What I Watched Last Month

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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