Top Ten #32

1. Bright Star, dir. Jane Campion

2. Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

3. red beans + rice

4. red flannel hash

fig. a: On Dangerous Ground

5. On Dangerous Ground, dir. Nicholas Ray

fig. b: Border Incident

6. Border Incident, dir. Anthony Mann

7. Dirk Bogarde, A Particular Friendship

8. King of Hearts Drink Book (1955) + Esquire Party Book (1965)

9. The Best of Everything, dir. Jean Negulesco

fig. c: Thanksgiving by Gourmet

10. Gourmet's final issue, November 2009

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Top Ten #19

1. Clare & Carl's, Plattsburgh, NY

2. Black Narcissus, dir. Powell



3. Blonde Redhead, 23

4. Little Dieter Needs to Fly + My Best Fiend + Of Walking in Ice, all by Werner Herzog + Herzog's cameo in Wenders' Tokyo-Ga



5. A Postillion Struck By Lightning, Dirk Bogarde

6. rewatching The Sopranos from scratch

7. Feist, "Sealion"

8. Nick Tosches, "If You Knew Sushi," Vanity Fair, June 2007

9. seafood platter, Au Pied de Cochon

10. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster