bookeywookey: Film - Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Film - Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

A guy places an ad because he wants a companion for time travel. A magazine picks up on it and sends a team to write a story on him. Safety Not Guaranteed (dir Colin Trevorrow) is an indie, totally-play-it-straight, completely un-jaded little surprise of a movie. Dee-lightful, and it will keep you guessing.

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RAVES

Ali Smith's Artful is art criticism, oh yes, but it's also a dialogue between a woman and her dead lover, and it was originally delivered as a series of lectures, which really means it is a dramatic dialogue. It is a masterpiece of integrity, Smith may be well read, but her take on Oliver Twist or a Cezanne painting, a Charlie Chaplin film, or a Wallace Stevens poem, is never self-consciously erudite. She doesn't mean to dazzle us with her greater knowledge of these subjects, she wants her listener to get inside of how art brings us experience. I challenge you to get to the last page of Artful and not dive for a copy of Oliver Twist, or order a copy of Sylvia Plath's poems. Read my full rave here.

Bernard MacLaverty's Cal - 150 pages that are as densely packed with passion and tension as any I've read in Dostoyevsky or Hardy. The 19-year-old title character lives in Northern Ireland. A Roman Catholic, he is hounded and physically attacked by the Protestant Orangemen. His friends have joined the IRA in response to the violence with which they are threatened. Cal finds the violence too much for him. The struggles of nations would not be important if they didn't effect the lives of individual people. This book is about the converging of conflicts political and personal - the political and religious struggles of an oppressed people, a first great passionate love, and the dilemmas of a sensitive and thoughtful teenager as he makes the moral choices that are going to shape his whole life. I felt deeply the greatness of these struggles as I read. Read my full rave here.

This book has everything - love, suspense, moral conflict, social criticism, psychological acuity, and crack writing. It is pitch-perfect on the a fast-paced, ostentatious, brutal beauty of Rome. Lambert's writing is rich with observations both interior and exterior that imbue character and place with clarity and instantaneous complexity. This novel, though entertaining to read, is an unambiguous critique of the moral hypocrisy that infects the powerful and the nature of crime which combines an abuse of power with the dehumanization of innocent people. Read my full rave here.

Molly Fox is a celebrated actress - a woman who delves deep into what makes up a 'self.' It is her profession to create characters from that knowledge through the medium of her self. Yet, when it comes to letting others truly know her, she does not. 'Can we ever know another?', this novel asks. The Irish novelist Deirdre Madden fashions a deep and beautiful book on this potentially abstract musing that is redolent with the pain of the distance we have from all others - even those we love most - and simultaneously rich with the rewards of the communion we can make through long acquaintance. She is particularly good at using the processes of the actor and writer to reflect on the ways we can inhabit the inherent contradiction of knowing another, but the mechanisms are so integrated with the events of this narrative that it is difficult to reveal them without ruining your reading of this book. This book is a powerful work of art with an undisturbable sense of wholeness. Read my full rave here.

The struggle to keep the champagne bubbling when it's gone flat is the action filling Evelyn Waugh's 1930 satire Vile Bodies. Stephen Fry's brilliant film adaptation, Bright Young Things released in 2003 captures the feel of a breathless, manic party. Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Peter O'Toole, Simon Callow, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, James Mcavoy, Imelda Stuanton, and Fenella Woolgar are some of the beautifully cast actors who maintain an understated hysteria, if you can imagine understated hysteria. The love that director and cast have for these characters is what impresses me the most. It would be so easy to show us how vile these people are - how silly, how louche, how fey - but instead they love them to death. Raveworthy. Read my full rave here.

Tell Me Everything by Sarah Salway . I opened this book last night and didn't stop reading it until I had finished it. The nearest voice I can think to compare Sarah Salway's to is Lorrie Moore's, and coming from me that is a big compliment. In it Molly experiences a few breaches of trust as a young woman that leave her seriously wounded. She closes down and protects herself by eating. When we meet her she has become one of life's castaways, seriously overweight without a job, a home, or any sense of herself. She meets five people - Mr. Roberts who gives her a job, Mrs. Roberts, Tim - a man of mystery, Liz - a librarian who recommends French authors, and Miranda, a hairdresser. With these relationships she begins to reclaim herself. The story is full of perfectly wrought descriptions, complex observations of human pain and fantasy, and cogent storytelling. Read my full rave here.

