Seen, Read - 2025

Inspired by Steven Soderbergh’s “Seen, Read” lists: 2024

LEGEND

All caps, bold: MOVIE

All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT*

All caps: TV SERIES

Italics: Book

Quotation marks: “Play”

Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story”

Underline: Video Games

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January

1 MONSTER (2023) 

2 Ultimate Invasion (Hickman, 2024)

3 THE BRUTALIST (2024)

4 THE DAYTRIPPERS (1997)

5 Ultimate Spider-Man (Hickman, 2024)

6 BILLY MADISON (1995)

10 Accidental Presidents (Cohen, 2020); Ultimate X-Men (Momoko, 2024), ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (2024)

11 THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995)

12 Ultimate Black Panther (Hill, 2024)

17 THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999)

18 SEVERANCE (2)

19 TWIN PEAKS (2)

20 Metaphor: ReFantazio (2024)

23 TWIN PEAKS (2)

25 SEVERANCE, TWIN PEAKS (4)

27 TWIN PEAKS

29 YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN (3) 

30 SEVERANCE

31 TWIN PEAKS (2)

February

2 The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

8 DOOM (2016)

11 SEVERANCE

13 SEVERANCE

14 TWIN PEAKS

15 TWIN PEAKS (2)

16 THE WEST WING

17 NOMADLAND (2020)

20 SEVERANCE, YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN (2)

21 WIN-OR-LOSE (2)

27 SEVERANCE, YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN

March

1 YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN (2), ANORA (2024)

2 ANNIE HALL (1977)

6 SEVERANCE, TWIN PEAKS

8 TWIN PEAKS (2)

12 ERASERHEAD (1977)

13 SEVERANCE, THE TWILIGHT ZONE

16 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1981), The Rise of the Golden Idol: The Sins of New Wells (2025), SHE AND HER CAT* (1999)

17 HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER (2023), DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)

20 SEVERANCE

22 CITIZEN KANE (1941)

28 PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997)

30 CHICKEN FOR LINDA! (2023)

April

3 TWIN PEAKS

6 ゼルダの伝説・時のオカリナ（１９９７）

9 BORN IN FLAMES (1983)

10 CASABLANCA (1942)

12 STAND BY ME (1986)

16 Tree of Smoke (Johnson, 2007)

17 PANDORA’S BOX (1929)

19 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES (1937), SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (1941)

20 EARTH/земля (1930)

21 “Crooners,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Malvern Hills,” “Nocturne” (Ishiguro, 2009)

22 “Cellists”, Nocturnes (Ishiguro, 2009), ANDOR (2)

23 MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)

26 Missionaries (Klay, 2020)

27 THE SIMPSONS (2)

30 Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days (2025)

May

1 MOUCHETTE (1967), ANDOR

2 Hystopia (Means, 2016), A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

3 SINNERS (2025)

4 A CANTERBURY TALE (1944)

5 VIDEODROME (1983), ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE (2024)

6 POSSESSION (1981) 

7 How to Be Both (Smith, 2014)

8 ANDOR (2)

9 SOLEIL ô (1970)

10 ANDOR (3)

13 ANDOR (3)

16 The Rise of the Golden Idol: The Lemurian Phoenix (2025), DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (1988)

17 TWIN PEAKS (2)

18 NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (2010)

20 Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (Dyer, 2005)

21 SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (2006)

24 FRIENDSHIP (2025)

25 THE WEST WING

26 THE INTRUDER (2004), TWIN PEAKS (2)

27 TWIN PEAKS (4)

28 TWIN PEAKS

29 TWIN PEAKS (3)

31 ANDOR (2), THE WEST WING (2)

June

1 TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992)

5 TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (3)

10 TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (2)

11 TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (3)

12 TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (7)

13 TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (3), TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (2017)

14 THE WEST WING

15 THE WEST WING (2)

16 THE WEST WING (4)

17 THE WEST WING (2)

19 Bel Canto (Patchett, 2001)

20 THE WEST WING (2)

21 WILD AT HEART (1990)

22 THE WEST WING

24 THE DONNER PARTY (1992)

25 MORVERN CALLAR (2002)

28 The Piano Tuner (Mason, 2002)

29 SHALL WE DANCE? (1996)

July

1 NONA* (2021), BURROW* (2020)

3 IN VANDA’S ROOM (2000)

4 SELF* (2024), TWENTY SOMETHING* (2021), PURL* (2019), FLOAT* (2019), GERI’S GAME* (1997) 

5 THE WEST WING (5)

7 THE WEST WING

9 THE WEST WING

10 THE WEST WING (2)

15 WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000)

16 TASTE OF CHERRY (1997)

18 Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career (Awalt, 2014)

