Alice – Woody Allenn
The Blind Side – John Lee Hancock
Beef (Season 1) – Lee Sung Jin
Badlands – Terrence Malick
Master Gardener – Paul Shrader
Memento – Christopher Nolan
Dear Mama – Allen Hughes
Air – Ben Affleck
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre – Guy Ritchie
Still – Davis Guggenheim
Hearts of Darkness – Eleanor Coppola
Thelma & Louise – Ridley Scott
Daliland – Mary Harron
Ice Age 2: The Melt Down – Carlos Saldanha
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven Spielberg
100 Foot Wave: Season 2 – Chris Smith
Succession: Season 3
Love to Love You, Donna Summer – Roger Ross Williams, Brooklyn Sudano
Crimson Gold– Jafar Panahi
Ludacris Did Not Know ‘Southern Hospitality’ Would Be A Hit
From BALLER ALERT by ErinBoogie May 29, 2023
During a recent sitdown with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s on their All The Smoke podcast, Ludacris revealed that he did not know “Southern Hospitality” would be the hit it would become.
The rapper revealed that the song made it on the album at the last minute, needing additional tracks to repackage an independent album for his major label debut with Def Jam. In need of a record that could pack a punch, Luda turned to The Neptunes, the production duo comprised of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo.
Luda was vibin’ to the beat they gave him, but did not know that it would turn into the hit it would later become.
“If anybody can give you a hit at the last minute, it’s Pharrell and Chad and The Neptunes,” Luda said. “He throws on this beat, and I’m vibing to it. I’m thinking it’s cool. I’m not like thinking, ‘This is a hit.'”
Luda recalls going to the studio’s parking lot to write to the instrumental in his car. The rapper thought it was good, but everyone else felt like the record could be big.
“With ‘Southern Hospitality,’ I did not know that it was the hit that it became,” he continued.
“Southern Hospitality” was released as the second single off of Luda’s Back for the First Time. The record would go on to hit No. 23 on the Billboard 100 and No. 5 on the Billboard Rap Songs chart in 2001.
The video was directed by Jeremy Rall and featured cameos by Lil Jon, Scarface, Too Short, and Jazze Pha.
Check out Ludacris’s full interview below.
Killers of the Flower Moon
What I Watched Last Month
Fight Club – David Fincher
Snag – Ben Milliken
12th Victim – Nicola Marsh
Boom! Boom! The World Vs Boris Becker – Alex Gibney
Reggie – Alex Stapleton
The Proposal – Anne Fletcher
The Best Man – Shane Dax Taylor
War Trap – David Aboucaya
After Hours – Martin Scorsese
Knock at the Cabin – M. Night Shyamalan
The Voyeurs – Michael Mohan
The Master – Mariama Diallo
The Story of Film: A new Generation – Mark Cousins
Gods of Mexico – Helmut Dosantos
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth – Matthew Miele
I Am Love – Luca Guadagnino
Dear Mama : Episode 1 – Allen Hughes
Roots
Spring
SAN FRANSICO GRID
What I Watched Last Month
What I Watched Last Month: March 1st, 2023 – April 1st, 2023
· Arrival – Denis Villeneuve
· Women Talking – Sara Polley
· Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams – Luca Guadagnino
· All The Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras
· Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Season 5)
· Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
· Poker Face: Season 1
· The Last of US: Season 1
· Bling Empire: NYC
· Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Rian Johnson
· The Director and the Jedi – Anthony Wonke
· A Thousand Years of Longing – George Miller
· Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming w/ David Letterman – Morgan Neville
· Empire of Light – Sam Mendes
· Assassin – Jesse Atlas
· Chemical Hearts – Richard Tanne
· The Italian Job (1969) – Peter Collinson
· Bones and All – Luca Guadagnino
· Miss Americana – Lana WIlson
· In Viaggio – Gianfranco Rosi
· Waco: American Apocalypse – Tiller Russell
· Kubrick by Kubrick – Grégory Monro
Carnival
Thru the Wires
What I Watched Last Month
What I Watched Last Month: February 1st, 2023 – March 1st, 2023
You People – Kenya Barris Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ryan Coogler Sr. – Chris Smith Top Gun – Tony Scott E.O. – Jerzy Skolimowski Lost Highway – David Lynch Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch – Toby Keeler Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn – Nicklas Kold Nagel The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari – Rory Kennedy Wedding Crashers – David Dobkin Babylon – Damien Chazelle
Amitis
double // contrast
Full Moon
What I Watched Last Month
What I Watched Last Month: January 1st, 2023 – February 1st, 2023
A Hero – Asghar Farhadi Aftersun – Charlotte Wells The Menu – Mark Mylod White Noise – Noah Baumabach The Making of Athena Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of Happy Together – Kwan Pun-leung and Amos Lee Slow Horses – James Hawes Jeremy Lovering Descendant – Margaret Brown Is That Black Enough for You? – Elvis Mitchell Blue Fin – Carl Schultz, Bruce Beresford Hunters – David Weil Madoff: Monster of Wallstreet – Joe Berlinger The Batman – Matt Reeves
sun fades
Favorite Films of 2022
(in no particular order)
HAPPENING – Audrey Diwan
DECISION TO LEAVE – Park Chan-wook
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN — Martin McDonagh
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS – Ruben Östlund
AFTER YANG – Kogonada
HIT THE ROAD – Panah Panahi
A HERO – Asghar Farhadi
NOPE – Jordan Peele
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – The Daniels
WOMAN KING – Gina Prince-Bythewood
MOONAGE DAYDREAM – Brett Morgen
ATHENA – Romain Gavras
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Joseph Kosinski
RRR – S. S. Rajamouli
FIRE OF LOVE – Sara Dosa
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON – Dean Fleischer Camp
BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS – Alejandro G. Iñárritu
STILL TO SEE:
EO – Jerzy Skolimowski
No Bears – Jafar Panahi
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras
The Whale — Darren Aronofsky
Walk Up — Hong Sangsoo
Broker — Hirokazu Kore-eda
Empire of Light — Sam Mendes
Saint Omer – Alice Diopz
Blue & Gold
in the mist
What I Watched in 2022
January 1st, 2022 – February 1st, 2022
2010 – Peter Hyams
Julia – Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Dope Sick – Barry Levinson
Encanto – Byron Howard, Jared Bush
Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal
Titane – Julia Ducournau
Becoming Cousteau – Liz Garbus
Swan Song – Benjamin Cleary
The Eternals – Chloé Zhao
Home – Matt Tyrnauer, Doug Pray, Taimi Arvidson, Jessica Dimmock, Scott Weintrob ,Clay Jeter, Jimmy Goldblum
The Real Charlie Chaplin – James Spinney, Peter Middleton
Killing Then Softly – Andrew Dominik
Sundance / 22
Lenor Will Never Die – Martika Ramirez Escobar
We Need To Talk About Cosby – W. Kamau Bell
2nd Chance – Ramin Bahrani
The Worst Person in the World – Joachim Trier
Nothing Compares – Kathryn Ferguson
Jeen-Yus: A Kanye Trilogy Part 1 – Coodie & Chike
The Princess – Ed Perkins
Happening – Audrey Diwan
Lucy & Desi – Amy Poehler
The Janes – Emma Pildes, Tia Lessin
When You Finish Saving the World – Jesse Eisenberg
Fire of Love – Sara Dosa
Navalny – Daniel Roher
Moments like this Never Last – Cheryl Dunn
