Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday
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The Arden Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
On the second series edition of the Arden Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”, both this particular 1991 printing as well as on the content more generally
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- 2024-01-07
- Idle Reflections New Acquisitions
Delicious December 2023: Read, Watched
The greatest hits of the last month of December: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Broken Code by Jeff Horwitz, My Darling Clementine by John Ford and Memories of Murder by Bong Joon-Ho.
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- 2024-01-06
- Idle Reflections
Sumptuously Reading, Watching, Viewing: May 2023
Reading 15th- and 16th-century lit and watching contemporary, 21st-century film. Greatest hits: Heat (1995), Montaigne, Shakespeare (immer wieder).
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- 2023-06-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
April-Showered Reading, Watching
Rereading Shakespeare, Borges; then reading stories by Walter de la Mare. Re-watching two films by David Lynch—neither being “Blue Velvet” nor “Inland Empire.”
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- 2023-05-01
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report