Reviews
Works experienced in 2021
- Don Quixote: Part Two (1615)
- Paradise Lost (1667/1674)
- The Last Man (1826)
- “The Storks” (1839)
- Walden (1854)
- The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
- “The Upper Berth” (1894)
- The Turn of the Screw (1898)
- “The New Accelerator” (1901)
- “A Lost Wood” (1925)
- The Great Gatsby (1925)
- “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories” (1928)
- “Thru the Mirror” (1936)
- “Dangerous Dan McFoo” (1939 entry)
- Le jour se lève (1939)
- “Porky’s Picnic” (1939 entry)
- “Snowman’s Land” (1939 entry)
- “Wise Quacks” (1939 entry)
- Between Planets (1951)
- “Operation R.S.V.P.” (1951)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- “Operation Lorelei” (1953)
- “Navy Day” (1954)
- “The Game of Rat and Dragon” (1955)
- “Of Time and Texas” (1956)
- “No Pets Allowed” (1957)
- “Now We Are Three” (1957)
- “Out of This World Convention” (1957)
- Taoism: The Parting of the Way (1957/1965)
- King Creole (1958)
- “The Burning of the Brain” (1958)
- “Golden the Ship Was – Oh! Oh! Oh!” (1959)
- “Operation Haystack” (1959)
- “The Lady Who Sailed The Soul” (1960)
- “The Perfectionists” (1960)
- Two Women (1960)
- “A Planet Named Shayol” (1961)
- “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)
- “Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons” (1961)
- “Pandemic” (1962)
- Silent Spring (1962)
- “The Ballad of Lost C’mell” (1962)
- “The Next Logical Step” (1962)
- “My Friend Bobby” (1963)
- “The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal” (1964)
- “The Dead Lady of Clown Town” (1964)
- “Under Old Earth” (1966)
- Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
- “Beyond the Farthest Star” (1973 episode)
- Japan Sinks (1973, contains 4)
- “More Tribbles, More Troubles” (1973 episode)
- “Mudd’s Passion” (1973 episode)
- “Once Upon a Planet” (1973 episode)
- “One of Our Planets Is Missing” (1973 episode)
- Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973)
- “The Ambergris Element” (1973 episode)
- “The Infinite Vulcan” (1973 episode)
- “The Lorelei Signal” (1973 episode)
- “The Magicks of Megas-Tu” (1973 episode)
- “The Slaver Weapon” (1973 episode)
- “The Survivor” (1973 episode)
- “The Terratin Incident” (1973 episode)
- “The Time Trap” (1973 episode)
- “Yesteryear” (1973 episode)
- “Albatross” (1974 episode)
- “Bem” (1974 episode)
- “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth” (1974 episode)
- “The Counter-Clock Incident” (1974 episode)
- “The Eye of the Beholder” (1974 episode)
- “The Jihad” (1974 episode)
- “The Pirates of Orion” (1974 episode)
- “The Practical Joker” (1974 episode)
- Dhalgren (1975)
- A Discipline of Programming (1976)
- Children of Dune (1976)
- Sayonara Nippon (1977)
- The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 (1977)
- “A-shou satsujin jiken” (1979)
- “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” (1979)
- Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
- Seija ga machi ni yattekuru (1979)
- “Princess Mononoke: The First Story” (1980)
- God Emperor of Dune (1981)
- The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
- Eddie Murphy: Delirious (1983)
- “Recitatif” (1983)
- Eon (1985)
- The Postman (1985)
- “I Want a Garden Like This” (1986)
- The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
- Sphere (1987)
- The Tale of Genji (1987)
- “Petra – den försvunna staden” (1990)
- “A Matter of Time” (1991 episode)
- “Darmok” (1991 episode)
- “Disaster” (1991 episode)
- “Ensign Ro” (1991 episode)
- “Half a Life” (1991 episode)
- “In Theory” (1991 episode)
- “Redemption: Part 1” (1991 episode)
- “Redemption: Part 2” (1991 episode)
- “Silicon Avatar” (1991 episode)
- “The Game” (1991 episode)
- “The Host” (1991 episode)
- “The Mind’s Eye” (1991 episode)
