2007 Goals
Ten Books to Read in 2007
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 3/1/07 ***1/2
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 5/11/07 ***1/2
Orlando - Virginia Woolf 7/2/07 ****1/2
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
V - Thomas Pynchon
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Authenticity - Deirdre Madden
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway*
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3 / 10
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*The Sun Also Rises modified 2/9/07 from On Beauty by Zadie Smith
*The Book of Laughter and Forgetting modified 4/19/07 from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thirty Films to See in 2007
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - 1932 (Mervyn LeRoy) 4/14/07 ***1/2
The Great Dictator - 1940 (Charlie Chaplin) 5/4/07 ****1/2
They Were Expendable - 1945 (John Ford) 5/10/07 ****1/2
The African Queen - 1951 (John Huston) 7/3/07 ****
Diary of a Country Priest - 1951 (Robert Bresson) 6/18/07 ***1/2
Tokyo Story - 1953 (Yashujiro Ozu)
Pather Panchali - 1955 (Satyajit Ray)
Written on the Wind - 1956 (Douglas Sirk) 4/15/07 ****1/2
Throne of Blood - 1957 (Akira Kurosawa)
L’Avventura - 1961 (Michelangelo Antonioni) 10/6/07 ****1/2
Through a Glass Darkly - 1961 (Ingmar Bergman) 4/22/07 ****1/2
The Great Escape - 1963 (John Sturges) 5/27/07 ****1/2
Bande à part - 1964 (Jean-Luc Godard) 4/8/07 ****1/2
The Shop on Main Street - 1965 (Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos)
The Godfather Part II - 1974 (Francis Ford Coppola)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - 1975 (Milos Forman) 8/9/07 ****
Taxi Driver - 1976 (Martin Scorsese) 5/12/07 ****1/2
All the President’s Men - 1976 (Alan J. Pakula)
Rain Man - 1988 (Barry Levinson) 1/4/07 ****
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - 1988 (Philip Kaufman) 4/21/07 ***1/2
Unforgiven - 1992 (Clint Eastwood) 5/13/07 ****
Farewell My Concubine - 1993 (Kaige Chen) 4/12/07 ***1/2
Todo sobre mi madre - 1999 (Pedro Almodóvar) 3/31/07 ****1/2
Oldboy - 2003 (Chan-wook Park) 8/9/07 ***1/2
Dogville - 2003 (Lars von Trier) 6/4/07 ****1/2
The New World - 2005 (Terence Malick) 5/14/07 ****1/2
The Proposition - 2005 (John Hillcoat) 4/17/07 ***
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story - 2005 (Michael Winterbottom) 4/9/07 ****
Renaissance - 2006 (Christian Volckman) 7/28/07 ***1/2
Pan’s Labyrinth - 2006 (Guillermo del Toro) 1/19/07 ****1/2
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23 / 30
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*ratings out of five stars
