I finally dug into Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and boy, was I happy I did! What a remarkable novel: intimate, epic and completely involving. But I don’t remember why.” (I loved both books.) It’s funny, catching up on things that were - for brief moments - hot topics among your friends: No one wants to discuss them a few years later! Or, in the case of A Gate at the Stairs, a close friend of mine told me, “I remember it being my least favorite Lorrie Moore book. I read two books this year that Everyone Was Talking About a while ago: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore and The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. And it’s better to learn sooner than later that, basically no matter what you want to do, Joan Didion has already done it better. It’s like she pried open my own head, rearranged things and put them in an order that made perfect sense. It somehow took me seven years of living in New York to finally get around to Joan Didion’s Goodbye to All That, which was heartbreaking both because I realized she’d said everything I could possibly say about being ambivalent about New York, and also because it’s amazing and heartbreaking on its own. Other repertory discoveries: John Stahl’s Only Yesterday, Arthur Penn’s The Chase, Fritz Lang’s Fury, Alan Clarke’s Christine, Phil Karlson’s The Brothers Rico, all of Delmer Daves, Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture, and Yuan Zhang’s Mama, among many more. How Green Was My Valley is not only undeserving of its now unfortunate historical awards season context, it’s probably John Ford’s best film, if not one of the greatest ever. Peter Labuza, The Cinephiliacs, To Be (Cont’d) And it’s often incredibly blunt about poverty and very, very funny, all in the same episode. It’s sharp about class, race, and vocation. But after binging on it and reading the memoir of the same name by Jennifer Worth on which it’s based, I think Call the Midwife, which follows young midwives and nuns delivering babies and doing public health work in the East End, is a superior show. but has gotten scant attention in the U.S., where Downton Abbey still seems to reign supreme. The 13 Best Slasher Movies Ever Made, from 'Candyman' to 'Psycho'Ĭall the Midwife: This British import is huge in the U.K.
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As staggering as it was to realize that I had lived so much of my life without these works, it also gave me those giddy-tinglies that come from knowing how much more amazing work by other artists there is still out there to discover.Īlyssa Rosenberg, ThinkProgress, Women and Hollywood And oh the magnificent delights that awaited me in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, The Small Back Room, etc. In 2013, with only The Red Shoes previously under my belt, I took a leap into the works of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, aka The Archers. Every year, I commit myself to working on at least a few of my film-history blind spots.
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