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What was read 2025

As ever, here presented is a list of what I read during 2025; without comment or review - it is chronological.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A.Abbott (1884)

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (1963)

The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo Stieg Larsson (2005)

Dreams from Bunker Hill John Fante (1982)

The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson (2006)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson (2007)

Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor (1952)

The Offing Benjamin Myers (2019)

The Perfume Burned His Eyes Michael Imperioli (2018)

Pan Knut Hamsun (1894)

Underground Haruki Murakami (1997)

Seize the Day Saul Bellow (1956)

H E A T 2 Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner (2022)

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time Joseph Frank (1979)

Ho Chi Minh’s Life and Cause Commission for Research on the Party History (2012)

Victoria Knut Hamsun (1898)

The Rats James Herbert (1974)

Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan Jonathan Clements (2024)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami (1985)

The Jungle Upton Sinclair (1906)

The Old Devils Kingsley Amis (1986)

The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick (1962)

Rudin Ivan Turgenev (1856)

Runaway Horses Yukio Mishima (1969)

The Dream of Enlightenment Anthony Gottlieb (2016)

Shantaram Gregory David Roberts (2003)

Invitation to a Beheading Vladimir Nabokov (1935)

Inspector Imanishi Investigates Seichō Matsumoto (1989)

The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

Lair James Herbert (1979)

Paradise Lost books I-XII John Milton (1667)

Domain James Herbert (1984)

Herzog Saul Bellow (1964)

Fear and Trembling Søren Kierkegaard (1843)

Cold People Tom Rob Smith (2023)

Germinal Émile Zola (1885)

We Do Not Part Han Kang (2021)

Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh (1945)

Cows Matthew Stokoe (1998)

The Raven & Other Selected Poems Edgar Allan Poe (Collection published 2016)

Selected Poetry translated by Antony Wood Alexander Pushkin (Collection published 2020)

Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville (1853)

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What was read 2024

What follows is works read in the last year, in order. Some collections of poetry in here and a couple of plays. Faust is broken in two as I read the supplementary works with it & needed a breather. Just one was abandoned (Arabian Nights). One huge disappointment in Neil Gaiman's collection. Some were loaned from libraries, some were bought new, some were recommended from people I admire, some were gifts, some travelled a great distance to sit on my shelves. Most enriched, some inspired and from all something has been learned.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami (1994)

Tender is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica (2017)

The Mamba Mentality Kobe Bryant (2018)

The Devil’s Cup Stewart Lee Allen (2000)

Of The Farm John Updike (1965)

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole (1980)

Death on Credit Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1936)

Wilt Tom Sharpe (1976)

Odyssey - Homer (Samuel Butler translation 1879)

Hard Times Charles Dickens (1854)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor (1953)

Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders (2017)

Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel (2009)

Underworld Don DeLillo (1997)

The Turn of the Screw Henry James (1898)

The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie (1988)

Trigger Warning Neil Gaiman (2015)

Child of God Cormac McCarthy (1973)

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson (1985)

The Centaur John Updike (1963)

Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe (1974)

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes (1605 & 1615) (Thomas Lathrop translation 2005)

Summer Lightning P.G. Wodehouse (1929)

Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1957)

Purgatorio Dante Alighieri (~1321)

Plexus Henry Miller (1953)

Paradiso Dante Alighieri (~1321)

The Pale King David Foster Wallace (2011)

Don’t Look Now. Not after Midnight. A Border-Line Case. The Way of the Cross. The Breakthrough. Daphne du Maurier collection (1971)

Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr. (1964)

The Bostonians Henry James (1886)

The Covenant James A.Michener (1980)

The Arabian Nights. Nights 1 through 10 & The story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves killed by a slave girl. Malcom C.Lyons & Ursula Lyons (2008)

Rebecca Daphne du Maurier (1938)

Faust Part I Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808/29) Albert G. Latham translation with supplementary text 1908

The Vegetarian Han Kang (2007)

The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco (2010)

