Books & Films

an inventory of books and films read and watched

• The Wrestler dir. by Darren Aronofsky
• Duplicity dir. by Tony Gilroy
• Le Samourai dir. by Jean-Pierre Melville
• State of Play dir. by Kevin Macdonald
• The Hurt Locker dir. by Kathryn Bigelow
• Network dir. by Sidney Lumet
• Star Trek dir. by J.J. Abrams
• Twilight dir. by Catherine Hardwicke
• Adventureland dir. by Greg Mottola
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samauri dir. by Jim Jarmusch
• Miami Vice dir. by Michael Mann
• Public Enemies dir. by Michael Mann
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring dir. by Kim Ki-Duk
• Time dir. by Kim Ki-Duk
• The Girlfriend Experience dir. by Steven Soderbergh
• (500) Days of Summer dir. by Marc Webb
• The Ugly Truth dir. by Robert Luketic
• The Invention of Lying dir. by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra dir. by Stephen Sommers
• Terminator Salvation dir. by McG
• Conversations with Other Women dir. by Hans Canosa

• Persepolis dir. by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi (1/1)
• There Will Be Blood dir. by P.T. Anderson (1/11)
• Charlie Wilson’s War dir. by Mike Nichols (1/13)
• The Kingdom dir. by Peter Berg (1/16)
• Summer Palace dir. by Ye Lou (1/21)
• Rocket Science dir. Jeffrey Blitz (2/23)
• Married Life dir. by Ira Sachs (3/9)
• Planet B-Boy dir. by Benson Lee (3/19)
• Driving Miss Daisy dir. by Bruce Beresford (4/5)
• My Blueberry Nights dir. by Wong Kar Wai (4/11)
• Life in Flight dir. by Tracey Hecht (4/27)
• Whatever Lola Wants dir. by Nabil Ayouch (5/1)
• Fermat’s Room dir. by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña (5/3)
• Iron Man dir. by Jon Favreau (5/4)
• Get Smart dir. by Peter Segal (6/15)
• Wanted dir. by Timur Bekmambetov (6/28)
• Hancock dir. by Peter Berg (7/4)
• Pretty to Think So dir. by Francis Hsueh and Steven Hahn (7/18)
• Ping Pong Playa dir. by Jessica Yu (7/19)
• Batman: Dark Knight dir. by Christopher Nolan (7/20)
• High Fidelity dir. by Stephen Frears (7/29)
• 21 dir. by Robert Luketic (8/2)
• In Bruges dir. by Martin McDonagh (8/4)
• Made of Honor dir. by Paul Weiland (8/3)
• Secretary dir. by Steven Shainberg (8/5)
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay dir. by Jon Hurwitz (8/8)
• WALL-E dir. by Andrew Stanton (8/10)
• Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist dir. by Peter Sollett (9/27)
• Diving Bell and the Butterfly dir. by Julian Schnabel (10/4)
• Three Iron dir. by Kim Ki-Duk (10/27)
• The Dreamers dir. by Bernardo Bertolucci (10/29)
• Hard Candy dir. by David Slade (10/31)
• Annie Hall dir. by Woody Allen (11/7)
• Shoot’em Up dir. by Michael Davis (11/8)
• Quantum of Solace dir. by Marc Forster (11/13)
• Good Luck Chuck dir. by Mark Helfrich (11/14)
• Everybody Says I Love You dir. by Woody Allen (11/15)
• Tropic Thunder dir. by Ben Stiller (11/19)
• Hitman dir. by Xavier Gens (11/22)

• Curse of the Golden Flower dir. by Zhang Yimou (1/7)
• Pan’s Labyrinth dir. by Guillermo del Toro (1/13)
• Children of Men dir. by Alfonso Cuarón (1/24)
• The Queen dir. by Stephen Frears (1/25)
• Factotum dir. by Bent Hamer (2/5)
• District B13 dir. by Pierre Morel (2/9)
• Jarhead dir. by Sam Mendes (2/11)
• The Descent dir. by Neil Marshall (2/13)
• Marie Antoinette dir. by Sofia Coppola (2/15)
• Final Destination 3 dir. by James Wong (2/18)
• Red Doors dir. by Georgia Lee (2/18)
• The Lives of Others dir. by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2/20)
• Lover’s Concerto dir. by Han Lee (2/21)
• The Last Kiss dir. by Tony Goldwyn (3/8)
• A Good Year dir. by Ridley Scott (3/8)
• The Wind that Shakes the Barley dir. by Ken Loach (3/16)
• All the King’s Men dir. by Steven Zaillian (3/16)
• The Ice Harvest dir. by Harold Ramis (4/13)
• Fracture dir. by Gregory Hoblit (4/20)
• Lady Chatterly dir. by Pascale Ferran (4/26)
• Joint Security Area dir. by Park Chan-Wook (4/28)
• West 32nd Street dir. by Michael Kang (4/29)
• Purple Violet dir. by Edward Burns (5/3)
• Lost in Beijing dir. by Yu Li (5/4)
• A Dirty Carnival dir. by Ha Yu (5/4)
• Paris, Je T’Aime dir. by various (5/12)
• Little Children dir. by Todd Field (5/23)
• Notes on a Scandal dir. by Richard Eyre (5/27)
• The 400 Blows dir. by François Truffaut (6/6)
• Knocked Up dir. by Judd Apatow (6/14)
• Ratatouille dir. by Brad Bird (6/30)
• Transformers dir. by Michael Bay (7/3)
• Live Free or Die Hard dir. by Len Wiseman (7/6)
• Undoing dir. by Chris Chan Lee (7/22)
• Bourne Ultimatum dir. by Paul Greengrass (8/5)
• Superbad dir. by Greg Mottola (8/25)
• Helvetica dir. by Gary Hustwit (9/14)
• Eastern Promises dir. by David Cronenberg (9/28)
• Michael Clayton dir. by Tony Gilroy (10/6)
• 3:10 to Yuma dir. by James Mangold (11/22)
• The Good German dir. by Steven Soderbergh (11/22)
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead dir. by Sidney Lument (11/23)
• Spider-Man 3 dir. by Sam Raimi (11/28)
• The Golden Compass dir. by Chris Weitz (12/14)
• I Am Legend dir. by Francis Lawrence (12/15)
• No Country for Old Men dir. by Ethan and Joel Coen (12/23)
• Juno dir. by Jason Reitman (12/28)
• The Simpsons dir. by David Silverman (12/29)

