I’m getting further behind, aren’t I? *sigh* And wait until you see April’s recap, when I get that one written (hopefully I’ll be motivated to get it done during the break). After the jump, reactions to Joyeux Noel, Where the Truth Lies, The Lookout, All About My Mother, Langston Hughes’s autobiographies, Zora Neale Hurston’s first novel, The Eight by Katherine Neville, and more!
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Categories: Books, Capsule Reviews, FilmTags: All About My Mother, Exercises in Style, Frankenstein, Harlem Renaissance, I Wonder as I Wander, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Joyeux Noel, Katherine Neville, Langston Hughes, Mary Shelley, Nella Larsen, Passing, Pedro Almodovar, Quicksand, Raymond Queneau, The Big Sea, The Eight, The Lookout, Where the Truth Lies, Zora Neale Hurston
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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Categories: Books, Capsule Reviews, FilmTags: 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