- Time Signs (1991)
- “Unification: Part 1” (1991 episode)
- “Unification: Part 2” (1991 episode)
- “A Fistful of Datas” (1992 episode)
- “Cause and Effect” (1992 episode)
- “Chain of Command: Part 1” (1992 episode)
- “Chain of Command: Part 2” (1992 episode)
- “Conundrum” (1992 episode)
- “Cost of Living” (1992 episode)
- “Ethics” (1992 episode)
- “Hero Worship” (1992 episode)
- “I Borg” (1992 episode)
- “Imaginary Friend” (1992 episode)
- “Man of the People” (1992 episode)
- “New Ground” (1992 episode)
- “Power Play” (1992 episode)
- “Rascals” (1992 episode)
- “Realm of Fear” (1992 episode)
- “Relics” (1992 episode)
- “Schisms” (1992 episode)
- “The First Duty” (1992 episode)
- “The Inner Light” (1992 episode)
- “The Masterpiece Society” (1992 episode)
- “The Next Phase” (1992 episode)
- “The Outcast” (1992 episode)
- “The Perfect Mate” (1992 episode)
- “The Quality of Life” (1992 episode)
- “Time’s Arrow: Part 1” (1992 episode)
- “Time’s Arrow: Part 2” (1992 episode)
- “True Q” (1992 episode)
- “Violations” (1992 episode)
- “A Man Alone” (1993 episode)
- “Aquiel” (1993 episode)
- “Attached” (1993 episode)
- “Babel” (1993 episode)
- “Battle Lines” (1993 episode)
- “Birthright: Part 1” (1993 episode)
- “Birthright: Part 2” (1993 episode)
- “Captive Pursuit” (1993 episode)
- “Dark Page” (1993 episode)
- “Dax” (1993 episode)
- “Descent: Part 1” (1993 episode)
- “Descent: Part 2” (1993 episode)
- “Dramatis Personae” (1993 episode)
- “Duet” (1993 episode)
- Emissary (1993 episode)
- “Face of the Enemy” (1993 episode)
- “Force of Nature” (1993 episode)
- “Frame of Mind” (1993 episode)
- “Gambit: Part 1” (1993 episode)
- “Gambit: Part 2” (1993 episode)
- “If Wishes Were Horses” (1993 episode)
- “In the Hands of the Prophets” (1993 episode)
- “Inheritance” (1993 episode)
- “Interface” (1993 episode)
- “Lessons” (1993 episode)
- “Liaisons” (1993 episode)
- “Move Along Home” (1993 episode)
- “Parallels” (1993 episode)
- “Past Prologue” (1993 episode)
- “Phantasms” (1993 episode)
- “Progress” (1993 episode)
- “Q-Less” (1993 episode)
- “Rightful Heir” (1993 episode)
- “Second Chances” (1993 episode)
- “Ship in a Bottle” (1993 episode)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
- “Starship Mine” (1993 episode)
- “Suspicions” (1993 episode)
- “Tapestry” (1993 episode)
- “The Chase” (1993 episode)
- “The Circle” (1993 episode)
- “The Forsaken” (1993 episode)
- “The Homecoming” (1993 episode)
- “The Nagus” (1993 episode)
- “The Passenger” (1993 episode)
- “The Siege” (1993 episode)
- “The Storyteller” (1993 episode)
- “Timescape” (1993 episode)
- “Vortex” (1993 episode)
- All Good Things (1994 episode)
- “Bloodlines” (1994 episode)
- “Dining in Midair” (1994)
- “Emergence” (1994 episode)
- “Eye of the Beholder” (1994 episode)
- “Firstborn” (1994 episode)
- “Genesis” (1994 episode)
- “Homeward” (1994 episode)
- Il Postino: The Postman (1994)
- “Journey’s End” (1994 episode)
- “Lower Decks” (1994 episode)
- “Manga” (1994)
- “Masks” (1994 episode)
- “Preemptive Strike” (1994 episode)
- “Sub Rosa” (1994 episode)
- “The Pegasus” (1994 episode)
- “Thine Own Self” (1994 episode)
- Time Team (1994)
- “The Battle Between Humans and Ferocious Gods — The Goal of This Film” (1995)
- The Art of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Watercolor Impressions (1996)
- “What Is Important for Children” (1996)
- “Princess Mononoke and the Attraction of Medieval Times: A Dialogue with Yoshihiko Amino” (1997)
- “A Child’s Five Minutes Can Be Equivalent to a Grown-Up’s Year” (1997)
- Cadillac Desert (1997)
- “On Japan’s Animation Culture” (1997)
- The Art of Princess Mononoke (1997)
- “The Elemental Power of the Forest Also Lives Within the Hearts of Human Beings” (1997)
- “Those Who Live in the Natural World All Have the Same Values” (1997)