Read in '25

1. All the Colors of the Dark - Whitaker
2. The Work of Art - Moss
3. The Art of Stillness - Iyer
4. Playground - Powers
5. Time's Echo - Eichler
6. Goethe: His Faustian Life - Wilson
7. The Spinning Heart - Ryan
8. Heart, Be At Peace - Ryan
9. A Piece of Work - Beale
10. Pure - Miller
11. The Granddaughter - Schlink
12. Transit - Seghers
13. Old Soul - Barker
14. The Proof of my Innocence - Coe
15. The Man Within My Head - Iyer
16. Lion - Walger
17. Tales from Hollywood - Hampton
18. End Times - Turchin
19. To the Lighthouse - Woolf
20. Theory & Practice - de Kretser
21. Hagstone - Gleeson
22. The Prisoner of Ankara - Dervis
23. Theft - Gurnah
24. In a Deep Blue Hour - Stamm
25. Nova Scotia House - Porter
26. Anatomy of a Disappearance - Matar
27. Family & Borghesia - Ginsburg
28. Question 7 - Flanagan
29. The Rest of Our Lives - Markovits
30. Open, Heaven - Hewitt
31. Stone Yard Devotional - Wood
32. Blast - Deya
33. Let the Record Show - Schulman
34. Playworld - Ross
35. The Transit of Venus - Hazzard
36. The Book of Records - Thien
37. The Coast Road - Murrin
38. Crusoe's Daughter - Gardam
39. The Lesser Bohemians - McBride
40. Some Strange Music Draws Me In - Hansbury
41. This House of Grief - Garner
42. The Director - Kehlmann
43. The Sun and Her Stars - Rifkind
44. Prater Violet - Isherwood
45. The Hounding - Purvis
46. The Benefactors - Erskine
47. Hamlet Globe to Globe - Dromgoole
48. The Cosmopolitans - Schulman
49. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible - Alameddine
50. The South - Aw
51. Brother of the More Famous Jack - Trapido
52. Katabasis - Kuang
53. The Emperor of Gladness - Vuong
54. The Book of Guilt - Chidgey
55. What We Can Know - McEwan
56. Pan - Clune
57. The Raven Scholar - Hodgson

Read in '24

1. The Island of Extraordinary Captives - Parkin
2. Prophet Song - Lynch
3. Legends & Lattes - Baldree
4. Into The Dream - Sleator
5. A Restless Truth - Marske
6. The House of Doors - Tan
7. Echo House - Just
8. Molly Fox's Birthday - Madden
9. My Friends - Matar
10. The Bee Sting - Murray
11. An Unfinished Season - Just
12. Tell - Buckley
13. The Variations - Langley
14. Shakespeare - The Man Who Pays The Rent - Dench
15. The Most Secret Memory of Men - Sarr
16. Table for Two - Towles
17. Caledonian Road - O'Hagan
18. Cymbeline - Shakespeare
19. The Alternatives - Hughes
20. Germany 1923 - Ullrich
21. A Dangerous Friend - Just
22. The Safekeep - van der Wouden
23. Beyond the Wall - Hoyer
24. Long Island - Toibin
25. Inverno - Zarin
26. The Mission House - Daview
27. The Ministry of Time - Bradley
28. Waiting for Sunrise - Boyd
29. This Strange Eventful History - Messud
30. How Can I Help You - Sims
31. There There - Orange
32. The Playbook - Shapiro
33. Cocktails with George and Martha - Gefter
34. The Ghost Theatre - Osman
35. Enter Ghost - Hammad
36. Kairos - Erpenbeck
37. Wife - Mendelson
38. Glorious Exploits - Lennon
39. The Book Censor's Library - Al-Essa
40. The Inextinguishable Symphony - Goldsmith
41. Shadowplay - O'Connor
42. Nothing Ever Just Disappears - Hester
43. Tasmania - Giordano
44. Our Evenings - Hollinghurst
45. Intermezzo - Rooney
46. Creation Lake - Kushner
47. We Are On Our Own - Katin
48. Oxygen - Miller
49. Brotherless Night - Ganeshananthan
50. The Deep Sky - Kitasei
51. The Great When - Moore
52. Eternity - Plante
53. What Nails It - Marcus

