Book and Movie Lists (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:35:45 -0500 (EST)
From: noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelle>

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:25:46 -0800
From: Ma & Pa Films <http://www.mindspring.com/~mapafilm>
To: noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelle>
Subject: Book and Movie Lists

Hi Noelle,

Great to see you last night and very nice to meet Robert.  I think your
mother would like him just fine.  Anyway, here's my book and movie lists.
They are an attachment in "word."  Let me know if you can't open it and I'll
send them some other way.  Snail mail, perhaps?  Take care.

Mary

Mary's 1997 Book and Movie List
Books:
Movies:
Lie Down in Darkness - William Styron  ***1/2
Lost Highway - Lynch *
She's So Lovely - Cassavetes **
Picturing Will - Ann Beattie **
Antonia's Line *
Smilla's Sense of Snow **
Women in the Material World - D'Aluisio & Menzel **
Before & After **
A New Leaf - May *
The Sun at Midday - Gini Ahadeff **
Belle de Jour - Bunuel ***
Keys to Tulsa - Greif *
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton ***1/2
Shallow Grave **
Some Mother's Son - George ***
Poison - Kathryn Harrison **
Money Tree
La Ceremonie **1/2
H - Elizabeth Shepard ***
The Garden of the Finzi-Contini's ***  Woman In The Dunes ****
We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates **1/2
Donnie Brasco **1/2
Liar, Liar
Salt Dancers - Ursula Hegi **
Breaking the Waves ***1/2
Angel Dust **
If You Want To Write - Brenda Euland **
Sling Blade - Thornton ***
Troublesome Creek **
The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag **
Cold Comfort Farm **1/2
Carried Away **
Restoration - Tremain **
Mulholland Falls *
The Celluloid Closet **
Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer ***1/2
The English Patient - Minghella ****  Wonderland *
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson ***1/2
Girls Town *
Trees Lounge - Buscemi *
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Berendt ***
Chung King Express ***
Michael Collins - Jordan **
Another You - Ann Beattie **
Portrait of a Lady - Campion ***
Day Trippers - Mottola ****
Unearned Pleasures - Ursula Hegi **
Neon Bible *
  Waiting for Guffman - Guest ***
The Unconsoled - Ishiguro **
Jude ***1/2
Marvin's Room ***
Dreaming - Carolyn See *
Freeway **
Restoration **
Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson ****
The Cement Garden **1/2
Get on the Bus - Lee **
Four Letters of Love - Niall Williams *
Crash - Cronenberg ***
Emma *
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer ***1/2
Big Night - Tucci & Scott *
Blood & Wine **1/2
Your Money or Your Life - Dominguez & Robin ***
Desolation Angels - McCann
  Map of the Human Heart - Ward **
Devil's Chimney - Ann Landsman *
Talk Radio - Stone **
  Bastard out of Carolina - Huston **
The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger ***
Party Girl **
Paradise Lost ***
The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker **1/2
Contact - Zemeckis *
Cold Fever *
Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster **1/2
The Substance of Fire **1/2
Autumn Sonata - Bergman ****
Songs in Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris *
Two Friends - Campion **1/2
Unhook the Stars *
Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy **1/2
Two Days in the Valley **1/2
Looking for Richard
The Last Gift of Time, Life Beyond Sixty - Carolyn Heilbrun ***
When the Cat's Away... ***
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control ****
The Ice Storm - Rick Moody **1/2
Citizen Ruth **
Hollywood Madam/Heidi Fleiss **
Swingers
Aileen Vournos, The Selling of a 
Ridicule *
Serial Killer - Broomfield ***
Frankie Starlight **
Palookaville **
Angel Baby **
Boogie Nights ***
Movies Cont.
Head Above Water *
Austin Powers *
Hard Eight **
The Ice Storm - Ang Lee ****
The Fifth Element
The Wings of the Dove ***1/2
Last Summer in the Hamptons - Jaglom ***
Venice/Venice - Jaglom **
All Over Me **