The Stranger in the Woods Michael Finkel (2017)

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning Laurie Lee (1969)

The Exorcist William Peter Blatty (1971)

Faust Part II Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) Albert G. Latham translation with supplementary text 1908

The Road to Los Angeles John Fante (1985) published posthumously. (1936)

A Month in the Country J. L. Carr (1980)

The Winter’s Tale William Shakespeare (1609)

Candide Voltaire (1759)

Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa (2021)

The 120 Days of Sodom or The School of Libertinage The Marquis de Sade (1785) (published first in 1904)

UZUMAKI Spiral collection. Junji Ito (1998-99)

Vagabonding Rolf Potts (2002)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro et al Ernest Hemingway (1944)

Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974-1977 Charles Bukowski (1977)

Spring Snow Yukio Mishima (1969)

Mortality Christopher Hitchens (2012)

Disloyal A Memoir Michael Cohen (2020)

Orbital Samantha Harvey (2023)

Inside Story Martin Amis (2020)

Coleridge Poems & Prose selected by Peter Washington (1997) S.TC

The City and Its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami (2023)

V. Thomas Pynchon (1963)

Whiskey Words & a Shovel I R. H. Sin (2015)

Collected Poems 1938-83 Philip Larkin (1988/03)

Nexus Henry Miller (1959)

America at Middle Age Louis Galambos (1983)

Mysteries Knut Hamsun (1892)

Sylvia Plath Poems collection by C.A.Duffy (2012)

Experience Martin Amis (2000)

Sonny Boy Al Pacino (2024)

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What was read 2023

The Lottery & Other Stories - Shirley Jackson (1949~)

A Life Standing Up - Steve Martin (2007)

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (1985)

Licks of Love -John Updike (2000)

Lovesickness Collection - Junji Ito (2011)

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (1966)

The Anarchy The relentless rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple (2019)

The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan W.Watts (1951)

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869)

The Course of Love - Alain de Botton (2016)

Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson (1980)

Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)

A Faint Heart (1848)White Nights (1848) A Little Hero (1857)An Unpleasant Predicament (1862) The Crocodile (1865) Bobok (1873) A Gentle Spirit/The Meek One* (1876) T1877) Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1929)

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk (2005)

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (1980/3)

Diary - Chuck Palahniuk (2003)

Darkness Visible - William Styron (1990)

The Poorhouse Fair - John Updike (1958)

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)

The First Forty-Nine Stories - Ernest Hemingway (1939)

Mythos - Stephen Fry (2017)

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1931)

The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell (1936)

The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1861)

Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1854)

The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

Normal People - Sally Rooney (2018)

Joy in the Morning - P. G. Wodehouse (1947)

After Dark - Haruki Murakami (2004)

The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)

The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2009)

The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe (1979)

Family Happiness - Leo Tolstoy (1859)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (1866)

The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy (1889)

The Devil - Leo Tolstoy (1911)

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)

True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2000)

Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco (1988/9)

Inferno - Dante Alighieri (~1308-1321)

Iliad - Homer (Samuel Butler translation 1898)

Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (1925)

The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy (2022)

Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy (2022)

Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward (2018)

Rubber Balls and Liquor - Gilbert Gottfried (2011)

kiss me like a stranger* - Gene Wilder (2005)

The Adventures of Auguie March - Saul Bellow (1953)

Rickles’ Book A memoir - Don Rickles (2007)

The ‘Rosy Crucifixion’ Trilogy. Sexus - Henry Miller (1949)

The Heart of a Dog - Milhaud Bulgakov (1925)

Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)

Albert & the Whale - Philip Hoare (2021)

A Waiter in Paris - Edward Chisholm (2022)

The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron (1937)

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What was read 2022

Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier (1936)

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (1939)

On Writing. A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King (2000)

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (2001)

Hell’s Angels - Hunter S. Thompson (1966)

The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens (2002)

Hitch-22 A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens (2010)

The Meek One - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1876)

The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson (1998)

