My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)
HAPPY THINGS:
1. Welcoming home my college graduate :-)
2. Listening to live accordion tunes at North Beach Italian festival
3. Surprise ticket to Hamilton to see with friends!
Library:
by Jean-Luc Bannalec
-Mystery, France | Goodreads
FOR face-to-face group, Foreign Mystery Book Club, July pick.
Freebies: from Free Little Library
by Kim Stanley Robinson
-SciFi, Space Opera | Goodreads
FOR a future sci-fi binge reading pile.
AND watched: in theatre
Director/Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloë Sevigny
-Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Zombies | imdb | my rating: 4
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
FUN cast with dark and depressing points made regarding the state of today's world.
Director: Alex Holmes
Star: Tracy Edwards
-Documentary | imdb | my rating: 5
The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
SCREENING included Q&A with director and Tracy Edwards. Amazing story and boat crew that made historical strides for women in the sailing world.
And the story of this vessel continues with a current world tour...
The Maiden will be visiting San Francisco August 21-30, 2019 (details)
AND watched: at Davies Symphony Hall accompanied by orchestra
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Screenplay: James Ivory
Based on book by: André Aciman
Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg
-Drama, Romance, LTBTQ | imdb | my rating: 5
Based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman, this coming-of-age romance evokes the feeling of a golden Italian summer, filled with music, food, art, and the heady feelings of first love. It’s 1983, and amid the sun-kissed landscapes of Lombardy, Italy, a precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending lazy days with his family at their 17th-century summer villa. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome American doctoral student who works as an intern for Elio’s professor father. Little by little, an unexpected bond grows between Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer) that will alter their lives forever. Imbued with hauntingly beautiful original songs by singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, don’t miss the SF Symphony perform this hypnotic score live to film on the big screen. (details)
LOVED it the first time I saw this and loved it again with this special screening. The soundtrack was performed by the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by George Stelluto and composed by Sufjan Stevens.
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