Thursday 1 October 2009

Reading List: August & September 2009

Non-Fiction:

Drew Gilpin Faust: This Republic of Suffering. Death and the American Civil War.
Alan Weisman: The World Without Us.
Denis Johnson: In der Hölle.

Fiction:

Michael Köhlmeier: Idylle mit ertrinkendem Hund.
William Gibson: Pattern Recognition.
Austin Grossman: Soon I Will Be Invincible.
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room.
Lorrie Moore: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Dietmar Dath: Dirac.
Sarah Waters: The Night Watch.

Other:

Sarah Kane: Complete Plays. Blasted. Phaedra's Love. Cleansed. Crave. 4.48 Psychosis. Skin.
Brian Wood: DMZ (Issue 1 to 43)
Terry Moore: Strangers in Paradise.

Films:

Frozen River (2008, Courtney Hunt) ***.
Love My Life (2006, Koji Kawano) **.
Snow Angels (2007, David Gordon Green) ****.
Adventureland (2009, Greg Mottola) ****.
Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones) ***.
The Meaning of Life (1983, Terry Jones) ***.
Silent Hill (2006, Christophe Gans) ***.
Irma La Douce (1963, Billy Wilder) ****.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik) ***.
Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki) *****.
Brick (2005, Rian Johnson) *****.
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008, Peter Sollett) ***.
Smart People (2008, Noam Murro) ***.
Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman) **.
Drag Me to Hell (2009, Sam Raimi) **.
Soylent Green (1973, Richard Fleischer) ***.
El laberinto del fauno (2006, Guillermo del Toro) ****.
XXY (2007, Lucia Puenzo) ****.
Marion Bridge (2002, Wiebke von Carolsfeld) ***.
Infamous (2006, Douglas McGrath) ****.
Glory (1989, Edward Zwick) ***.
Gettysburg (1993, Ronald F. Maxwell) ****.
Andersonville (1996, John Frankenheimer) ****.