What I have been watching
La Strada (Fellini) ***** [Heart-rending]
Matador (Almodóvar) ***
Viridiana (Buñuel) ****
The Impossible (Byona) **** [Surprisingly good]
Bad Education (Almodóvar) ****
Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger) **
The Illusionist (Burger) ***
Possession (LaBute) ** [Overrated]
Angela (Besson) ***
La Cage aux Folles (Danon) *** [Funny]
Shallow Grave (Boyle) ***
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant) *****
Breakfast on Pluto (Jordan) ****
Elephant (Van Sant) ***** [School shooting]
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Sturridge) ***
Loot (Narrizano) * [Travesty of the play]
Blow-Up (Antonioni) *****
Beautiful Thing (Macdonald) *****
Anonymous (Emerich) * [Atrocious more like]
A Single Man (Ford) *****
Exterminating Angel (Buñuel) *****
Dorian Gray (Parker) ****
The Libertine (Dunmore) ***
Changeling (Eastwood) *****
Mary Queen of Scots (Jarrott) **
What I have been reading
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
Ardmore Endings, Michael Reidy
The Turning Point, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Malice in Wonderland, Hugo Vickers
The Iliad, Homer
The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray
The Darkened Room, Alex Owen
The Boy, Germaine Greer
A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe
The Cottontown Killer, James & Thomas Watts
The Pedant in the Kitchen, Julian Barnes
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
The War on the West, Douglas Murray
Maigret a peur, Georges Simenon