Hollywood - Charles Bukowski (1989)+

1Q84 Book Three - Haruki Murakami (2010)

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1927)

The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare (1963)

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci (Collection published1952)

God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens (2007)

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1981)

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima (1963)

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1868)

The Guide - R.K.Narayan (1958)

Taste - Stanley Tucci (2021)

Rage - Bob Woodward (2020)

Rabbit, Run - John Updike (1960)

Rabbit Redux - John Updike (1971)

Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike (1981)

Rabbit at Rest - John Updike (1990)

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)

The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow (2021)

The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

And Away - Bob Mortimer (2021)

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig (1974)

Beautiful Star - Yukio Mishima (1962)

Nothing to Envy. Real Lives in North Korea - Barbara Denice (2010)

Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)

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Reading

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What was Read

For years now I’ve wanted to take a long sabbatical in Italy, to have a small room with a terrace and simply to read working towards a novel of my own.

I’ve read in Cheshire instead; in the sun, the rain with coffee and cigarettes.

What follows is the works (in no particular order) that I’ve read in the last 12 months(26.09.19-13.09.20)

Dates given are the known years in which the works were completed in the respective language of the Author and not necessarily their first English Translation. Collected works dates are of the specific publication read.

+ denotes a repeat read.

In Search of Lost Time - Volume 1 The Way by Swann’s - Marcel Proust (1913)

In Search of Lost Time - Volume 2 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower -Marcel Proust (1919)

In Search of Lost Time - Volume 3 The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust (1920-1)

In Search of Lost Time - Volume 4 Sodom and Gomorrah - Marcel Proust (1921-2)

In Search of Lost Time - Volume 5 The Prisoner and The Fugitive - Marcel Proust (1923 &1925)

In Search of Lost Time - Volume 6  Finding Time Again - Marcel Proust (1927)

The Collector - John Fowles (1963)

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (2009-10)

Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami (2014)

Killing Commendator - Haruki Murakami (2017)

The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte (1993)

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992)

Why I Write - George Orwell (Collection Published 2004)

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh (1928)

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin (1974)

Another Country - James Baldwin (1962)

Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin (1956)

The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald (1995)

The Italian - Ann Radcliffe (1797)

Fear of Flying - Erica Jong (1974)

2666 - Roberto Bolano (2004)

Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky (1865-6) 

My Wicked, Wicked Ways - Errol Flynn (1959)

The Pleasures of the Damned - Charles Bukowski (Collection Published 2007)

South of No North - Charles Bukowski (1973) +

On Writing - Charles Bukowski ( Collection Published 2015)

Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway (1928)

The Temptation To Exist - E.M. Cioran (1965)

Kill Anything That Moves (The Real American War in Vietnam) - Nick Turse (2013)

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1953)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers (2015)

The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis (1973)

Metamorphosis & Other Stories - Franz Kafka (2008)

Creation - Adam Rutherford (2013)

Ask the Dust - John Fante (1939)

1933 Was a Bad Year - John Fante (1985)

The Brotherhood of the Grape - John Fante (1977)

Wait Until Spring, Bandini - John Fante (1938)

West of Rome - John Fante (1985)

Earth Abides -  George R. Stewart (1949)

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (1934)

Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963)

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (1991)

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs (1959)

American Gods - Neil Gaiman (2001)

Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)

Hunger - Knut Hamsun (1890)

Zero. The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife (2000)

A Short History of Europe - Simon Jenkins (2018)

Ghostman - Roger Hobbs (2013)

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 & 3/4 - Sue Townsend (1982) +

The Small Hand - Susan Hill (2010)

A Gentleman In Moscow - Amor Towles (2016)

The Other World, It Whispers - Stephanie Victoire (2016)

Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking (2018)

Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life  - Michael Caine (2018)

Heavy Water - Martin Amis (1998)

The Book of Dust. Vol 1. La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman (2017)

The Burning Chambers - Kate Mosse (2018)

Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger (1955&57)

The Fall - Albert Camus (1956)

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (1922)

The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2006)

Lord Byron Poems selected by Paul Muldoon - Lord Byron (Collection Published 2007)

Content Provider Selected Short Prose Pieces 2011-2016 - Stewart Lee (2016)

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952)

Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (1919)

Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk (1999)

Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk (2002)

Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1864)

The Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1846)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (1968)

I’ve got a wonderful job and I’ve been reading Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (1996) for the past two months. 