Living – Oliver Hermanus
Call Jane – Phyllis Nagy
Cha Cha Real Smooth – Cooper Raiff
Brian & Charles – Jim Archer
Alice – Krystin Ver Linden
The Cow Who Sang a Song Into The Future – Francisca Alegria
February 1st, 2022 – March 1st, 2022
The House of Gucci – Ridley Scott
Ozarks: Season 4 Pt1 –
The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs – Dan Olson
Django Django – Luca Rea
Inside Llewyn Davis – The Coen Brothers.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – David Fincher
Ali Wong: Don Wong – Nahnatchka Khan
Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro
30 for 30: Once Upon a Time in Queens –
Euphoria: Season 1 – Sam Levinson
Parallel Mothers – Pedro Almadovar
Icahn: The Restless Billionaire – Bruce David Klein
Belfast – Kenneth Branagh
Jeen-Yus: A Kanye Trilogy Part 2 – Coodie & Chike
Euphoria: Season 2 – Sam Levinson
March 1st, 2022 – April 1st, 2022
West Side Story – Steven Spielberg
Fantastic Fungi – Louis Schwartzberg
Destroyer – Karyn Kusama
Jeen-Yus: A Kanye Trilogy Part 3 – Coodie & Chike
Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Devs – Alex Garland
The Adam Project – Shawn Levy
Eyes of Tammy Faye – Michael Showalter
One Night In Soho – Edgar Wright
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Michel Gondry
The Card Counter – Paul Schrader
Pharma Bro – Brent Hodge
After the Murder of Albert Lima – Aengus James
April 1st, 2022 – May 1st, 2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries – Andrew Rossi
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off – Sam Jones
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
F1 Drive to Survive: Season 4
Adrienne – Andy Ostroy
You Were Never Really Here – Lynn Ramsey
Phoenix Rising – Amy J. Berg
Usual Suspects – Bryan Singer
Contagion – Steven Soderbergh
Presidio – Pete Hyams
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
The Invisible Pilot – Phil Lott, Ari Mark
Billions: Season 6
Changing Lanes – Roger Michell
Phone Booth – Joel Schumacher
May 1st, 2022 – June 1st, 2022
The Batman – Matt Reeves
Enemies of the State – Sonia Kennebeck
Captive Audience – Jessica Dimmock
Winning Time: Season 1 – Payman Benz, Tanya Hamilton, Damian Marcano, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Jonah Hill, Adam McKay
Ozarks: Season 4
George Carlin’s American Dream – Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio
The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorcese
Severance: Season 1 – Ben Stiller; Aoife McArdle
The Big Conn – James Lee Hernandez, Brian Lazarte
Prisoners – Denis Villeneuve
The Drowning Pool – Stuart Rosenberg
Ambulance – Michael Bay
Marry Me – Kat Coiro
Kid 90 – Soleil Moon Frye
Real World: Homecoming: New York – Mary-Ellis Bunim, Jonathan Murray
Outer Range: Season 1 – Brian Watkins
Real World: Homecoming: New Orleans – Mary-Ellis Bunim, Jonathan Murray
Ricky Gervais: Supernature – John L. Spencer
Our Father – Lucie Jourdan
Meltdown: Three Mile Island – Kief Davidson
The 355 – Simon Kinberg
Jurassic Park – Steven Spielberg
June 1st, 2022 – July 1st, 2022
Real World: Homecoming: New Orleans
Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Lost City – Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
Everything Everywhere All at Once – The Daniels
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitive – Chris Smith
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing – Rory Kennedy
The Lost World: Jurassic Park – Steven Spielberg
30 for 30: The Greatest Mixtape Ever – Chis Robinson, Dj Set Free Richardson
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres – Suzanne Joe Kai
Menudo: Forever Young – Ángel Manuel Soto and Kristofer Ríos.
