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Dante, Purgatorio
Jacques Ellul, Propagandes [on hold]
Recently read books
Jacques Ellul, L’illusion politique
Dante, Inferno
Albert Camus, L’étranger
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Harold Pinter, Plays, vol. I
Chiara Frugoni, Vita di un uomo: Francesco d’Assisi
Ernesto De Martino, La terra del rimorso
Alberto Alesina, Francesco Giavazzi, Il liberismo è di sinistra
Jacques Ellul, La Technique
Sarah Gridley, Weather Eye Open this book has been on my bedside table (or in my bag) since I received it in April, signed by Sarah herself – how could I forget to list it here?!
Samuel Beckett, The complete dramatic works
Malcolm Gladwell, The tipping point
Fёdor Dosto’evskij, The house of the dead
Zygmunt Bauman, In Search of Politics
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Homer, The Iliad
Confucius, Analects
Eugene Ionesco, Chairs
Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a poor theatre
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War also available here
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lettere luterane
Jacques Ellul, The subversion of christianity
Fёdor Dosto’evskij, The Gambler bought at a flee market in Latina, Italy, around Christmas 2008
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is illuminated
Georg Ostrogorsky, History of the Byzantine State
Vladimir Majakovskij, Selected Poems
August Strinderg, Five plays
Recently viewed films
Luca Guadagnino, Io sono l’amore
Masaki Kobayashi, The human condition [Ningen no jōken] instantly made it to my favourites list!
Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai
Paolo Sorrentino, L’amico di famiglia
Jacques Audiard, A prophet
Luigi Comencini, Tutti a casa
Luigi Comencini, Il commissario
Luciano Salce, Il prof. dott. Guido Tersilli primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue
Grant Heslov, The men who stare at goats
Neill Blomkamp, District 9
Greg Mottola, Adventureland
Ingmar Bergman, Scenes from a marriage one of my favourites
David Fincher, Fight Club
Akira Kurosawa, The idiot adaptation of Dostoevskij’s novel
Duncan Jones, Moon
Ken Loach, Looking for Eric
Luciano Salce, Fantozzi
Ken Loach, The wind that shakes the barley
Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mamma Roma
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone
Kari Skogland, 50 dead men walking
Armando Iannucci, In the loop
Tomas Alfredson, Let the right one in surprisingly good!
Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris disappointing
Francesco Rosi, Uomini contro
Laurent Cantet, The class
Luigi Zampa, Il vigile
Philip Groening, Into great silence
Jean-Luc Godard, Le mepris
Paolo Sorrentino, Il divo
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Sacha Gervasi, Anvil, the story of
Ingmar Bergman, The seventh seal …for the fourth time
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Franco Brusati, Bread and Chocolate
Carlo Verdone, Un sacco bello …for the 15th time perhaps, on an old videotape at my parents’ home
Michelangelo Antonioni, The Adventure
Eran Riklis, Lemon tree
Elio Petri, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Kenji Mizoguchi, The Empress Yang Kuei-Fei (Yokihi) I watched this one on a plane and managed to crack my laptop screen in the process
Kenji Mizoguchi, Streets of shame (Akasen chitai)
Michelangelo Antonioni, The Eclipse
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