Mary's 1998 Book and Movie List 
Books:
My Brother - Jamaica Kinkaid  ***
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt  ****
Life Among the Savages - Shirley Jackson  **
Hand to Mouth - Paul Auster  *
Drinking, A Love Story - Caroline Knapp  ****
Endurance - Alfred Lansing  ****
The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald  *
Skating to Antarctica - Jenny Diski  ***1/2
The Sweet Hereafter - Russel Banks  ***
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood ***1/2
Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brand  ***
The Saskiad - Brian Hall  **
The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacqueline Mitchard **
Almost Perfect - Alice Adams  *
Talking to the Dead - Helen Dunmore ***1/2
Purple America - Rick Moody  ****
A Regular Guy - Mona Simpson *
Morality Play - Barry Unsworth ***
Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen **
Slowness - Milan Kundera ***
Terra Incognita - Sara Wheeler ***
The Green Knight - Iris Murdoch ****
Under The Net - Iris Murdoch ***
Jackson's Dilemma - Iris Murdoch ***
Family Happiness - Laurie Colwin **
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels *
Migrations to Solitude - Sue Halpern **
The Witch of Exmoor - Margaret Drabble ***
The New York Diaries - Daniel Drennan **
Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells **
Asylum - Patrick McGrath **
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells *
Movies:
Men In Black
Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen  **
Heavy - James Mangold  *
Copland - James Mangold  ***
Titanic - James Cameron  **
The Executioner's Song - Lawrence Schiller  ***
Career Girls - Mike Leigh  ***
Love Serenade - Shirley Barrett  ***
Box of Moonlight - Tom DiCillo  **
Good Will Hunting - Gus Van Sant  **1/2
The Myth of Fingerprints - Bart Freundlich  *
In The Company of Men - Neil Labute  ***
Eve's Bayou - Kasi Lemmons 
Everybody Says I Love You - Woody Allen *
The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan  ***1/2
Movies Cont.
A Thousand Acres - Jocelyn Morehouse  ***
Female Perversions - Susan Streitfield  ***
Little Dieter Needs to Fly - Werner Herzog  **
The Full Monty  *
U Turn - Oliver Stone  ***
Gummo - Harmony Korine (defies categorization)
The Spanish Prisoner - David Mamet  ****
Amateur - Hal Hartley  ***
Hollow Reed - Angela Pope  ****
Addicted to Love - Griffin Dunne
Bliss - Lance Young  ***
Mrs. - John Madden  ***
In & Out - Frank Oz *
Wag the Dog - Barry Levinson  **
The Horse Whisperer - Robert Redford  **
The Butcher Boy - Neil Jordan  **
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Terry Gilliam  * (pointless)
As Good As It Gets - James Brooks  **
Deja Vu - Henry Jaglom
The Apostle - Robert Duvall
Losing Chase - Kevin Bacon  *
Baby It's You - Anne Makepeace  *
Oscar & Lucinda - Gillian Armstrong  ***
Nico Icon - Susanne Ofteringer  ***
The Band - David Zeiger  **
Ponette - Jacques Doillon  ***
Shades of Fear - Beeban Kidron *
Gattaca - Andrew Niccol  **
High Art - Lisa Cholodenko  ****
The Edge - Lee Tamahori  **
Buffalo 66 - Vincent Gallo  ***
Zero Effect - Jake Kazdan  *
Homegrown - Stephen Gyllenhall *
Chasing Amy - Kevin Smith *
Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg ***
There's Something About Mary - The Farrelly Bros. *
No Looking Back - Edward Burns 
The House of Yes - Mark Waters **
The Naked Prey - Cornel Wilde *
Nil by Mouth - Gary Oldman **
Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen ****
Slums of Beverly Hills - Tamara Jenkins *
Return to Paradise - Joseph Ruben **
Great Expectations - Alfonso Cuaron 
One Night Stand - Mike Figgis
Fallen - Gregory Hoblit ***
Confidential Report - Orson Welles *
Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick **
The Winter Guest - Alan Rickman *
Henry Fool - Hal Hartley ****
Niagara, Niagara - Bob Gosse *
The Real Blonde - Tom DiCillo ***
Movies Cont.
The Saltmen of Tibet - Ulrick Koch **
Ronin - John Frankenheimer ***
Twilight - Robert Benton ***
Lolita - Adrian Lyne ***
Chinese Box - ***
Antz - Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson **
Happiness - Todd Solondz *
Clockwatchers - **
Wild Things - John McNaughton *
Kundun - Martin Scorcese **
Lolita - Stanley Kubrick ****
Primary Colors - Mike Nichols ***
Elizabeth - Shakhar Kapur ***
The End of Violence - Wim Wenders **
The Big Lebowski - Coen Bros. *
Wild Man Blues - Barbara Kopple *
Pickpocket - Robert Bresson **
Celebrity - Woody Allen ***
A Bug's Life **
Artemisia - Agnes Lepert *
Hurly Burly - Anthony Drazan ***
4 Little Girls - Spike Lee ***
Pretty as a Picture (Doc about David Lynch) *
**** Excellent
***Very Good
**Good
*Fair
Wayne Wang

