Stuff I've Been Watching April 2020

1. Babylon Berlin. season 1. Netflix. 3 April.
2. The Wire. season 1. amazon. 3 April. with Michal.
3. Fish Tank. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold. 2009. United Kingdom. British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury prize for the intense and invigorating Fish Tank, about a a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her moth and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend (a lethally attractive Michael Fassbender) enters the picture. via the Criterion Channel. 5 April.
4. What's Up Doc? Directed by Peter Bogdanovish. 1972. United States. via the Criterion Channel. with Monika and Marta. 10 April.
5. Modern Family. Season 11 (final season). 2020. via the hulu app. with Michal, Marta, and Monika. 15 April.
6. Deadwood. season 1. via the HBO app. with Michal. 16 April.
7. Footlight Parade. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. 1933. United States. Starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler. Footlight Parade is shher cinematic joy. In this depression-era romp, a timid stenographer (Ruby Keeler) removes her glasses and -- wow! -- she's a star. A gee-whiz tenor (Dick Powell) asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, greedy hangers-on get their comeuppance, and an indefatigable producer/dancer (james Cagney) and his girl Friday (joan Blondell) work showbiz miracles to stage live prologues for talkie houses to keep their company afloat during hard times. "Honeymoon Hotel," "By a Waterfall," and "Shangra Lil" are the shows, directed by Busby Berkley and filled with imagination-beinding sets, startling camera angles, kaleidoscopic pageantry, and a twenty-thousand-gallon-per-minute waterfall. Curtain up! via the Criterion Channel app. 17 April.
8. The Plot Against America. 2020. 6 episodes. Based on the novel by Philip Roth. Created by David Simon. via the HBO app. 23 April.
9. World on Fire. Masterpiece. 7 episodes. via the PBS app. with Monika. 30 April.