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Février MMXXIV

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Maigret voit rouge (1963) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Michel Constantin, Vittorio Sanipoli, Paul Frankeur, Guy Decomble, Françoise Fabian, Paulette Dubost, Laurence Badie, Roland Armontel et Jacques Dynam

L’Étau (Topaz) (1969) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret et John Forsythe

Flic Story (1975) de Jacques Deray avec Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Claudine Auger, Maurice Biraud, André Pousse, Mario David et Paul Crauchet

Poupoupidou (2011) de Gérald Hustache-Mathieu avec Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Olivier Rabourdin, Joséphine de Meaux, Arsinée Khanjian, Clara Ponsot et Éric Ruf

Air Force One (1997) de Wolfgang Petersen avec Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy et Dean Stockwell

Bob Marley: One Love (2024) de Reinaldo Marcus Green avec Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Henry Douthwaite, Sevana, Hector Lewis et Tosin Cole

Sister Act (1992) d'Emile Ardolino avec Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn et Robert Miranda

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux (2014) d'Alexandre Astier et Louis Clichy avec Roger Carel, Lorànt Deutsch, Guillaume Briat, Alexandre Astier, Alain Chabat, Élie Semoun, Géraldine Nakache, Artus de Penguern, Lionnel Astier et François Morel

Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024) de Stefano Mordini avec Riccardo Scamarcio, Daniel Brühl, Volker Bruch, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Esther Garrel, Gianmaria Martini : Hannu Mikkola et Haley Bennett

Buster (1988) de David Green avec Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellie Beaven, Michael Attwell, Ralph Brown et Anthony Quayle

Laura (1944) d'Otto Preminger avec Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams et Lane Chandler

Séries

Affaires sensibles

Présidentielle de 1995 : un scandale d'Etat - Michèle Mouton, le Groupe B et les Finlandais volants - Les Ecoutes de la République - La secte du temple solaire, le drame d’une société secrète - Munich 1972 : destin tragique d'un rêve olympique - Les révoltés des Jeux olympiques - Le crash de la Germanwings - Alexandre Litvinenko, victime d’un permis de tuer - Martin Luther King : la naissance d’une icône - Martin Luther King : du rêve au cauchemar - Dans l'ombre de Gérard Lebovici - Macron 2017, le traitre méthodique - Kurt Cobain, portrait d’une génération - Crash au mont Saint Odile

Maguy Saison 1

Rose et Marguerite, c'est le bouquet - Babar et Bécassine se mènent en bateau - Docteur j'abuse - L'union fait le divorce - L'annonce faite à Maguy - Le coupe-Georges - Amoral, morale et demie - Cinquante bougies, ça vous éteint ! - A visage redécouvert'' - Le serment d'hypocrite - Tu me trompes ou je me trompe ? - Comment boire sans déboires - Un veuf brouillé - Le père Noël dans ses petits souliers - L'emprunt ruse - Tous les couples sont permis - L'amant de la famille - Travail, famille, pas triste - Blague de fiançailles - Macho, boulot, dodo - Mi-flic, mi-raisin - Trop polyvalent pour être honnête - La traîtresse de maison - Les trois font la paire - Un grain peut en cacher un autre - La quittance déloyale - Belle-mère, tel fils - Manège à quatre - Comme un neveu sur la soupe - Toutou, mais pas ça ! - A corde et à cri - Jamais deux sans quatre - L'amant comme il respire - Le chômage, ça vous travaille ? - La faillite nous voilà ! - Le divin divan - Toubib or not toubib - L'écolo est fini - Loto, route du bonheur

La croisière s'amuse Saison 2

Un contrat en or - Le Magicien - Copie confuse - Un travail d'équipe - Accrochez-vous au bastingage - Le Célèbre Triangle - Joyeux Anniversaire : première partie - Il y a si longtemps déjà - Passion - Un coup de roulis - Docteur, vous êtes fou - La Petite Illusion - Donne moi ma chance - Qui vivra verra - Réunion de travail : deuxième partie - Méfiez vous de votre meilleure amie - Vague à l'âme - L'amour est aveugle - Chassé croisé

Downton Abbey Saison 6

À l'aube d'un nouveau monde - Le Piège des émotions - En pleine effervescence - Une histoire moderne - Plus de peur que de mal - En toute franchise - Aller de l'avant - Les Sœurs ennemies - Le Plus Beau des cadeaux

Kaamelott Livre IV

Le Jeu de la guerre - Le Rêve d’Ygerne - Les Chaperons - L’Habitué - Le Camp romain - L’Usurpateur - Loth et le Graal - Le Paladin - Perceval fait ritournelle - La Dame et le Lac - Beaucoup de bruit pour rien - L’Ultimatum - Le Oud II - La Répétition - Le Discours - Le Choix de Gauvain - Fluctuat nec mergitur - Le Face-à-face : première partie - Le Face-à-face : deuxième partie - L’Entente cordiale - L’Approbation - Alone in the Dark II - La Blessure d’Yvain - Corpore sano II - L’Enchanteur - Les Bien Nommés - La Prisonnière - Les Paris III - Les Plaques de dissimulation - Le Vice de forme - Le Renoncement première partie - Le Renoncement deuxième partie - L’Inspiration - Les Endettés - Double Dragon - Le Sauvetage - Le Désordre et la Nuit

Coffre à Catch

#153 : Finlay, le retour ! - #154 : Gloire aux Heels ! - #155 : Les débuts historiques de Sheamus ! - #156 : Les Bella Twins arrivent à la ECW ! - #18 ; CM Punk continue d'impressionner & quelqu'un fait du vélo ! - #12 : Le Push de CM Punk + Bsahtek le Bikini !

