Screenings (No. 5)

Bad Lieutenant, 1992, dir: Abel Ferrara

A corrupt cop indulges his vices against the dark backdrop of a rough New York City. I need to make a mental note to watch Driller Killer among other films Ferrara has directed.

Reading update (No. 2)

This time, two books bought as presents, a book I started only to put aside and another re-read. From top to bottom:

• Mikhail Bulgakov The master and margarita
• Carson McCullars The heart is a lonely hunter
• George Orwell Nighteen eighty-four
• David Mazzucchelli Asterios Polyp

Screenings (No. 4)

Interview with the earth, 2008, dir: Nicolas-Pereda

A poetic approach to documentary filming. Though a series of interviews we learn the story of Nico and Amalio, two children who lost a friend while climbing a mountain.

Reading update (No. 1)

Some new reads, some re-reads and some reads which have been hanging about my bookcase for ages. In order, from top to bottom:

• Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World
• J.G Ballard, Crash
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Apricot Jam and Other Stories
• George W. Grayson & Samuel Logan, The Executioner's Men
• David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

 

Screenings (No. 3)

 

Paris-Texas, 1984, dir:Wim Wenders

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past.

Some art (No. 7)

Ed Ruscha, 1966, Standard Station

Finally there

End of an era. Celebrating our final day working together at the Medical School.