Book XX

( XX: Ian Rankin, Tooth & Claw )

Strip Jack would be next - no copy in Oxfam so will have to wait to track down a copy. I'm going to read these in order as far as I can, as there's no hurry. Need to read some Iain M. Banks for research purposes.

Film XXXIII

( XXXIII: Roman Polanski, Chinatown (1974) )

Another Project...

Watching Chinatown for the first time reminds me of the gaps in my film knowledge, and I ought to do something about it. If anything as a reason to choose what to watch next (aside from two versions of Blade Runner). There are various film lists, but the AFI and BFI ones are American and British only respectively (I've world cinema gaps). Time Out's 1995 poll offers a top 88 of a hundred films which looks beyond the Anglophone. 1995 is probably also a good point for considering myself cineliterate as I was about to teach film; in what follows I've bolded those I've seen but underscored those which I probably have seen but was too - young? ignorant? - to appreciate. I may rewatch some I've seen anyway. And I've seen less than half of them...

( Time Out's 1995 Top 100 Films )

So, the list is (25 April 2008):

( To Watch: )

I have copies of some of these, and some of this is embarrassing. Time to start putting that right.