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A Record of 12 months media

Once more I’ve left London behind. This time I don’t know when I’ll be returning, though that is my intention.

In the years that have been since I paid much mind to this blog I’ve lived three lives over. I’m in the process of making sense of them. 

What follows is a record of media consumption post London so I can look back at this time and understand how it was spent. Literature to follow. 

All episodes unless specified. Film is what I am able to recall. 

+ Indicates a film I’ve watched previously.

Television

- American Gods - Season 1 2017-... (Bryan Fuller, Michael Green, Neil Gaiman)  S2.E2 Abandoned here.

- True Detective - Season 1 2014-19 (Nic Pizzolatto)  Season 2 & 3 in time.

- Killing Eve - 2018-... (Phoebe Waller-Bridge)

- Fleabag - 2016-19 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge)

- Generation Kill - 2008 (David Simon, Ed Burns, Evan Wright)

- The Wire - 2002-08 (David Simon)

- Fargo - 2014-... (Noah Hawley)

- Bodyguard - 2018 (Jed Mercurio)

- Westworld - Season 1 2016-... (Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy) S2.E2 Abandoned here.

- Chernobyl - 2019 (Graig Mazin)

- Twin Peaks - 1990-91 (Mark Frost, David Lynch)

- Twin Peaks: The Return - 2017 (David Lynch)

- The Trip - Series 4 - 2020 (Michael Winterbottom)

- Better call Saul - 2015-... (Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould)

- Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge - Series 2 - 2016 (Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons, Armando Iannucci)

- Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 10 - 2020 (Larry David)

- Afterlife - 2019-... (Ricky Gervais)

- Happy Valley - 2014-16 (Sally Wainwright)

- Life on Mars - 2006-07 (Matthew Graham, Tony Jordan, Ashley Pharoah)

- Wallander - 2008-16 (Henning Mankell, Phillip Martin et al)

- The Last Dance - 2020 (Jason Hehir)

- Louis Theroux -  various 

- Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - Series 2 - 2019 (David Brindley, Nicky Waltham)

- The Devil Next Door - 2019 (Yossi Bloch, Daniel Sivan)

- Mindhunter - 2017-... (Joe Penhall, David Fincher et al)

- Baghdad Central - 2020-...(Elliott Colla, Stephen Burchard, Alice Troughton)

- Long Way Round - 2004-05 (Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian, Russ Malkin)

- Long Way Down - 2007 (Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian, Russ Malkin)

- Horizon - 2020: What’s the Matter with Tony Slattery? - 2020 (Clare Richards)

- Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me - 2019 (Peter Gauvain)

- Eastbound & Down - 2009-13 (Ben Best, Jody Hill, Danny McBride)

- Shameless - Series 1 + - 2004 (Paul Abbott)

- Bottom - 1991-95 (Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall)

- Escape at Dannermora -2017 (Brett Johnson, Michael L.Tolkin)

Film

It (2017) dir. Andrés Muschietti

Greenbook (2018) dir. Peter Farrelly

A Time to Kill (1996) dir. Joel Schumacher

Black Narcissus (1947) dir. Michael Powell, Emetic Pressburger

The Ninth Gate (1999)+ dir. Roman Polanski

Panic Room (2002) dir. David Fincher

Mud (2012) dir. Jeff Nichols

Manchester By The Sea (2016) dir. Kenneth Lonergan

Hacksaw Ridge (2016) dir. Mel Gibson

Logan Lucky (2017) dir. Steven Soderbergh

Vice (2018) dir. Adam McKay

Spotlight (2015) dir. Tom McCarthy

Silence (2016) dir. Martin Scorsese

Case 39 (2009) dir. Christian Alvart

Gone Girl (2014)+ dir. David Fincher

Split Second (1992) dir. Tony Maylam, Ian Sharp

The Thing (1982) dir. John Carpenter

Imperium (2016) dir. Daniel Ragussis

Jungle (2017) dir. Greg McLean

Dunkirk (2017) dir. Christopher Nolan

Outbreak (1995) dir. Wolfgang Petersen (Naturally)

