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Bridget ([personal profile] bugshaw) wrote2013-03-01 07:37 pm
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Books Read February

Books read (6-8)
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot (2012) (graphic novel)
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut Jr (1965-74, 1975)
Grandville, Bryan Talbot (2009) (graphic novel) (reread)
Grandville Mon Amour, Bryan Talbot (2010) (graphic novel)
Grandville Bête Noire, Bryan Talbot (2012) (graphic novel)
(Counting the last three as one "book" for fairly arbitrary reasons)

Films watched (11-19) 5 at the cinema, 2 DVD, 2 streamed
Chronicle
Bullhead
Hitchcock
No
A Liar's Autobiography
Wild Bill
Brakhage
I Give It A Year
Il Divo


Gigs (1-3)
Bright Club (amateur science comedy night at the Portland Arms, worth a visit)
Invisibility (art talk and workshop about invisibility through Junction University, v. interesting)
I Am Kloot (popular beat combo, Junction)
And I had a ticket for The Furies doing Clytemnestra but was ill and couldn't go.

Books incoming 3 (3 loans) (read 8/11)

Best film of the month was Bullhead, good in a terribly brutal, emotionally gutting, complex sort of a way, so not actually fun. But very good. Best mainstream movie was Hitchcock, entertaining and an intriguing look behind the scenes. A Liar's Autobiography = Willies at the Picturehouse; I Give it a Year = Willies at Cineworld. No was about the tv campaign in Chile when there was a public vote as to whether to keep Pinochet in - early use of tv advertising techniques, and scary given the importance of the decision and lack of experience of the campaign team, Gael García Bernal does a good hapless turn. He was also in Amores Perros which I rated highly last month. Mubi sent me Il Divo as a nod to the elections in Italy, but with so many political players I barely got a flavour of it.

[identity profile] coth.livejournal.com 2013-03-02 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
I read Dotter of Her Father's Eyes - which was not (contrary to rumour) about a girl assistant to a cartoonist. Must remember to talk about it next week...

[identity profile] sphyg.livejournal.com 2013-03-02 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like to read "Dotter of Her Father's Eyes" even if it doesn't win the book club vote as is was mentioned lots in my Twitter feed when it won the Costa. I finally saw Looper, and really liked it despite it going in a slightly different direction than I anticipated - hope to rewatch in a few months (might add to my birthday list!).