Here’s the next installment of my decade by decade Top 50s. Today, the greatest movies of the 1980s. E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982) Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982) Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988) The Empire Strikes Back...
After making a list of the greatest films of the new century, I’ve decided to go back and make similar lists for each decade of the 20th century. Since the 21st century list covered almost two decades, I’ve decided to limit these ones to 50. First up, the...
In the wake of this week’s contentious BBC poll, here’s my own list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) Best in Show (Christopher Guest,...
Here’s a list of all the books I read in 2015. (r) indicates a repeat reading. (*) indicates a book that had an especial impact on me. A lot of my reading last year was prompted by my trip through Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Truyen Kieu, Vietnam’s national...
Here’s a list of all the books I read in 2014. (r) indicates a repeat reading. (*) indicates a book that had an especial impact on me. The highlights (appropriately enough in a year when I spent so much time reading the Bible) were two novels that use the first...
