It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2021––another year in which he not only released a new film, but shot another (and produced the Oscars)––he still got plenty of watching in.
Along with catching up on 2021’s new releases (Licorice Pizza, Drive My Car, Red Rocket, West Side Story, The Souvenir Part II, Shiva Baby, Zola, and many more), he took in plenty of classics, including Jaws, Citizen Kane, Metropolis, The French Connection, and Lubitsch’s Ninotchka and Design For Living. Early last year, he also saw a cut of Channing Tatum’s Dog, which doesn’t arrive until next month. He also, of course, screened his latest movies while in post-production, with three viewings of No Sudden Move and three viewings of Kimi, which arrives on February 10 on HBO Max and the first look of which can be seen below.
Check out the list below via his official site.
01/01 SMALL AXE: ALEX WHEATLE, MINARI, LOVER COME BACK, DATELINE
01/02 MASQUES, BETWEEN THE LINES, TWENTIETH CENTURY
01/03 THE BURGLAR (’57)
01/04 Want, Lynn Seger Strong, STAGED, THE INVESTIGATION (3)
01/05 THE INVESTIGATION (3)
01/06 THE MALTESE FALCON
01/07 THE WITNESS
01/08 DATELINE
01/09 The Door, Magda Szabo, PANIC ROOM
01/10 TIGER
01/11 HOTEL
01/12 NO SUDDEN MOVE, 36 HOURS, NIGHT STALKER (3)
01/14 Disloyal, Michael Cohen, NIGHT STALKER, SEARCH PARTY (3)
01/15 SERVANT, ZERO FOCUS, People Like Me, Ellery Lloyd
01/16 BOWHANI JUNCTION
01/23 CALL MY AGENT (2), TIGER, IN & OF ITSELF, OPERATION HALYARD: NO MAN LEFT BEHIND*
01/24 Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid, ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, SEARCH PARTY (3)
01/25 CALL MY AGENT (2)
01/26 CALL MY AGENT (2), THE NUTTY PORFESSOR (’63), NO SUDDEN MOVE
01/27 SERVANT, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
01/28 Land of the Blind, Jess Walter, SEARCH PARTY (4)
01/29 MALCOLM & MARIE, IN & OF ITSELF
01/30 DOG, SERVANT, THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK
01/31 THE LADY AND THE DALE (2)
02/01 Citizen Vince, Jess Walter, THE HILL
02/02 Mike Nichols: A Life, Mark Harris, WHERE DANGER LIVES, BELOW DECK (4)
02/03 BELOW DECK (4)
02/04 BELOW DECK (4)
02/05 BELOW DECK, THE LADY AND THE DALE, MOROCCO
02/06 Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler, FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS, DEAR COMRADES!
02/07 SUPER BOWL LV
02/08 BELOW DECK, Trio, William Boyd
02/10 My Year Abroad, Chang-rae Lee, THE VANISHING AT THE CECIL HOTEL (2)
02/11 Super Host, Kate Russo
02/12 STAR WARS (4K77 project version), SERVANT, PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME
02/13 Jack’s Life: A Biography, Patrick McGilligan, DATELINE, SHANGHAI EXPRESS
02/14 THE LADY AND THE DALE, NORTH BY NORTHWEST
02/15 BELOW DECK
02/17 WRITTEN ON THE WIND
02/19 IN & OF ITSELF
02/20 Luster, Raven Leilani, SERVANT, DATELINE
02/21 Born Standing Up, Steve Martin, ALLEN V. FARROW
02/22 MADE YOU LOOK
02/23 LAPSIS
02/25 SERVANT, Amoralman, Derek Delgaudio
02/27 WORLD’S MOST WANTED (2)
02/28 MONTANA STORY
03/02 NO SUDDEN MOVE
03/03 MURDER AMONG THE MORMONS
03/04 MURDER AMONG THE MORMONS (2)
03/05 SERVANT, NEVENKA
03/06 Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS, SOUND OF METAL
03/07 NEVENKA (2), HOUSE OF CARDIN
03/08 The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, THE PASSWORD IS COURAGE
03/09 THE CONVERSATION, The Smash-Up, Ali Benjamin
03/10 48HRS
03/11 UNSEAMLY (2)
03/12 UNSEAMLY, SERVANT
03/13 UNSEAMLY, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
03/14 The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen, A MAN CALLED ADAM, THE 63RD GRAMMY AWARDS
03/15 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
03/16 THE FATHER
03/19 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE, SERVANT, NATE BARGATZE: THE GREATEST AVERAGE AMERICAN
03/20 Shooting Midnight Cowboy, Glenn Frankel, IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: AIRLANDER, PANIC ROOM