Contagion (2011)+ dir. Steven Soderbergh (Of course)

Girl Interrupted (1999) dir. James Mangold

Okja (2017) dir. Bong John-ho

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu

The Invitation (2015) dir. Karyn Kusama

The Theory of Everything (2014) dir. James Marsh

Mother! (2017) dir. Darren Aronofsky

The Post (2017) dir. Steven Spielberg

Darkest Hour (2017) dir. Joe Wright

The King (2019) dir. David Michôd

The Irishman (2019) dir. Martin Scorsese

Sinister (2012) dir. Scott Derrickson

Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster

Deliver Us from Evil (2014) dir. Scott Derrickson

Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch

The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) dir. Brad Furman

Kiss the Girls (1997) dir. Gary Fleder

Good Time (2017) dir. Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

The Others (2001) + dir. Alejandro Amenábar

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Ex Machina (2014) dir. Alex Garland

The Driver (1978) dir. Walter Hill

Escape from New York (1981) dir. John Carpenter

12 Years a Slave (2013) dir. Steve McQueen

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

Midsommar (2019) dir. Ari Aster

Fire Walk with Me (1992) dir. David Lynch

Chinatown (1974) dir. Roman Polanski

The French Connection (1971) + dir. William Friedkin

Deepwater Horizon (2016) dir. Peter Berg

The Elephant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch

The Piano Teacher (2001) dir. Michael Haneke

Marriage Story (2019) dir. Noah Baumbach

La La Land (2016) dir. Damien Chazelle

The Two Popes (2019) dir. Fernando Meirelles

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Rear Window (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Sunset Boulevard (1950) + dir. Billy Wilder

Murder on The Orient Express (1974) dir. Sidney Lumet

Mississippi Burning (1988) dir. Alan Parker

Fracture (2007) dir. Gregory Hoblit

Red Dragon (2002) dir. Brett Ratner

Hannibal (2001) + dir. Ridley Scott

The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin

Ichi the Killer (2001) dir. Takashi Miike

Antichrist (2009) dir. Lars von Trier

The Omen (1976) dir. Richard Donner

Hellraiser (1987) dir. Clive Barker

A Scanner Darkly (2006) + dir. Richard Linklater

Waking Life (2001) + dir. Richard Linklater

Coach Carter (2005) dir. Thomas Carter

Get Out (2017) dir. Jordan Peele

The Conversation (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Arctic (2018) dir. Joe Penna

Defiance (2008) dir. Edward Zwick

At Eternity’s Gate (2018) dir. Julian Schnabel

Philomena (2013) dir. Stephen Frears

El Camino (2019) dir. Vince Gilligan

True Grit (2010) dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

The Stranger (1946) dir. Orson Welles

Boyz in the Hood (1991) dir. John Singleton

Unbroken (2014) dir. Angelina Jolie

The Guilty(Den skyldige) 2018 dir. Gustav Möller

Straight Outta Compton (2015) + dir. F. Gary Gray

To Catch a Thief (1955) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Us (2019) dir. Jordan Peele

All is Lost (2013) dir. J.C. Chandor

Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Climax (2018) dir. Gaspar Noé

Joker (2019) dir. Todd Phillps

Ma (2019) dir. Tate Taylor

The Constant Gardner (2005)+ dir. Fernando Meirelles

The Bourne Identity (2002)+ dir. Doug Liman

Unforgiven (1992) dir. Clint Eastwood

Nice Guys (2016) dir. Shane Black

Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Psycho II (1983) dir. Richard Franklin

