December 2012

Books:

1) Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
2) Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
3) Both Flesh and Not David Foster Wallace
4) Suttree Cormac McCarthy
5) The Luzhin Defense Vladimir Nabokov
6) The Troika Stepan Chapman
7) Impeached David O Stewart
8) Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis

Movies:

1) Killing them Softly Andrew Dominik
2) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
3) LA Confidential Curtis Hanson

November 2012

Books:
Freddy and Frederika Mark Helprin
Essentials of Business Budgeting Robert G Finney
Lancelot Walker Percy
The Second Coming Walker Percy
Light M. John Harrison


Movies:
Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski
Groundhog Day Harold Ramis
The Third Man Carol Reed
Barton Fink Coen Brothers
Crank Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Fargo Coen Brothers
Wreck It Ralph Rich Moore
Head Bob Rafelson
Speed Jan de Bont
Easy Rider Dennis Hopper
Rushmore Wes Anderson

October 2012

Books
1) Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
2) Library and Information Center Management Barbara Moran


Movies
1) Bringing up Baby Howard Hawks
2) Eating Raoul Paul Bartel
3) Glengarry Glen Ross James Foley
4) Brewster's Millions Walter Hill
5) Brotherhood of Blood Michael Roesh
6) Little Shop of Horrors Frank Oz
7) The Master Paul Thomas Anderson

September 2012

Books:
1) Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
2) Cosmopolis Don Dellilo
3) Brave New World Aldous Huxley
4) White Buildings Hart Crane

Movies:
1) His Girl Friday Howard Hawks
2) Confidence James Foley
3) Christmas in July Preston Sturges
4) The Palm Beach Story Preston Sturges
5) The Valet Francis Veber
6) Alien Ridley Scott
7) Grosse Pointe Blank George Armitage
8) Wanderlust David Wain
9) Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Shane Black
10) Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie Vilgot Sjoman
11) Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz
12) Hail the Conquering Hero Preston Sturges
13) Sleepwalk With Me Mike Birbiglia
14) Fast Five Justin Lin
15) Le Samurai Jean Pierre Melville
16) Cabin in the Woods Drew Godard
17) Odd Man Out Carol Reed
18) Do the Right Thing Spike Lee
19) Manhattan Woody Allen
20) Fletch Michael Ritchie
21) The Game David Fincher
22) Looper Rian Johnson
23) Robocop Paul Verhoeven
24) Brazil Terry Gilliam
25) Gremlins Joe Dante
 

August 2012

Books:
1) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis
2) Bad Science Ben Goldacre
3) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
4) The Black Dahlia James Ellroy


Movies:
1) This Gun For Hire Frank Tuttle
2) Radio Days Woody Allen
3) The Thin Red Line Terrance Malick
4) La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini
5) The Thin Man WS Van Dyke
6) Our Man in Havana Carol Reed
7) Source Code Duncan Jones
8) Gangs of New York Martin Scorsese
9) Hour of the Wolf Ingmar Bergman 
10) Tree of Life Terrance Malick
11) Roman Holiday William Wyler
12) Kind Hearts and Coronets Robert Hamer
13) Gran Torino Clint Eastwood 
14) Leon: The Professional Luc Besson
15) The Virgin Spring Ingmar Bergman
16) Shutter Island  Martin Scorcese
17) Paths of Glory  Stanley Kubrick
18) Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick
19) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Martin Scorsese
20) Doubt John Patrick Shanley
21) Stranger than Paradise Jim Jarmush 
22) Stalag 17 Billy Wilder
23) The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah
24) The Guard John Michael McDonagh
25) The Changeling Clint Eastwood
26) The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 
27) Scarface  Howard Hawks
28) Night Train to Munich Carol Reed 
29) Almost Famous Cameron Crowe 
30) The Great McGinty Preston Sturges
31) The Whole Nine Yards Jonathan Lynn
32) The Secret of Kells  Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
33) The Guard John Michael McDonagh

July 2012

Books:
1) Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe
2) Big Fish Daniel Wallace
3) Little, Big John Crowley


Movies Watched June/July (not in order):
Dazed and Confused Richard Linklater
The Apartment Billy Wilder
Last Days of Disco Whit Stillman
Metropolitan Whit Stillman
Eastern Promises David Cronenberg
Videodrome  David Cronenberg
Dead Ringers David Cronenberg
A History of Violence David Cronenberg
The Brood David Cronenberg
Days of Heaven Terrance Malick
Some Like it Hot Billy Wilder
The Artist Michel Hazanavicius
Being John Malkovich Spike Jonze
Miller's Crossing Joel and Ethan Coen
Melancholia Lars Von Trier
Under the Volcano John Huston
The Avengers Joss Whedon
The Incredible Hulk Louis Leterrier
Moonrise Kingdom (2x) Wes Anderson
Seeking a Friend For the End of the World Lorene Scafaria
Cool Hand Luke Stuart Rosenberg
M. Hulot's Holiday Jaques Tati
Mon Oncle Jaques Tati
Cabin in the Woods Drew Goddard
God Bless America Bobcat Goldwaithe
Repo Man Alex Cox
Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry Donald Brittain
Be Kind Rewind Michel Gondry
Brave Pixar (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell)
Waitress Adrienne Shelly
The Lady Eve Preston Sturges
The Magician Ingmar Bergman 
My Dinner With Andre Luis Malle
Branded to Kill Seijun Suzuki
Citizen Kane Orson Welles
My Man Godfrey Gregory La Cava
Traffic Stephen Soderburgh
Carnival of Souls Herk Harvey 
Scenes From a Marriage (feature film version) Ingmar Bergman
The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir 
Stray Dog Akira Kurosawa
Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa
Ran Akira Kurosawa
Flowers of St. Francis Roberto Rossellini
Unfaithfully Yours Preston Sturges
3:10 to Yuma Delmer Daves
Beat The Devil John Huston
Yi Yi Edward Yang
Army of Shadows Jean Pierre Melville
Blue  Krzysztof Kieslowski
Observe and Report Jody Hill
Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn 
Dinner at 8 George Kukor
Day at the Races Marx Brothers
M. Fritz Lang
Dark Knight Rises Christopher Nolan
The Iron Giant Brad Bird
Greenberg Noah Baumbach
Bringing Out the Dead Martin Scorsese

June 2012

1) Drawn and Quartered: a History of American Political Cartoons Stephen Hess
2) I Am Legend Richard Matheson
3) James Buchanan Jean H Baker
4) Godric Frederick Buechner
5) Bossypants Tina Fey

May 2012

1) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
2) Fledgeling Octavia Butler 
3) The Philosophy of Existentialism Gabriel Marcel
4) Selected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay
5) Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare
6) The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal
7) Valdez is Coming Elmore Leonard
8) Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills Roy Nichols
9) Misery Stephen King
10) The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
11) The Irony of American History Reinhold Niebuhr

April 2012

1) Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
2) Selected Poems Wendell Berry
3) Hamlet Shakespeare
4) Beloved Toni Morrison
5) The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Elbert B. Smith
6) A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor
7) Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre Walter Kaufman
8) A Bad Idea I'm About To Do Chris Gethard

March 2012

1) The Life of William Henry Harrison Isaac Rand Jackson
2) The Cambridge Companion to Auden Ed. Stan Smith
3) Wittgenstein's Poker David Edmonds
4) To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis
5) The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
6) John Tyler, the Accidental President Edward Crapol
7) Polk Walter Borneman
8) Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community Wendell Berry
9) The Man Who Was Thursday GK Chesterton

February 2012

1) The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
2) Doomsday Book Connie Willis
3) Raylan Elmore Leonard
4) The Ecstasy of Influence Jonathan Lethem
5) The Devil in a Forest Gene Wolfe
6) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
7) The Passion of the Western Mind Richard Tarnas
8) Poems (1930) WH Auden
9) Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics Joel Silbey

January 2012

1) Gold Coast Elmore Leonard
2) Animal Farm George Orwell
3) This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
4) The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick
5) American Lion Jon Meacham
6) Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
7) Edward Hopper Ivo Kranzfelder