Books

• Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico
• Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
• Carlos Fuentes, Where the Air Is Clear (trans. Sam Hileman)

Films

• Les diaboliques, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Il divo, dir. Paolo Sorrentino
• Velocità, dir. Tina Cordero, Guido Martina & Pippo Oriani
• Stramilano, dir. Corrado D’Errico
• Thaïs, dir. Anton Giulio Bragaglia
• Excelsior, dir. Luca Comerio
• Amor pedestre (Love Afoot), dir. Marcel Fabre
• Des pieds et des mains (Feet and Hands), dir. Jacques Feyder & Gaston Ravel
• Fait-divers (A Collection of Facts), dir. Claude Autant-Lara
• Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holiday), dir. Jacques Tati

Exhibits

• “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868,” Met
• “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans,” Met