Castle Saison 4

Sexpionnage - Jeux de pouvoir - Une vie de chien - Le Papillon Blue - Pandore, première partie - Pandore, deuxième partie - Il était une fois un crime - Danse avec la mort - 47 secondes - Au service de sa majesté - Chasseurs de têtes - Mort vivant - Jusqu'à la mort s'il le faut

Les Brigades du Tigre Saison 1

Ce siècle avait sept ans… - Nez de chien - Les Vautours - Visite incognito - La Confrérie des loups - La Main noire

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 2, 6

Incident de parcours - Pièce de musée - Reconnaissance

The Grand Tour Saison 5

Trop de sable

La ville Noire

Première partie - Deuxième partie

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 3

Mortel Karma

Spectacles

Monsieur chasse (1978) de Alain Feydeau avec Michel Roux, William Sabatier, Françoise Fleury, Yvonne Gaudeau, Pierre Mirat, Xavier Vanderberghe, Michel Mayou, Bernard Durand et Roland Oberlin

La Bagatelle (1977) de Jean Meyer avec Amarande, Patrick Préjean, Jacques Balutin, Brigitte Chamarande Bel, René Lefevre, Pierre Aufrey et Didier Roussel

Femmes en colère (2023) de Stéphane Hillel avec Lisa Martino, Gilles Kneusé, Hugo Lebreton, Nathalie Boutefeu, Fabrice de la Villehervé, Sophie Artur, Clément Koch, Magali Lange, Aude Thirion et Béatrice Michel

La Pélerine écossaise (1972) de Sacha Guitry avec Jean Piat, Geneviève Casile, Philippe Etesse, Robert Manuel, Raymond Baillet, Françoise Petit, Alain Souchères, Janine Roux et Ly Sary

Livres

Piège de chaleur de Richard Castle

Spirou et Fantasio, tome 15 : Z comme Zorglub de André Franquin, Jidéhem et Greg

Kaamelott, tome 1 : L'Armée du Nécromant d'Alexandre Astier, Benoît Bekaert et Steven Dupré

OSS 117 : Tactique Arctique de Jean Bruce

Astérix, tome 17 : Le Domaine des dieux de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

#mediatheque #fevrier24

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loveparfum · 1 year

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elcineblue · 2 years

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(4 ESTRELLAS)

Genre: Horror, Internacional,Dinamarca

Protagonizado :Anne Bergfeld, Karin Michelsen, Damon Younger, Kristoffer Fabricius, Mads Koudal

Dirige: Søren Juul Petersen

Dos jóvenes mujeres trabajan en una estación de combustible durante el turno noche y serán asechadas por un grupo de sádicos para un terrorífico show en la dark web.

#Horror #Internacional #Dinamarca #Søren Juul Petersen #The Ringmaster #dark web

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fearsmagazine · 3 years

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THE RINGMASTER - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Danse Macabre & MVD

SYNOPSIS: Agnes and Belinda are working the night shift in a remote gas station owned by Agnes’ father. It is a slow night as everyone is at home watching a major sports final match their national team is playing in. As the night progresses they’ve become the prey in a deadly game of cat and mouse that ends when they unwittingly become the stars of a terrifying show streamed live on the dark web. Held captive by a sadistic ringmaster their survival instincts are stretched to the limit as an unseen audience decides their fate.

REVIEW: From “The Running Man” to “The Hunger Games” there continues to be a fascination with these grisly games of survival. Some consider these films “torture porn,” regardless of how the plots attempt to make a statement on humanity’s fascination with its own demise. Don Henley said it best in his song “Dirty Laundry,” “It’s interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry.”

This Danish film was first released in Europe in 2018 as “Finale,” which is also the same title of the novel by Steen Langstrup that it is based on. The film opens with a prologue that feels like a homage to the opening of the original prologue in James Whale's 1931 “Frankenstein.” The narrative cuts between Agnes and Belinda at the gas station and Agnes as she wakes up in the clutches of the ringmaster. The film narrative continues unfolding that way until they are knocked out and abducted. From then on the story focuses on the events surrounding their survival and escape from the ringmaster. By doing this the filmmakers allow the viewer to establish the relationship dynamics of these characters as they bait us with the horrors to come. They establish character traits that elevate the dynamics of the story and invest the viewer in the plot. Though this is in Danish, I found the English subtitles to be solid dialogue. There is interesting banter and even the henchmen’s are interesting lines. Overall, it left me interested in reading the novel it is based on.

The filmmakers do an excellent job covering the locations. They go from a small, but complex, gas station to a larger location with long corridors and numerous rooms. There are these small little touches to the set dressing that makes it feel like a film with a bigger scope. For instance, there is a painting one one of the walls where they are taken that they dwell on, which allows to add visual commentary to the film. The costumes are interesting and add some contrast to the locations. The cinematographer and director do a nice job of playing with the light and shadows to create tension and suspense, and also with the colors to play with the atmosphere.

There are seven players in the film, with a few other non speaking parts. Actresses Anne Bergfeld and Karin Michelsen play the film’s central characters Agnes and Belinda. They do an excellent job at creating these two complex women who reflect different social stations that might not otherwise be friends if not for having worked together. Even though there is this back and forth cutting to the narrative, their performances provide this organic flow to the narrative that takes the viewer along for the ride. Damon Younger is a charismatic actor who delivers a riveting performance that is part Pennywise the clown and part Hannibal Lector. He does not have that many scenes, but they all resonate.

Given American audiences I can understand why they changed the title from “Finale” to THE RINGMASTER. Filmmaker Søren Juul Petersen serves up a pulse pounding thriller with a crisp and gritty feel, and comes together with three amazing performances. There is some gore, but it is clearly not the point of the film. The film mounts in terror and suspense long before it shocks you. The film does so much with so little to deliver a film I found more effective than the recent “Saw” reboot, “Spiral.”

