2009 Reading VIII

There was something else, I'm sure, but there was a lot of dipping into stuff over the last few weeks.

( VIII: Ammon Shea, Reading the Oxford English Dictionary )

2009 Films IX-XVI

I should, of course, be at the cinema today, watching three films. But I'm too behind to do so. Sigh. And a fortnight behind in writing them up.

( IX: Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, 2008) )

( X: Vals Im Bashir (Waltzing with Bashir; Ari Folman, 2008) )

( XI: The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) )

( XII: Ugetsu monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953) )

( XIII: Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) )

( XIII: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) )

A spoiler on this, I fear:
( XIV: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) )

( XV: De´tective (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) )

( XVI: Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002) )

( XVI: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) )

Projected total: 127.

Totals: 16 - Cinema: 4; DVD: 12; Television: 0