- “You Cannot Depict the Wild Without Showing Its Bruality and Cruelty: A Dialogue with Tadao Satō” (1997)
- After the Campfires (1998)
- “Animation Directing Class, Higashi Koganei Sonjuku II School Opening: Urging at Least One Seedling to Sprout” (1998)
- “Animation and Animism: Thoughts on the Living ‘Forest’” (1998)
- “Forty-four Questions on Princess Mononoke for Director Hayao Miyazaki” (1998)
- “I Want to Fill the Space Between Myself and the Audience” (1998)
- “Recalling the Days of My Youth” (1998)
- “Sacrifices of the Sky” (1998)
- “The Sky That Saint-Exupéry Flew Through” (1998)
- “To Energize People, Towns and the Land” (1998)
- “What Grown-ups Can Tell Children So That They Can Live in a Happy Time” (1998)
- “Chihiro, from a Mysterious Town — The Goal of this Film” (1999)
- Cryptonomicon (1999)
- “The Hofzinser Club” (1999)
- “Traditional Japanese Aestheticism in Princess Mononoke: An Interview by Roger Ebert” (1999)
- “Notes for the Spirited Away Image Album” (2000)
- “Words of Farewell” (2000)
- “Room to Be Free: Speaking About Spirited Away at the Press Conference Held Upon Completion of the Film” (2001)
- “The Heart That Accepts a ‘Lonely Man’” (2001)
- “‘Don’t Worry, You’ll Be All Right’: What I’d Like to Convey to Children” (2001)
- “Children Have a Future That Transcends ‘Imagination’” (2002)
- “It’s a Tough Era, But It May Be the Most Interesting of All: A Conversation with Tetsuya Chikushi” (2002)
- “Nothing Makes Me Happier Than Watching Children Enjoy Themselves” (2002)
- “On the Film Dark Blue World: A Dialogue with Producer Toshio Suzuki” (2002)
- “Once Again, a World Where People Believe Everything Is Alive: A Dialogue with Tetsuo Yamaori” (2002)
- “So, Where Do We Go From Here?” (2002)
- “The Lights of Zenshōen” (2002)
- “This Is the Kind of Museum I Want to Make” (2002)
- “We Should Each Start Doing What We Can” (2002)
- Chappelle’s Show (2003)
- “The End of the World” (2003)
- “Proposal for an Original Animated Short Titled ‘Mon Mon the Water Spider,’ for the Saturn Theater in the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka” (2004)
- “Proposal for ‘House Hunting’” (2004)
- “Proposal for ‘The Day I Bought a Star’” (2004)
- “The Fujimi Highland Is Fascinating” (2002/2004)
- “Two Pages Are Fine. Just Draw Them!” (2004)
- “An Attempt at a Short Film: Remarks on Accepting the Japan Foundation Award for 2005” (2005)
- “I’ve Always Wanted to Create a Film About Which I Could Say, ‘I’m Just Glad I Was Born, so I Could Make This’” (2005)
- “Remark to the Staff of the Ghibli Museum at the Screening of ‘Mon Mon the Water Spider,’ ‘The Day I Bought a Star,’ and ‘House Hunting’” (2005)
- “Robert Westall’s Blackham’s Wimpey: Proposal for a Book with a Supplementary Guide of Random Thoughts” (2005)
- “The Question Is Whether You Really Find It Interesting or Not” (2005)
- “What’s Important for the Spirit: Text of a Speech to Be Given on the Occasion of Receiving the Japan Foundation Award for 2005” (2005)
- “A Man Who Lived Bravely, Confronting a Tough Reality” (2006)
- “Feeling Responsible for the Future of Children and Not Wanting to Make Halfhearted Films” (2006)
- “Memories of Lost Landscapes: On Genzaburō Yoshino’s Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiruka” (2006)
- “On Ponyo” (2006)
- “Republica and Grau” (2006)
- The Road (2006)
- “Welcome to the Ghibli Forest Short Film ‘House Hunting’” (2006)
- “Welcome to the Ghibli Forest Short Film ‘Mon Mon the Water Spider’” (2006)
- “Welcome to the Ghibli Forest Short Film ‘The Day I Bought a Star’” (2006)
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006)
- “Worlds of Insects, Trees and Humans: A Dialogue with Takeshi Yōrō” (2006)
- “Snezhnaya Koroleva (The Snow Queen): A Film That Made Me Think Animation Was Worthy Work” (2007)