19 SUPERMAN (2025)

20 THE WEST WING

22 THE WEST WING

25 Men We Reaped (Ward, 2013)

26 “The Magic Bangle” (Akella, 2023)

28 THE WEST WING

31 THE WEST WING (2)

August

2 EL SOL DEL MEMBRILLO (1992), EDDINGTON (2025)

3 THE LAST LAUGH (1924), CITY THE ANIMATION (2)

5 HARLAN COUNTY, USA (1976)

6 The Rise of the Golden Idol: The Age of Restraint (2025)

7 CITY THE ANIMATION (2), THE WEST WING

8 CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972), CITY THE ANIMATION (2)

9 STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE (1977)

10 “Girl” (Kincaid, 1978), “Big-Dick Truck” (Torres, 2011), Bird by Bird (Lamott, 1994)

12 FANCY DANCE (1989)

13 Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Perry, 2019)

14 Donkey Kong: Bananza (2025)

15 THE WEST WING (2)

16 STAR WARS (1977), THE WEST WING

17 SHALL WE DANCE? (1995), THE WEST WING, CITY THE ANIMATION

20 THE WEST WING (2)

22 THE WEST WING

23 THE WEST WING (4)

24 CITY THE ANIMATION

27 CITY THE ANIMATION

31 Mixing Work with Pleasure: My Life at Studio Ghibli (Suzuki, 2018), CITY THE ANIMATION

September

1 Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (Trethewey, 2020)

6 “Sunny Talks” (Conklin, 2022), THE WEST WING (3)

7 THE WEST WING, CITY THE ANIMATION

9 “The Others Spoke” (Shepard, 2024)

11 THE WEST WING

14 CITY THE ANIMATION

18 THE WEST WING (2)

19 Goodbye, Vitamin (Khong, 2017)

20 THE WEST WING (2)

21 THE WEST WING, CITY THE ANIMATION

22 THE WEST WING

25 PHANTOM THREAD (2017)

27 ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025)

28 CITY THE ANIMATION

29 SLOW HORSES

30 Writing Down the Bones (Goldberg, 1986), The Rise of the Golden Idol: The Curse of the Last Reaper (2025)

October

1 SLOW HORSES

2 THE WEST WING

3 Picross S5 (2020)

4 “Frankenstein” (San Francisco Ballet Co., 2017)

7 SLOW HORSES

9 THE WEST WING (2)

11 THE WEST WING (2)

12 LIVING WITH A VISIONARY* (2026), THE WEST WING

13 THE WEST WING (2)

14 THE WEST WING, SLOW HORSES

17 INTOLERANCE (1916)

18 THE HOUR OF THE FURNACES, PART ONE: NEOCOLONIALISM AND VIOLENCE (1968), ARCO (2025), CHAINSAW MAN THE MOVIE: REZE ARC (2025)

24 THE WEST WING (2)

25 Real Americans (Khong, 2024), CHAINSAW MAN (3)

26 CHAINSAW MAN (2)

27 CHAINSAW MAN, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

29 CHAINSAW MAN THE MOVIE: REZE ARC (2025)

31 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955), ERASERHEAD (1977)

November

2 SLOW HORSES

4 THE WEST WING

7 “Earthly Desires” (Swamy, 2020)

8 THE WEST WING (2)

9 “Earthly Desires” (Swamy, 2020), PLURIBUS (2)

12 PREDATOR (1987)

13 THE WEST WING

15 PLURIBUS, ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)

16 KEN BURNS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (2)

17 KEN BURNS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

21 PLURIBUS (3)

22 PLURIBUS, Undertale (2015)

23 KEN BURNS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, Deltarune: Chapter 1 (2018)

25 “Light Spitter” (Adjei-Brenyah, 2018), PLURIBUS

29 “Try Again” (Reyes, 2024), PETITE MAMAN (2021)

30 “Terrace Story” (Leichter, 2020), “Paranormal Activity” (Holloway, 2024)

December

4 THE WEST WING

8 PLURIBUS

12 THE WEST WING, PLURIBUS

13 THE WEST WING (2), POLICE STORY (1985)

20 PLURIBUS

21 The Days of Abandonment (Ferrante, 2002)

22 FALLOUT

23 POLICE STORY (1985)

26 SHALL WE DANCE (1995)

27 The Human Stain (Roth, 2000), EUROPA ‘51 (1952)

28 HOUSE (2), POKER FACE

29 POKER FACE (2)

30 “The Finkelstein 5” (Adjei-Brenyah, 2018), “Things My Mother Said” (Adjei-Brenyah, 2018), “The Era” (Adjei-Brenyah, 2018), FALLOUT

31 FALLOUT