2006 Goals
Twenty books to read in 2006
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 5/18/06 ****
Egil’s Saga - anonymous Icelandic saga 3/29/06 ***
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (held over to 2007 goal list)
The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald 3/26/06 ***
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce 5/29/06 ***
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino 4/30/06 ***1/2
Love in the Time of the Cholera - Gabriel Maria Marquez
The Castle - Franz Kafka (held over to 2007 goal list)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera 6/27/06 ***1/2
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Once and Future King - T.E. White
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown 4/9/06 BOMB
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 2/11/06 ***1/2
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova 3/25/06 ***
On Literature - Umberto Eco 1/31/06 ****
The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf 7/29/06 ***
How to Read a Film - James Monaco
Hitchcock’s Films - Robin Wood 7/15/06 ***1/2
as of Dec 31, 2006:
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12 / 20
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50 Films to See in 2006
Les Vampires - 1915 (Louis Feuillade)
Way Down East - 1920 (D.W. Griffith) 5/29/06 ***
The Gold Rush - 1924 (Charlie Chaplin) 7/9/06 ***1/2
Sunrise - 1927 (F.W. Murnau)
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - 1932 (Mervyn LeRoy) (held over to 2007 goal list) 4/14/07 ***1/2
Sons of the Desert - 1933 (Laurel & Hardy)
Triumph of the Will - 1934 (Leni Reifenstahl) 8/26/06 ***
Grand Illusion - 1937 (Jean Renoir) 8/27/06 ****
The Great Dictator - 1940 (Charlie Chaplin) (held over to 2007 goal list) 5/5/07 ****1/2
Ossessione - 1943 (Luciano Visconti) 8/19/06 ***
Open City - 1945 (Roberto Rossellini) 5/18/06 ***1/2
A Matter of Life and Death - 1946 (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Killers - 1946 (Robert Siodmak) 4/9/07 ***1/2
White Heat - 1949 (Raoul Walsh) 10/7/06 ***1/2
Winchester ‘73 - 1950 (Anthony Mann) 6/12/06 ***1/2
In a Lonely Place - 1950 (Nicolas Ray) 1/28/06 ****
Night and the City - 1950 (Jules Dassin) 1/3/06 ***
The African Queen - 1951 (John Huston) (held over to 2007 goal list) 8/3/07 ****
A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951 (Elia Kazan)
Umberto D - 1952 (Vittorio De Sica) 1/8/07 ****
Tokyo Story - 1953 (Yashujiro Uzo) (held over to 2007 goal list)
The Big Heat - 1953 (Fritz Lang) 1/24/06 ***1/2
Night of the Hunter - 1955 (Charles Laughton) 7/17/06 ***
Les Diaboliques - 1955 (Henri-Georges Clouzot) 7/9/06 ***1/2
Smiles of a Summer Night - 1955 (Ingmar Bergman) 6/28/06 ****
Paths of Glory - 1957 (Stanley Kubrick) 3/24/06 ***
Mon Oncle - 1958 (Jacques Tati) 7/20/06 ***1/2
L’Avventura - 1962 (Michelangelo Antonioni) (held over to 2007 goal list)
The Exterminating Angel - 1962 (Luis Bunuel) 6/6/06 ***
Closely Watched Trains - 1966 (Jirí Menzel) 9/10/06 ***
A Man For All Seasons - 1966 (Fred Zinnemann)
Sholay - 1970 (Ramesh Sippy) 6/1/06 ***1/2
M*A*S*H - 1970 (Robert Altman)
All the President’s Men - 1976 (Alan J. Pakula) (held over to 2007 goal list)
Apocalypse Now - 1979 (Francis Ford Coppola) (held over to 2007 goal list)
Gandhi - 1982 (Richard Attenborough) 9/17/06 ***1/2
Grave of the Fireflies - 1988 (Isao Takahata) 2/27/06 ***1/2
Farewell My Concubine - 1993 (Kaige Chen) (held over to 2007 goal list) 4/12/07 ***1/2
Before Sunrise - 1995 (Richard Linklater) - 12/15/06 ***1/2
The English Patient - 1996 (Anthony Minghella) 12/31/06 ***1/2
Amores Perros - 2000 (Alejandro González Inárritu) - 4/12/06 ***
Before Sunset - 2004 (Richard Linklater) - 12/18/06 **1/2
Night Watch - 2004 (Timur Bekmambetov) 8/5/06 **1/2
The Constant Gardener - 2005 (Fernando Meirelles) 4/24/06 ***1/2
Good Night and Good Luck - 2005 (George Clooney) 2/4/06 ***1/2
Broken Flowers - 2005 (Jim Jarmusch) 4/4/06 ***
Proof - 2005 (John Madden) 4/27/06 ***
Capote - 2005 (Bennett Miller) 5/11/06 ***1/2
Mad Hot Ballroom - 2005 (Marilyn Agrelo) 1/25/06 ***
Match Point - 2005 (Woody Allen) 1/22/06 ***
as of Dec 31, 2006
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33 / 50
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currently
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39 / 50
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