Jandy’s Meanderings

You know, having neither school nor work does wonders for media consumption, as does access to St. Louis libraries. Nineteen movies and six books, including Stranger Than Fiction, Before Sunrise, The Queen, The Wrong Man, Volver, V for Vendetta, We are Marshall, The English Patient, Eragon (book), and Ficciones after the jump.

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Tagged:Aardman, Alfred Hitchcock, Assault on Precinct 13, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Convergence Culture, Eragon, Ficciones, Flushed Away, Glengarry Glen Ross, Hallucinating Foucault, Henry Jenkins, Jorge Luis Borges, L'auberge espagnole, Mrs. Dalloway, Pedro Almodovar, Powaqqatsi, Spinning Into Butter, Stranger Than Fiction, Talk to Her, The English Patient, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, The Queen, The Wrong Man, This Gun For Hire, V for Vendetta, Volver, We are Marshall, We Don't Live Here Anymore, Wit

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

So my most-anticipated movie of the year (A Scanner Darkly) came out, so I had to pick a new most-anticipated movie, which forced me to catch up on my trailer-watching. You’d think I’d learn that it’s easier to keep up than catch up, but I haven’t yet. (And I started this post like [...]

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Tagged:A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Alatriste, Aurora Borealis, Babel, Beowulf, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Curse of the Golden Flower, Eragon, Flags of Our Fathers, Flicka, Grindhouse, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hot Fuzz, James Bond, Keeping Mum, Lassie, Marie Antoinette, Ocean's Thirteen, Prince Caspian, Ratatouille, Renaissance, Running with Scissors, Sherrybaby, Spider-Man 3, Stranger Than Fiction, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert F, The Departed, The Fountain, The Golden Compass, The Good Shepherd, The Hoax, The Prestige, The Queen, The Science of Sleep, Zen Noir