03/21 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (4), IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: THE BLACK PEARL
03/22 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (2), CALLS
03/24 FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE (3)
03/25 It’s the Pictures That Got Small, Edited by Anthony Slide
03/26 CASINO
03/27 IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: SECRETS OF THE SUPER TANKER, DATELINE
03/28 REPULSION, THE LOST WEEKEND, The Decagon House Murders, Yukito Ayatsuji
03/30 Begin principal photography on KIMI
04/04 ROSEMARY’S BABY, Mona, Pola Oloixarac
04/09 THIS IS A ROBBERY: THE WORLD’S GREATEST ART HEIST
04/10 THIS IS A ROBBERY: THE WORLD’S GREATEST ART HEIST (2)
04/11 A KIND OF LOVING
04/16 THE LETTER (’40)
04/18 STORYVILLE: DECADENCE AND DOWNFALL, THE SHAH OF IRAN’S ULTIMATE PARTY
04/25 THE 93RD OSCARS
04/29 Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means To Be Alive, Carl Zimmer
04/30 “Hairball”, Margaret Atwood, The Jaws Log, Carl Gottlieb
05/01 CROUPIER
05/02 The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell, JAWS
05/03 THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY PART ONE
05/04 Second Place, Rachel Cusk, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY PART TWO
05/06 A Lonely Man, Chris Power
05/14 KIMI
05/17 The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz, EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, SHRILL (2)
05/18 NICHOLS AND MAY: TAKE TWO
05/20 Blow Your House Down, Gina Frangello
05/21 Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull, A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW
05/23 Home Land, Sam Lipsyte
05/24 BEAST, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
05/25 Venus Drive, Sam Lipsyte
05/26 THE EXILES, WRATH OF MAN
05/27 The Subject Steve, Sam Lipsyte, NAIL BOMBER: MANHUNT, STATE FUNERAL
05/28 LIFE AT THE TOP, CAUGHT
05/29 SEBASTIAN
06/01 JOURNEY INTO FEAR, MOVIE MOVIE
06/02 The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dailia Harris
06/04 HACKS (2)
06/05 KIMI
06/06 HACKS (2), Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley
06/07 HACKS (2)
06/08 Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen
06/08 THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY
06/09 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
06/10 HACKS (2), JUGGERNAUT
06/11 MADE FOR LOVE (2)
06/12 Impersonation, Heidi Pitlor, MADE FOR LOVE (2), WENT THE DAY WELL?
06/13 The White Rose, Jean Hanff Korelitz
06/15 MADE FOR LOVE (2)
06/17 KIMI
06/20 From Reverence to Rape, Molly Haskell, DAVE (2), DANGEROUS (’35)
06/21 BELOW DECK
06/22 “A Very Expensive Posion”, Lucy Prebble, MADE FOR LOVE (2), I AM WAITING
06/23 THE BLUE GARDENIA
06/25 “Enron” Lucy Prebble
06/26 “The Effect”, “The Sugar Syndrome” Lucy Prebble, DEEP END (’70)
06/27 Double Blind, Edward St. Aubyn
06/28 The Damage, Caitlin Wahrer, BELOW DECK, GOLDEN (2)
06/29 GOLDEN, THE WHITE TIGER
06/30 SOPHIE: A MURDER IN WEST CORK
07/01 DAVE, SOPHIE: A MURDER IN WEST CORK
07/02 Steven Spielberg and Duel, Steven Awalt, SOPHIE: A MURDER IN WEST CORK
07/03 THE KILLERS (’46)
07/04 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART ONE
07/05 BELOW DECK
07/06 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART ONE
07/07 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART TWO, GOLDEN, Wayward, Dana Spiotta
07/08 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART THREE
07/09 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART FOUR, Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, ELIZA MAZUNAGA: ONCE UPON A CRIME (2), DAVE
07/10 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART FIVE, “Unread Messages” Sally Rooney, Everybody: A Book About Freedom, Olivia Laing, MACGREGOR VS. POIRIER 3, DUEL
07/11 CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: PART SIX, ELIZE MUZUNAGA: ONCE UPON A CRIME (2), THE WHITE LOTUS
07/12 BELOW DECK
07/14 GOLDEN
07/15 DAVE
07/16 NAOMI OSAKA (3)
07/17 MCCARTNEY 3.2.1.