Read in '23

1. Also A Poet - Calhoun
2. The Romantic - Boyd
3. Tomorrow,and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin
4. Babel - Kuang
5. Arthur Miller - Lahr
6. A Sense of Direction - Lewis-Kraus
7. The Windelby Puzzle - Lowry
8. Ghost Music - An
9. This Other Eden - Harding
10. I Have Some Questions for You - Makkai
11. In Memoriam - Winn
12. We Don't Know Ourselves - O'Toole
13. Decent People - Winslow
14. The New Life - Crewe
15. Blaze Me A Sun - Carlsson
16. The Whalebone Theatre - Quinn
17. Long Live the Post Horn! - Hjorth
18. Sea of Tranquility - Mandel
19. Old God's Time - Barry
20. The Covenant of Water - Verghese
21. The Ferryman - Cronin
22. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab
23. Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Torzs
24. Real Life - Taylor
25. Loot - James
26. The Late Americans - Taylor
27. Pollak's Arm - von Trotha
28. Only This Beautiful Moment - Nazemian
29. Small Things Like These - Keegan
30. Home in the World - Sen
31. Dinosaurs - Millet
32. Take What You Need - Novey
33. Shadow Play - Baxter
34. The English Actor - Ackroyd
35. The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Giordano
36. The Librarianist - DeWitt
37. The Method - Butler
38. Kala - Walsh
39. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - McBride
40. The Fraud - Smith
41. Waterline - Raisin
42. Retrospective - Vasquez
43. Terrace Story - Leichter
44. The Wren, the Wren - Enright
45. Martha Quest - Lessing
46. February 1933: The Winter of Literature - Wittstock
47. Case Histories - Atkinson
48. A Place Called Winter - Gale
49. Sweet Dreams - Frayn
50. A Strange Eventful History - Holroyd
51. To Love and Be Wise - Tey

Read in '22

1. Any Way the Wind Blows - Rowell
2. Angels of Mud - Nicolson
3. The Days of Afrekete - Solomon
4. Year of the King - Sher
5. Year of the Fat Knight - Sher
6. Munich 1919: Diary of a Revolution - Klemperer
7. Will She Do? - Atkins
8. All The Names Given - Antrobus
9. Piranesi - Clarke
10. Monkey Boy - Goldman
11. Crossing to Safety - Stegner
12. To the Lighthouse - Woolf
13. The Cutting Room - Welsh
14. Vladimir - Jonas
15. Sondheim on Music - Horowitz
16. Barracuda - Tsiolkas
17. Putting it Together - Lapine
18. The Latinist - Prins
19. The Magan Inheritance - Moore
20. Kathe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist - Kearns
21. More than I Love my Life - Grossman
22. Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller - Wassef
23. The Emperor of Ice-Cream - Moore
24. The Fifties - Gaines
25. Death in Rome - Koeppen
26. School Days - Galassi
27. Every Good Boy Does Fine - Denk
28. Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts - Perl
29. Afterlives - Gurnah
30. The Crow Trap - Cleeves
31. A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Solnit
32. The Sisters Mao - McCrea
33. Young Mungo - Stuart
34. Olive Kitteridge - Strout
35. The Wrong End of the Telescope - Alameddine
36. What Makes an Apple? - Oz/Hadad
37. When We Cease to Understand the World - Labatut
38. Last Train to London - Clayton
39. A Tale of Love and Darkness - Oz
40. Secret City - Kirchick
41. Another Country - Baldwin
42. Letters to Camondo - De Waal
43. Other Names for Love - Soomro
44. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers - Rodgers/Green
45. The Revenge of Power - Naim
46. Mercury Pictures Presents - Marra
47. All Our Yesterdays - Ginzburg
48. Fairy Tale - King
49. Sojourn - Chaudhuri
50. Train Dreams - Johnson
51. The Marriage Portrait - O'Farrell
52. Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone - Baldwin
53. A Murder is Announced - Christie
54. Affections - Hasbun
55. Cassandra at the Wedding - Baker
56. Cairo 1921 - Faught
57. Light Perpetual - Spufford
58. The Lincoln Highway - Towles
59. The Slowworm's Song - Miller
60. The Untouchable - Banville
61. Mother's Boy - Gale
62. The Sinner and the Saint - Birmingham
63. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Zevin

