Monday, January 5, 2009

Anger and Fear


I was gone to India for a few weeks, and then to Oregon and Washington and British Columbia for the holidays. So, instead of weekly updates, here is what I remember seeing and reading since my last post.

Movies (DVD)

In the Valley of Elah dir. Paul Haggis
Tropic Thunder dir. Ben Stiller
Mister Lonely dir. Harmony Korine
Man on Wire dir. James Marsh
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor dir. Rob Cohen
Sukiyaki Western Django dir. Takashi Miike
Transsiberian dir. Brad Anderson
Hancock dir. Peter Berg

Movies (theater)
Firaaq dir. Nandita Das
Chaturanga dir. Suman Mukhopadhyay

Books
Slam by Nick Hornby
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman