Books and movies
Dec. 31st, 2011 11:59 pmA sticky post to record what I've read and watched in 2011 (idea ganked from
daoi). The ones in pink are ones I had read or viewed previously.
Books:
Movies:
Books:
- About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez (1998)
- Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram (2010)
- The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (1972 novella version)
- In Defense Of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan (2008)
- The Mummies of Ürümchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (1999)
- Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (2008)
- Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (1994)
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (2004)
- A Sand County Almanac; With Essays on Conservation From Round River by Aldo Leopold (1990 ed. of 1949 classic)
- Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories by Anne Beattie (1986)
- No One Belongs Here More Than You. Stories by Miranda July (2007)
- My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution by Aiden Shaw (2006)
- Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World by Norman Lebrecht (2010)
- As Long as the Rivers Flow by James Bartleman (2011)
- Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris (2011)
- Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan (1994)
- Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (2010)
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (2007)
- In the Memory of the Forest by Charles Powers (1998)
Movies:
- The Tempest (2010)
- The Royal Tannenbaums (2001)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
- Me and Orson Welles (2008)
- Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
- Shrek the Third (2007)
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
- Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (2009)
- The Eye of the Needle (1981)
- Twelfth Night (1996)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The King's Speech (2010)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- The Name of the Rose (1986)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- The Illusionist (2010)
- The Shining (1980)
- Excalibur (1981)
- Gigi (1958)
- Gone With The Wind (1939)
- Barney's Version (2010)
- Jane Eyre (2011)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
- Source Code (2011)
- Tootsie (1982)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994)
- The Mistress of Spices (2005)
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
- Inception (2010)
- The Cider House Rules (1999)
- Fantasia/2000 (1999)
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
- Julie and Julia (2009)
- Topsy Turvy (1999)
- I, Don Giovanni (2009)
- Dead Ringers (1988)
- Midnight In Paris (2011)
- Best in Show (2000)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Clash of the Titans (1981)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1978)
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
- Victor Victoria (1982)
- Orlando (1992)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- The Fisher King (1991)
- Socket (2007)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- The Lady in the Water (2006)
- Higher Ground (2011)
- The Help (2011)
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- Anna Karenina (1977 BBC miniseries)
- Nicholas Nickleby (1977 BBC miniseries)
- Cronos (1993)
- The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)
- Hellboy (2004)
- Fellini's Roma (1972)
- Hugo (2011)
- Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Melancholia (2011)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
- Delicatessen (1991)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- 'Twas the Night Before Bumpy (1995)
- Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
- The Crying Game (1992)
- Bellman and True (1987)
- Before Sunrise (1995)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Legend (1985)
- Before Sunset (2004)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
- Chocolat (2000) the perfect movie for Christmas Day
- The Magic Flute (2006)
- Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter (2001)
- Playing For Time (1980)
- Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
- Two Fat Ladies (1996 to 1999)