At the beginning of every year, director Steven Soderbergh releases a list of everything he watched and read the previous year. As far as lists go, Soderbergh’s are always fascinating, particularly because he tends to rewatch specific titles over and over again. His new list for 2017 is here, and reveals that so far he’s watched Ocean’s 8, the reboot of his Ocean’s 11 franchise, nine times already. Check out Steven Soderbergh’s 2017 list below.
If you’ve ever wondered about the movie-watching and reading habits of filmmakers, look no further than Steven Soderbergh’s annual list. Soderbergh, the filmmaker behind Traffic, Haywire, Logan Lucky and the Ocean’s 11 films, has an annual tradition of uploading a list to his website that reflects everything he watched or read through the previous year.
Soderbergh’s latest list, reflecting what he read and watched in 2017, is a doozy. There’s a lot to unpack here: the filmmaker took in the gonzo 2017 film A Cure For Wellness in June; on Christmas day, he treated himself to a triple feature of Memento, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Vertigo; and on June 26, he rewatched the phenomenal eighth episode of the new Twin Peaks, which lead him to add the only annotation on the list: “(episode 8 again—wow!)”.
The list also offers some insight into films Soderbergh is associated with: on June 1, he lists that he’s begun production on his new film Unsane, and then proceeds to list Unsane five more times – likely indicating he was rewatching the footage he shot on those particular days. Also worth noting: Soderbergh lists the upcoming Ocean’s 8 – a reboot/sequel to his own Ocean’s 11 franchise – a total of nine times. Check out the full list below.
All caps, bold: MOVIE
All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT*
All caps: TV SERIES
Italics: Book
Quotation marks: “Play”
Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story”
01/01 PASSENGERS, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (’68), KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES
01/02 The Mistletoe Murders and Other Stories, P.D. James
01/03 THE THICK OF IT (5)
01/04 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
01/05 THE THICK OF IT (2)
01/13 DARLING
01/14 DOG DAY AFTERNOON
01/15 THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC
01/18 THE HANDMAIDEN
01/25 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL
01/27 THE RUSSIA HOUSE, VICTIM
01/28 MOUCHETTE, WITHNAIL AND I, DATELINE: SATURDAY NIGHT MYSTERY, 48 HRS
01/29 Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983, L’ARGENT
01/30 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro, SISTERS (’73)
02/01 THE BEST OF AUTOPSY
02/02 I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
02/03 BECOMING WARREN BUFFET
02/04 SPLIT, 48 HRS
02/05 THE LONG DAY CLOSES, THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES (Parts 1, 2 & 3), SUPERBOWL LI
02/06 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL
02/07 THE TRAP (Part 1)
02/08 FIVE EASY PIECES
02/10 BILLIONS, DATELINE
02/11 THE TRAP (Parts 2 & 3), THE IMMORTAL STORY, KING & COUNTRY, FIFTY SHADES DARKER, DATELINE: SATURDAY NIGHT MYSTERY
02/12 “Jitney”, August Wilson, GIRLS
02/13 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL
02/14 THE TRAIN (’64), THE THICK OF IT
02/15 THE THICK OF IT
02/16 LIFE OF RILEY, THE THICK OF IT (2)
02/17 HYPERNATIONALIZATION
02/18 MON ONCLE D’AMERIQUE, SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (’64)
02/19 48 HRS, GIRLS, MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN
02/20 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, THE THICK OF IT
02/21 INTERIORS, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (’74)
02/22 NIGHT AND FOG*, LE CHANT DU STYRENE*, THE HILLS HAVE EYES (’77)
02/24 DATELINE
