Jandy’s Meanderings

I rarely organize my collections alphabetically, at least not as the major organizational tool, since the letter the title starts with is usually less meaningful than the year it was made or the genre that it’s in. But there’s a meme going around film blogs (starting with Blog Cabins) to choose one favorite film that [...]

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Tagged:A Hard Day's Night, Band of Outsiders, City of Lost Children, Election, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, In a Lonely Place, JFK, Key Largo, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mulholland Drive, O Brother Where Art Thou, Persona, Rear Window, Sunrise, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Double Life of Veronique, The Fountain, The Naked Kiss, The Quiet Man, The Thin Man, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Women, Vertigo, X-Men, Young Frankenstein, Zodiac

I’m not quite finished with the December reading/watching recap, but since publishing “best of” lists is the thing to do at the end of the year, I figured I could go ahead and do that. And by “best of 2006″ I mean “best that I saw or read in 2006,” because, as usual, I [...]

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Tagged:A History of Violence, Best Of Lists, Bones, Brick, Cache, Desperate Housewives, Downfall, Elevator to the Gallows, Ficciones, Good Night and Good Luck, Grand Illusion, Grave of the Fireflies, Heroes, Hitchcock's Films, House, How I Met Your Mother, In a Lonely Place, Inside Man, Invisible Cities, Junebug, Little Miss Sunshine, Match Point, Mrs. Dalloway, Munich, November, One by One in the Darkness, Pickpocket, Primer, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Sholay, Smiles of a Summer Night, Sophie Scholl, Standoff, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Talk to Her, Thank You for Smoking, The Amazing Race, The Constant Gardener, The Departed, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Office, The Queen, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Thumbsucker, Transamerica, Veronica Mars, Volver, Wallace and Gromit, Wit

I’m a month behind again! Hey, I’ve been putting more effort into watching and reading than writing. (No, really. I’ve been busting through my goals pretty well this year. I’m practicing for grad school, when I hear I’ll have half as much time to do twice as much work. We’ll see.)
Also, some day I’m going [...]

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Tagged:A Room of One's Own, Aardman, Alexander, Bewitched, Dana Polen, Danny Boyle, Egil's Saga, Elizabeth Kostova, Equilibrium, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ice Age 2, In a Lonely Place, Million Dollar Baby, Millions, Oliver Stone, Paths of Glory, Primer, Stanley Kubrick, The Beatiful and Damned, The Historian, Virginia Woolf, Walk the Line, Wallace and Gromit

This year I’ve been posting short run-downs of what I’ve read and watched each month over at my LJ. Thought I’d post them here, too. Because I can. Mwahahahaha. I suppose I could just link to my LJ entry, but where would be the fun in that?
Without further ado, movies I watched and books I [...]

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Tagged:Aguirra the Wrath of God, Audrey Niffenegger, Body Heat, C.S. Lewis, Cache, Good Night and Good Luck, Grave of the Fireflies, In a Lonely Place, Pickpocket, Sahara, The Abolition of Man, The Time Traveler's Wife