Saturday 1 January 2011

Reading List: December

Fiction: 

Sarah Waters: The Night Watch.
William Gibson: Virtual Light.
William Gibson: Idoru.
William Gibson: All Tomorrow's Parties.
Daniel Woodrell: Winter's Bone.

Films: 

Sometimes in April (2005, Raoul Peck) ****. 
Vera Drake (2004, Mike Leigh) ****. 
Cherrybomb (2009, Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn) ***. 
Never Let Me Go (2010, Mark Romanek) ***. 
Soeur Sourire (2009, Stijn Coninx) ****.
Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky) ****.
Splendor (1999, Gregg Araki) ***. But five stars for Kelly Macdonald.
Kynodontas (2009, Giorgos Lanthimos) *****.
Last Night (1999, Don McKellar) ***.
Transsiberian (2008, Brad Anderson) ***/**.
Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru (2007, Makoto Shinkai) *****.
MirrorMask (2005, Dave McKean) *****.
Somewhere (2010, Sofia Coppola) ****.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010, Oliver Stone) **/***.
Please Give (2010, Nicole Holofcener) ****.
The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polanski) ****/**. Oh but Olivia Williams.
The Queen (2006, Stephen Frears) ****.

Series: 

Battlestar Galactica. Yes. Yes. I watched the entire series in one month.
The Middleman.

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