It’s been a wild week of recording a podcast and reading a ton of things.

READ:

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Positive Filmmaking Advice From the Top Female Directors of 2018 from No Film School
• Should the Best Picture Oscar be considered the award for the best producing? from AV Club
• Oscars: ‘Roma,’ ‘Favourite’ Top Nominations With 10 Apiece from The Hollywood Reporter
• 3 Things Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ Can Teach You about Blocking from No Film School
• Here Are 10 Directing Tips from David Fincher to Inspire You from No Film School
• 9 Michael Crichton Sci-Fi Movies That Don‘t Involve Dinosaurs or Wild West Robots  from io9
• Where’s Barry? Whither Toni? The A.V. Club weighs in on 2019’s Oscar snubs and surprises from AV Club
• The Women-Led Movies To Look Out For At Sundance from Refinery 29
• 13 Tools To Rewrite Your Script from The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
• Sundance 2019: A List of Black Movies to Watch While You’re in the White Mountains  from The Root
• The Queer Rage Behind This Year’s Oscar Nominations from them.

SAW:

• To All the Boys I Loved Before
• Dumplin’

WROTE: 2 pages of The 21 Deaths of Sidney Oscar

HEARD:

• If Beale Street Could Talk with Barry Jenkins and Paul Thomas Anderson (Ep. 176) from The DGA Podcast
• Mary Poppins Returns with Rob Marshall and Ron Howard (Ep. 181) from The DGA Podcast
• Dumplin’ with Anne Fletcher and Adam Shankman (Ep. 188) from The DGA Podcast