January 2024: Best first reads & viewings

Reads

The Space of Literature, by Maurice Blanchot (1955)
The Writing of the Disaster, by Maurice Blanchot (1980)
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, by Ruth Franklin (2016)
Daisy Miller, by Henry James (1879)
Something Like an Autobiography, by Akira Kurosawa (1981)
What Are You, by Lindsay Lerman (2022)
The Door, by Magda Szabó (1987)
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, by Jeff VanderMeer (2013)
Ghosts, by Edith Wharton (1937)
Strange Seed, by T. M. Wright (1978)

Viewings

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (Fritz Lang, 1924)
The Passionate Friends (David Lean, 1949)
Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang, 1952)
Summertime (David Lean, 1955)
The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini, 1972)
Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz, 1974)
Watchmen [director’s cut] (Zack Snyder, 2009)
Hemingway (Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, 2021)