Exit West
Exit West (2017) is a slim novel by Mohsin Hamid. The book was selected for the 2017 Booker Prize longlist and, for reasons I can't put...
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The Famous Sword Bijomaru
Meito Bijomaru (The Famous Sword Bijomaru) is a 1945 film by director and screenwriter Kenji Mizoguchi. Kiyone Sakurai forges a sword for...
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Dogman
Dogman (2018) from Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone focuses on a dog groomer named Marcello, played by Marcello Fonte, who won the award...
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This Gun for Hire
After reading Graham Greene’s 1936 novel A Gun for Sale, I watched This Gun for Hire (1942), which is based on the book and stars...
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A Gun for Sale
Graham Greene’s novel A Gun for Sale (1936) (published as This Gun for Hire in the U.S.) falls under the category of “entertainments,” as...
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The Terror
The Terror (2018) is the best TV series I’ve watched in a while. Starring Jared Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Tobias Menzies, and Inuk...
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The Attic
Born in Yugoslavia in 1935, writer Danilo Kiš wrote The Attic (1962) when he was in his mid-twenties. I read it on a whim, knowing...
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Les Cousins
Les Cousins (1959) was directed by Claude Chabrol and belongs to the French New Wave movement which emerged in the 50s. I enjoyed it for...
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The Prowler
This is one of the creepiest films noir I've seen. Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) is a sleazy cop dispatched to have a look around the home of...
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992) is Robert Olen Butler's collection of short stories which received the Pulitzer Prize for...
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Sabrina
Nick Drnaso's Sabrina is a 204-page graphic novel (GN) released by Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly in 2018, and is the first GN to...
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78/52
Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary 78/52 (2017) explores the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) from multiple...
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Cry Danger
Cry Danger (1951) stars Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming and was Robert Parrish's directing debut, though according to the film's IMDb...
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A Tokyo Romance
A Tokyo Romance (2018) is Ian Buruma's memoir of his six years in Japan. He moved to Tokyo in 1975 when he was 23 and studied cinema at...
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Rashomon
Rashomon. Among the most influential of all films, this 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic is better after the first experience. I first watched...
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A Pale View of Hills
A Pale View of Hills (1982) is Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel. Its narrator, Etsuko, lives in England, and her second daughter, Niki, is...
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The Favourite
I was reluctant to watch The Favourite (2018) because I watched The Lobster (2016) last year and couldn't really get into it. Both are...
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Mao II
"The future belongs to crowds." So ends the prologue to Don DeLillo's 1991 novel Mao II, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. Crowds appear...
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Days of Being Wild
Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild (1990) has been on my list since I watched Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown segment "Hong Kong",...
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The Lie and How We Told It
Tommi Parrish’s graphic novel The Lie and How We Told It (2018) is about sex and relationships and denial and how things fall apart and...
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