MARY'S  BOOK & MOVIE LIST - 1999
**** Excellent
*** Very Good
** Good
* Fair
Top Ten Movies:
Afterlife  ****
The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick  ****
The Celebration - Thomas Vinterberg  ****
Lilies - John Meyers ****
The Winslow Boy - David Mamet ****
An American Love Story - Jennifer Fox ****
My Sex Life...- Arnand Desplechin  ****
Run Lola Run - Tom Tykwer  ****
The Dreamlife of Angels  ****
Boys Don't Cry - Kimberly Pierce  ****
The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdonavich  ****
Chinatown - Roman Polanski ****
Shakespeare In Love - John Madden  ***
Passion In The Desert - Lavinia Currier  **
Playing By Heart - Willard Carroll  *
The Last Days of Disco - Whit Stillman  *
Dangerous Beauty - Marshall Herskovitz  **
The Governess - Sandra Goldbacher  ***
200 Cigarettes - Rosa Bramon Garcia
The Truman Show - Peter Wier **
The Opposite of Sex - Don Roos  *
Washington Square - Agnieszka Holland  **
Out of Sight - Steven Soderbergh  **
Cruel Intentions - Roger Kumble  *
Next Stop Wonderland - Brad Anderson  **
Lady Bird, Lady Bird - Ken Loach  ***
You've Got Mail - Nora Ephron
Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick  **
The Blair Witch Project - Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez  **
The Haunting - Jan de Bont
The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan  **
A Simple Plan - Sam Raimi  **
American Beauty - Sam Mendes  ***
Felicia's Journey - Atom Egoyan  ***
Mifune - Dogme 95  **
Hideous Kinky - McKinnon  *
Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me - Jay Loach  *
Bulworth - Warren Beatty  
Rushmore - Wes Anderson  ***
Your Friends & Neighbors - Neil LaBute  **
Pecker - John Waters  *
Pleasantville - Gary Ross  *
Existenz - David Cronenberg  **
Permanent Midnight - David Veloz  *
Smoke Signals - Chris Eyre
Velvet Goldmine - Todd Haynes  *
Clay Pigeons - David Dobkin  *
American Movie - Chris Smith & Sarah Price  ***
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries - James Ivory  **
Absence of Malice - Sydney Pollack  **
Kingpin - Farrelly Bros.
Notting Hill - Roger Michell  **
In Dreams - Neil Jordan  *
Wilde  ***
Living Out Loud - Richard LaGravanese  *
Gods and Monsters  **
Another Day in Paradise - Larry Clark  **
Crooklyn - Spike Lee
Consenting Adults - Alan Pakula
A Bronx Tale - Robert DeNiro  ***
Election - Alexander Payne  ***
Matrix  **
Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton *
Love and Death on Long Island  ***
Besieged - Bernardo Bertolucci  **
Ride With The Devil - Ang Lee **
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella  ***
Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonz ***
Top Seven Books:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman  ****
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan  ****
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell  ****
So Long See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell  ****
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe  ****
The Reader by Bernard Schlink  ****
Underworld by Don Delillo  ****
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden  ***
Elementals by A.S. Byatt  ***
Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw  **
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve  **
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb **
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott *
Hood by Emma Donoghue  **
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone  **
Your Blue Eyed Boy by Helen Dunmore **
Players by Don Delillo  **
A Bigamist's Daughter by Alice McDermott *
The Archivist by Martha Cooley  **
Nod by Fannie Howe  *
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher  ***
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor  ***
A Widow for One Year by John Irving  *
Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin  ***
Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace  ***
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton  ***
The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga  *
Iris and The Friends by John Bayley  **
2000
(No star means it's not worth seeing)
The Decalogue Series (10 films, one hour each) - Kristof KiezlowskiBeau Travail - Claire DenisWelfare - Frederick Wiseman42 Up - Michael AptedThe Insider - Michael Mann
Dancer in the Dark - Lars Von TrierCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang LeeSound and Fury - Josh AronsonThe Limey - Steven SoderberghHoly Smoke - Jane CampionThe End of the Affair - Neil Jordan **
Three Seasons - Tony Bui *
Central Station - Walter Silles ***
The Cider House Rules - Lasse Halstrom **
Magnolia - P.T. Anderson **
Autumn Tale - Eric Roemer **
Bail Jumper - Christian Faber
La Sentinelle - Arnand Desplechin ***
Galaxy Quest - Dean Parisot ***
Regret To Inform - Barbara Sonneborn *
My Son the Fanatic - Udayan Frasad ***
Buena Vista Social Club - Wim Wenders ***
Go - Doug Liman *
Pushing Tin - Mike Newell
Inventing the Abbots - Pat O'Connor *
Olleanna - David Mamet ***
Wonder Boys - Curtis Hansen *
Best Laid Plans - Mike Barker *
Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh **
Guinivere - Audrey Wells **
Shampoo - Hal Ashby **
Bowfinger - Frank Oz
Last Night - Don McKellar **
Black & White - James Toback ***
Tumbleweeds -    *
Sketch Artist - Phedon Papamichael
Three Kings - David O. Russel **
The Ref -   *
Virgin Suicides - Sofia Coppolla *
Gladiator - Ridley Scott *
Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton **
Time Code - Mike Figgis **
Anywhere But Here - Wayne Wang **
Hilary and Jackie - Arnand Tucker **
Entropy - Phil Janou *
Flawless - Joel Schumacher *
Rabbit in the Moon - Emiko Omori **
See the Sea - Francois Ozon **
Ma Vie en Rose - Alain Berliner *
Mr. Death - Errol Morris **
Snow Falling on Cedars - Scott Hicks *
Blue - Kristof Kiezlowski ***
Butterfly - Doug Wollens *
The Vanishing Line - Maren Monson **
Witness Protection -    **
The Perfect Storm - Wolfgang Peterson
All About My Mother - Pedro Almodovar **
Sweet & Lowdown - Woody Allen *
Rosetta -    ***
Boiler Room - Ben Younger ***
Getting To Know You - Lisanne Skyler ***
Dogma - Kevin Smith
Ghost Dog - Jim Jarmusch ***
Titus - Julie Taymor *
Fight Club - David Fincher *
Shine -Scott Hicks **
Sliding Doors - Peter Howitt *
The Map of the World - Scott Elliot **
Best in Show - Christoper Guest
The Contender - Rod Lurie **
The Idiots - Lars Von Trier ***
High Fidelity - Stephen Frears *
Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
Me Myself I - Pip Karmel **
Quills - Philip Kaufman **
The Secret of Joe Gould - Stanley Tucci
Behind the Lines -    ***
Winter Sleepers - Tom Tykwer ***
East/West -    **
One Day in September - Art Cohn ***
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
Shadow Baby by Alison McGee
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by
Philip Gourevitch
The Hours by Michael Cunningham ***
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price *
The Third Eye by David Knowles **
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang **
U & I by Nicholson Baker **
Screenwriting From the Soul by Richard Krevolin *
The House of Sand and Fog by Andres Dubus III **
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo **
Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki *
White Oleander by Janet Fitch ***
A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz 
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty *
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett *
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender **
Philistines at the Hedgerow by Steven Gaines *
Motherland *
Spending by Mary Gordon *
The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Minatoya *
Gideon by Russell Andrews **
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer **
The Color of Hope by Susan Madison *
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland ***
White Teeth by Zadie Smith ***
Monkeys by Susan Minot ***
Plainsong by Kent Har
You Can Count on Me - Ken Lonergan *
uf ***
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton ***

