May 2013

Books:
1) The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
2) Gilead Marilynne Robinson
3) Awake in the Dark Roger Ebert
4) Last Call Tim Powers
5) The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
6) The Given Day Dennis Lehane
7) Native Tongue Carl Hiaason
8) Freedom Jonathan Franzen
9) The Gift Vladimir Nabokov
10) Hitchcock/Truffault
11) The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison Homer Socolofsky


Movies:
1) Friday the 13th Sean S Cunningham
2) Schindler's List Steven Spielberg
4) Pierrot Le Fou Jean Luc Godard
5) The Pledge Sean Penn
6) Ministry of Fear Fritz Lang
7) Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick
8) Mr and Mrs Smith Doug Liman
9) The Birds Alfred Hitchcock
10) Men in Black 3 Barry Sonnenfeld
11) MASH Robert Altman
12) Being There Hal Ashby
13) Black Dynamite Scott Sanders
14) Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock
15) Network Sydney Lumet
16) Platoon Oliver Stone

April 2013

Books:
1) How to Live- A Life of Montaigne in One Questions and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Sara Blakewell
2) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
3) Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself David Lipski
4) The Reader Bernhard Schlink
5) The Shining Stephen King
6) Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor
7) Pictures at a Revolution Mark Harris
8) Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind
9) Push Sapphire
10) The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington
11) Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris
12) The Complete Essays Montaigne
13) Home Marilynn Robinson
14) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis


Movies:

1) In Bruges Martin McDonagh
2) Diabolique Henri-George Clouzot
3) Monty Python's Life of Brian Terry Jones
4) The Paradine Case Alfred Hitchcock
5) Playtime Jaques Tati
6) Young and Innocent (alt. title The Girl Was Young) Alfred Hitchcock
7) Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa
8) Bob Le Flambeur Jean Pierre Melville
9) The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
10) Repo Man Alex Cox
12) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
13) Before Sunrise Richard Linklater
14) Before Sunset Richard Linklater
15) The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdonovich
16) Sunrise FW Murnau

March 2013

Books:
1) Chester Alan Arthur Zachary Karabel
2) The Pale King David Foster Wallace
3) The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe
4) Claw of the Concilliator Gene Wolfe
5) Sword of the Lichtor Gene Wolfe
6) Castle of the Autarch Gene Wolfe
7) Mary Vladimir Nabokov
8) Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
9) Grover Cleveland Henry Graff
10) Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan
11) 2666 Roberto Bolano
12) Dirt: The Erosion of Civiliations David R Montgomery
13) A Childhood: A biography of a Place Harry Crews
14) A Scanner Darkly Philip K Dick
15) Bag of Bones Stephen King
16) Dimension of Miracles Robert Sheckly


Movies:
1) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
2) Skyfall Sam Mendes
3) The New World Terrance Malick
4) M Fritz Lang
5) The Town Ben Affleck
6) Badlands Terrance Malick
7) White Krzysztof Kieślowski
8) The Great Moment Preston Sturges
9) The Lodger Alfred Hitchcock
10) How Green Was My Valley John Ford
11) Five Easy Pieces Bob Rafelson
12) The Philadelphia Story George Cukor

February 2013

Books:
1) Battle Cry of Freedom John McPherson
2) Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
3) Memoir From Antproof Case Mark Helprin
4) Moby Dick Herman Melville
5) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
6) Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff
7) The Thanatos Syndrome Walker Percy
8) A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller
9) The first three Swamp Thing graphic novels Alan Moore


Movies:
1) Gross Pointe Blank George Armitage
2) The Game David Fincher

January 2013

Books:
1) The Aleph Jorge Luis Borges
2) More Baths, Less Talk Nick Hornby
3) The Man Who Saved the Union: Ullysses Grant at War and Peace HW Brand
4) The Translator John Crowley
5) Rutherford B. Hayes Hans L. Trefousse
6) Destiny of the Republic Candace Millard
7) Every Love Story is a Ghost Story DT Max
8) A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
9) Girl With Curious Hair David Foster Wallace

Movies:
1) Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
2) The Hobbit Peter Jackson
3) Intolerable Cruelty Coen Brothers (x2)
4) Looper Rian Johnson
5) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Lorene Scafaria
6) Shame Steve McQueen

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