I spent much of July catching up on some female directed films from earlier in 2020 that I missed, as well as still working my way through Criterion Channel’s Tell Me collection (I only have one film left!!) and honestly that made for a great month of viewing. As always, after the cut you can see everything I watched in July, a breakdown by decade, and a few favorites.

1. Friends With Money
2. Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
3. Valley Girl (2020)
4. The Rhythm Section
5. The Assistant
6. Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
7. The Old Guard
8. Guerillère Talks
9. Soft Fiction
10. Land Makar
11. Suzanne, Suzanne
12. Audience
13. Please Give
14. The Ties That Bind
15. The Salt Mines
16. The Transformation
17. Fatal Affair
18. Father Soldier Son
19. Palm Springs
20. Privilege
21. Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena
22. Along Came Polly
23. Secrets (1933)
24. The Wind (1928)
25. The Scarlet Letter (1926)
26. Walk On The Wild Side
27. Mimi (2003)

1880s: 0
1890s: 0
1900s: 0
1910s: 0
1920s: 2
1930s: 1
1940s: 0
1950s: 0
1960s: 1
1970s: 2
1980s: 4
1990s: 4
2000s: 3
2010s: 1
2020s: 9

The Assistant, 2020 (dir. Kitty Green)

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado, 2020 (dir. Cristina Costantini & Kareem Tabsch)

Audience, 1981 (dir. Barbara Hammer)

The Salt Mines, 1990 / The Transformation, 1995 (dir. Susana Aiken and Carlos Aparicio)

The Wind, 1928 (dir. Victor Sjöström)

Walk On The Wild Side, 1962 (dir. Edward Dmytryk)

So that was July. Here’s to more cinema in August!!