Read in '21

1. The Sun Collective - Baxter
10. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Taylor
11. Daemon Voices - Pullman
12. On Writing - King
13. Notes from an Exhibition - Gale
14. The Lies That Bind - Appiah
15. Coraline - Gaiman
16. Cymbeline - Shakespeare
17. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Rowling
18. The Dead Zone - King
19. Cat's Eye - Atwood
2. Krapp's Last Tape - Beckett
20. In the Absence of Men - Besson
21. It's Really About Time - Ryan
22. Take Nothing With You - Gale
23. Together and by Ourselves - Dimitrov
24. The Vietri Project - DeRobertis-Theye
25. Tom Stoppard: A Life - Lee
26. Ink and Bone - Caine
27. The Invention of Love - Stoppard
28. The Heart - de Kerangal
29. Forgone - Banks
3. Learning from the Germans - Neiman
30. The Ghost Writer - Roth
31. Painting Time - de Kerangal
32. The Kingdoms - Pulley
33. Rock 'N' Roll - Stoppard
34. Rules of Civility - Towles
35. Eat the Buddha - Demick
36. Leopoldstadt - Stoppard
37. Hamnet - O'Farrell
38. We Have Been Harmonized - Strittmatter
39. The Hare with Amber Eyes - de Waal
4. The Gene - Mukherjee
40. The Crow Road - Banks
41. The Promise - Galgut
42. Love and Other Poems - Dimitrov
43. I Couldn't Love You More - Freud
44. The Quarry - Galgut
45. Hades, Argentia - Loedel
46. The White Road - de Waal
47. The Year of Lear - Shapiro
48. Four Thousand Weeks - Burkeman
49. The War of the Poor - Vuillard
5. Mayflies - O'Hagan
50. The Perseverance - Antrobus
51. Harlem Shuffle - Whitehead
52. Bewilderment - Powers
53. A Gentleman in Moscow - Towles
54. The Magician - Toibin
55. A House for Mr. Biswas - Naipaul
56. The Weight of Ink - Kadish
57. Prodigal - Lambert
58. Bulletproof Vest - Rosen
59. The Weak Spot - Elven
6. The Lisbon Traviata - McNally
60. Elder Race - Tchaikovsky
61. Macbeth - Shakespeare
62. A Marvelous Light - Marske
63. Beside Myself - Sher
64. Carry On - Rowell
65. Wayward Son - Rowell
7. Love! Valour! Compassion! - McNally
8. Here We Are - Swift
9. Rough Music - Gale

Read in '20

64. Never Home Alone - Dunn
63. Man Without a Face - Wolf
62. The Math Campers - Chiasson
61. Fences - Wilson
60. Faithful and Virtuous Night - Gluck
59. The Hollow Hills - Stewart
58. Our Fathers - O'Hagan
57. The Illuminations - O'Hagan
56. Snow - Banville
55. Three Rings - Mendelsohn
54. Wanderer - Leon
53. The Searcher - French
52. November 1918 - Gerwarth
51. The Tunnel - Yehoshua
50. Cymbeline - Shakespeare
49. Must I Go - Li
48. The Lying Life of Adults - Ferrante
47. Wit - Edson
46. The Great Concert of the Night - Buckley
45. King Lear - Shakespeare
44. The Cherry Orchard - Chekhov
43. Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Albee
42. The Fire Next Time - Baldwin
41. The World According to Fannie Davis -- Davis
40. The Shawl - Mamet
39. Six Degrees of Separation - Guare
38. The Visit - Durrenmatt
37. Lot Six - Adjimi
36. I'm Not Scared - Ammaniti
35. Auto Da Fay - Weldon
34. Heaven and Earth - Giordano
33. The Death of Democracy - Hett
32. Fair Play - Jansson
31. Blue Nights - Didion
30. The Secret Commonwealth - Pullman
29. The Book of Eels - Svensson
28. A Burning - Majumdar
27. The Gypsies - Yoors
26. The Gray Notebook - Pla
25. Entangled Life - Sheldrake
24. Surviving Autocracy - Gessen
23. A Month in the Country - Carr
22. St. Ivo - Hershon
21. Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography - Robinson
20. Child Wonder - Jacobsen
19. Swimming in the Dark - Jedrowski
18. Lucky Jim - Amis
17. Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Thien
16. A Small Revolution in Germany - Hensher
15. Actress - Enright
14. Unpacking My Library - Price
13. Winter - Smith
12. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Anappara
11. The House of Twenty Thousand Books - Abramsky
10. Nine Continents - Guo
9. The Volunteer - Fairweather
8. Out With the Stars - Purdy
7. Abigail - Szabo
6. Stillicide - Jones
5. Pigeons on the Grass - Koeppen
4. The Memory Police - Ogawa
3. Out East - Glynn
2. The River Capture - Costello
1. Cove - Jones

Seen in '20

49. Mudbound (2017) - film
48. Wildlife (2018) - film
47. Vagabond (1985) - film
46. War Horse (2011) - film
45. Wonderstruck (2017) - film
44. The 400 Blows (1959) - film
43. 1917 (2019) - film
42. The Thin Man (1934) - film
41. Remember the Night (1940) - film
40. Transit (2019) - film
39. A Nos Amours (1983) - film
38. Dial M for Murder (1954) - film
37. Wonder Woman (2017) - film
36. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) - film
35. The Booksellers (2019) - film
34. Mrs. Polifax Spy (1971) - film
33. What She Said (2018)- film
32. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - film
31. Rear Window (1954) - film
30. Maurice (1987) - film
29. Goldfinger (1964) - film
28. From Russia with Love (1963) - film
27. Dr. No (1962) - film
26. And Then We Danced (2019) - film
25. Sneakers (1992) - film
24. Little Women (2019) - film
23. Code Unknown (2000) - film
22. Jonas (2018) - film
21. Moonstruck (1987) - film
20. Roman Holiday (1953) - film
19. The Shape of Water (2017) - film
18. Parasite (2019) - film
17. La nouvelle guerre des boutons (2012) - film
16. The City of Your Final Destination (2009) - film
15. Agrippina - Met Opera
14. Frankenstein - The Wallis LA
13. Eurydice - LA Opera
12. The Getty Villa
11. The Irishman (2019) - film
10. Timon of Athens - TFANA
9. Mac Beth - Hunter Theater Project
8. She Was Alone - La Mama Galleria
7. Medea - BAM
6. Wozzeck - Met Opera
5. Everybody Knows (2018) - film
4. Coup de Torchon (1981) - film
3. Offset Dance Fest - Saudade - Joshua Beamish
2. Marriage Story (2019) - film
1. Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 - Tenet Vocal Artists

Read in '19

56. The South - Toibin
55. Academy Street - Costello
54. Jurrassic Park - Chrichton
53. The Crystal Cave - Stewart
52. The Topeka School- Lerner
51. Impossible Owls - Phillips
50. The Friend - Nunez
49. History of Violence - Louis
48. Who Killed My Father - Louis
47. Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow - Decker
45. Mitz - Nunez
46. Sontag: Her Life and Work - Moser
44. The Parisian - Hammad
43. Ruined - Nottage
42. Pipeline - Morisseau
41. Say Nothing - Keefe
40. The Body in Question - Ciment
39. The Good Apprentice - Murdoch
38. The Green Knight - Murdoch
37. Living at the Boundary - Perls
36. The Eumenides - Aeschylus
35. Choephori - Aeschylus
34. Agamemnon - Aeschylus
33. The Arabian Nights - Zimmerman
32. Iris Murdoch: A Life - Conradi
31. Latecomers - Brookner
30. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Vuong
29. The Incorrigile Optimists Club - Guenassia
28. Normal People - Rooney
27. Late in the Day - Hadley
26. Lie With Me - Besson
25. The Message to The Planet - Murdoch
24. The Flick - Baker
23. John - Baker
22. The Philosopher's Pupil - Murdoch
21. Giovanni's Room - Baldwin
20. Music of a Life - Makine
19. Desperate Characters - Fox
18. Shape of the Ruins - Gabriel Vasquez
17. Terra Firma - Hammond
16. Katalin Street - Szabo
15. Finer Noble Gases - Rapp
14. Sweat - Nottage
13. The Inheritance - Lopez
12. Elmet - Mozley
11. The Argonauts - Nelson
10. Howards End - Forster
9. Stoner - Williams
8. Middletown - Eno
7. Eurydice - Ruhl
6. Friend of my Youth - Chaudhuri
5. The Women - Als
4. Milkman - Burns
3. Friday Black - Adjei-Brenyah
2. Transcription - Atkinson
1. Paris Echo - Faulks

Seen in '19

85. Late Night (2019) - film
84. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) - film
83. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
82. The Underlying Chris - 2nd Stage
81. Slave Play - B'way
80. Synonyms (2019) - film
79. I Lost My Body (2019) - film
78. Le Bonheur (1965) - film
77. 63-Up (2019) - film
76. The Inheritance - B'way
75. History of Violence - Schaubuhne Berlin @ St. Ann's
74. Akhnaten - Met Opera
73. The End of Eddy - Unicorn Theatre @ BAM
72. The Great Tamer - BAM
71. The Brotherhood of new Blockheads - Mishkin Gallery
70. A Bright Room Called Day - Public Theater
69. What if they went to Moscow? - BAM
68. The Yellow Wallpaper - IRT Theatre
67. L'une chante l'autre pas (1977) - film
66. The Sound Inside - Bway
65. A Monster Calls (2016) -film
64. Looking At You - HERE Arts Ctr
63. The Post (2017) - film
62. Trois Couleurs - White (1994) - film
61. The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) - film
60. Sea Wall/A Life - B'way
59. Widows (2018) - film
58. Moscow, Moscow... - MCC Theater
57. Tea with the Dames (2018) film
56. A Strange Loop - Playwrights Horizons
55. A Star is Born (2018) - film
54. A Star is Born (1976) - film
53. A Star is Born (1954) - film
52. A Star is Born (1937) - film
51. Maggie's Plan (2015)- film
50. In Corpo - The Assembly
49. Misconceptions - Blessed Unrest
48. Dark Heart of Meterology - The Assembly
47. Joan Mitchell - I carry my landscapes around with me - David Zwirner Gallery
46. Crossroads - Amanda Selwyn Dance
45. Underground Railroad Game - Ars Nova
44. Dead Dog in a Suitcase - Kneehigh Theatre - Lyric Hammersmith
43. Cendrillon - Glyndebourne
42. Man of La Mancha - English Nat'l Opera
41. London Biennale 2019
40. Kaleidascope - Saatchi Gallery
39. Smoke and Mirrors - Wellcome Centre
38. Happy Talk - New Group Theatre
37. Octet - Signature Theatre
36. Estado Vegetal - Baryshnikov Arts Center
35. I Am Not Your Negro (2016) - film
34. An Education (2009) - film
33. Toni Erdmann (2016) - film
32. The Fever - 600 Highwaymen
31. The Lehman Trilogy - Park Ave. Armory
30. Diane (2018) - film
29. The Young & Evil - David Zwirner
28. Vivan Browne: Little Men - Ryan Lee Gallery
27. Heal the Living (2016) - film
26. Great Directors (2009) - film
25. Her Story...His Shadow - Kraine Theatre
24. Howards End (1992) - film
23. Ashes - HERE Arts Center
22. Pedagogy of the Streets: Porto 1977 Mishkin Gallery
21. Julieta (2016) - film
20. Joan Miro - Birth of the World - MOMA
19. East of Eden (1955) - film
18. Andy Warhol - From A to B - Whitney Museum
17. Plaire, aimer et courir vite (2018) - film
16. Merrily We Roll Along - Roundabout Theatre
15. Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) - film
14. To Create a World - Gallim Dance
13. Thoroughly Modern Millie - Little Theatre
12. Cold War (2018) - film
11. Prisoners (2013) - film
10. God Made my Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin - David Zwirner
9. Judson Dance Theater - MOMA
8. For Opacity - The Drawing Center
7. Mistress America (2015) - film
6. Beautiful Boy (2018) - film
5. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) - film
4. The Aesthetics of Learning - Mishkin Gallery
3. Train with no Midnight - PROTOTYPE
2. 4:48 Psychosis - PROTOTYPE
1. Otello - Met Opera

Read in '18

52. The Sum of Things - Manning
51. The Battle Lost and Won - Manning
50. The Danger Tree - Manning
49. Cry it Out - Metzler
48. Half of a Yellow Sun - Adichie
47. The Shining - King
46. The Fledgling - Butler
45. Melmoth - Perry
44. The Haunting of Hill House - Jackson
43. Red Light Winter - Rapp
42. Nocturne - Rapp
41. The Biological Mind - Jasanoff
40. The Witch Elm - French
39. Washington Black - Edugyan
38. Another Life - Kallifatides
37. The End of Eddy - Louis
35. The Color of Law - Rothstein
34. A Fatal Grace - Penny
33. Ants Among Elephants - Gidla
32. Bellevue Square - Redhill
31. The Great Believers - Makkai
30. The Shepherd's Hut - Winton
29. School of Velocity - Rubin
28. The Water Will Come - Goodell
27. Returing to Reims - Eribon
26. The Heather Blazing - Toibin
25. The Blackwater Lightship - Toibin
24. Still Life - Penny
23. Roert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire - Jamison
22. Wilberforce - Cross
21. The South - Toibin
20. A Mind to Murder - James
19. Magpie Murders - Horowitz
18. Underground Fugue - Singer
17. The Overstory - Powers
16. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears - Mengestu
15. The Changeling - Lavalle
14. The Diamond Setter - Sakal
13. American Pastoral - Roth
12. Aunt Dan and Lemon - Shawn
11. Asymmetry - Halliday
10. The Sparsholt Affair - Hollinghurst
9. The River of Consciousness - Sacks
8. Keeping on Keeping On - Bennett
7. The Cherry Orchard - Chekhov
6. The Odyssey - Homer (trans Wilson)
5. An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic - Mendelsohn
4. Becoming Myself - Yalom
3. The Dark Flood Rises - Drabble
2. Sergio Y. - Vidal Porto
1. Quick and Nimble - Bryant