• Untold Scandal dir. by Je-Yong Lee (1/1)
• White Countess dir. by James Ivory (1/8)
• Crash dir. by Paul Haggis (1/10)
• Mr. Jealousy dir. by Noah Baumbach (1/14)
• A History of Violence dir. by David Cronenberg (1/16)
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress dir. by Sijie Dai (1/18)
• The Right Stuff dir. by Philip Kaufman (1/26)
• Walk the Line dir. by James Mangold (1/29)
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room dir. by Alex Gibney (2/1)
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance dir. by Park Chan Wook (2/11)
• La Dolce Vita dir. by Federico Fellini (2/19)
• Welcome to Dongmakgol dir. by Kwang-Hyun Park (3/26)
• Junebug dir. by Phil Morrison (3/29)
• Thank You for Smoking dir. by Jason Reitman (3/31)
• Inside Man dir. by Spike Lee (4/1)
• V for Vendetta dir. by James McTeigue (4/2)
• Friends With Money dir. by Nicole Holofcener (4/9)
• Leaving Las Vegas dir. by Mike Figgis (4/9)
• The Notorious Betty Page dir. by Mary Harron (4/16)
• Flowers of Shanghai dir. by Hsiao-hsien Hou (5/5)
• Hanging Garden dir. by Toshiaki Toyoda (5/6)
• Three Times dir. by Hsiao-hsien Hou (5/7)
• Shopgirl dir. by Anand Tucker (5/13)
• Sketches of Gehry dir. by Sydney Pollack (5/19)
• An Inconvenient Truth dir. by Davis Guggenheim (5/29)
• Nacho Libre dir. by Jared Hess (6/16)
• The Machinist dir. by Brad Anderson (6/21)
• Hitch dir. by Andy Tennant (6/23)
• Pretty Woman dir. by Garry Marshall(6/24)
• The Motel dir. by Michael Kang (7/1)
• The Art of Seduction dir. by Woo Ki Wan (7/3)
• April Snow dir. by Jin-ho Hur (7/17)
• Three Colors: Blue dir. by Krzysztof Kieslowski (7/24)
• Smoke dir by Wayne Wang (7/27)
• Blossom Again dir. by Jung Ji-woo (7/28)
• Three Colors: White dir. by Krzysztof Kieslowski (7/28)
• Three Colors: Red dir. by Krzysztof Kieslowski (7/31)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang dir. by Shane Black (8/4)
• Scoop dir. by Woody Allen (8/6)
• Little Miss Sunshine dir. Jonathan Dayton (8/12)
• The Illusionist dir by Neil Burgher (8/20)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby dir. by Adam McKay (8/22)
• Mutual Appreciation dir. by Andrew Bujalski (9/11)
• The Science of Sleep dir. by Michel Gondry (9/27)
• Half Nelson dir. by Ryan Fleck (10/1)
• Infernal Affairs dir. by Andy Lau and Alan Mak (10/10)
• The Departed dir. by Martin Scorsese (10/15)
• The Prestige dir. by Christopher Nolan (10/20)
• The Break-Up dir. by Peyton Reed (11/3)
• A Scanner Darkly dir. by Richard Linklater (11/3)
• The Devil Wears Prada dir. by David Frankel (11/12)
• Tajja dir. by Dong-hun Choi (11/12)
• Borat dir. by Larry Charles (11/16)
• Volver dir. by Pedro Almodóvar (11/21)
• Casino Royale dir. by Martin Campbell (11/23)
• Mission: Impossible III dir. by J.J. Abrams (11/25)
• Wordplay dir. by Patrick Creadon
• Millions dir. by Danny Boyle (12/2)
• Rocky Balboa dir. by Sylvester Stallone (12/21)
• The Good Shepherd dir. by Robert De Niro (12/23)
• The Host dir. by Joon-ho Bong (12/24)

• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith dir. by George Lucas(5/30)
• Primer dir. by Shane Carruth(6/1)
• Saving Face dir. by Alice Wu (6/4)
• Days of Being Wild dir. by Wong Kar Wai (6/14)
• Batman Returns dir. by Christopher Nolan (6/16)
• Me and You and Everyone We Know dir. by Miranda July (6/26)
• My Architect: A Son’s Journey dir. by Nathaniel Kahn (7/1)
• March of the Penguins dir. by Luc Jacquet (7/5)
• Samaritan Girl dir. by Ki-duk Kim (7/8)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory dir. Tim Burton (7/17)
• The Remains of the Day dir. by James Ivory (7/21)
• The Island dir. by Michael Bay (7/24)
• The Corporation dir. by Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar (7/26)
• Broken Flowers dir. by Jim Jarmusch(8/12)
• Wedding Crashers dir. by David Dobkin(8/17)
• Red Eye dir. Wes Craven (8/23)
• The English Patient dir. by Anthony Mingella (8/27)
• Pretty Persuasion dir. Marcos Siega (8/28)
• In the Company of Men dir. by Neil LaBute (8/31)
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped dir. by Jacques Audiard (9/4)
• The Constant Gardener dir. by Fernando Meirelles (9/4)
• The Upside of Anger dir. by Mike Binder (9/26)
• Good Night, and Good Luck dir. by George Clooney (10/7)
• Capote dir. by Bennett Miller (10/8)
• The Squid and the Whale dir. by Noah Baumbach (10/16)
• Everything is Illuminated dir. by Liev Schreiber (10/23)
• The Weather Man by Gore Verbinski (10/28)
• Pride & Prejudice dir. by Joe Wright (11/19)
• Derailed dir. by Mikael Håfström (11/23)
• The Interpreter dir. by Sydney Pollack (11/24)
• Heights dir. by Chris Terrio (11/26)
• Syriana dir. by Stephen Gaghan (11/27)
• Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? dir. by Joel Coen (12/4)
• Ray dir. by Taylor Hackford (12/11)
• The Notebook dir. by Nick Cassevettes (12/26)
• Match Point dir. by Woody Allen (12/30)

• Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (1/3)
• The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster (3/4)
• The World is What It Is by Patrick French (4/2)
• A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (5/1)
• Ignorance by Milan Kundera
• The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
• Thy Neighbor’s Wife by Gay Talese

• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1/26)
• Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver (2/16)
• Freakanomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (2/27)
• Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee (3/16)
• How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Boton (3/30)
• Drown by Junot Diaz (4/8)
• The Child in Time by Ian McEwan (4/24)
• The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/6)
• Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee (5/29)
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (?/??)
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (6/14)
• The Art of Travel by Alain de Boton (6/22)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (7/23)
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (7/30)
• The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (8/20)
• The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki (8/28)
• The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Boton (9/27)
• The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel Pink (10/3)
• The Collector by John Fowles (10/14)
• Outliers by Malcom Gladwell (11/22)

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (1/8)
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1/15)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (2/5)
• Moon Palace by Paul Auster (2/14)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (3/16)
• On Directing Film by David Mamet (4/6)
• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (4/6)
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (4/30)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (7/5)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (7/7)
• I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young-Ha Kim (7/12)
• Youth: Scenes from a Provincial Life II by J.M. Coetzee (8/23)
• Venus Drive: Stories by Sam Lipsyte (9/15)
• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (9/27)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (11/23)
• Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster (12/2)

• Here is New York by EB White (1/2)
• Consider the Lobster by David Wallace Foster (1/17)
• The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd (2/7)
• The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (2/20)
• Model Behavior by Jay McInerney (2/27)
• The Actual by Saul Bellow (3/13)
• A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (4/3)
• The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (4/16)
• Blink by Malcom Gladwell (4/22)
• Homeland by Sam Lipsyte (5/21)
• New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (6/18)
• Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (7/2)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (7/24)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (7/31)
• An Artist of a Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (8/21)
• A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (9/1)
• The Magus by John Fowles (10/5)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (10/11)
• The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (10/19)
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster (10/25)
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis (11/4)
• The Music of Chance by Paul Auster (11/8)
• Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell (11/16)
• Leviathan by Paul Auster (11/27)
• The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda (12/6)

• A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (5/19)
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (6/3)
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (6/8)
• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis (6/22)
• Money by Martin Amis (7/16)
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (8/1)
• The English Patient by Michael Oondatje (8/21)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (9/5)
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (10/1)
• Norweigan Wood by Haruki Murakami (10/15)
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (10/23)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (11/19)
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (12/11)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (12/20)

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
• London Fog by Martin Amis
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Great Books by David Denby
• Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
• The Guest by Sok-Yong Hwang
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Timbuktu by Paul Auster
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Herzog by Saul Bellow