- “From the Anthill: An Introduction” (2006/2007)
- “House of Three Bears” (2007)
- “Memo on Music for Joe Hisaishi” (2007)
- “Tideline” (2007)
- “Words of Farewell” (2007)
- Turning Point: 1997–2008 (2008/2014)
- “Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth” (2009)
- “The Water Museum” (2009)
- Easy Money (2010)
- Repo Men (2010)
- “Black Betty” (2011)
- Limitless (2011)
- “Staying Behind” (2011)
- Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)
- “Miracle” (2012)
- “Mono no Aware” (2012/2013)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
- Boyhood (2014)
- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
- “Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball” (2014)
- Minions (2015)
- Our Little Sister (2015)
- The Hateful Eight (2015)
- The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
- After the Storm (2016)
- “As Worlds Collide” (2016)
- “History of Japan” (2016)
- Atomica (2017)
- “Dave Chappelle: Equanimity” (2017)
- “Dave Chappelle: The Bird Revelation” (2017)
- Deep in the Heart of Texas: Dave Chappelle Live at Austin City Limits (2017)
- First They Killed My Father (2017)
- Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017)
- “History of the Entire World, I Guess” (2017)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- My Friend Dahmer (2017)
- “Sista skörden” (2017)
- The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium (2017)
- The Deminer (2017)
- “The Regression Test” (2017)
- The Third Murder (2017)
- Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018)
- “Cuisine des Mémoires” (2018)
- Metsän viisi vihreä veljestä (2018)
- “SPAM” (2018)
- Shoplifters (2018)
- The American Meme (2018)
- “The End of the World: Probably For Real This Time” (2018)
- Bin och människor: Om bin och biskötare i religion, revolution och evolution samt många andra bisaker (2019)
- Captive State (2019)
- Castle of Blood (2019)
- Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones (2019)
- “Dragons & Damsels” (2019)
- “Dune Song” (2019)
- Faith and the Flesh (2019 entry)
- “Ian Hislop’s Fake News: A True History” (2019)
- Midsommar (2019)
- Mob Psycho 100 II (2019)
- “Mob Psycho 100 II: The First Spirits and Such Company Trip — A Journey that Mends the Heart and Heals the Soul” (2019)
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
- The Beast in the Trenches (2019 entry)
- The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
- The Lighthouse (2019)
- The Wicked and the Damned (2019)
- The Woman in the Walls (2019 entry)
- “Troll Bridge” (2019)
- Us (2019)
- Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
- “And There Was Music” (2020)
- “Canvas” (2020)
- “Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel” (2020)
- Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2020)
- “Feels Good Man” (2020)
- “Kubrick by Kubrick” (2020)
- “Low Energy Economy” (2020)
- Megapolis: The Ancient World Revealed (2020)
- “Nature’s Fear Factor” (2020 entry)
- “On Thin Ice” (2020)
- The Hobbit: The Bilbo Edition (2015/2020)
- “Tystnaden – en film om Silence, musiken och tiden” (2020)
- “Your Rover Is Here” (2020)
- Zappa (2020)
- America After 9/11 (2021 entry)
- Army of the Dead (2021)
- Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest (2021)
- “Day Zero” (2021)
- Dune (2021)
- “Ett par dagar i november med Jan Troell” (2021)
- “Here Comes the Sun” (2021)
- Let’s Make a Mug Too (2021)
- Life in Colour (2021)
- Länge leve demokratin (2021)
- Outside the Wire (2021)
- “Raising a School Shooter” (2021)
- Seaspiracy (2021)
- “Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed” (2021)
- Stowaway (2021)
- The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)
- “The Universe of Fish” (2021)
- Vi är barn av vår tid – En film om Nationalteatern (2021)