november 1–15, 2015

Books

  • Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, translated by Isabel Quigley
  • Umberto Eco, Numero Zero, trans. Richard Dixon
  • Chester Himes, All Shot Up
  • Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem
  • Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk
  • Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment, trans. Ann Goldstein

Films

  • Red Dust, directed by Victor Fleming
  • 悲情城市 (A City of Sadness), dir. Hou Hisao-Hsien
  • Medea, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Le Mépris (Contempt), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One, dir. Miguel Gomes
  • Duck Soup, dir. Leo McCarey
  • Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One, dir. Miguel Gomes

Exhibits

  • National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Astrological Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Beitou Hot Springs Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

october 16-31, 2015

Books

  • Denise Heywood, Ancient Luang Prabang
  • Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
  • Walter Abish, How German Is It (Wie Deutsch ist es)
  • Henry James, The Other House
  • Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton
  • Interior Address: Paintings by Alex Olson (Notes by M. Malliaris)
  • Bertrand Russell, Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories
  • Michael Allen Zell, Run Baby Run
  • Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door, translated by William Weaver

Films

  • The Window, directed by Ted Tetzlaff
  • Antarctica: A Year on Ice, dir. Anthony Powell
  • Love Streams, dir. John Cassavetes
  • Einmark, dir. Lutz Dammbeck
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, dir. John Cassavetes
  • Bombshell, dir. Victor Fleming
  • Seconds, dir. John Frankenheimer
  • Larry Kramer in Love and Anger , dir. Jean Carlomusto
  • Նռան գույնը (The Color of Pomegranates), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • The Mummy, dir. Karl Freund
  • Opening Night, dir. John Cassavetes

Exhibits

  • Haw Kahm Royal Palace Museum, Luang Prabang, Laos
  • Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre, Luang Prabang, Laos
  • “Threshold Part III,” Bridge Art Space, Bangkok

october 1–15, 2015

Books

  • Muriel Rukeyser, The Orgy
  • Bertrand Russell, Satan in the Suburbs
  • Perry Stieglitz, In a Little Kingdom

Films

  • House of Bamboo, directed by Samuel Fuller
  • Mr. Arkadin (comprehensive version), dir. Orson Welles
  • La danza de realidad (The Dance of Reality), dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Black Widow, dir. Nunnally Johnson
  • News from Home, dir. Chantal Akerman
  • I Am Evel Knievel, dir. Derik Murray

september 16–30, 2015

Books

  • Anne Garréta, Sphinx, translated by Emma Ramadan
  • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
  • Frederik Pohl, The Way the Future Was: A Memoir
  • Robert Walser, Fairy Tales, trans. Daniele Pantano & James Reidel
  • Susan Sontag, Death Kit

Films

  • ฟรีแลนซ์ ห้ามป่วย ห้ามพัก ห้ามรักหมอ (Freelance), directed by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
  • Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon), dir. Fritz Lang
  • The Killers, dir. Robert Siodmak
  • Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), dir. René Clément
  • The Killers, dir. Don Siegel
  • Stage Door, dir. Gregory LaCava
  • Point Blank, dir. John Boorman
  • The Most Secret Place on Earth, dir. Marc Eberle

Exhibits

  • “Dream On,” U Baan Art Station
  • “Pause,” BACC
  • “The Museum of Thai Corruption,” BACC
  • “Ithipol Thangchalok: Abstract: The Truth of Art,” BACC
  • “Proximity Part II: An Art Exhibition of Distance and Relativity,” BACC
  • “Kanghan Group’s Art Exhibition 2015,” People’s Gallery, BACC

september 1–15, 2015

Books

  • Amanda Filipacchi, Love Creeps
  • Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
  • Stefan Zweig, Chess, trans. Anthea Bell
  • Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
  • Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
  • Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Patricia Highsmith, Ripley Under Ground
  • Patricia Highsmith, Ripley’s Game
  • Patricia Highsmith, The Boy Who Followed Ripley
  • Patricia Highsmith, Ripley Under Water
  • Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind

Films

  • Bomb Harvest, directed by Kim Mordaunt
  • A High Wind in Jamaica, dir. Alexander Mackendrick
  • 海街 Diary (Our Little Sister), dir. Hirokazu Koreeda
  • You and Me, dir. Fritz Lang
  • Strangers on a Train, dir. Alfred Hitchcock

august 16–31, 2015

Books

  • Raymond Chandler & Robert B. Parker, Poodle Springs
  • Rita Bottoms, Riffs & Ecstasies: True Stories
  • Hugh Aldersey-Williams, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century
  • Robert B. Parker, Perchance to Dream
  • Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder
  • John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
  • Amanda Filipacchi, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty
  • Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood
Films
  • Siti, directed by Eddie Cahyono
  • Fay Grim, dir. Hal Hartley

august 1–15, 2015

Books

  • Jenny Diski, What I Don’t Know About Animals
  • Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
  • Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude, translated by Michael Henry Heim
  • Benjamin Black, The Black-Eyed Blonde

Exhibits

  • “Raymond Roussel,” Galerie Buchholz
  • “America Is Hard to See,” Whitney Museum

july 16–31, 2015

Books

  • P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
  • Fran Ross, Oreo
  • Susan Sontag, The Benefactor
  • Nell Zink, Mislaid
  • Ronald Johnson, The Book of the Green Man
  • John Keene, Counternarratives
  • Georges Perec, Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere (trans. David Bellos)
  • J. Rodolfo Wilcock, The Temple of Iconoclasts (trans. Lawrence Venuti)

Films

  • Train Wreck, directed by Judd Apatow

june 16–30, 2015

Books

  • Henry James, The Tragic Muse
  • Ronald Firbank, Valmouth
  • Ronald Firbank, The Artificial Princess
  • Ronald Firbank, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli

Films

  • Limelight, directed by Charles Chaplin
  • The Target Shoots First, dir. Christopher Wilcha
  • Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse), dir. Fritz Lang
  • Le sang des bêtes, dir. Georges Franju
  • Safe in Hell, dir. William A. Wellman
  • Vivacious Lady, dir. George Stevens
  • Roberta, dir. William A. Seiter
  • Carefree, dir. Mark Sandrich
  • Le Corbeau, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Lured, dir. Douglas Sirk