Books & Films / June 2004
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004 19:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeThis month's must read book is "Barney's Version".
This month's must see movie is "The Saddest Music in the World".
Books Read
Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler
Unless - Carol Shields
A Dog Called Demolition - Robert Rankin
Flatland - Edwin Abbott
Red Dog - Louis de Bernieres
Are YOU Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
The Unlimited Dream Company - J.G. Ballard
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Walking on Glass - Iain Banks
Jingo - Terry Pratchett
Here is my June reviews post to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
50bookchallenge.
Cinema Trips
The Saddest Music in the World
Confidences Trop Intimes
Film reviews
"The Saddest Music in the World"
What a wondrously strange movie! Nearly all shot in a very grainy black-and-white, set in the 1930s and with production design like a German expressionist movie. A baroness who owns a beer factory in Winnipeg decides to run a competition to discover which country has the saddest music, and musicians from all over the world gather to compete for the prize. Best things: Maria de Medeiros perfectly in-period look, Isabella Rosselini's legs (!), the commentators' arch discussion of the competitors, the canoeing scene, the production design and how funny it was once I got over being gobsmacked by the weirdness.
"Confidences Trop Intimes"
A French film starring Sandrine Bonnaire as a young woman who makes an appointment to see a psychoanalyst to discuss her marital problems, but knocks on the wrong door and ends up talking to a tax accountant instead. I am going to gloss over how unlikely it is that people running businesses from a block of flats would not have a notice on the door showing their business name, and say that this was enjoyable in an understated kind of way.
This month's must see movie is "The Saddest Music in the World".
Books Read
Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler
Unless - Carol Shields
A Dog Called Demolition - Robert Rankin
Flatland - Edwin Abbott
Red Dog - Louis de Bernieres
Are YOU Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
The Unlimited Dream Company - J.G. Ballard
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Walking on Glass - Iain Banks
Jingo - Terry Pratchett
Here is my June reviews post to
50bookchallenge.Cinema Trips
The Saddest Music in the World
Confidences Trop Intimes
Film reviews
"The Saddest Music in the World"
What a wondrously strange movie! Nearly all shot in a very grainy black-and-white, set in the 1930s and with production design like a German expressionist movie. A baroness who owns a beer factory in Winnipeg decides to run a competition to discover which country has the saddest music, and musicians from all over the world gather to compete for the prize. Best things: Maria de Medeiros perfectly in-period look, Isabella Rosselini's legs (!), the commentators' arch discussion of the competitors, the canoeing scene, the production design and how funny it was once I got over being gobsmacked by the weirdness.
"Confidences Trop Intimes"
A French film starring Sandrine Bonnaire as a young woman who makes an appointment to see a psychoanalyst to discuss her marital problems, but knocks on the wrong door and ends up talking to a tax accountant instead. I am going to gloss over how unlikely it is that people running businesses from a block of flats would not have a notice on the door showing their business name, and say that this was enjoyable in an understated kind of way.
