confusion over various idealic dungeaters : best film and music in the year of our lord twenty twenty

Matthew Swiezynski, aka darkness moves

:: the moving image, in order of l'amour ::

Steve McQueen Small Axe
Derek Cianfrance I Know This Much Is True
Kelly Reichardt First Cow
Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Thomas Vinterberg Another Round / Druk
Christopher Nolan Tenet
Kantemir Balagov Beanpole
Ken Loach Sorry We Missed You
Viktor Kossakovsky Gunda
Pietro Marcello Martin Eden

:: blu ray, by label ::

This year I spent much time on the couch with my lovely wife Chi and my pup Leviathan watching film after film with my all region blu ray player, projector, and surround sound system... taking in the light and accumulating many fine region B films,... some new to me, but many old favorites I had on DVD or even laserdisc or VHS tapes way back when. Not only getting new blus issued forth in 2020, but catching on with labels such as Indicator and Arrow out of the UK.

Krzystof Kieslowski Cinema of Conflict: Four Films by Krzystof Kieslowski Arrow (UK)
Four Film Noir Classics Arrow (UK)
Abel Ferrara King of New York Arrow (UK)
Douglas Trumbull Silent Running Arrow (UK)

Takeshi Kitano Takeshi Kitano Collection BFI (UK)
Jim Jarmusch Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Criterion (US)
Martin Scorsese The Irishman Criterion Collection (US)
Bong Joon-ho Parasite Criterion Collection (US)
Claudia Weill Girlfriends Criterion Collection (US)
Alfonso Cuarón Roma Criterion Collection (US)
George Marshall Destry Rides Again Criterion Collection (US)
Frank Perry The Swimmer Grindhouse Releasing (US)


Curtis Harrington Night Tide Indicator (UK)
Columbia Noir #1 Indicator (UK)
Bill L Norton Cisco Pike Indicator (UK)
Joseph Losey Eva/Eve Indicator (UK)
Carl Franklin Devil in a Blue Dress Indicator (UK)
Richard Franklin Roadgames Indicator (UK)

Frank Perry Diary of a Mad Housewife Kino Lorber (US)
Bruce Beresford Tender Mercies Kino Lorber (US)
David Miller Lonely are the Brave Kino Lorber (US)
Phillip Borsos The Grey Fox Kino Lorber (US)
Maya Deren The Maya Deren Collection Kino Lorber (US)
Don Siegel Two Mules for Sister Sara Kino Lorber (US)
Don Siegel The Beguiled Kino Lorber (US)
Clint Eastwood High Plains Drifter Kino Lorber (US)
John Sturges Joe Kidd Kino Lorber (US)
Clint Eastwood The Eiger Sanction Kino Lorber (US)
Clint Eastwood Play Misty For Me Kino Lorber (US)

Robert Siodmak Criss Cross MoC (UK)
Masaki Kobayashi Kwaidan MoC (UK)
John Ford Rio Grande MoC (UK)

George Romero Dawn of the Dead Second Sight (UK)
Nicolas Roeg Walkabout Second Sight (UK)
Roman Polanski The Tenant Shout (US)
David Lynch The Elephant Man StudioCanal (UK)
4-Film Collection: Film Noir Warner Archive (US)
Martin Scorsese Goodfellas 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition Warner (UK)

Peter Yates The Deep 101 Films (UK)
Saul Bass Phase IV 101 Films (UK)
William Lustig Maniac Blue Underground (US)


:: music, in alphabetical order ::

Alva Noto Xerrox, Vol. 4 (Noton) LP
Autechre PLUS (Warp Records) LP
Autechre SIGN (Warp Records) LP
Autechre AE LIVE 2016/2018 Digital
Black Unity Trio ‎Al-Fatihah (Gotta Groove Records / Salaam Records) LP Vinyl Reissue
Harold Budd I Know This Much Is True (All Saints) Digital
Charles Curtis Performances & Recordings 1998​-​2018 (Saltern) CD
Miles Davis Live-Evil (Sony Records Japan) Quad CD
Vladislav Delay Rakka (Cosmo Rhythmatic) Digital
Werner Durand Schwingende Luftsäulen 3 (Ants) CD
Bill Fontana Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns (Other Minds) Digital Reissue
Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong Harbors (Room40)
Emmanuel Holterbach, Blutwurst Ricercar Nell'ombra (Another Timbre) CD
Kassel Jaeger Swamps / Things (Shelter Press) LP
Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman Last and First Men (Deutsche Grammophon) LP/Blu Ray
Jóhann Jóhannsson Retrospective II (Deutsche Grammophon) CD/DVD
King Crimson The Complete 1969 Recordings (Discipline Global Mobile, Panegyric ) CD/DVD/Blu Ray
KTL VII (Editions Mego) LP
Thomas Köner Motus (Mille Plateaux) LP
Mary Lattimore Silver Ladders (Ghostly International) Digital
John Lennon Gimme Some Truth (Universal Music Group) Surround CD/Blu Ray
Susana López Crónica De Un Secuestro (Elevator Bath) CD
Mirror Some Days it Rains All Night (La Scie Dorée) DIGITAL
Ennio Morricone The Thing - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Waxwork Records) LP Vinyl Reissue
Bill Nace Both (Drag City) Digital
Pole 1 2 3 (Mute) CD
Pole Fading (Mute) Digital
Massimo Ricci ‎Tracey Feels Worse (Elevator Bath) CD
Dean Roberts Not Fire (Erstwhile Records) CD
Toshiya Tsunoda / Taku Unami ‎Wovenland 2 (Erstwhile Records) CD
Robert Turman Chapter Eleven (Helicopter, Hanson Records) CD
Zelienople Hold You Up (Miasmah) LP

(Part 8 in a series of contemporary artist's best of lists for 2020)