02/25 DICKS*, I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE, 48 HRS
02/26 GET OUT, THE 89th ACADEMY AWARDS
02/27 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, BILLIONS
03/04 LOGAN LUCKY
03/09 Affections, Roberto Hasbun
03/10 Outline, Rachel Cusk
03/11 GIRLS, DATELINE, THE LOVE WITCH, LOGAN LUCKY
03/12 LOGAN LUCKY, BILLIONS (2), GIRLS
03/14 THE AMERICANS (2)
03/15 LOGAN LUCKY
03/18 GOLOVKIN VS JACOBS
03/19 “The Present”, Anton Chekov/Andrew Upton, GIRLS, BILLIONS
03/20 THE CROWN (2)
03/21 THE AMERICANS
03/22 DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE AGE OF SPIN
03/26 GIRLS, BILLIONS
03/27 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (B&W VERSION)
03/31 DATELINE
04/01 A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
04/02 GIRLS
04/04 LOUIS C.K. 2017, THE AMERCIANS (2)
04/05 MIKEY AND NICKY
04/06 PREVENGE, THE RULING CLASS
04/07 TRAINSPOTTING, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
04/08 THE SILENT PARTNER, DATELINE
04/10 BILLIONS, BETTER CALL SAUL
04/11 THE AMERICANS, REPULSION
04/13 RYAN’S DAUGHTER
04/14 DATELINE
04/15 On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder, Whiplash: How To Survive Our Faster Future, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe, OCEAN’S EIGHT, SILICON VALLEY (2), 48 HRS MYSTERY
04/16 GIRLS, VEEP
04/17 THE AMERICANS, KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP
04/18 HIGH AND LOW, BILLIONS, A.K.
04/20 ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDRE ARSENEVICH, LOGAN LUCKY
04/21 I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING, TO BE OR NOT TO BE (’42)
04/22 …BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS, KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP (3), 48 HRS MYSTERY
04/25 BETTER CALL SAUL, THE AMERICANS, SILICON VALLEY
04/26 LOGAN LUCKY, BILLIONS, CHINATOWN
04/27 THE SHINING
04/29 STANLEY KUBRICK INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY BERNSTEIN NOVEMBER 1965 (AUDIO), MAKING “THE SHINING”, JOSHUA VS KLITSCHKO, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGOUSIE, 48 HRS MYSTERY
04/30 OCEAN’S EIGHT, SILICON VALLEY, VEEP, BILLIONS
05/01 E! NEWS LIVE AT THE RED CARPET MET GALA, BETTER CALL SAUL
05/02 THE AMERICANS
05/05 WHITE HORSE (6), SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA
05/06 DON’T LOOK NOW, 48 HRS MYSTERY
05/07 All Kinds of Love, Carl Reiner
05/08 SILICON VALLEY, BILLIONS, BETTER CALL SAUL
05/09 THE AMERICANS
05/11 BASKETS (2), THE SAND PEBBLES
05/12 THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS
05/13 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
05/14 Homesick For Another World, Otessa Moshfegh, SILICON VALLEY
05/15 BETTER CALL SAUL
05/16 THE AMERICANS
05/17 I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (’78), 1941
05/18 MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST
05/19 THE KEEPERS (2)
05/20 THE KEEPERS (5)
05/21 ALIEN: COVENANT, TWIN PEAKS (2), SILICON VALLEY
05/22 Moonglow, Michael Chabon, BETTER CALL SAUL
05/23 THE AMERICANS, SHEITAN
05/26 SUNSET BOULEVARD
05/29 Men Without Women, Haruki Murkami, TWIN PEAKS (2), SILICON VALLEY
05/30 THE AMERICANS
05/31 THE BIRDS
06/01 Begin principal photography on UNSANE
06/03 A CURE FOR WELLNESS, OCEAN’S EIGHT
06/04 SILICON VALLEY, TWIN PEAKS
06/10 BETTER CALL SAUL
06/11 TWIN PEAKS, SILICON VALLEY
06/15 UNSANE
06/16 UNSANE
06/17 RISK, EYES OF LAURA MARS
06/18 SILICON VALLEY, VEEP, TWIN PEAKS
06/10 ATLANTA, BARRY LYNDON
06/20 Masters of Atlantis, Charles Portis, ROOM 104, JAWS
06/21 SEXY BEAST, BETTER CALL SAUL
06/22 THE THIRD MAN, UNSANE, ANATOMY OF A MURDER
06/23 Loving, Henry Green, GATTACA
06/24 How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers, South and West, Joan Didion, DATELINE, 48 HRS
06/25 TWIN PEAKS, SILICON VALLEY, VEEP
06/26 TWIN PEAKS (episode 8 again—wow!)
