Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
by David Sheff ()
average customer review: 
(243)
Expanding on his New York Times Magazine article, Sheff chronicles his son's downward spiral into addiction and the impact on him and his family. A bright, capable teenager, Nic began trying mind- and mood-altering substances when he was 17. In months, use became abuse, then abuse became addiction.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2011 at 8:17 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Books, Listened to
Two for the Road
by Stanley Donen (2005-11-01)
20th Century Fox (111 minutes)
average customer review: (120)
On their third identical voyage from London to the Riviera, Joanna Wallace and husband Mark explore their 12-year marriage in a series of wry and illuminating flashbacks.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 8:20 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched
Three Days of the Condor
by (1999-08-17)
Paramount (117 minutes)
average customer review: (128)
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 6:37 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched
Never Let Me Go
by Mark Romanek (2011-02-01)
20th Century Fox (103 minutes)
average customer review: 
(110)
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Friday, March 25, 2011 at 6:27 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched
The Runaways
by Floria Sigismondi (2010-07-20)
Sony (106 minutes)
average customer review: 
(131)
In adapting Cherie Currie's memoir, Neon Angel, Floria Sigismondi focuses on three figures. Sensing imminent stardom, Sunset Strip impresario Kim Fowley brings together blond Bowie fanatic Cherie with raven-haired rocker Joan Jett.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Friday, March 25, 2011 at 4:02 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched
The Memory Thief
by Gil Kofman (2010-03-09)
7th Art / Walking Shadows (94 minutes)
average customer review: (3)
A growing obsession with the Holocaust exacerbates the mental breakdown of a lonely tollbooth operator.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 7:12 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by ()
average customer review: ()
If there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture. Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers; Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Friday, March 18, 2011 at 8:32 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Books, Listened to
Il Divo
by Paolo Sorrentino (2009-10-27)
MPI HOME VIDEO (110 minutes)
average customer review: (12)
For more than 50 years, he has been Italy's most powerful, feared and enigmatic politician. As Giulio Andreotti begins his seventh term as Prime Minister, he and his faction take control of a country reeling from the brazen murders of several high-level bankers, judges, journalists, and former Prime Minister Moro.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:25 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Lost interest in
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
by RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN ()
average customer review: 
(2)
This revealing account of the postwar administration of Iraq, by a former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, focusses on life in the Green Zone, the American enclave in central Baghdad. There the Halliburton-run (and Muslim-staffed) cafeteria served pork at every meal—a cultural misstep typical of the Coalition Provisional Authority, which had sidelined old Arab hands in favor of Bush loyalists.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 3:47 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Books, Listened to
Marple: The Body in the Library
by (2007-10-09)
Acorn Media (372 minutes)
average customer review: (28)
A young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur.
Email this, No Comments, Permalink
Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 11:41 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched
