David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules," Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," Ida Lupino in "Women's Prison." Is it too late to…
The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn't seen, as well as David Graeber's "Utopia of Rules"
Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday
Greatest hits include the 1942 film "The Glass Key" and the 1993 film "Groundhog Day" and reading Schelling and reading…
Little aliens deeply impressed by the British Invasion arrived in Philadelphia, begged me to read and watch through October.
Greatest hits of September: the charming memoir "Family Lexicon" by Natalia Ginzburg, Luchino Visconti's "The Damned" and then "The Seven…
Reflecting on these reminds me of how great "Germany Year Zero" and "The Player" really were. Also, "Yoga" and Henry…
Greatest reading and watching hits of June 2023 included "Men", "Sword of Doom", "Heat", "Merry Wives of Windsor", and "The…
Reading 15th- and 16th-century lit and watching contemporary, 21st-century film. Greatest hits: Heat (1995), Montaigne, Shakespeare (immer wieder).
Rereading Shakespeare, Borges; then reading stories by Walter de la Mare. Re-watching two films by David Lynch—neither being "Blue Velvet"…