Hostiles (2017) dir. Scott Cooper

Lone Survivor (2013) dir. Peter Berg

Blade Runner (1982)+ dir. Ridley Scott

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) + dir. Denis Villeneuve

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) dir. Joe Berlinger

Hotel Mumbai (2018) dir. Anthony Maras

The Bone Collector (1999) dir. Phillip Noyce 

The Ring (2002) dir. Gore Verbinski

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick

The Ipcress File (1965) dir. Sidney J. Furie

A Fish Called Wanda (1988) dir. Charles Crichton

The Death of Stalin (2017) dir. Armando Iannucci

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) dir. Peter Weir

The Witch (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

Kill the Messenger (2014) dir. Michael Cuesta

The Hunted (2003) dir. William Friedkin

American Made (2017) dir. Doug Liman

The Lives of Others(Das Leben der Anderen) 2006+ dir. Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck

The Ladykillers (1955) dir. Alexander Mackendrick

Death on the Nile (1978) dir. John Guillermin

Alfie (1966) dir. Lewis Gilbert

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) dir. Quentin Tarantino

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (2016) dir. Clint Eastwood

Midnight Run (1988) dir. Martin Brest

The Sting (1973) dir. George Roy Hill

Marathon Man (1976) dir. John Schlesinger

The Killing Fields (1984) dir. Roland Joffé

The Sisters Brothers (2018) dir. Jacques Audiard

Kramer Vs Kramer (1979) dir. Robert Benton

Uncut Gems (2019) dir. Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

BlacKkKlansman (2018) dir. Spike Lee

Supersonic (2016) dir. Mat Whitecross

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) dir. Ruggeri Deodato

American Sniper (2014) + dir. Clint Eastwood

The Way Back (2010) dir. Peter Weir

Les Miserables (2012) dir. Tom Hooper

Great Expectations (2012) dir. Mike Newell

King Lear (2018) dir. Richard Eyre

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) dir. Doug Liman

The Professor and the Madman (2019) dir. Farad Safinia

Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

J. Edgar (2011) dir. Clint Eastwood 

Venom (2018) dir. Ruben Fleischer

Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean

About Schmidt (2002) dir. Alexander Payne

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) dir. David O. Russell

In the Valley of Elah (2007) dir. Paul Haggis

In the Name of the Father (1993) dir. Jim Sheridan

Analyse This (1999) dir. Harold Remis

Fallen (1998) dir. Gregory Hoblit

Wild at Heart (1990) dir. David Lynch

Eurotrip (2004) dir. Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel

Leave No Trace (2018) dir. Debra Granik

The Wave(Bølgen) 2015 dir. Roar Uthaug

Friday (1995) dir. F. Gary Gray

Guest House Paradiso (1999) dir. Ade Edmondson

Changeling (2008) dir. Clint Eastwood

Nymphomaniac Vol i (2013) dir. Lars von Trier

Nymphomaniac Vol ii dir cut (2013) dir. Lars von Trier

Menace II Society (1993) dir. Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes

Revolutionary Road (2008) dir. Sam Mendes

You’ve Got Mail (1998) dir. Nora Ephron

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) dir. Mike Newell

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) dir. Martin Ritt

Mallrats (1995) dir. Kevin Smith

I Walked With a Zombie (1943) dir. Jacques Tourneur

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) dir. Nicolas Gessner

The Tenant (1976) dir. Roman Polanski

The House That Jack Built (2018) dir. Lars von Trier

King Kong (1933) dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

The Hunt(Jagten) 2012 dir. Thomas Vinterberg

Zulu (1963) dir. Cy Endfield

Night of the Living Dead (1968) dir. George A. Romero

Walk the Line (2005) dir. James Mangold

The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick

The Birds (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Captain Fantastic (2016) dir. Matt Ross

Under the Shadow (2016) dir. Babak Anvari

Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks

Crawl (2019) dir. Alexandre Aja

Righteous Kill (2008) dir. Jon Avnet ... jesus, what a shitshow.