07/18 Should We Stay or Should We Go, Lionel Shriver, THE WHITE LOTUS, MCCARTNEY 3.2.1. (2)
07/19 MCCARTNEY 3.2.1 (2), BELOW DECK, STORMY WEATHER
07/21 GOLDEN, SHIVA BABY
07/22 DAVE
07/23 ZOLA, The Vixen, Francine Prose
07/24 Intimacies, Katie Kitamura, THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, THE WHITE LOTUS, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
07/25 Bath Haus, P.J. Vernon, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
07/26 BELOW DECK, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
07/27 A Separation, Katie Kitamura, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
07/28 Always Crashing in the Same Car, Matthew Specktor, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
07/29 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
07/30 TO LESLIE, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
07/31 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
08/01 The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE WHITE LOTUS
08/02 SUMMER OF SOUL, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, BELOW DECK, DAVE
08/03 “Riding the Bull”, Skye Falling, Mia McKenzie, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
08/05 THE LOCKET
08/06 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
08/07 Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So, 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE SCAPEGOAT, MURDER MOST FOUL
08/08 The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr, The Beginners, Anne Serre, THE WHITE LOTUS, DAVE, UFO
08/09 THE TRIAL (’18), AIR CONDITIONER, BELOW DECK
08/10 TROUBLE IN PARADISE
08/11 YOUTH OF THE BEAST, COCAINE COWBOYS (2)
08/12 Extreme Economies, Ricard Davies, COCAINE COWBOYS (2), DAVE
08/13 THE LEATHER BOYS, COCAINE COWBOYS
08/14 Hunger, Knut Hamsun, THE DEBUSSY FILM, THE MUSIC LOVERS, MISHA AND THE WOLVES, AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (’56)
08/15 COCAINE COWBOYS, THE WHITE LOTUS
08/16 Edge Case, YZ Chin, BELOW DECK
08/17 The Startup Wife, Tahmina Anam,
08/18 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS (2)
08/19 The Guest List, Lucy Foley, DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE
08/20 We Are The Brennans, Tracey Lange
08/21 The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley, PATTERNS
08/22 Running Against the Tide, Captain Lee with Michael Shohl, NEAL BRENNAN: 3 MICS, STILLWATER
08/25 Steven Spielberg: A Life in Film, Molly Haskell
08/27 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, BELOW DECK
08/28 BOB ROSS: HAPPY ACCIDENTS, BETRAYAL AND GREED
08/30 NINOTCHKA
08/31 DESIGN FOR LIVING
09/03 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, US OPEN
09/04 Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman, US OPEN
09/05 “The Call to Action Mom” George Saunders, US OPEN
09/06 Mrs. March, Virginia Fieto, US OPEN
09/07 US OPEN
09/08 Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney, US OPEN
09/09 US OPEN
09/10 US OPEN, AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, AMERICAN MASTERS: MIKE NICHOLS
09/11 US OPEN, Aurora, David Koepp
09/12 US OPEN, THE LOST LEONARDO
09/13 BELOW DECK
09/14 SHARE
09/20 BELOW DECK, SCHUMACHER
09/22 The Darkroom of Damocles, Willem Frederik Hermans, SOLITARY, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, 1941
09/24 Competing with Idiots, Nick Davis
09/25 “Magic Mike Live” Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin
09/27 The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan, BELOW DECK, WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL
09/28 DINNER AT EIGHT, Double Feature, Donald E. Westlake
09/30 AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
10/01 The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman, Castle in the Air, Donald E. Westlake, RHYTHM THIEF, TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
10/02 THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (’32), PSYCHO (’60)
10/03 Forever and a Death, Donald E. Westlake
10/04 BELOW DECK
10/05 DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE CLOSER, UNTOLD: DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
10/06 Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead
10/09 AMERICAN GRAFFITI
10/11 A Calling for Charley Barnes, Joshua Ferris
10/13 THE BADLANDERS
10/14 EXTRAPOLATIONS
10/16 Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World, Wil Haygood
10/17 The Pessimists, Bethany Bell
10/23 How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong, Psycho, Robert Bloch, DUNE (’21)
10/24 SUCCESSION, THE COBWEB
10/25 BELOW DECK (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
10/28 Island, Thomas Perry, BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL
10/29 BURBERRY: OPEN SPACES*, THE MOTIVE (4)
10/30 EXTRAPOLATIONS, THE FLY (’58), PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, 1971, HITCHCOCK ON CAVETT, THE THING (’82)
10/31 SUCCESSION
11/02 DATELINE
11/03 THE MALTESE FALCON, WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
11/04 METROPOLIS (’84, Moroder)
11/05 JULIA (’21), PURPLE NOON
11/06 UNCLENCHING THE FISTS, ALVAREZ VS PLANT, JAWS
11/07 SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/08 BELOW DECK
11/09 The Four, Scott Galloway
11/11 “The Shark is Broken”, Ian Shaw and Joseph Mixon
11/12 My Body, Emily Ratajkowski, PASSING, BLACK WIDOW (’54)
11/13 THE FRENCH CONNECTION
11/14 PHOEBE ROBINSON: SORRY, HARRIET TUBMAN, SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/16 BELOW DECK
11/17 CLOVERFIELD, THE WIMBLEDON KIDNAPPING, NIAGARA
11/18 I HATE SUZIE, RYAN’S DAUGHTER
11/19 JOCKEY, NASHVILLE
11/20 The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, BLACK CHRISTMAS (’74), DEAN MARTIN: KING OF COOL, CRAWFORD VS PORTER
11/21 SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/22 Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart, Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, Sarah Cooper, THE CURSE OF VON DUTCH (3), BELOW DECK
11/23 EXTRAPOLATIONS
11/24 ONLY FANS: SELLING SEXY
11/25 THE BEATLES GET BACK PART ONE, SOUTH PARK: POST COVID
11/26 THE BEATLES GET BACK PART TWO, DIG DEEPER: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BIRGIT MEIER (2), ALICE IN THE CITIES, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: INVEST IN REAL ESTATE
11/27 THE BEATLES GET BACK PART THREE, THE HAND OF GOD, ALIEN
11/28 SUCCESSION
11/29 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BELOW DECK
11/30 DIG DEEPER: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BIRGIT MEIER (2)
12/01 ENEMIES OF THE STATE
12/03 THE REF, THE SOUVENIR PART II
12/04 Thieve’s Dozen, Donald E. Westlake, DRIVE MY CAR, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: APPRECIATE WINE, JAWS
12/05 THE UNSUSPECTED, SUCCESSION, CITIZEN KANE
12/06 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BELOW DECK
12/08 PEN15, MURDER ON THE COAST
12/09 A Line to Kill, Anthony Horowitz, WEST SIDE STORY (’21)
12/10 ‘TWAS THE FIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK
12/11 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: FIND A SPOT, A SWAN LAKE
12/12 Who is Maud Dixon?, Alexandra Andrews, WEST SIDE STORY (’61)
12/13 The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz, SUCCESSION
12/14 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, A MURDER AT STARVING ROCK (2)
12/15 BELOW DECK, A MURDER AT STARVING ROCK
12/16 LOUIS CK: SORRY
12/18 The Sentence is Death, Anthony Horowitz
12/19 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: THROW OUT YOUR BATTERIES
12/20 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BELOW DECK
12/22 LICORICE PIZZA
12/23 THE 39 STEPS, Assembly, Natasha Brown
12/24 THE VERDICT (’46), HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: REMEMBER YOUR DREAMS, THE APARTMENT
12/25 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT
12/26 RED ROCKET
12/27 WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, SUPER HEIST
12/28 PEN15, THE KILLING
12/29 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (3), MONA LISA
12/30 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROD (3), Self Care, Leigh Stein
12/31 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (4), Why Me?, Donald E. Westlake, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON: BE SPONTANEOUS, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK