A list of all the books I read in 2021. (*) indicates a book I especially loved; (r) a repeat reading. Boquitas pintadas de Manuel Puig (*) Las mejores letras de tango (comp. Héctor Ángel Benedetti) Bolivia y Perú de Gonzalo Beladrich Los heraldos negros de...
These are the movies that have stayed with me most over the last decade. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) Terrence Malick captures the way we actually remember childhood – not in coherent episodes but in intensely apprehended moments, like Jessica Chastain...
My reading last year was shaped by my travels – in Japan and Korea in April and May, and South America in the second half of the year. I was surprised at the paucity of titles on Japan and Korea in English – reflecting, I suppose, white Australians’ indifference...
Here’s the next installment of my decade by decade Top 50s. Today, the greatest movies of the 1950s. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951) Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953) Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman,...
Here’s the next installment of my decade by decade Top 50s. Today, the greatest movies of the 1960s. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)...
Here’s the next installment of my decade by decade Top 50s. Today, the greatest movies of the 1970s. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) The Godfather Parts I and II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972/4) Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972) Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet,...