Mary's 2001 Book and Movie List
**** Excellent
*** Good
** Fair
* Not very good or fair
No stars means not worth reading or seeing
Books:
Top Five Books of 2001
The Tiny One by Eliza Minot ****
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee ****
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ****
The Mother Knot by Jane Lazarre ****
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan ****
The Rules of the World by Francesca Marconi
Operating Instructions by Annie Lamott
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Three of Us by Coles and Goodwin
Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
A Heartbreaking of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Inspired Sleep by Robert Cohen
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
I know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin
The Fundamentals of Play by Caitlin Macy
Independent People by Haldor Laxness
Bloodshed & 3 Novellas by Cynthia Ozick
Wet Earth and Dreams by Jane Lazarre
Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness by Jane Lazarre
Tulip Fever
Movies:
Top Ten Movies of 2001
Traffic Steven Soderbergh ****
Wonderland  Michael Winterbottom ****
An Affair of Love  Frederick Fonteyne ****
In The Mood For Love  Wong Kar Wai ****
Judy Berlin  Eric Mendelson ****
Startup.com ****
Genghis Blues  Adrien and Roko Belic ****
Moon Over Broadway  Pennebaker ****
Animal Factory  Steve Buscemi ****
Merce Cunningham ****
YiYi Edward Yang
The Ninth Gate  Roman Polanski
Music of the Heart  Wes Craven
Pop & Me  Christopher & Richard Roe
Sweet November  Pat O'Connor
The Terrorist
Alice & Martin
Chuck & Buck
Series 7  Daniel Minahan
The Tao of Steve
The Five Senses  Jeremie Podeswa
Meet The Parents  Jay Roach
Billy Elliot
Snatch  Guy Ritchie
Memento  Christopher Nolan
State & Main  David Mamet
Croupier  Mike Hodges
Julien Donkey Boy  Harmonie Korine
Brokedown Palace 
Office Space
Before Night Falls  Julian Schnabel
Scout's Honor  Tom Shepard
My American Girls/A Dominican Story
90 Degrees South  Ponting
With A Friend Like Harry 
Girlfight 
Karyn Kusama
Romance
Bellyfruit
Hurricane
Shrek
The Messenger

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