06/27 THE EXORCIST (original theatrical release version)
06/28 T2 TRAINSPOTTING
07/07 OCEAN’S EIGHT, DATELINE
07/08 Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game, Karl Ove Gnausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund, WALTZ WITH BASHIR
07/09 Who Is Rich?, Mathhew Klam, ARCHER, BOJACK HORSEMAN
07/10 DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, TWIN PEAKS
07/11 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, HELP!
07/12 SONG TO SONG
07/14 ROAR: THE MOST DANGEROUS MOVIE EVER MADE, DATELINE
07/15 LURED, ALL THE PRESIDEN’TS MEN
01/17 TWIN PEAKS
07/21 BULLITT, DATELINE
07/22 THE LOVED ONE, The Dinner Party, Joshua Ferris
07/24 TWIN PEAKS
07/25 VICE: A WORLD IN DISARRAY
07/26 L’ECLISSE, THE LAMP*
07/29 O.G., Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, W1A (2)
07/31 Golden Hill, Francis Spufford, TWIN PEAKS, UN FLIC
08/01 THEY LIVE BY NIGHT
08/03 IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE
08/04 UNSANE
08/05 ICARUS
08/06 DUNKIRK
08/07 PERFECT (’18)
08/08 THE GRADUATE, THE KING (’18)
08/11 FUCKKKYOUUU*
08/12 GLOW (2), W1A, 48 HRS MYSTERY, THE KILLING (’56)
08/13 GOOD MORNING*
08/15 I LOVE YOU, DADDY
08/16 TWIN PEAKS
08/17 TWIN PEAKS
08/19 The Romanovs, Simon Sebag Montefiore
08/23 The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Mike Figgis
08/24 Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney
08/26 BEATRIZ AT DINNER, WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME, MAYWEATHER VS MCGREGOR, 1941
08/28 Richard Ayoade Presents The Grip of Film by Gordy Lasure
08/29 Runnin’ With The Devil, Noel E. Monk and Joe Leydon, OCEAN’S EIGHT
08/30 mother!
09/02 TWIN PEAKS, The GFE Novelization, Allison Leotta, W1A (2), DELIVERANCE
09/04 Evolving Ourselves, Juan Enriquez and Steven Gullans, TWIN PEAKS
09/05 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN REVISITED
09/07 THE THICK OF IT
09/08 THE THICK OF IT
09/10 THE THICK OF IT
09/11 “By The Way, Meet Vera Stark”, Lynn Nottage, THE THICK OF IT (2)
09/12 APPLE SPECIAL EVENT (STREAMED), THE THICK OF IT (2), UNSANE, SE7EN
09/15 DATELINE
09/16 TWIN PEAKS, GOLOVKIN VS ALVAREZ, Ties, Domenico Starnone
09/17 TWIN PEAKS, THE 69TH EMMY AWARDS
09/18 HOUSE OF Z
09/19 THE VIETNAM WAR
09/21 Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen
09/22 TRANSPARENT (2), DATELINE
09/23 TRANSPARENT (6), THE VIETNAM WAR
09/24 THE VIETNAM WAR (2)
09/26 The Misfortune of Marion Palm, Emily Culliton
09/29 Six Four, Hideo Yokoyama
09/30 Transit, Rachel Cusk, THE VIETNAM WAR (2)
10/01 Aftermath, Rachel Cusk, CURB YOUR ENHUSIASM
10/04 LONG SHOT
10/07 SPIELBERG
10/08 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
10/13 W1A (2), DATELINE, We Were Eight Years in Power, Ta-Nehisi Coates
10/15 W1A (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, DAVE CHAPPELLE: DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS
10/17 W1A, OCEAN’S EIGHT
10/18 OCEAN’S EIGHT
10/19 OCEAN’S EIGHT
10/20 DATELINE
10/21 48 HRS, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, HIS GIRL FRIDAY
10/22 IZUMI, CHINATOWN, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
10/23 W1A, MINDHUNTER (2)
10/25 Secrecy World, Jake Bernstein
10/26 “M. Butterfly”, David Henry Hwang
