Thursday, February 28, 2013

February Cultural Roundup

Rimbaud's fork & spoon 
as photographed by Patti Smith
Books
Exaltation in Cadmium Red by Sonia Di Placido
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
3 Cities Poems by Whitney French
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty (review here)

Readings
The (Not So) Nice Italian Girls celebrate love and desire ... or the lack thereof, February 7, 2013 at Q Space

Films
Casablanca (U.S., 1942) directed by Michael Curtiz
The Trip -TV Series (U.K., 2010) directed by Michael Winterbottom
Zero Dark Thirty (U.S., 2012) directed by Kathryn Bigelow (review here)
Flight (U.S., 1942) directed by Robert Zemeckis (review here)
Skyfall (U.K./U.S, 2012) directed by Sam Mendes (review here)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (U.S., 2012) directed by Benh Zeitlin (review here)
Lincoln (U.S., 2012) directed by Steven Spielberg
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (U.S., 2012) directed by Stephen Chbosky

Exhibits
Patti Smith: Camera Solo at the Art Gallery of Ontario

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