Seen in '18

83. Dunkirk (2017) - film
82. Roma (2018) - film
81. The Favourite (2018) - film
80. Clueless - The New Group
79. Messiah - Trinity Choir
78. Wild Goose Dreams - Public Theater
77. Cinevardaphoto (2004) - film
76. Il Trittico - Met Opera
75. La Pointe Courte (1954) - film
74. The Waverly Gallery - Bway
73. Alex Truelove (2018) - film
72. Mefistofele - Met Opera
71. Julius Caesar - National Theatre
70. The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - film
69. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - film
68. Uncle Vanya - Hunter Theater Project
67. Anna (2014) - film
66. Little Men (2016) - film
65. Marnie - Met Opera
64. The Tenant - Joyce Theatre
63. The Zookeeper's Wife (2017) - film
62. Oklahoma! - St Ann's Warehouse
61. La Fanciulla del West - Met Opera
60. Things to Come (2016) - film
59. The Dybbuk - Gesher Theatre
58. Trio Solisti - Weill Recital Hall
57. Visages Villages (2017) - film
56. Radio Galaxy
55. Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay - Whitney Museum
54. David Wojnarawicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night - Whitney Museum
53. The True - The New Group
52. Elle (2016) - film
51. Bernhardt/Hamlet - Roundabout Theatre
50. Black Panther (2018) film
49. When We Were Young (2014) film
48. La Douleur (2017) - film
47. God's Own Country (2017) film
46. The Damned - Park Ave Armory
45. La Boheme - Royal Opera House Covent Garden
44. Ernst Ludwig Kirschner - Stattsgalerie Stuttgart
43. An Octoroon - National Theatre London
42. Rijks Museum
41. All too Huma - Bacon, Freud and a century of Painting Life - Tate Britain
40. Aftermath - Art in the Wake of World War I - Tate Britain
39. The Wallace Collection
38. Somewhere in Between - Wellcome Collection
37. Love and Intrigue - Maly Theatre at BAM
36. This is Modern Art - Blessed Unrest
35. Demolition (2015) - film
34. My Fair Lady - Lincoln Ctr Theater
33. Peace for Mary Frances - New Group Theater
32. The New Museum
31. Genius (2016) - film
30. A Pink Chair - The Wooster Group
29. Grant Wood: American Gothic & Other Fables - Whitney Museum
28. Assembled Identity - HERE
27. Judas - Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
26. One of Us (2017) - film
25. Cendrillon - Met Opera
24. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire - NYTW
23. Trio Vitruvi - Weil Hall
22. Three Tall Women - Bway
21. Yerma - Park Ave Armory
20. The Lucky Ones - Ars Nova
19. Swiss Army Man (2016) - film
18. Perestroika - Bway
17. Todd Almond - Joe's Pub
16. Paul Taylor Dance
15. The Lobster (2015) - film
14. Pyramo e Thisbe - The Little Opera Co
13. Paul Taylor Dance
12. Good for Otto - The New Group
11. Platonov - Blessed Unrest
10. This is the Color Described by the Time - New Georges
9. Jerry Springer - The Opera - New Group Theater
8. The Desire|Divinity Project - Judson
7. Farinelli and the King - Bway
6. Sheila - The Associates
5. Penny Arcade - Longing Lasts Longer - Pangea
4. Fellow Travelers - Prototype Festival
3. This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) - film
2. Conte d'Hiver (1992) - film
1. Brooklyn Rider/Aaron Diehl Trio Concert - Steinway Hall