Simple Joys

Movies (DVD)
Kalpurush dir. Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Witless Protection dir. Charles Robert Carner
Igor dir. Anthony Leondis
XXY dir. Lucía Puenzo

Books
Borges and the Eternal Orangutans by Luis Fernando Verissimo

Lively, Precocious

Books
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Runaway: Dead End Kids by Michael Ryan, Joss Whedon

Movies (DVD)
Brick Lane dir. Sarah Gavron
The Order of Myths dir. Margaret Brown
The Benchwarmers dir. Dennis Dugan

Destiny

Movies (DVD)
Black and White dir. Subhash Ghai
Wanted dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Dr. No dir. Terence Young
Bangkok Dangerous dir. The Pang Brothers

Books
Plays: 1 by Sue Townsend

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