 | Dead Cities: And Other Tales by Mike Davis
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $4.29 In a series of brilliant essays, Davis presents portraits, politics, and poetics of American cities.
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 | Early Summer - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $16.99 Another Ozu gem. It is rumored that Criterion has the rights to most of Ozu films. Bring it on, Criterion!
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 | I Vitelloni - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.48 One of Fellini's best. Five guys perfect the act of hanging out. The slackers of their generation.
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 | Unknown Pleasures
Buy used from: $5.90 Another film about hanging out. Inexplicably haunting, this is one of the best films I've seen this year.
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 | Dogville
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.44 Another von Trier provocation/production. An austere version of "Breaking the Waves" with equal if not more amounts of ridiculousness. One of the year's best.
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 | La Ceremonie
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.99 Chabrol's best, at least in my book. "The last Marxist film," per Chabrol and Hoberman. Why didn't it get the Criterion treatment? Also out: "Story of Women" and "Masques."
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 | Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins
Buy used from: $0.01 Surprisingly entertaining and well-written. A primer into the so-called 'Bushworld.'
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 | Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Buy new: $12.50 / Used from: $3.73 The latest installment ventures into the treacherous waters of adolescence and being an outsider (a Third-Worlder) in a Western country. Tragic, hip, and quietly memorable.
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 | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
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 | The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America by Eric Alterman
Buy used from: $0.01 A systematic dissection of the Bush years. Depressing and neccessary reading.
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 | The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 Zadie Smith rocks. Rushdie's shadow loomed over "White Teeth." With this novel, she's coming into her own.
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 | Together We're Heavy by The Polyphonic Spree
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.72 Are these guys serious? They're as earnest as the Flaming Lips!
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 | My Voyage to Italy
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.24 A wonderful introduction to auteurist Italian cinema. A caveat: Scorsese gives away the ending to most of the films.
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 | In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.50 A revealing portrait of an avant-garde artist as a woman. Did she really have voodoo powers?
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 | Medúlla by Björk
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $2.25 Bjork's gone bonkers. It's silly, it's beautiful, it's also damn annoying.
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 | Uh Huh Her by PJ Harvey
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.84 All grown up and nowhere to go. Some good songs, but baby, uh huh, psychodramas are old hat.
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 | Retriever by Ron Sexsmith
Buy used from: $1.81 "Have we been blind/Have we been lied to?" YES!
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 | American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips
Buy used from: $0.01 Devastating. Phillips' book differs with other anti-Bush tomes in that it considers the Bush and Walker families as a whole. The obsession with 'tax cuts' and oil/energy industries becomes clear.
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 | The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.01 The best piece is in the introduction. Krugman makes the astute observation that this is a revolutionary force at work in the White House. A guide to Bush's oh-so-voodoo economics.
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 | The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by David Corn
Buy used from: $0.01 Alas, the mainstream media failed us. Another tome to correct the misinformation and underinformation of the press. The language is a bit dry. The content's thoroughly depressing, but recommended.
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 | Videodrome - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $15.78 I love the cover image of a viewer getting sucked into the boob tube. A metaphor for our times. Great to see the movie getting the Criterion treatment. More Cronenberg-Criterions please.
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 | Trouble Every Day
Buy used from: $4.52 Music for a melancholy day.
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 | Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Buy new: $46.80 / Used from: $34.94 Can someone get this for me for Christmas. Please!!!
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 | No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion by Various Artists
Buy new: $58.49 / Used from: $43.00 Ditto. Christmas is only a few months away...
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 | Fodor's Portugal, 6th: The Guide for All Budgets, Where to Stay, Eat, and Explore On and Off the Beaten Path (Fodor's Gold Guides) by Fodor's
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $0.01 After watching those Joao Cesar Monteiro films, I'm itching to see Portugal and see the ghost of the filmmaker wandering the steets of Lisbon like Nosferatu.
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