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Weekly Digest

Watch List Weekly Recap 7/7/23

A farewell to a mensch, a podcast on a modern classic, and six movies to choose from for weekend viewing.

Good Movies 📽

What To Watch: Six Streaming Picks

The new "Nimona" and five repertory choices, one for each platform.

Podcast

Classics of the New Millennium: "No Country For Old Men" (2007) with Isaac Feldberg

When was the last time you watched “No Country for Old Men” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐)? I saw it twice in 2007, the year it came out, and then two weeks ago while preparing for this podcast, and the intervening 15 years had cast a pall of dust on the experience of the movie

Remembrances ⭐️

One Good Film: "Little Murders" (1971)/R.I.P. Alan Arkin

Remembering a great actor by a bleakly prescient comedy he directed.

Weekly Digest

Watch List Weekly Recap 6/1/23

A vanishing Netflix movie, a five-alarm fire at Turner Classics, a new podcast, and a visionary Icelandic saga.

Good Movies 📽

What to Watch: "Godland," "After Love," "No Hard Feelings."

Two excellent new films on demand and one JLaw raunch-com in theaters.

Podcast

Classics of the New Millennium: "Burning" (2018) with Justin Chang

I’m so glad my friend and critical colleague Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s “Fresh Air” chose South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” as his pick for a great film of the 21st century. Justin brings to the discussion a deep knowledge of Lee’