10/27 TRACEY ULLMAN’S SHOW (2)
10/29 THE DUELLISTS, TOKYO DRIFTER, IKIRU, VENGEANCE IS MINE, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/03 Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle, THE TALE OF ZATOICHI, WOMAN IN THE DUNES, OCEAN’S EIGHT
11/04 DATELINE, JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD, MINDHUNTER (2)
11/09 Classic Wiley: A Lifetime of Punches, Players, Punks, & Prophets, Ralph Wiley, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
11/10 THE VIETNAM WAR (2)
11/11 AIRPORT 1975, THE VIETNAM WAR, TRACEY ULLMAN’S SH0W, DATELINE, THELMA, 48 HRS
11/12 DATELINE, DATELINE ON ID, MIRAGE, AIRPORT ’77, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/13 SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE
11/14 MINDHUNTER (2)
11/15 THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT ‘79
11/18 “The Play That Goes Wrong,” Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, I, TONYA, CATCH-22
11/19 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, TRACEY ULLMAN’S SHOW
11/21 BATTLE OF THE SEXES, MINDHUNTER, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
11/22 THE SQUARE (’17)
11/23 Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow, GOODTIME
11/24 Fresh Complaint, Jeffrey Eugenides, 20/20, DATELINE, 48 HRS
11/25 TRACEY ULLMAN’S SHOW, SOAPDISH, 48 HRS
11/26 MINDHUNTER (2)
11/29 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, Adam Rutherford, LOS OLVIDADOS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
12/02 SMILF, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, VOYEUR, DATELINE
12/03 SMILF (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, ZODIAC
12/04 SMILF (2), DOWNSIZING
12/06 ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ.
12/07 JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING
12/09 TOKYO OLYMPIAD, OLYMPIA PART ONE: FESTIVAL OF NATIONS, OLYMPIA PART TWO: FESTIVAL OF BEAUTY
12/10 The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, SMILF
12/12 THE FLORIDA PROJECT, “Cat Person”, Kristen Roupenian
12/13 CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
12/14 REAR WINDOW
12/15 WORMWOOD (6)
12/16 If It’s Not Funny It’s Art, Demetri Martin, “The Lazy River”, Zadie Smith, A Legacy of Spies, John le Carre, THE SHAPE OF WATER
12/17 Sleep No More, P.D. JAMES, PANIC ROOM, SMILF, THE PIRATES OF SOMALIA
12/18 BEATS, LADY BIRD
12/19 PHANTOM THREAD, MODERN ROMANCE
12/20 STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
12/21 HAPPY END
12/22 GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS, DATELINE, BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918
12/23 HEAT, An Unsuitable Job for A Woman, P. D. James, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
12/24 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, THE THIRD MAN
12/25 The Skull Beneath the Skin, P.D. James, MEMENTO, LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, VERTIGO
12/27 Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thompson, IQ, Joe Ide
12/28 THE INSULT
12/29 The Revolt of the Black Athlete, Harry Edwards, BLACK MIRROR (4)
12/30 BLACK MIRROR (2)
12/31 DAVE CHAPPELLE: EQUANIMITY, THE PARALLAX VIEW
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