The Movies I Watched in January

Abducted in Plain Sight 2017  7

 Annihilation 2018  7

 

Between Earth and Sky 2018  6

Birders 2019  6

Boy Interrupted 2009  7 

Clown 2019  5 

Cropsey 2009  6

Curse of the Swamp Creature 1968  2 

The Dig 2021  6

Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer 2019  7

Fando y Lis 1968  6

Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009  7

A Field in England 2013  7 

A Fig Leaf For Eve 1944 5

Fog Island 1945  5

His House 2020  7

 

Holy Hell 2016  6

I'm Your Woman 2020  7

Indignation 2016  7

 

Leave it to Beaver Season 1 1957  7

 

Magellan 2017  6 

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) 2017  7

 The Missing Season 1 2014  7

The Missing Season 2 2016  7

 

Mom and Dad 2017  6

The Snow Creature 1954  4

Sonny Boy 2011  6

Staying Alive 1983  5

Sylvie's Love 2020  7
 

Too Late For Tears 1949  7

 

The Tracey Fragments 2007  6

La vérité 2019  6

First Lines: Philip Roth - American Pastoral

The Swede. During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete.

First Lines: Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater

Either forswear fucking others or the affair is over.

First Lines: Philip Roth - Operation Shylock

I learned about the other Philip Roth in January 1988, a few days after New Year, when my cousin Apter telephoned my in New York to say that Israeli radio had reported tat I was in Jerusalem attending the trial of John Demjanjuk, the man alleged to be Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka.

First Lines: Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer

It was the last daylight hour of a December afternoon more than twenty years ago - I was twenty-three, writing and publishing my first short stories, and like many a Bildungsroman hero before me, already contemplating my own massive Bildungsroman - when I arrived at his hideaway to meet the great man.

First Lines: Philip Roth - Indignation

About two and a half months after the well-trained divisions of North Korea, armed by the Soviets and Chinese Communists, crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea on June 25, 1950, and the agonies of the Korean War began, I entered Robert Treat, a small college in downtown Newark named for the city's seventeenth-century founder.

First Lines: Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus

The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses.

First Lines: Philip Roth - Nemesis

The first case of polio that summer came early in June, right after Memorial Day, in a poor Italian neighborhood crosstown from where we lived.

New Stuff: Philip Roth

I haven't even read his last novel yet, and here's already the next one...

First Lines: Philip Roth - The Human Stain

It was in the summer of 1998 that my neighbor Coleman Silk - who, before retiring two years earlier, had been a classics professor at nearby Athena College for some twenty-odd years as well as serving for sixteen more as the dean of the faculty - confided to me that, at the age of seventy-one, he was having an affair with a thirty-four-year-old cleaning woman who worked down at the college.

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