to do
*last updated: sept 22 2010
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films to see
⁃ un coeur en hiver
⁃ the yellow handkerchief
⁃ broken embraces
⁃ jeux d’enfants
⁃ stealing beauty
⁃ haven
⁃ constellation
⁃ a place in the sun
⁃ red river
⁃ coogan’s bluff
⁃ dorian gray
⁃ vivre sa vie
⁃ le mépris
⁃ week end
⁃ une femme est une femme
⁃ 35 rhums
⁃ a single man
⁃ talk to her
⁃ youth in revolt
⁃ blue valentine
⁃ happy tears
⁃ the losers
⁃ our family wedding
⁃ house of flying daggers
⁃ pan’s labyrinth
⁃ best in show
⁃ solaris
⁃ gosford park
⁃ grizzly man
⁃ half nelson
⁃ the piano teacher (la pianiste)
⁃ the italian job
⁃ munich
⁃ the portrait of a lady
⁃ cracks
⁃ peter and vandy
⁃ shrink
⁃ my favorite wife
⁃ old yeller
⁃ ghost
⁃ brokeback mountain
⁃ sophie’s choice
⁃ wendy and lucy
⁃ the summerhouse
⁃ v for vendetta
⁃ high fidelity
⁃ children of men
⁃ almost famous
⁃ dear zachary
⁃ monster
⁃ breakfast with scot
⁃ powder blue
⁃ life is beautiful
⁃ hotel rwanda
⁃ tempted
⁃ klimt
⁃ vincere
⁃ say anything
⁃ les petits mouchoirs
⁃ passion play
⁃ alatriste
⁃ bella
⁃ american beauty
⁃ the sword in the stone
⁃ ne
⁃ ponyo
⁃ the cove
⁃ daybreakers
⁃ the private lives of pippa lee
⁃ big fish
⁃ serious moonlight
⁃ the young victoria
⁃ the passion of darkly noon
⁃ candy
⁃ proof
⁃ the merry gentleman
⁃ 9 mile
⁃ milk
⁃ the hurt locker
⁃ shakespear in love
⁃ the road
⁃ frida
⁃ dancing across borders
⁃ the human experience
⁃ la double vie de veronique
⁃ the arrangement
⁃ princess kaiulani
⁃ badlands
⁃ days of heaven
⁃ the thin red line
⁃ the new world
⁃ thank you for smoking
⁃ y tu mama tambien
⁃ to save a life
⁃ wall street: money never sleeps
⁃ waking sleeping beauty
⁃ welcome to the rileys
⁃ adoration
⁃ the joy luck club
⁃ my dog skip
⁃ half nelson
⁃ the five senses
⁃ the conspirator
⁃ howl
⁃ heartbreaker
⁃ never let me go
⁃ hideaway
⁃ blue valentine
⁃ lovely and amazing
⁃ the town
⁃ la belle endormie
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books to read
⁃ our tragic universe —scarlett thomas
⁃ to the end of the land —david grossman
⁃ notre dame de paris —victor hugo
⁃ notes from my travels —angelina jolie
⁃ ’tis —frank mccourt
⁃ the third chimpanzee, why is sex fun?, collapse —jared diamond
⁃ the longest trip home —kira salak
⁃ the story of edgar sawtelle —david wroblewski
⁃ the kindly ones —jonathan littell
⁃ sons and lovers —d.h. lawrence
⁃ persuasion —jane austen
⁃ shadows across the sahara —john hare
⁃ kokology —tadahiko nagao
⁃ charterhouse of parma —stendhal
⁃ the greenlanders —jane smiley
⁃ ocean sea —alessandro baricco
⁃ silk —alessandro baricco
⁃ walden —henry david thoreau
⁃ sign language, the horse is good —viggo mortensen
⁃ the world has curves —julia savacool
⁃ the cruelest journey, four corners —kira salak
⁃ a mighty heart —mariane pearl
⁃ you can’t be neutral on a moving train —howard zinn
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places to go
⁃ taj mahal
⁃ hagia sophia
⁃ machu piccu
⁃ petra
⁃ palace of alhambra
⁃ stonehenge
⁃ neuschwanstein castle
⁃ northern lights
⁃ nahanni national park reserve
⁃ to see götterdämmerung at bayreuth
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