( TV episodes watched from January through March, with some comments )JANUARY - MARCH MEDIA RECAP
Fringe,
Being Human UK, and
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries ended.
Shows I started and continued to watch:
Utopia,
Les revenants,
In the Flesh.
I also plan on watching all the rest of
Peter Gunn on Hulu in the future.
The only movie I saw from 2013 was
Something Necessary, a pretty good Kenyan movie that MUBI streamed for free on the day of the Kenyan elections..
Movies I gave the highest ratings to on
this year's movies-watched list:
The Saragossa Manuscript (now I want to watch more stories within stories movies),
Chungking Express (finally watched it!),
Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca), and the entire trilogy experience of
The Human Condition (Ningen no joken)Favorite viewing surprises:
Paranorman,
La main du diable,
A Matter of Taste (Une affaire de goût),
Miss Minoesok not really a surprise since I'm a fan of Johnnie To's work already yet the choreography of lighting and movement in
Throw Down deserves a mention
Faces added to my to-watch list:
Hideko Takamine, Rachel Mwanza, Pierce Gagnon
Funniest moments:
the dinner scene in
Vulgariathe proposed graveyard scene from
Seven Psychopathswhen the titular character gets a gun in
The Gingerdead ManFavorite books read so far
this year:
Historia universal de la infamia, Jorge Luis Borges
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
Works that I can imagine as a good (or better) film or TV adaptation:
Esi Edugyan's
Half-Blood Blues. Jazz musicians of African descent stuck in Berlin and occupied Paris in WWII. At least it wouldn't shift more focus towards the white characters like what I saw of
Dancing on the Edge.
Alfred Bester's
The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!), in a way that would get the epic sci-fi look and themes right, treat the problematic aspects as problematic, and not gloss over the character flaws and twisted relationships.
Dashiell Hammett's
The Glass Key, in a modern (though not modern day-set) adaptation that would include the book's meditative aspects, without being slow for the sake of self-importance.
John Ajvide Lindqvist's
Little Star. Probably best as a miniseries.
Favorite short stories read:
"Four Rajeshes" and
"Bibhutibhushan Mallik's Final Storyboard", by Rajesh Parameswaran
"Nights Can Turn Cool in Viborra", by Charles Portis
The only new music I've played on repeat so far: various selections from Cristobal Tapia de Veer's soundtrack for
Utopia.