#Top5FirstViews | June 2026 1. Graduate First (Maurice Pialat, 1978) 2. Three Strangers (Jean Negulesco, 1946) 3. The Death of Robin Hood (Michael Sarnoski, 2026) 4. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) 5. The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews | May 2026 1. Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders, 1985) 2. So This Is Paris (Ernst Lubitsch, 1926) 3. Erupcja (Pete Ohs, 2025) 4. What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan, 1994) 5. Armageddon Time (James Gray, 2022)

New ep! We talk to @kerstanley.bsky.social about what happened behind the scenes on SB79, and how some ugly sacrifices were made, on local control and (especially) transit value capture What happened? Why didn't transit agencies fight for themselves? LISTEN >>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2026-05-2...

It's THE FINAL JUMP as we dissect the final few minutes of Jumper's credits and bring you an appropriately large number of segments: earfulofjumper.com/ep/18/

#Top5FirstViews | April 2026 1. Vengeance Is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984) 2. Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2006) 3. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, 1976) 4. A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017) 5. They Will Kill You (Kirill Sokolov, 2026)

Unimproved land value, which I am sure most jurisdictions tax

#Top5FirstViews | March 2026 1. Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) 2. A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, 2025) 3. A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, 2025) 4. Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray, 1970) 5. The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi, 2025)

New ep! We talk to @lostsubways.com about the transit and infrastructure loss in various cities, and go on a number of digressions about how what we do wrong, what we can fix, and much more (one of the more digression-heavy eps in recent memory) >>>>>> LISTEN seethecat.org/ep/2026-03-2...

This type of thing is why I have been critical of the Abundance branding. This measure is a premier example of co-opting pro-environment, pro-people urbanist branding to deregulate data centers and greenfield sprawl for corporate interests, at the expense of the public.

#Top5FirstViews | February 2026 1. Seven Sweethearts (Frank Borzage, 1942) 2. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Baz Luhrmann, 2025) 3. The Vanishing Virginian (Frank Borzage, 1942) 4. Five Came Back (John Farrow, 1939) 5. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson, 2025)

Truly awful news

New ep! We have on @georgiststeve.bsky.social (welcome back online!), and trying something new: instead of starting in the middle of things, an actual attempt to make an INTRODUCTION to LVT; why *should* people care? Plus many tangents and more‒ LISTEN >>>>>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2026-02-1...

#Top5FirstViews | January 2026 1. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025) 2. When the Wind Blows (Jimmy T. Murakami, 1986) 3. Le Ciel est à vous (Jean Grémillon, 1944) 4. My Lucky Stars (Sammo Hung, 1985) 5. Seven Days to Noon (John Boulting, Roy Boulting, 1950)

We're back in the new year! New ep with Joshua B Freeman about garden apartments, the radical ideology that influenced them, and government policy that set them in motion Have you yet heard about Section 608? #GetSection608pilled LISTEN >>>>>>>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2026-01-1...

#Top5FirstViews | December 2025 1. 92 in the Shade (Thomas McGuane, 1975) 2. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1951) 3. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995) 4. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002) 5. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews | November 2025 1. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay, 2025) 2. Peter Hujar's Day (Ira Sachs, 2025) 3. Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985) 4. Rain or Shine (Frank Capra, 1930) 5. Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews | October 2025 1. Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino, 2025) 2. The Possessed (Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini, 1965) 3. Roofman (Derek Cianfrance, 2025) 4. SubUrbia (Richard Linklater, 1996) 5. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, 2025)

New ep! We talk to Sy Adler about his 1980 manuscript about the birth of BART, and what we can learn about intergovernmental politics, real estate development, land value capture, and much, much more LISTEN >>>>>>>>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2025-10-3...

#Top5FirstViews | September 2025 1. Boys Go to Jupiter (Julian Glander, 2024) 2. Forever a Woman (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955) 3. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025) 4. The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958) 5. Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976)

New ep! We have on Daniel Wortel-London to discuss "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981"; 100 years of urban economic thought, with a spotlight on the georgist movement (and much more) >>>>> LISTEN: seethecat.org/ep/2025-08-2...

#Top5FirstViews | August 2025 1. Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933) 2. Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph, 1978) 3. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) 4. Sand (Tsai Ming-liang, 2018) 5. Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)

#Top5FirstViews | July 2025 1. Eddington (Ari Aster, 2025) 2. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver, 1976) 3. The Private Life of Don Juan (Alexander Korda, 1934) 4. Douce (Claude Autant-Lara, 1943) 5. Never Open That Door (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952)

#Top5FirstViews | June 2025 1. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1952) 2. The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson, 2025) 3. His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986) 4. The Mystic (Tod Browning, 1925) 5. School in the Crosshairs (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1981)

Funding is a major, underappreciated contributor to the high construction costs and long timelines that hold back electrification. In our new policy paper, Against Patchwork Funding, we propose a smarter way to fund rail: Multi-year Investment Frameworks. 🧵 calelectricrail.org/against-patc...

New ep! We join the abundance of discourse on 'Abundance' with @cthelala.bsky.social of @publicenterprise.bsky.social and @emoscientist.bsky.social or @calelectricrail.org, etc What does it miss, and why is its conception of politics so incomplete? LISTEN>>>>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2025-06-0...

#Top5FirstViews | May 2025 1. Elisa, vida mia (Carlos Saura, 1977) 2. Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway, 1978) 3. Sister Midnight (Karan Kandhari, 2024) 4. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024) 5. Friendship (Andrew DeYoung, 2024)

A Jumper vs. Jumper battle?! Yes, it's happening. New ep is up: earfulofjumper.com/ep/15/

Look up! A third 2018 watch for the day, let's see how The Rock dangles from this building Follow us on the hashtag #getscraped25 #skysthelimit #skyanddry #watchhimdangle

New ep! We talk with Greg Miller about the new @CLandEconomics ‒ we discuss the organization's mission, various obstacles and opportunities within many state governments, and what's next LISTEN >>>>>>>>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2025-05-0...

#Top5FirstViews | April 2025 1. A Sunday in the Country (Bertrand Tavernier, 1984) 2. Mad Love (Karl Freund, 1935) 3. Cleopatra (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934) 4. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, 2025) 5. Eephus (Carson Lund, 2024)

Year's chugging along, ranked list of films so far this year (and as a bonus, the effectively "finished" list for last year)

#Top5FirstViews | March 2024 1. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (Pete Browngardt, 2024) 2. The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941) 3. The Actor (Duke Johnson, 2025) 4. Desire (Frank Borzage, 1936) 5. Viy (Konstantin Yershov, Georgi Kropachyov, 1967)

New ep! Santa Clara thought selling the land under California's Great America was wise; Cedar Fair resold at a profit and announced the park's closure We discuss with @nlaschkewitsch: what does this mean for the future of urban recreation? LISTEN: >>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2025-03-2...

Attn: @bufordsharkley.bsky.social

#Top5FirstViews | February 2024 1. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965) 2. American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932) 3. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010) 4. Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, 2024) 5. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024)

New ep! We return to talking Cincinnati with @jjunker.bsky.social: whether you're a local or not, you have a lot to learn about the municipal railroad sale, 20th century development patterns, and wtf the city is trying with "subway repurposing" >>>>>>> LISTEN: seethecat.org/ep/2025-02-0...

the national crisis is over, finally the Henry George Program has an account here

The 20th KZSU Day of Noise coming up: Fri midnight to Sat midnight! Tune in! kzsu.stanford.edu/dayofnoise/2...

@tashcoug.bsky.social You going to support Brazil baseball next month?

#Top5FirstViews | January 2024 1. Brighton Rock (John Boulting, 1948) 2. The Hard Way (Vincent Sherman, 1943) 3. Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979) 4. The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2008) 5. The Last Showgirl (Gia Coppola, 2024)

#Top5FirstViews | December 2024 1. The Witches (Visconti, Pasolini, De Sica, et al, 1967) 2. La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960) 3. Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021) 4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023) 5. The Tempest (Derek Jarman, 1979)

With a few days left in December, here's 2024 via the index cards I use to track the movies I've watched:

#Top5FirstViews | November 2024 1. Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989) 2. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992) 3. Sadie McKee (Clarence Brown, 1934) 4. Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon, 2022) 5. Anora (Sean Baker, 2024)

Less than two months left in the year:

Me (naive): all cars are bad The cold light of reality:

#Top5FirstViews | November 2024 1. The VVitch (Robert Eggers, 2015) 2. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997) 3. Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan & Galen Johnson, 2024) 4. Cisco Pike (Bill L. Norton, 1972) 5. The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (Shirley MacLaine, Claudia Weill, 1975)

#Top5FirstViews | September 2024 1. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011) 2. Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2022) 3. River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994) 4. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016) 5. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)

#Top5FirstViews | August 2024 1. Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017) 2. Between the Temples (Nathan Silver, 2024) 3. The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh, 1947) 4. Spring Night Summer Night (J.L. Anderson, 1967) 5. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)