Song.
Starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, Zoë Winters, Marin Ireland, Louisa Jacobson, and Dasha Nekrasova.
Premiered in the United States on June 13, 2025; released in the United States on June 13, 2025.
— MobLand (2025–present), Season 1, Episode 8 “Helter Skelter,” aired May 18, 2025, on Paramount+.
Directed by Lawrence Gough; written by Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth.
Starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Jasmine Jobson, Mandeep Dhillon, Daniel Betts, Geoff Bell, Janet McTeer, Toby Jones, and Robert Townsend.
— MobLand (2025–present), Season 1, Episode 9 “Beggars Banquet,” aired May 25, 2025, on Paramount+.
Directed by Anthony Byrne; written by Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth.
Starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Jasmine Jobson, Mandeep Dhillon, Daniel Betts, Geoff Bell, Janet McTeer, Toby Jones, and Jordi Mollà.
— MobLand (2025–present), Season 1, Episode 10 “The Beast in Me,” aired June 1, 2025, on Paramount+.
Directed by Anthony Byrne; written by Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth.
Starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Jasmine Jobson, Mandeep Dhillon, Daniel Betts, Geoff Bell, Janet McTeer, Toby Jones, Jordi Mollà, and Emmett J. Scanlan.
July 13th
— Woolf, To The Lighthouse, “Time Passes”, 2nd time
— Summertime (1955)
Directed by David Lean; screenplay written by David Lean and H. E. Bates.
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin, and Isa Miranda.
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival on May 29, 1955; released in the United States on June 21, 1955.
July 14th
— Arendt, “On Civil Disobedience”
— Anahid Nersessian, “How Can I Help You?” NYRB, July 24, 2025 issue.
on John Tottenham’s novel Service.
July 15th
— Law & Order (1990–2010), “Exiled: A Law & Order Movie,” aired November 8, 1998, on NBC.
Directed by Jean de Segonzac; written by Charles Kipps.
Starring Chris Noth, Dabney Coleman, Dana Eskelson, John Fiore, Dann Florek, Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston, and Paul Guilfoyle.
— To The Lighthouse, 10 pp.
July 20th
— Miami Vice (2006)
Directed and written by Michael Mann.
Starring Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, and Barry Shabaka Henley.
Premiered in Los Angeles on July 20, 2006; released in the United States on July 28, 2006.
July 21th
— The Bear (2022–present), Season 2, Episode 2 “Pasta,” aired June 22, 2023, on FX on Hulu.
Directed by Christopher Storer; written by Joanna Calo.
Starring Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Abby Elliott, Matty Matheson, Edwin Lee Gibson, Corey Hendrix, Richard Esteras, José Cervantes, and Robert Townsend.
— The Bear (2022–present), Season 2, Episode 3 “Sundae,” aired June 22, 2023, on FX on Hulu.
— Woolf, To The Lighthouse, 10 pp.
July 22nd-23rd
— Finished To The Lighthouse
July 24th
— The Skin, 20 pp.
— Cavan Scott, The Rising Storm, 50 pp.
July 26th
— Rising Storm, 250 pp.
July 27th
— Finished Rising Storm
— None Shall Escape (1944)
Directed by André De Toth; screenplay written by Lester Cole, based on a story by Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than.
Starring Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf, Richard Crane, Dorothy Morris, Richard Hale, and Ruth Nelson.
Released in the United States on February 3, 1944.
— The Skin, 25 pp.
July 28th
— The Bear (2022-present), “Honeydew“, Season 2, Episode 4. Aired on June 22, 2023 on FX on Hulu.
Directed by Ramy Youssef. Written by Stacy Osei-Kuffour.
Starring Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, …
I liked seeing Copenhagen. Between reading Lucky Per and this I am reminded of the time I spent there 25 years ago. And I do like the character primarily featured in this episode. But I cannot stand the way they call each other “chef”. It drives me crazy.
— Wild Things (1998)
Directed by John McNaughton; screenplay written by Stephen Peters.
Starring Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Theresa Russell, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Robert Wagner, and Bill Murray.
Released in the United States on March 20, 1998.
So that is what this film is all about … meh. Bill Murray was good.
July 29th
— Finished The Skin
August 1st
— Vertigo (1958)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.
Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, and Henry Jones.
Released in the United States on May 9, 1958.
August 3rd
— Gaslight (1944)
Directed by George Cukor; screenplay written by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston, based on the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton.
Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Angela Lansbury.
Released in the United States on May 4, 1944.
August 9th
— The Rebellion (1993)
Directed by Michael Haneke; written by Michael Haneke and Joseph Roth, based on the novel The Rebellion (Die Rebellion) by Joseph Roth.
Starring Branko Samarovski, Judit Pogány, Thierry van Werveke, and Deborah Wisniewski.
Aired on Austrian television on October 23, 1993.
August 10th
— Timothy Garten Ash, “Stasi on Our Mind”, NYRB, May 31st, 2007 issue.
— Linda Kinstler, “‘A Partial Freedom’: What Latvia Found in the KGB Archives”, NYRB, March 5th, 2019 issue.
— Lucas (1986)
Directed and written by David Seltzer.
Starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, and Courtney Thorne-Smith.
Released in the United States on March 28, 1986.
August 17th
— The General (1926)
Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman; screenplay written by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, Charles Henry Smith, and Paul Girard Smith, inspired by the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, and Glen Cavender.
Released in the United States on February 5, 1927.
August 18th
— Green Fish (1997), 30 min.
Directed by Lee Chang-dong; screenplay written by Lee Chang-dong and Oh Seung-hyeon.
Starring Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-keun, and Cha Yu-kyeong.
Released in South Korea on February 7, 1997.
This is film by the director who made Burning.
— Science of Reading, 15 pp.
— Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III,
August 19th
— Jane Eyre (1951), 15 min.
Directed by Robert Stevenson; screenplay written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, and Robert Stevenson, based on the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Starring Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Margaret O’Brien, and Peggy Ann Garner.
Released in the United States on January 1951.
— Science of Reading, 10 pp.
August 20th-22nd
— Science of Reading, 50 pp.
August 23rd
— 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Directed by Gil Junger; screenplay written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik.
Released in the United States on March 31, 1999.
August 29th
— Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Directed by Robert Aldrich; screenplay written by A. I. Bezzerides, based on the novel Kiss Me, Deadly by Mickey Spillane.
Starring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, and Maxine Cooper.
Released in the United States on May 18, 1955.
— Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
Directed by Laurent Bouzereau; produced by Laurent Bouzereau, Wendy Benchley, Laura A. Bowling, Darryl Frank, and Markus Keith.
Released in the United States on July 10, 2025 on National Geographic; streaming release on July 11, 2025 via Disney+ and Hulu.
August 31st
— Hobson’s Choice (1954)
Directed by David Lean; screenplay written by Harold Brighouse (play), David Lean, Norman Spencer, and Wynyard Browne.
Starring Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, and Daphne Anderson.
Released in the United Kingdom in 1954.