CAST: Anne Bergfeld, Karin Michelsen and Damon Younger. CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer - Søren Juul Petersen; Screenplay - Carsten Juul Bladt; Based on the novel Finale by Steen Langstrup; Producers - Jacob Kondrup; Cinematographer - Tobias Scavenius; Score - Peter K. Nørgaard; Editing - Jacob Kondrup; Production Designer - Martin Hansen; Special Makeup Effects Artist - Martin Hansen; Visual Effects - Christoffer Kondrup. OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/FinaleFilmOfficial TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/qhvl0goLif0 RELEASE DATE: On DVD, Blu-ray and Digital July 6th, 2021

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike)

Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

#film review #movie review #the ringmaster #theringmastermovie #søren juul petersen #steen langstrup #anne bergfeld #karin michelsen #damon younger #horror #thriller #danish #joseph mauceri #joseph b mauceri

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moviesandmania · 3 years

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THE RINGMASTER aka FINALE (2018) Reviews and UK release news

‘Entertainment knows no boundaries’

The Ringmaster aka Finale is a 2018 Danish horror feature film written and directed by Søren Juul Petersen, based on the novel All the Things She Wished She Didn’t Understand by Steen Langstrup. The movie stars Anne Bergfeld, Karin Michelsen, Damon Younger, Kristoffer Fabricius and Mads Koudal.

Plot:

During the night of the biggest sports final of the year,…

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#2018 #Anne Bergfeld #Damon Younger #Danish #film #Finale #horror #Karin Michelsen #movie #review #reviews #Søren Juul Petersen #The Ringmaster

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whilereadingandwalking · 2 years

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Introducing my favorite reads of 2021!

I read 252 books this past year, and so this main list consisting of just 1 book a month and 2 additions, was not easy to narrow down. So I added a second stack as well. Too many good reads to limit to just 14 favorites! .

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabézon Cámara tr. Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre

Eve Out of her Ruins by Ananda Devi tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman

The Carrying by Ada Limón

The Overstory by Richard Powers

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky tr. Tess Lewis

The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Plus honorable mentions that lost out in my new monthly system for Best of the Year, or that were just edged out, but that deserve to be on this list: Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey; The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado; The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo; Amatka by Karin Tidbeck; Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, tr. Sam Bett & David Boyd; We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker; Transparent City by Ondjaki, tr. Stephen Henighan (not pictured); Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders; Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon; The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez tr. Megan McDowell; The Mirror Season by Anna Marie McLemore; and the Inheritance trilogy by NK Jemisin.

#best of the year #book stack #book recs #book recommendation #book recommendations #richard powers #braiding sweetgrass #anthony doerr #best of 2021 #best books of 2021 #2021 wrap ups

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inclineto · 2 years

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Books, November - December 2021

Haikyuu!!, volumes 1-45 [wait; come back; I’m joking!]

The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ballet Class: An American History - Melissa R. Klapper

A Thief in the Nude - Olivia Waite [dnf]

Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild [inevitable]

Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto [hypothesis: I am just never fully going to buy in to the high jinks when the high jinks are “we accidentally killed a guy and now we need to get away with it”; it’s a personal failing]

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind - Harriet A. Washington

Half a Soul - Olivia Atwater [a little pat, but quite enjoyable!]

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob *

A Woman of Intelligence - Karin Tanabe

Ten Thousand Stitches - Olivia Atwater [below-stairs regencies that don’t have making it in society as the endgame are gems, but the characterization here is a little too simplistic - the first book’s better]

Not Here to Be Liked - Michelle Quach [this is very, very YA, but within the necessary, hyper-emotional coming of age drama of that framework, it’s doing a pretty good job of juggling a whole lot of complexity, including race, class, the immigrant experience, ambition, perfectionism, attraction, feminism, the likability/competence dilemma....I really didn’t expect to be as impressed as I was]

Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska - John Luther Adams [the strange experience of reading a memoir by someone you’ve met more than once but don’t know well: finishing it knowing more about them, but still not knowing them]

A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske

The Barren Grounds - David A. Robertson [nothing wrong with the part of this I finished, but I was reading to see whether to recommend it for a friend’s child; conclusion: even as a read-aloud, they’re too young for it, and it’s too young for me; dnf]

Bombshell - Sarah MacLean [time, I think, to admit that I enjoyed the Rules of Scoundrels series a lot, but none of her others have really worked for me; dnf]

Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home - Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen [turns out I don’t need to read another book-length thinkpiece to feel cynical about university administrators!; dnf]

Longshadow - Olivia Atwater [dnf]

#books 2021 #books practical and pleasurable #about that end of the month string of dnfs: it's not you it's me? idk

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caglar-yusuf-yucedag · 4 years

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BU YIL İZLEYECEĞİM FİLM LİSTESİ

1.) Animals with the Tollkeeper - Hayvanlar, Melekler ve İnsanlar (1998) / Fantastik

Ø Yönetmen : Michael Di Jiacomo / Oyuncular : Tim Roth, Mili Avital, Rod Steiger

2.) Andrey Rublyov - Andrei Rublev (1966) / Dram, Biyografik

Ø Yönetmen : Andreï Tarkovski / Oyuncular : Anatoli Solonitsyne, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Ivan Bykov

3.) Back to the Future - Geleceğe Dönüş (Seri Film I, II, III) / (1985) / Bilimkurgu, Macera

Ø Yönetmen : Robert Zemeckis / Oyuncular : Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

4.) Twelve Angry Men - 12 Öfkeli Adam (1957) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Sidney Lumet / Oyuncular : Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

5.) Krótki film o zabijaniu - Öldürme Üzerine Kısa Bir Film (1988) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Krzysztof Kieslowski / Oyuncular : Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz

6.) Krótki film o milosci - Aşk Üzerine Kısa Bir Film (1988) / Dram, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Krzysztof Kieslowski / Oyuncular : Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska

7.) Alice in den Städten - Alice Kentlerde (1974) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Wim Wenders / Oyuncular : Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer

8.) Amadeus (1984) / Dramatik, Komedi, Tarihi

Ø Yönetmen : Milos Forman / Oyuncular : Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Simon Callow

9.) Before Sunrise - Gün Doğmadan Önce (1995) / Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Richard Linklater / Oyuncular : Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert

10.) Being There - Merhaba Dünya (1979) / Dramatik, Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Hal Ashby / Oyuncular : Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

11.) Big Fish - Büyük Balık (2003) / Dramatik, Komedi, Fantastik

Ø Yönetmen : Tim Burton / Oyuncular : Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange

12.) Blow Up - Cinayeti Gördüm (1966) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Michelangelo Antonioni / Oyuncular : Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Julian Chagrin

13.) Blue Velvet - Mavi Kadife (1986) / Polisiye, Dram, Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : David Lynch / Oyuncular : Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper

14.) Breaking the Waves - Dalgaları Aşmak (1996) / Dram, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Lars von Trier / Oyuncular : Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean-Marc Barr

15.) Chung Hing sam lam - Chungking Express (1994) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Wong Kar-Wai / Oyuncular : Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong

16.) Dancer in the Dark - Karanlıkta Dans (2000) / Müzikal, Dram, Polisiye

Ø Yönetmen : Lars von Trier / Oyuncular : Björk, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Stormare

17.) Das Boot - Deniz Altı (1981) / Dram, Savaş Filmi

Ø Yönetmen : Wolfgang Petersen / Oyuncular : Jürgen Prochnow, Erwin Leder, Herbert Grönemeyer

18.) Dead Man - Ölü Adam (1995) / Western, Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Jim Jarmusch / Oyuncular : Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover

19.) Delicatessen – Şarküteri (1991) / Komedi, Dram, Korku, Fantastik

Ø Yönetmen : Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro / Oyuncular : Dominique Pinon, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado

20.) Der Himmel Über Berlin - Berlin Üzerindeki Gökyüzü (1987) / Fantastik, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Wim Wenders / Oyuncular : Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk

21.) Dial M. for Murder - Cinayet Var (1954) / Gerilim, Polisiye

Ø Yönetmen : Alfred Hitchcock / Oyuncular : Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings

22.) Dogville (2003) / Gerilim, Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Lars von Trier / Oyuncular : Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Patricia Clarkson

23.) Dolls – Bebekler (2002) / Dram, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Takeshi Kitano / Oyuncular : Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miho Kanno, Tatsuya Mihashi

24.) The Grapes of Wrath - Gazap Üzümleri (1940) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : John Ford / Oyuncular : Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine

25.) Hable con ella - Konuş Onunla (2002) / Dram, Komedi, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Pedro Almodóvar / Oyuncular : Javier Cámara, Dario Grandinetti, Leonor Watling

26.) Hair - Bırak Güneş İçeri Girsin (1979) / Müzikal

Ø Yönetmen : Milos Forman / Oyuncular : Michael Jeter, Donald Alsdurf, John Savage

27.) Harold and Maude (1971) / Dram, Komedi, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Hal Ashby / Oyuncular : Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles

28.) Idi i smotri - Gel ve Gör (1985) / Dram, Savaş Filmi

Ø Yönetmen : Elem Klimov / Oyuncular : Olga Mironova, Vladas Bagdonas, Juris Lumiste

29.) In the name of the father - Babam İçin (1993) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Jim Sheridan / Oyuncular : Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson

30.) It's a Wonderful Life - Şahane Hayat (1946) / Komedi, Dram, Fantastik

Ø Yönetmen : Frank Capra / Oyuncular : James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

31.) Kes – Kerkenez (1969) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Ken Loach / Oyuncular : David Bradley, Colin Welland, Freddie Fletcher

32.) Ladri di biciclette - Bisiklet Hırsızları (1948) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Vittorio De Sica / Oyuncular : Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell

33.) Land and Freedom - Ülke ve Özgürlük (1995) / Dram, Savaş Filmi

Ø Yönetmen : Ken Loach / Oyuncular : Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Frédéric Pierrot

34.) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Ateşten Kalbe Akıldan Dumana (1998) / Polisiye

Ø Yönetmen : Guy Ritchie / Oyuncular : Jason Statham, Nick Moran, Dexter Fletcher

35.) Los Amantes del Círculo Polar - Kutup Çizgisi Aşıkları (1998) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Julio Medem / Oyuncular : Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo

36.) Ma nuit chez Maud - Maud’la Bir Gece (1969) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Eric Rohmer / Oyuncular : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault

37.) The Miracle worker - Karanlığın İçinden (1962) / Dram, Biyografik

Ø Yönetmen : Arthur Penn / Oyuncular : Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory

38.) Moulin Rouge! - Kırmızı Değirmen (2001) / Müzikal, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Baz Luhrmann / Oyuncular : Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo

39.) My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown - Sol Ayağım (1989) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Jim Sheridan / Oyuncular : Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan

40.) Naked – Çıplak (1993) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Mike Leigh / Oyuncular : David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Claire Skinne

41.) Nema-ye Nazdik - Yakın Plan (1990) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Abbas Kiarostami / Oyuncular : Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah

42.) Network – Şebeke (1976) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Sidney Lumet / Oyuncular : Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

43.) Pink Floyd The Wall - Pink Floyd Duvar (1982) / Dram, Müzik

Ø Yönetmen : Alan Parker / Oyuncular : Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson

44.) Pleasantville - Yaşamın Renkleri (1998) / Fantastik, Dramatik, Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Gary Ross / Oyuncular : Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen

45.) Pulp Fiction - Ucuz Roman (1994) / Polisiye, Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : Quentin Tarantino / Oyuncular : John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

46.) Rain Man - Yağmur Adam (1988) / Komedi, Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Barry Levinson / Oyuncular : Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino

47.) Reconstruction - Yeniden Sev Beni (2003) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Christoffer Boe / Oyuncular : Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson

48.) Rosemary's Baby - Rosemary’nin Bebeği (1968) / Korku, Dram, Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : Roman Polanski / Oyuncular : Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon

49.) Rumble Fish - Siyam Balığı (1983) / Aksiyon, Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Francis Ford Coppola / Oyuncular : Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane

50.) Secrets and Lies - Sırlar ve Yalanlar (1996) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Mike Leigh / Oyuncular : Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall

51.) Shichinin no samurai - Yedi Samuray (1954) / Macera

Ø Yönetmen : Akira Kurosawa / Oyuncular : Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima

52.) Sin City - Günah Şehri (2005) / Aksiyon, Gerilim, Polisiye

Ø Yönetmen : Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino / Oyuncular : Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba

53.) Singin' in the Rain - Yağmur Altında (1952) / Müzikal, Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly / Oyuncular : Jean Hagen, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds

54.) The Sixth Sense - Altıncı His (1999) / Gerilim, Dram

Ø Yönetmen : M. Night Shyamalan / Oyuncular : Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

55.) Solaris (1972) / Fantastik, Bilimkurgu

Ø Yönetmen : Andreï Tarkovski / Oyuncular : Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet

56.) Some Like It Hot - Bazıları Sıcak Sever (1959) / Komedi, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Billy Wilder / Oyuncular : Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

57.) Spellbound - Öldüren Hatıralar (1945) / Gerilim, Polisiye

Ø Yönetmen : Alfred Hitchcock / Oyuncular : Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Leo G. Carroll

58.) Stalker (1979) / Dram, Bilimkurgu

Ø Yönetmen : Andreï Tarkovski / Oyuncular : Alexandre Kaidanovski, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko

59.) Strange Days - Tuhaf Günler (1995) / Bilimkurgu, Aksiyon

Ø Yönetmen : Kathryn Bigelow / Oyuncular : Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis

60.) Sullivan's Travels (1941) / Macera, Dramatik, Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Preston Sturges / Oyuncular : Eric Blore, Torben Meyer, Victor Potel

61.) Sunset Blvd. (1950) / Dram, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Billy Wilder / Oyuncular : William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim

62.) Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo - İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin (1966) / Western

Ø Yönetmen : Sergio Leone / Oyuncular : Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

63.) The Graduate – Mezun (1967) / Dramatik, Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Mike Nichols / Oyuncular : Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross

64.) The Hours – Saatler (2002) / Dram, Romantik

Ø Yönetmen : Stephen Daldry / Oyuncular : Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep

65.) The Man Who Wasn't There - Orada Olmayan Adam (2001) / Polisiye, Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Joel Coen / Oyuncular : Peter Schrum, Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand

66.) The Others – Diğerleri (2001) / Fantastik, Dram, Korku

Ø Yönetmen : Alejandro Amenábar / Oyuncular : Nicole Kidman, Elaine Cassidy, Christopher Eccleston

67.) The Truman Show -Truman Show (1998) / Dramatik, Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Peter Weir / Oyuncular : Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Natascha McElhone

68.) The Usual Suspects - Olağan Şüpheliler (1995) / Polisiye, Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : Bryan Singer / Oyuncular : Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne

69.) Thelma ve Louise (1991) / Dramatik, Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Ridley Scott / Oyuncular : Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel

70.) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Atları da Vururlar (1969) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Sydney Pollack / Oyuncular : Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York

71.) Trois couleurs - Üç Renk: Mavi, Beyaz, Kırmızı (1993) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Krzysztof Kieslowski / Oyuncular : Juliette Binoche, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Volter

72.) Trainspotting (1996) / Dram, Polisiye

Ø Yönetmen : Danny Boyle / Oyuncular : Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller

73.) Une Femme est une femme - Kadın Kadındır (1961) / Komedi

Ø Yönetmen : Jean-Luc Godard / Oyuncular : Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo

74.) Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux - Hayatını Yaşamak (1962) / Komedi, Dram

Yönetmen : Jean-Luc Godard / Oyuncular : Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, Andre S. Labarthe

75.) Welcome to Sarajevo - Saraybosna’ya Hoşgeldiniz (1997) / Dram, Savaş Filmi

Ø Yönetmen : Michael Winterbottom / Oyuncular : Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei

76.) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - Bebek Jane’e Ne Oldu? (1962) / Dram, Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : Robert Aldrich / Oyuncular : Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono

77.) Smultronstället - Yaban Çilekleri (1957) / Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Ingmar Bergman / Oyuncular : Victor Sjöstrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin

78.) Z (1969) / Dram, Tarihi

Ø Yönetmen : Costa-Gavras / Oyuncular : Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irène Papas

79.) Serenity (2019) / Dram, Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : Steven Knight / Oyuncular : Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Djimon Hounsou

80.) The Game – Oyun (1997) / Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : David Fincher / Oyuncular : Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger

81.) Equus - Kör Atlar (1977) / Dram, Psikolojik, Gerilim

Ø Yönetmen : Sidney Lumet

82.) Englar Alheimsins - Evrenin Melekleri (2000) / Biyografi, Dram

Ø Yönetmen : Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

83.) The Official Story - Resmi Tarih (1985) / Dram, Savaş

Ø Yönetmeni : Luis Puenzo

84.) The Duellists – Düellocu (1977) / Dram, Savaş

Ø Yönetmeni : Ridley Scott

İZLECEĞİM DİZİLER

1.) Barbarians

2.) The Punisher

3.) Band of Brothers

4.) The Pacific

5.) Tut

6.) The Long Road Home

#dizi #film

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The audio-visual collection

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Dawn, 2017, 6:40 Maureen Bachaus (NL) – The end or the beginning, 2013, 1:37 Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – Gaia Regards Her Children, 2017, 2:46 Marie-Paule Bilger and Jean-Baptiste Friquet (France) – Conversation, 2019, 3ʼ51s Britt Bunkley (New Zealand) – Pillard of Cloud, 2016, 4:00 Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Climate Dementia, 2019, 3:51 Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Climate Disorder, 2019, 4:18 Lana Z. Caplan (USA) – Canaries in the Mine, 2015, 8:19 Michael Carmody & Elissa Goodrich (Australia) – Common Time, 2018, 12, 23 Zlatko Cosic (Bosnias) – Even Birds Know It, 2019, 2:55 Kristina Frank /Mervi Kekarainen (Sweden) – 2Rabbits in Purgatorio, 2019, 05:11 Adrien Gaumé (France) – Dry by innocence, 2018, 4’53” Johannes Gerard (NL ) – . Constantly Floating – So Rising, 2019, 5:20 min Vardit Goldner (Israel) – Supper, 2016/2017, 3-4 min Stine Gonsholt (Norway) – Test 4.1, 2017, 6:12 Julio César Guzmán Villarpando (Bolivia) – The Positive Value Of Powerlessness, 2019, 05:20 Xia Han (China) – The Gift, 2019, 14: 23 Honey & Bunny (Austria) – Market of Externalities, 2019, 9:56 Dee Hood (USA) – Game of Chance, 2019, 2.02 Oleg Kharch (Ukraine) – Fakemet, 2019, 3:46 Caryn Kline (USA) – Butterfly Disaster, 2019, 00:06:50 Uri Kloss (Israel) – Word, 2017, 1:29 Dmitry Kmelnitsky (USA) – URTH LING, 2019, 3:43 Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Emergency Call, 2019, 5:19 Carolin Koss (Finland) – Plastic Child, 2016, 12:11 Savio Leite (Brazil) – Lacrimosa, 2019, 3:00 Gabrielle Lenhard (USA) – Flower Pwr, 2019, 00:02:56 My Name is Scot (Canada) – Anthropocene Antiphony, 2017, 1 minute Kim Maree (New Zealand) – Masterplan, 2019, 9:58 Boris Marinin (Israel) – Greenhouse, 2019, 3:19 Ana Isabel Martén (Costa Rica) – Compass 1, 2019, 4:23 James Murphy (Ireland) – Moving Water, 2019, 1:59 Stephen Nachtigall (USA) – Yellow Forest, 2019, 7:34 Fran Orallo (Spain) – Death Dance, 2017, 1:00 Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Aral Mermaid, 2015, 4:12 Renata Padovan (Brazil) – The Scale of Desaster, 2013, 9:41 Renata Padovan (Brazil) – The Voices of the Upper rio Negro, 2019, 3:21 Irena Paskali (Macedonia) – 2202m, 2018, 2:36 Isabel Perez del Pulgar (Spain) – Horizon, 2019, 5:08 Mikey Petersen (USA) – Gloriosa Superba, 2019, 3:52 Lisi Prada (Spain) – ELECTRonIC water, 2013, 3:14 Adrian Regnier (Mexico) – Y., 2016, 5’00” Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity jsme my, 2019, 10:00 Krzysztof Rynkiewicz (Poland) – The 5th Season, 2019, 4:23 Hind Saâd (Morocco) – Prefiguration, 2019, 4 Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Today, 2019, 5:00 Ausin Sainz (Spain) – I like to Fly, 2019, 1:12 Marcha Schagen (NL) – Melt Less CO2, 2019, 3:48 Arie Sigal & Ben-David Sigal (Israel) – Perlite, 2018, 4:17 Alan Sondhein (USA) – American Life, 2018, 6:03 Ronnie Sluik (NL) – ronnie s attempts green animist genderfriendly artistic research, 2019, 1:43 Gabriele Stellbaum (Germany) – Shame, 2019, 1:11 Lino Strangis (Italy) – DREAMLIKE OF A PRESENT FUTURE, 2019, 4’49” Studio Third World Collective (India) – Watermark 1# SOS (Ganges river, India), 2017-18, 1 min loop Karin Till (Australia) – song of elements, 2015, 9:28 Andrea Torrice (USA) – A Message from the Kiribati, 2013, 5:11 Alina Vasilchenko (Russia) – The Crows, 2014, 3min 30 sec Moshe Vollach (Israel) – 31 Cubes, 2013-2016, 8:35 Kate Walker (USA) – Cloudship, 2018, 14:33 Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Sunrise, 2019, 5: 46 Susanne Wiegner (Germany ) – Melting Fields, 2018, 8:16 Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Listen 2019, 3:20 Yarik Z (Russia) – In Search of Lost Time, 2017, 5:55

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PostScript Interview - Karin Sokel Interviews John Petersen, Part One John Petersen was the presenter at the most recent TransitionTalks. In this first interview, ...

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Believe (Red Bull & Trainjump Entertainment 2007)

SkiStar Movies Rating: 4.5/5 Stars

Consisting of “Show & Prove” (2006), “Believe” (2007) and “The Massive” (2008) Constantine Papanicolaou’s (“CP”) “Tanner Hall Trilogy” is fundamental to understanding not only the virtuoso level of skiing that Tanner Hall and his crew have achieved but to what has been accomplished in skiing in the first decade of the 21st Century. Without a doubt, these skiers have had a large role in developing what is now called “freeskiing”. It’s well-worth viewing all three in succession and since they total just over two hours it’s not an impossible task.

A sophisticated slow-focus opening with a bluesy, electronic score builds a serious tone as “Believe” opens up. Fitting because the serious skiing comes fast and furious as Tanner Hall, CR Johnson and Ian Provo go tree skiing at Mount Baker. The most glorious shots are the sights of Johnson just sending it in a way not even imaginable by most mortals, forget that 12 months earlier Johnson had been in a coma for 10 days and had to learn how to use his legs again. Soundtracked to a bangin’ dance hall track from Khari Kill, the spectacular footage makes you feel the chest deep snow.

Yet, in the next sequence, Johnson spills it out that his mental game is not in focus even if his physical skill is largely back. It’s an honest declaration and it reminds you that it takes guts as well as skill to pull off this level of skiing. He recognizes that he has to build and to do it he needs to go slowly and he needs to do that on his own. So, Johnson exits the project at this point (Johnson appears in a couple of terrific sequences in Matchstick’s “Seven Sunny Days”, filmed the same year as “Believe”). A couple of sublime sequences follow, one of some back-country ripping at Retallack with Kye Petersen and Dan Treadway and another with Callum Pettit (then 17 years old at the time) and Sean Pettit (14 at the time). They throw some spins in a school playground before heading to the back country to shred.

Hall, Anthony Boronowski and Ian Provo head to Niseko, Japan. Their footage of the skiing through the white birch trees looks surreal and ghostly and is made all the more intriguing because of the electro-pop stoner vibe of Karin Dreijer Andersson’s voice on Royksopp’s “What Else Is There” which is used as underscore. Hall’s skiing at this point is at the same level as Wayne Gretzky’s hockey when he was 24. His control and style are disciplined to the point of making double back flips look effortless. In the next sequence, the music delivers a compelling punch once more as Seth Morrison rejoins Hall and Boronowski to demonstrate how to huck off 80 footers, back-flipping no less. Underscored with Jedi Mind Tricks’ track “Razorblade Salvation”, the piece is one those classic ski movie sequences where the skiers make it all look very easy. I’ll just say one thing: don’t try this unless you are Seth Morrison.

The real visual stunner is up next as the boys head to Haines AK. CP opts for a darker processing that gives the white mountain snow a blue tinge. The effect is to make it look like the crew are skiing on another planet. His artful framing produces some great moments like when Morrison blitzes down a spine with two rushes of sluff racing down on either side of him.

At only 35 minutes, it’s unbelievable how satisfying “Believe” is. The skiing is masterful and graceful. Hall is not interviewed here; you only get a few comments from him that show his mental process prior to having gravity do its work. Hall lets the skiing do the talking and as he’s in every sequence, the skiing says a lot.

There are no rail or park sequences in “Believe” but the crew brings that mindset to the back country and the big mountains and delivers those types of moves in natural settings. In a way, it’s the best of both worlds, to be cliché for a minute. “Believe” makes it abundantly clear that Hall is something else on top of being a park skier, a discipline that he mastered and dominated during the 2000s. It’s ironic because at the same time this film was being made Hall was taking Gold in the X Games Half Pipe in January 2007 and at the US Open Half Pipe, a fact that is not even mentioned in the film. With the straight-ahead approach to the ski action genre (instead of the documentary approach used in “Show & Prove”) “Believe” is a distillation of the purest form of ski movie. It’s a real tribute then to “Believe” to see that it went on to win Movie of the Year, Best Male Performance for Hall and Best Line at the 2008 Powder Video Awards. By Mark “The Attorney General” Quail

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August 2017 Book Roundup

Last month was not a good reading month for me, partially because work and depression make reading hard and partially because the books themselves weren’t that great. There are times when a ton of new, exciting books get dropped and they seem to swing around the spring (people beginning buying for the summer? Beach reads?) and the fall (obviously, in preparation for Christmas). The one book I really super enjoyed was A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor--a tale of sisters getting shipwrecked on an island (with a boy, but he’s not super important) and working through the fact that one is borderline psychopathically manipulative and they hate each other. Also, sibling codependence. There were decent books aside from that one, but nothing that gripped me quite as much. (Ratings and mini reviews below.)

Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese. 3/5. In World War II era Austria, Maria Altmann’s world is turned upside down as her Jewish family attempts to flee. In the process, the Nazis snatch up portraits of her beloved aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, painted by the renowned artist Gustav Klimt. As we follow Maria from the turmoil of World War II to her twenty-first century struggle to regain the paintings, a parallel story is told--that of Adele and her relationship with Klimt. While this book was pretty accurate as far as I could tell--I’m no Klimt expert--it could have done without Maria’s story. This is better told in the Helen Mirren movie “The Woman in Gold”; here it’s pretty flat, and distracts from Adele’s much more engaging journey from impetuous young wife to immortalized muse. Maria’s narrative becomes a fairly standard--I hate to say it--World War II story. Adele’s is far more interesting and unique, and the book would have been much better had the author stuck with that.

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson. 4/5. Larson takes on the topic of severed heads, from those captured during war, to those decapitated by royal decree, and those belonging to saints. Morbid curiosity and the recommendation of Caitlin Doughty drew me to this book, and it’s both well-researched and quite interesting. I thought it would be largely about the heads lost through the decapitation of living people, like those who would become “shrunken heads” and famous people like Anne Boleyn. While a couple of chapters are devoted to such subjects, Larson also discussed people decapitated after death, as well as the topic of life remaining after decapitation. It’s a pretty thorough book, and while some topics were more interesting than others and it was certainly all a bit gruesome at times, I was impressed by the fact that Larson even went into the topic of decapitation in art. Overall, a good read if you’re in the mood for something niche-y.

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter. 2/5. In the 80s, sisters Sam and Charlotte (later Charlie) undergo a horrific event together that leaves their mother murdered and both deeply traumatized. Thirty years later, Charlie--an attorney, albeit not one as controversial as her “defend any client” father--witnesses a school shooting, and is compelled to help defend the shooter, a teenage girl. The subsequent events will bring up the truth about what happened to the sisters that night, as well as the truth of who they became after. I really enjoyed this book at first--even though the beginning is quite harrowing and not for the faint of heart. But there’s “not for the faint of heart” and “this makes me actively uncomfortable because I don’t think it’s being handled well”. This might act as a spoiler, but honestly it’s a theme throughout the novel and, well... The topic of rape is not handled the way it should have been, in my opinion. Lots of people will feel differently, and I’m sure some will have valid reasons, but I could not get behind this book.

The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman. 2/5. As a young girl, Lilly is sold to the circus by her mother. She hasn’t even had much experience of the world, locked away by her parents to keep her albinism a secret. In a parallel timeline, 20+ years later, nineteen-year old Julia learns that her estranged mother is dead, and she has inherited the family horse farm. Returning home, she stumbles across Lilly’s story, and becomes wrapped up in the mystery of what happened to her. Obviously, this story is interesting--but I think it might be time for me to stop trying these parallel narrative historical fiction novels. They just aren’t for me. Furthermore, the simplicity of the writing and the characters was off-putting. It felt like I was reading about Lilly and the Good People versus Cartoon Villains.

Happiness: A Memoir by Heather Harpham. 3/5. Upon finding out that she was pregnant, Heather Harpham soon realized that her boyfriend, Brian, loved her but wasn’t sure about the idea of fatherhood in his forties. She went through her pregnancy alone, gave birth without him--but things became even more complicated upon the discovery that their daughter, Amelia-Grace, had a blood disease that would quite possibly kill her before she hit thirty. “Happiness” is the story of not only Amelia-Grace’s treatment and the fight for her life, but Heather and Brian’s journey towards finding each other. It’s at times frustrating, as many memoirs are; I really don’t know that Brian and Heather are people I would identify with if I met them, and some of their decisions were... questionable. But the writing is lovely, and I really felt for what was an incredibly human story. It’s a well-done memoir.

A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor. 4/5. Shipwrecked with her sister Henri and a virtual stranger, Alex, Emma has little hope of being found or rescued. Complicating matters of survival is her fraught relationship with Henri, ruined by recent events. Parallel narratives tell the story of the three teens’ attempts to survive, while also revealing what happened between Henri and Emma. This book is extremely gripping and interesting, and while there is a romance that largely serves to develop Emma’s character, the crux of the story is her relationship with the magnetic, manipulative Henri. Henri is the kind of character you love to hate, and so is Emma in a way. Their codependency was extremely compelling, and while a couple of the later “twists” weren’t the strongest, they didn’t dull my interest in the sisters and what happened to them.

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen, 3/5. This book is a collection of essays on women who Petersen--someone who got her doctoral degree on celebrity gossip, essentially--terms as “unruly” for a variety of different reasons. Petersen, who wrote for Buzzfeed, does know how to write a thinkpiece, and in an engaging manner. It’s definitely a quick, fun read. Nothing she says here reinvents the wheel if you’re already engaged in feminist theory, but most of it isn’t actively wrong and it’s good to read. But she does write as a straight, cis, white woman (as she acknowledges). She’s conventionally attractive; she isn’t fat. So there is a part of me that’s like “ugh, I wish someone who could speak from personal experience about what she’s writing had written this book”. She’s not even old, like Madonna (the subject of her “Too Old” essay). But that’s not really something Petersen can help. What she can help is the manner in which she overlooks the ridiculousness of Caitlyn Jenner’s political views, barely mentioning them in the “Too Qu**r” essay. Really, Petersen acknowledges that Jenner doesn’t embody that label; so why not discuss another woman like Laverne Cox or Janet Mock over Jenner? And I know she’s capable of criticizing her subject, because she does so in the aforementioned Madonna piece (though she doesn’t get into exactly how problematic Madonna’s rearing and presentation of her black children has been; that’s not the point of the piece). The Lena Dunham piece is similarly shortsighted. She doesn’t discuss many of the reasons why lots of people--including many feminists--hate Dunham. She doesn’t get into her racism, her troubling discussion of her relationship with her sister. If Petersen didn’t want to get into these issues, there are plenty of “unruly women” who coincide with her topics and aren’t loaded with ugliness, for lack of a better term. So while I liked the book--it could have done with more women of color, by the way--a couple of the essays I side-eyed.

The Devil’s Lady by Deborah Simmons. 4/5. When Aisley de Laci (yes) is forced to marry--but given the option to choose her husband--she chooses Piers Montmorency (yes) otherwise known as the Red Knight (YES). Fierce and mysterious, Piers is said to have a made a pact with the devil, and doesn’t allow Aisley to see him in the light. If you think this means they have a lot of sex in the dark, fuck yeah it does. This is a classic sort of romance novel, made better by the fact that the heroine has a lot of agency in terms of her sexuality for a romance novel written in the 90s, and the guy isn’t a total douchebag. He kind of is at first, but he’s not put in the best situation so.... One of the most appealing parts of the story is dealt with in a manner that was way too easy for my taste, and the ending was all a bit rushed, but that wasn’t the point. The romance was. And it was good.

Shimmer and Burn by Mary Taranta. 2/5. After an attempted escape from their guarded city, Faris is left alone, her love murdered and her sister enslaved. Desperate to free her sister, she enters into arrangement with the king’s executioner and a the Princess Bryn--who wants to become queen--to slip out of the kingdom and transfer magic and honestly that’s all I got because this world was so badly explained and constructed. It was one of those worlds that naturally doesn’t appeal to me, where magic is a substance and you can, like, put it in your body with a syringe? Which made me think of an addiction plotline on the rise and addiction + magic is something I hate and even if I did understand this world, which I didn’t because the writing didn’t explain it to me, I probably wouldn’t like it. Then there were little things, like the king’s executioner being a teenage boy (was there... not someone a little older) and Faris streetfighting~ to earn her keep. Cliche.

#books #book recs #book roundup

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