Daily Archives: December 30, 2007

Duff at the Movies 2007

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Duff

• The Painted Veil (1/1)
  
• Deja Vu (1/6)
  
• Children of Men (1/13)
  
• Pan’s Labyrinth (1/19) – spanish
  
• Dreamgirls (1/20)
  
• Inland Empire (1/27)
  
• Catch and Release (2/3)
  
• Music and Lyrics (2/18)
  
• Blood Diamond (2/27)
  
• The Lives of Others (3/8) – german
  
• Zodiac (3/15)
  
• The Last King of Scotland (3/19)
  
• A Shot in the Dark (3/22) – portuguese
  
• The Lookout (4/1)
  
• Grindhouse (5/2)
  
• Away from Her (5/17)
  
• Waitress (5/22)
  
• Paris Je T’Aime (6/1)
  
• Hot Fuzz (6/3)
  
• Knocked Up (6/9)
  
• Helvetica (6/16)
  
• Once (6/23)
  
• A Mighty Heart (6/29)
  
• 28 Weeks Later (7/1)
  
• Pirates 3 (7/3)
  
• Oceans 13 (7/3)
  
• La Vie en Rose (7/4) – francais
  
• Evening (7/5)
  
• Sunshine (7/22)
  
• Stardust (8/26)
  
• The Bourne Ultimatum (9/2)
  
• Transformers (9/2)
  
• 3:10 to Yuma (9/8)
  
• In the Valley of Elah (9/16)
  
• The Kingdom (9/29)
  
• Eastern Promises (9/29)
  
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (10/5)
  
• The Walker (10/6 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Blackout (10/7 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Silent Light (10/9 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Surveillance (10/10 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Jump! (10/12 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• We Own the Night (10/14)
  
• Control (10/16 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Michael Clayton (10/19)
  
• Punishment Park (11/7 – 1970s, dir by Peter Watkins)
  
• Walkabout (11/8 – 1970s, dir by Nicolas Roeg)
  
• American Gangster (11/11)
  
• Gone Baby Gone (11/20)
  
• No Country for Old Men (11/21)
  
• I’m Not There (11/23)
  
• Margot at the Wedding (11/25)
  
• Dan in Real Life (12/1)
  
• I Am Legend (12/15)
  
• Juno (12/18)
  
• Charlie Wilson’s War (12/27)
  
• Sweeney Todd (12/30)
  

Books Read in 2007

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Duff

• The Zero, by Jess Walter (1/4)
  
• 12 Edmondstone Street, by David Malouf (memoir)(1/7)
  
• Blameless in Abaddon, by James Morrow (1/10)
  
• Great Black Kanba, by Constance & Gwenyth Little (1/11)
  
• They Call Me Naughty Lolita: The London Review of Books Personal Ads, edited by David Rose (humorous nonfiction) (1/12)
  
• Beasts of No Nation, by Uzodinma Iweala (1/17)
  
• The Eternal Footman, by James Morrow (1/30)
  
• The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust (Bk 3 of the new Penguin translation) (3/8)
  
• Black Cat, by Martyn Beford (3/10)
  
• Who Killed the Curate?, a Christmas mystery, by Joan Coggin (3/10)
  
• The Quarry, by Damon Galgut (3/12)
  
• Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan (3/15)
  
• Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson (Poetry) (3/15)
  
• The Post-Birthday World, by Lionel Shriver (3/27)
  
• Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell (3/29)
  
• She Got Up Off the Couch, and Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana, by Haven Kimmel (memoir) (4/1)
  
• The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman (4/2)
  
• Tea on the Blue Sofa, by Natasha IllumBerg (4/3)
  
• Magic’s Child, (Magic or Madness: Book III) by Justine Larbalestier (4/6)
  
• Death of a Writer, by Michael Collins (4/22)
  
• Chainfire (Sword of Truth Bk 10, Chainfire Bk 1), by Terry Goodkind (4/30)
  
• Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth Bk 1), by Terry Goodkind (5/6)
  
• The End of Mr. Y, by Scarlett Thomas (5/11)
  
• The Submerged Cathedral, by Charlotte Wood (5/15)
  
• When I Was a Loser, True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School, edited by John McNally (5/21)
  
• Love Is a Mix Tape, by Rob Sheffield (5/23)
  
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon (5/28)
  
• Killing Pablo, by Mark Bowden (5/31)
  
• Pippa Passes, by Rumer Godden (6/2)
  
• Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman (6/5)
  
• Single Wife, by Nina Solomon (6/12)
  
• An Invisible Sign of My Own, by Aimee Bender (6/15)
  
• Ghosts of Albion: Accursed, by Amber Benson & Christopher Golden (6/19)
  
• Dead Witch Walking, by Kim Harrison (6/27)
  
• Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin (7/3)
  
• Moon Called, by Patricia Briggs (7/4)
  
• Blood Bound, by Patricia Briggs (7/5)
  
• The Interloper, by Antoine Wilson (7/7)
  
• Blood Trail, by Tanya Huff (7/23) (reread)
  
• Blood Price, by Tanya Huff (7/24) (reread)
  
• (two-thirds of) Landor’s Tower, by Iain Sinclair (stopped 7/24)
  
• Remainder, by Tom McCarthy (7/29)
  
• The Hard Way, by Lee Child (8/4)
  
• Risk, by Dick Francis (8/5) (reread)
  
• Inglorious, by Joanna Kavenna (8/6)
  
• Taft, by Ann Patchett (8/9)
  
• The Buffalo Soldier, by Chris Bohjalian (8/10)
  
• Run, by Ann Patchett (8/18)
  
• Witchery, a Ghosts of Albion novel, by Amber Benson & Christopher Golden (8/19)
  
• Seven Types of Ambiguity, by Elliot Perlman (8/21)
  
• Rain Fall, by Barry Eisler (8/29)
  
• Indemnity, by Sara Paretsky (8/31)
  
• Stray, by Rachel Vincent (9/2)
  
• Day, by A.L. Kennedy (9/6)
  
• Storm Front, by Jim Butcher (9/14)
  
• A Three Dog Life, by Abigail Thomas (9/14)
  
• Don’t Make a Scene, by Valerie Block (9/19)
  
• Under the Banner of Heaven; A Story of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer (9/21)
  
• Love Walked in, by Marisa de los Santos (9/26)
  
• The Used World, by Haven Kimmel (10/5)
  
• Tolstoy Lied, a love story, by Rachel Kadish (10/7)
  
• The Long Firm, by Jake Arnott (10/13) (reread)
  
• The Rain Before It Falls, by Jonathan Coe (10/20)
  
• In the Woods, by Tana French (10/23)
  
• The Myth of You & Me, by Leah Stewart (10/26)
  
• Beware of God, by Shalom Auslander (short stories) (10/28)
  
• A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews (11/1)
  
• Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (11/2)
  
• New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer (11/3)
  
• Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer (11/4)
  
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit (11/6)
  
• He Kills Coppers, by Jake Arnott (11/12)
  
• Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work, by Jason Brown (11/16)
  
• Deal Breaker, by Harlan Coben (11/17)
  
• The Life of Hunger, by Amelie Nothomb (11/23)
  
• True Evil, by Greg Iles (12/2)
  
• Simplify, by Tod Goldberg (12/5)
  
• Red Spikes, by Margo Lanagan (12/7)
  
• Gentlemen of the Road, by Michael Chabon (12/13)
  
• Incendiary, by Chris Cleave (12/18)
  
• The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett (12/19)
  
• Ludmilla’s Broken English, by DBC Pierre (12/24)
  
• A Feast for Crows (A Song for Fire & Ice, Book 4), by George R.R. Martin (12/26)
  
• The Midnight Court, translated by Ciaran Carson (“Cuirt an Mhean Oiche” by Brian Merriman) (12/27)
  
• Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth (12/29)