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Sunday, November 23, 2008

"I close the iron door on you!"

a still from one of the final scenes in '20th Century', which captures the style of the film perfectly: 
Posted by Newtown at 10:08 AM

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Reading List

  • Van Sijll, Jennifer, 'Cinematic Storytelling', MW Productions, 2005
  • Chaudhuri, Una, '(De) Facing the Animals. Zooesis and Performance', Project Muse, 2007.
  • Williams, Kate, 'England's Mistress', Arrow Books, 2007.
  • Corrin, Kwon, Bryson, 'Mark Dion', Phaidon, 1997.
  • Wright, Lawrence, 'The Looming Tower', Penguin, 2006.
  • ed. Carter, Angela, 'Wayward Girls & Wicked Women', Virago Press, 1986.
  • Schinitzler, Arthur, 'Frauline Else', Pushkin Press, 2001.

Films watched in New York, Fall 2008.

  • '20th Century', Howard Hawks, (1934).
  • 'The Chase', Arthur Penn, (1966).
  • 'The Bandwagon', Vincente Minnelli, (1953).
  • 'Everyone Says I Love You', Woody Allen, (1996).
  • 'The Changeling', Clint Eastwood, (2008).
  • 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence', John Ford, (1961).
  • 'Bicycle Thieves', Vittorio De Sica, (1948).
  • 'La Ronde', Max Ophuls, (1950).
  • 'The Great McGinty', Preston Sturges, (1940).
  • 'Le Plaisir', Max Ophuls, (1952).

Books read in New York, Fall 2008.

  • Tyler, Anne, 'Celestial Navigation', Ivy Books, (1974).
  • Isniguro, Kazuo, 'Remains of the Day', Vintage International, (1989).
  • Tyler, Anne, 'Saint Maybe', Ivy Books, (1992).
  • ''Frederick H. Evans: A Logical Perfection'', Catalogue 18 from 'Sun Pictures', (2008).
  • Gordimer, Nadine, 'Get A Life', Farrar Straus Giroux, (1995).
  • Tyler, Anne, 'The Amateur Marriage', Alfred A. Knopf, (2004).
  • Friedman, Joe, 'New York Interiors', (2001).
  • Montagu, Mary Wortley, 'Life on the Golden Horn', Penguin, (2007).
  • Balzac, Honore de, 'Cousin Bette', Penguin, (1986).
  • Welty, Eudora, 'Petrified Man', in 'Collected Stories', Harcourt Inc., (2001).
  • Busch, Akiko, 'Geography of Home', Princeton Architectural Press, (1999).