Peaky Blinders: Season 6 – Anthony Byrne
Hustle – Jeremiah Zagar
Home: Season 2
The Offer – Adam Arkin, Colin Bucksey, Dexter Fletcher, Gwyneth Horder-Payton
The Man from Toronto – Patrick Hughes
Jurassic Park 3 – Joe Johnston
Mo Betta Blues – Spike Lee
Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain – Estevan Oriol
July 1st, 2022 – August 1st, 2022
Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet – Brian Knappenberger
Death on the Nile – Kenneth Branagh
The Kingsman – Matthew Vaughn
Pather Panchali – Satyajit Ray
Aparajito – Satyajit Ray
The Worst Person in the World – Joachim Trier
Run Lola Run – Tom Tykwer
The Bear: Season 1
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent – Tom Gormican
Under the Banner of Heaven – Dustin Lance Black
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Anthony Minghella
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! – Marina Zenovich
Supreme Team – Nas, Peter J. Scalettar
The World of Apu – Satyajit Ray
Nope – Jordan Peele
August 1st, 2022 – September 1st, 2022
Benny’s Video – Michael Haneke
The Last Detail – Al Hasby
The World of Jacques Demy – Agnès Varda
Vanilla Sky – Cameron Crowe
The Anarchists – Todd Schramke
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Tokyo Vice –
Oblivion – Joseph Kosinski
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 – Jamie Crawford
The Industry: Season 1
Only Murders in the Building: Season 2
Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist – Tony Vainuku
The Gray Man – Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Dead Asleep – Skye Borgman
Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul – David Terry Fine
Prey – Dan Trachtenberg
Eyes Wide Shut – Stanley Kubrick
Top Gun: Maverick – Joseph Kosinski
September 1st, 2022 – October 1st, 2022
Official Selection – Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Untold: The Race of the Century – Chapman Way, Maclain Way
The Rehearsal: Season 1 – Nathan Fielder
Stillwater – Tom McCarthy
The Industry: Season 2
Me Time – John Hamburg
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul – Adamma Ebo
Hell of a Cruise – Nick Quested
All or Nothing: Arsenal
The Last Cruise – Hannah Olson
Everything Everywhere All at Once – The Daniels
Top Gun: Maverick – Joseph Kosinski
Rooney – Matt Smith
The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood
Man on Fire (1987) – Élie Chouraqui
Inside The Mind of a Cat – Andy Mitchell
Spiderman: No Way Home – Jon Watts
October 1st, 2022 – November 1st, 2022
Father Stu – Rosalind Ross
Blonde – Andrew Dominik
Redeem Team – Jon Weinbach
Man On Fire (2004) – Tony Scott
Marcel the Shell with Shoes on – Dean Fleischer-Camp
Casino – Martin Scorsese
On the Count of Three – Jerrod Carmichael
Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James – Sacha Jenkins
Giri / Haji – Julian Farino, Ben Chessell
Sidney – Reginald Hudlin
By Design: The Joe Caroff Story – Mark Cerulli, Paul C. Rosen
Bling Empire: Season 3
The Watcher – Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan
Kendrick Lamar Live from Paris: Big Steppers Tour
The Goldfinch – John Crowley
Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga – Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus, Jon Bardin, Julie Gaither
Chef’s Table: Pizza – Brian McGinn, Abigail Fuller, Clay Jeter, Zia Mandviwalla, Danny O'Malley
Ferris Bueller's Day Off – John Hughes
Athena – Romain Gavras
November 1st, 2022 – December 1st, 2022
Enola Holmes – Harry Bradbeer
See How They Run – Tom George
Don’t Worry Darling – Olivia Wilde
Love is Blind 3
Moonage Daydream – Brett Morgen
Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty – Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
The Vow: Season 2 – Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer
Shaq: Episode 1
The Making of Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems – The Safdie Brothers
World Cup (1st Round Games)
Making of Amores Perros
Making of Nope
Amores Perros Video Essay – Paul Julian Smith
Parasite: Convo with DP Hong-Kyung Pyo
Bullet Train – David Leitch
Good Night, Oppy – Ryan White
Killer Sally – Nanette Burstein
Tár – Todd Field
December 1st, 2022 – January 1st, 2022
Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund
Shaq – Robert Alexander
Branson – Chris Smith
Amsterdam – David O’Russell
Glass Onion – Rian Johnson
The Murdochs: Empire of Influence – Neha Shastry
Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Emily the Criminal – John Patton Ford
Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Emancipation – Antoine Fuqua
Hit The Road – Panah Panahi
She Said – Maria Schrader
Armageddon Time – James Gray