Lonely People

Movies (DVD)
Raasta dir. Bratya Basu
Sleeping Beauty dir. Clyde Geronimi
Black Book dir. Paul Verhoeven
The World dir. Jia Zhangke

Longing & Magic

Movies (DVD)
Jellyfish dir. Shira Geffen & Etgar Keret
Aamir dir. Raj Kumar Gupta
Flawless dir. Michael Radford
Die Another Day dir. Lee Tamahori

Movies (theater)
Ashes of Time Redux dir. Wong Kar Wai

Books
A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker

Seducing, Scheming and Shooting

Movies (DVD)
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Eastern Promises dir. David Cronenberg

Reality and Fantasy

Movies (DVD)
The Saragossa Manuscript dir. Wojciech Has
Jumper dir. Doug Liman
Dosar dir. Rituparno Ghosh
Jab We Met dir. Imtiaz Ali

Edge of Madness

Movies (DVD)
Recount dir. Jay Roach
Sex and the City dir. Michael Patrick King

Movies (theater)
Blindness dir. Fernando Meirelles

Books
A Freewheelin' Time by Suze Rotolo

Make Believe

Movies (DVD)
Son of Rambow dir. Garth Jennings
Sordid Lives dir. Del Shores

Books
M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

Going Too Far

Movies (DVD)
Postal dir. Uwe Boll
Return of Hanuman dir. Anurag Kashyap

Books
The Black Diamond Detective Agency by Eddie Campbell

No Easy Task

Movies (DVD)
Outsourced dir. John Jeffcoat

Books
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Walking Wounded

Movies (DVD)
The Forsaken Land dir. Vimukthi Jayasundara
Memoirs of a Geisha dir. Rob Marshall

Growing Up Together

Movies (DVD)
Martian Child dir. Menno Meyjes
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days dir. Cristian Mungiu

Something Eerie

Movies (DVD)
Kwaidan dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Kharij dir. Mrinal Sen
Yun Hota To Kya Hota dir. Naseeruddin Shah

Books
The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell

Together, Apart

Movies (DVD)
F*ck dir. Steve Anderson
The Willow Tree dir. Majid Majidi
The Night of the Hunter dir. Charles Laughton
Casablanca dir. Michael Curtiz
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan dir. Martin Scorsese

Inside the Box

Movies(DVD)
Wordplay dir. Patrick Creadon
Manorama Six Feet Under dir. Navdeep Singh

Books
This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich

Making Sex Safe

Movies (DVD)
Youth Without Youth dir. Francis Ford Coppola
For the Bible Tells Me So dir. Daniel G. Karslake
MLA Fatakeshto dir. Swapan Saha
Chaalchitra dir. Mrinal Sen
Orgazmo dir. Trey Parker

A Lot of Time

Movies (theater)
Wall-E dir. Andrew Stanton

Movies (DVD)
I'm Not There dir. Todd Haynes

Books
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Sheep Among Wolves

Movies (DVD)
Gone Baby Gone dir. Ben Affleck
Margot at the Wedding dir. Noah Baumbach
Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford dir. Andrew Dominik

Movies (theater)
The Dark Knight dir. Christopher Nolan

Hell of a Job

Movies (DVD)
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro dir. Kundan Shah
The Bong Connection dir. Anjan Dutta

Movies (theater)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army dir. Guillermo Del Toro

Books
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

Meet Jean-Do

Movies (DVD)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly dir. Julian Schnabel
Bheja Fry dir. Sagar Ballary

Anger Management

Movies (DVD)
Witness dir. Peter Weir
No Smoking dir. Anurag Kashyap

Movies (theater)
The Incredible Hulk dir. Louis Leterrier

Books
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Getting There

Movies (DVD)
My Own Private Idaho dir. Gus Van Sant
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros dir. Auraeus Solito
Mala Noche dir. Gus Van Sant
30 Days of Night dir. David Slade

Outside the Box

Movies (DVD)
Lars and the Real Girl dir. Craig Gillespie
Saawariya dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Johnny Gaddar dir. Sriram Raghavan

Movies (theater)
The Happening dir. M. Night Shyamalan

Books
Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean by Michael Erard

Awesome Trouble

Movies (theater)
Kung Fu Panda dir. Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
You Don't Mess with the Zohan dir. Dennis Dugan

Movies (DVD)
Alvin and the Chipmunks dir. Tim Hill

Corruption

Movies (DVD)
Manda Bala dir. Jason Kohn
Yatra dir. Gautam Ghosh

Music and Angst

Books
King Dork by Frank Portman

Movies (DVD)
Colma: The Musical dir. Richard Wong
I am an Animal dir. Matthew Galkin
The Beals of Grey Gardens dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Reservoir Dogs dir. Quentin Tarantino

Movies (theater)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull dir. Steven Spielberg

Scope and Ambition

Books
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Movies (DVD)
The Bourne Identity dir. Doug Liman
Princess Mononoke dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Alice in Wonderland dir. Jonathan Miller

