Books to read, movies to watch.

24 Jul

These lists are in no particular order.

My blog (including lists of things I’ve read and seen): http://kurutta.net/. You are welcome to post comments there, recommending things to me.

Page_link Home page

Movies I must watch.

The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)
L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
Mouchette (Bresson)
Viridiana (Bunuel)
Faces (Cassavetes)
Shadows (Cassavetes)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Opening Night (Cassavetes)
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin)
Yellow Earth (Chen)
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
The Searchers (Ford)
Les Caribiniers (Godard)
Masculin, Feminin (Godard)
City of Sadness (Hou)
Pigs & Battleships (Imamura)
The Eel (Imamura)
Xiao Wu (Jia)
Platform (Jia)
Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi)
The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa)
Shoah (Lanzmann)
Naked (Leigh)
Au revoir les enfants (Malle)
Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey)
Rebels of the Neon God (Ming-Liang)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-Liang)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst)
The River (Renoir)
Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir)
La Bête humaine (Renoir)
Toni (Renoir)
Six Moral Tales (Rohmer)
Onibaba (Shindo)
The Naked Island (Shindo)
Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki)
Ludwig (Visconti)
Kanal (Wajda)
A Generation (Wajda)
Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
Man of Marble (Wajda)
F for Fake (Welles)
Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder)
The Million-Ryo Pot (Yamanaka)
It’s a Mad, Mad…...World
Hearts of Darkness
Burden of Dreams
Crazed Fruit
Trash
May 24 Red Beard (Kurosawa)
Trash
May 24 Thieves’ Highway (Dassin)
Trash
Jun 18 The French Connection

Directors whose films I’ve never really seen.

Emir Kusturica
Theo Angelopoulos
Hiroshi Shimizu
Bong Joon-ho
Guru Dutt
Aki Kaurismäki
Béla Tarr
Jacques Rivette
Lindsay Anderson
Claire Denis
Abel Gance
Claude Lelouch
Manoel de Oliveira
Alberto Lattuada
Francesco Rosi
Andrei Konchalovsky
Pedro Costa
Gaspar Noé
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Fei Mu
Park Chan-wook
Susumu Hani
Shuji Terayama
Yoji Yamada
Hiroshi Kurosawa
Leo McCarey
Leos Carax
Georges Franju
Otar Iosseliani
Jean Grémillon
Jean Epstein
Jan Troell
Harmony Korine
Budd Boetticher
Raymond Bernard
Frank Borzage
Mario Bava
Trash
Jun 7 The Dardenne Brothers

Fiction to read.

History (Morante)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon)
Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)

Movies I'd like to remember to think about watching.

The Life Aquatic (Anderson)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson)
An Angel at My Table (Campion)
Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford)
Sword of the Beast (Gosha)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto)
Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)
A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger)
The Expedition (S Ray)
Bad Timing (Roeg)
Hands Over the City (Rosi)
Lost in La Mancha
Metropolitan
Hoop Dreams
Trash
May 24 Seduced and Abandoned (Germi)
Trash
May 24 Pepe le Moko (Duvivier)
Trash
Jun 18 Kill! (Okamoto)

Non-fiction books to read.

A History of Western Philosophy (Russell)
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (Collins)
American Music in the Twentieth Century (Gann)
Trash
Aug 20 in progress: Money (Galbraith)

Non-fiction subjects on which to find books to read.

Simón Bolívar
Postcolonialism
Japanese History

Books to remember to think about reading.

After Theory (Eagleton)