Your Voice In My Head - one of my favorite books ever, the battle of success, suicide, love, loss, and self-stabilization
Conversations With Scorsese - an in depth look into the mind of master of film, they literally discuss ever film with him
Cleopatra: A Biography - historically accurate + thrilling like fiction, a first rate story of the rise and fall of the most powerful woman in documented ancient history
A Tell Tale Brain - The prolific neuroscientist explains the brain in ways I've never seen.
The Lover's Dictionary - A relationship explained in words A-Z
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Top Ten Films of 2011
1. Tree of Life
Malick's autobiography contrasted with the creation of the universe, gorgeous, slow like a roast.
2. Beginners
A movie about acceptance, fear, and the difference between being alone and lonely; probably the film that most personally affected me and my year.
3. Hugo
Scorsese did a kids movie thats really a love letter to film, I'm not sure what else I need to say.
4. Carnage
Two couples meet to discuss a fight between their children, the entire movie takes place in one room, yet its all about the nature of the world and the dismalness that occurs when we impede with our false authority and sense of self.
5. Bridesmaids
Women can be funny too - Tina Fey
6. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The years most anticipated thriller lives up to the suspense the trailer proclaimed, a study on loyalty. It's the British 'Departed,' their sense of order measured by our messiness.
7. Certified Copy
Many masters of film have said that the very definition of good cinema is a man and a woman talking, 'Certified Copy' is layers of this very theme....a rabbit hole that travels from casuality to family..showing the beauty and effort of care as well as the brutality of distance.
8. A Separation
Most emotionally gripping movie of the year, balances the social structure of a tormented land by placing a microscope on the torment of the people inside.
9. Marth Marcy May Marlene
I called this the flop of the year quality wise, then I saw it, nothing like what I was expecting. Thrilling and minimal, E olsen's performance is the reason it made the list.
10. Melancholia/Final Destination 5 (yes I know, right?)
A worn out franchise horror flick (the best final destination of them all), and a pre-apocalyptic art film address "the end" in respective fashions.
Malick's autobiography contrasted with the creation of the universe, gorgeous, slow like a roast.
2. Beginners
A movie about acceptance, fear, and the difference between being alone and lonely; probably the film that most personally affected me and my year.
3. Hugo
Scorsese did a kids movie thats really a love letter to film, I'm not sure what else I need to say.
4. Carnage
Two couples meet to discuss a fight between their children, the entire movie takes place in one room, yet its all about the nature of the world and the dismalness that occurs when we impede with our false authority and sense of self.
5. Bridesmaids
Women can be funny too - Tina Fey
6. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The years most anticipated thriller lives up to the suspense the trailer proclaimed, a study on loyalty. It's the British 'Departed,' their sense of order measured by our messiness.
7. Certified Copy
Many masters of film have said that the very definition of good cinema is a man and a woman talking, 'Certified Copy' is layers of this very theme....a rabbit hole that travels from casuality to family..showing the beauty and effort of care as well as the brutality of distance.
8. A Separation
Most emotionally gripping movie of the year, balances the social structure of a tormented land by placing a microscope on the torment of the people inside.
9. Marth Marcy May Marlene
I called this the flop of the year quality wise, then I saw it, nothing like what I was expecting. Thrilling and minimal, E olsen's performance is the reason it made the list.
10. Melancholia/Final Destination 5 (yes I know, right?)
A worn out franchise horror flick (the best final destination of them all), and a pre-apocalyptic art film address "the end" in respective fashions.
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