Movies (theater)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian dir. Andrew Adamson

Dark Side

Movies (DVD)
Hellboy dir. Guillermo Del Toro
A Scanner Darkly dir. Richard Linklater
Michael Clayton dir. Tony Gilroy
The Fallen Idol dir. Carol Reed
Beowulf dir. Robert Zemeckis

Movies (theater)
Iron Man dir. Jon Favreau

Stolen Identity

Books
The Eternals by Neil Gaiman

Movies (DVD)
The Bourne Supremacy dir. Paul Greengrass
Friends of God dir. Alexandra Pelosi
L'Atalante dir. Jean Vigo
Chameli dir. Sudhir Mishra
Shopgirl dir. Anand Tucker
Touch of Evil dir. Orson Welles

Soul Searching

Movies (theater)
My Blueberry Nights dir. Wong Kar Wai
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay dir. Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg

Movies (DVD)
Miami Vice dir. Michael Mann
Dark Habits dir. Pedro Almodovar
Omkara dir. Vishal Bharadwaj
Scoop dir. Woody Allen

Time Waits

Books
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
Perfect Example by John Porcellino

Movies (DVD)
3:10 to Yuma dir. James Mangold
Rocket Science dir. Jeffrey Blitz
Color Me Kubrick dir. Brian W. Cook

Movies (theater)
The Forbidden Kingdom dir. Rob Minkoff

Grim, Great & Gimmicky

Books
Green Arrow: Sounds of Violence by Kevin Smith
Angry Little Girls! by Lela Lee

Movies (DVD)
Balls of Fury dir. Robert Ben Garant
Paris, Je T'aime dir. various
The Hoax dir. Lasse Hallström
Caligula dir. Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione & Giancarlo Lui

A Brilliant Scourge

Books
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America by Susan Faludi
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Movies (DVD)
Into the Wild dir. Sean Penn
Hana-Bi dir. Takeshi Kitano
Jackie Brown dir. Quentin Tarantino
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters dir. Seth Gordon

Strange Land

Books
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Chance in Hell by Gilbert Hernandez

Movies (DVD)
Enchanted dir. Kevin Lima
Al Otro Lado dir. Gustavo Loza
Raining Stones dir. Ken Loach

Handsome, Irascible, Human

Movies (DVD)
Where's the Party Yaar? dir. Benny Mathews

Movies (theater)
Vantage Point dir. Pete Travis
In Bruges dir. Martin McDonagh

Books
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Town Boy by Lat
House by Josh Simmons

Obsession

Movies (DVD)
Ab Tak Chhappan dir. Shimit Amin
Iqbal dir. Nagesh Kukunoor

Two Relationships

Books
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman
All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna
The Squirrel Mother by Megan Kelso

Decay and Disorder

Movies (DVD)
F for Fake dir. Orson Welles
Solo Con Tu Pareja dir. Alfonso Cuarón
Jim Norton: Monster Rain dir. Beth McCarthy-Miller
Bow Barracks Forever dir. Anjan Dutta
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World dir. Albert Brooks
Once dir. John Carney

Movies (VHS)
Grey Gardens dir. David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer

Books
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Repressed Conscious Mind

Movies (DVD)
Paprika dir. Satoshi Kon
Snakes on a Plane dir. David R. Ellis
Eklavya dir. Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Movies (theater)
The Spiderwick Chronicles dir. Mark Waters
Juno dir. Jason Reitman

The Ultimate Weapon

Movies (DVD)
Matir Moyna dir. Tareque Masud
Salesman dir. Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles, David Maysles
War dir. Philip G. Atwell

Movies (theater)
Fool's Gold dir. Andy Tennant

Hostile Takeover

Movies (DVD)
Futurama: Bender's Big Score dir. Dwayne Carey-Hill
Mr. Bean's Holiday dir. Steve Bendelack
An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder dir. J. M. Kenny

Books
Biting the Wax Tadpole by Elizabeth Little
The Best American Comics 2007 edited by Chris Ware

Opposing Forces

Movies (DVD)
Taare Zameen Par dir. Aamir Khan
Khosla Ka Ghosla dir. Dibakar Banerjee
West is West dir. David Rathod
Half Nelson dir. Ryan Fleck
Young Törless dir. Volker Schlöndorff

Books
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Homeless and Helpless

Movies (DVD)
Children Underground dir. Edet Belzberg
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing dir. Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck
Touch the Sound dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer

Movies (theater)
The Savages dir. Tamara Jenkins

Rude and Jaunty

Books
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson

Movies (DVD)
Rivers and Tides dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer
Koko: A Talking Gorilla dir. Barbet Schroeder
Tom Brown's Schooldays dir. Dave Moore

Movies (theater)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street dir. Tim Burton
There Will be Blood dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Out of Time

Movies (DVD)
The Kingdom dir. Peter Berg
Brother Bear dir. Aaron Blaise & Robert Walker

Movies (theater)
Atonement dir. Joe wright