Here are the books and movies, experiences and encounters that I’d rated 4 Ripples this year. Click on the links to read my reviews.
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Mustang (Review upcoming)
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Worthy mentions ~ ~ ~ 1/2 Ripples
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At the Cineplex, I’d also enjoyed four National Theatre Live performances on screen direct from the London stage. All of these are memorable. CLICK HERE to read my post on the first three, and HERE for Hamlet:
The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard
The View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (with Benedict Cumberbatch)
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As in years past, the number of books I’ve read is only about half of the films I’ve seen, a stat that I’d like to improve in the future. Here are the Top Ripples in books I’ve read in 2015, not all published in this year obviously.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry
Leavings by Wendell Berry
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
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Here, I must mention my 4 Ripple Experience: Fall Foliage Road Trip across four New England States two weeks in Sept/Oct., prompting me to write 10 blog posts when I came back. Starting here.
Another 4 Ripple Encounter is attending the Merchant Ivory Retrospective in December. I’d never thought I could actually see director James Ivory in person. And so I did. It was fascinating listening to the 87 year-old, legendary director who’d brought us A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), and many other literary to film adaptations talk about the working dynamics of Ismael Merchant, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and himself in the creative process.
Here’s a photo of the occasion, a Q & A session with film critic Katherine Monk after the screening of Heat and Dust, adaptation of the Man Booker winning novel (1983) by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:
And that’s a wrap for 2015.
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Related posts you might like to read:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Tribute to Rootlessness
Can a Movie Adaptation Ever be as Good as the Book
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