Toy Story 4 (2019) dir. Josh Cooley

Hard Eight (1996) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Dogman (2018) dir. Matteo Garrone

Freaks (2018) dir. Adam Stein, Zach Lipovsky

When Harry Met Sally (1989)+ dir. Rob Reiner

Cloud Atlas (2012) dir. Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski, Tom Tykwer

Leviathan(Leviafan) 2014 dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev

Wildlife (2018) dir. Paul Dano

Wolf Creek (2005) dir. Greg McLean

Wolf Creek 2 (2013) dir. Greg McLean

Dazed and Confused (1993) dir. Richard Linklater

The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015) dir. Guy Ritchie

Secretary (2002) dir. Steven Shainberg

The Green Mile (1999) dir. Frank Darabont

The Skeleton Key (2005) dir. Iain Softley

The Devils (1971) dir. Ken Russell

Secret Window (2004) dir. David Koepp

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) dir. Charles Crichton

It Chapter Two (2019) dir. Andrés Muschietti

Ad Astra (2019) dir. James Gray

North By Northwest (1959) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Event Horizon (1997) dir. Paul W.S. Anderson

The Public Enemy (1931) dir. William A. Wellman

The Roaring Twenties (1939) dir. Raoul Walsh

The Fighting 69th (1940) dir. William Keighley

The 12th Man (Den 12. mann) 2017 dir. Harald Zwart

White Heat (1949) dir. Raoul Walsh

Papillon (1973) dir. Franklin J. Schaffner

Cool Hand Luke (1967) dir. Stuart Rosenburg

East of Eden (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

Contact (1997) dir. Robert Zemeckis

Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks

Enemy (2013) dir. Denis Villeneuve

Poltergeist (1982) dir. Tobe Hooper

Baby Driver (2017) dir. Edgar Wright

Knives Out (2019) dir. Ryan Johnson

The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder

Stigmata (1999) dir. Rupert Wainwright

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dir. Arthur Penn

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975) dir. Gene Wilder

Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier

Stir Crazy (1980) dir. Sidney Poitier

The Nightingale (2018) dir. Jennifer Kent

Constantine (2005)+ dir. Francis Lawrence

The Farthest (2017) dir. Emer Reynolds

Big Night (1996) dir. Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott

Honey Boy (2019) dir. Alma Har’el

Sour Grapes (2016) dir. Reuben Atlas, Jerry Rottweil

Lost Highway (1997)+ dir. David Lynch

Sunshine (2007)+ dir. Danny Boyle

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) dir. Richard Brooks

In the Heart of the Sea (2015) dir. Ron Howard

Le Mans (1971) dir. Lee H. Katrin

Molly’s Game (2017) dir. Aaron Sorkin

Dick Tracy (1990) dir. Warren Beatty

Boyhood (2014) dir. Richard Linklater

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Bukowski

The man with the beautiful eyes

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K&D

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Future Islands - The Chase

In folding sands, our castle no more

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We can't ever go back to old things or try and get the old kick out of something or find things the way we remembered them. We have them as we remember them and they're fine and wonderful and we have to go on and have other things. Because the old things are nowhere except in our minds now.

 Enerst Hemingway in a letter to William Horne at aged 24 from Paris.

Source - Michael Palin on the BBCR4 podcast  Great Lives.

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gpoy

Day of the Libertines gig in hyde park

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Visit Original Link

Future Islands | A Dream Of You And Me

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2014 Summer soundtrack for me

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My first pub in London at the top, now I work in the one on the bottom. I like tall pubs. Michael Fassbender drinks in my new pub I'm told and Jarvis Cocker lives three doors down.

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Diana, my youngest sister, my other sister and her fiance Edd looking through an old photo album at their engagement party. It made me so happy to see them all laughing and smiling together.

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Molly watching Diana exploring.