Month: August 2009

15 movies

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Back-dated and cross-posted from Facebook, this is my list of 15 movies that will “always stick with me.”

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Japanese poster

  • Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
  • Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas)
  • Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
  • 1984 (Michael Radford)
  • Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
  • Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
  • Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
  • Cloverfield (Matt Reeves / J.J. Abrams)
  • Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
  • District 9 (Neill Blomkamp / Peter Jackson)
  • Where the Wild Things Are trailer (Spike Jonze)

What’s a trailer doing in an all-time list of favorite movies? Because it’s the single best one and a half minutes of movie-making I’ve ever seen. The actual movie can only be a disappointment…

15 books

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The latest Facebook fad is listing 15 things that will “always stick with you.” One that interested me enough to participate was “15 books.”

The Nine Billion Names of God

  • Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
  • When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone by Galway Kinnell
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  • Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
  • The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Poems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney
  • I and Thou by Martin Buber
  • The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
  • Writing the Australian Crawl by William Stafford
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury