Ladies and gentlemen…
July 18, 2008 by Jeffrey Overstreet
Posted in Cyndere's Midnight | 2 Comments
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Cyndere’s Christmas Bonus
For a limited time: Pick up any three books by Jeffrey Overstreet for Christmas gifts, send him a photograph of the books in your hands, and he'll send you a signed Auralia's Colors/Cyndere's Midnight poster. You'll find Cyndere's Midnight, Auralia's Colors, and Through a Screen Darkly in bookstores and on booksites everywhere. Try Barnes and Noble and Third Place Books.
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Visit the Looking Closer home page to access Jeffrey Overstreet's archive of reviews, interviews, and more.•
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Jeffrey reviews movies for Christianity Today and writes a monthly column on film named after his book: Through a Screen Darkly.
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Jeffrey is a contributing editor for Response magazine, published at Seattle Pacific University.
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Have you read Jeffrey’s books?
Auralia's Colors
Auralia's Colors, Jeffrey Overstreet's first novel, available in bookstores everywhere. The reviews are in. Did you miss the release parties? Listen to one of them at THE KINDLINGS MUSE.The Auralia Thread is a 4-book series: Auralia's Colors, Cyndere's Midnight, Cal-raven's Ladder (2010), and an as-yet-untitled conclusion (2011?)
Order Auralia's Colors from: Barnes and Noble.com.
Visit Auralia here.
Through a Screen Darkly
Through a Screen Darkly, Jeffrey's travelogue of "dangerous moviegoing." It's a memoir, a guide to the best movies you've never seen, a resource for discussion groups and classes, and an archive of amusing anecdotes drawn from interviews with filmmakers, movie stars, and cantankerous cinephiles.
"Compelling. Two thumbs up!"
- *Starred Review* in Publisher's Weekly
"Inspirational. Sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and [Overstreet's] book is going to remind many of us about it."- Darren Aronofsky, director of Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain
Order Through a Screen Darkly from: Barnes and Noble.com.
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Read all you want. I’ll write more.
contributions to Response magazine
...and here's my viewing journal for 2008.
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Favorite Films of 2008 (so far)
In no particular order...
- Ballast - 2008 - dir. Lance Hammer
- The Band's Visit - 2007 - dir. Eran Kolirin
- The Dark Knight - 2008 - dir. Christopher Nolan
- Days and Clouds - 2007 - dir. Silvio Soldini
- Encounters at the End of the World - 2008 - dir. Werner Herzog
- The Fall - 2008 - dir. Tarsem
- Flight of the Red Balloon - 2007 - dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days - 2007 - dir. Christian Mungiu
- The Grocer's Son - 2007 - Eric Guirado
- Heading South - 2006 - dir. Laurent Cantet
- Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - 2008 - Guillermo Del Toro
- Honeydripper - 2007 - John Sayles
- In Bruges - 2008 - Martin McDonagh
- The Island (Ostrov) - 2006 - Pavel Lounguine
- Man On Wire - 2008 - dir. James Marsh
- Munyurangabo - 2007 - dir. Lee Isaac Chung
- My Kid Could Paint That - 2007 - Amir Bar-Lev
- The Orphanage - 2007 - dir. Juan Antonio Bayona
- Shotgun Stories - 2007 - dir. Jeff Nichols
- Syndromes and a Century - 2006 - dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Synecdoche, New York - 2008 - Charlie Kaufman
- Trouble the Water - 2008 - Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
- U2 3D - 2007 - dir. Mark Pellington, Catherine Owens
- The Visitor - 2008 - dir. Thomas McCarthy
- WALL•E - 2008 - dir. Andrew Stanton
Recent DVDs I recommend for film-lovers' personal collections:
- The New World - Extended Cut - dir. Terrence Malick
- The Earrings of Madame de... - dir. Max Ophuls
- There Will Be Blood - dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - dir. Terry Gilliam
- Twin Peaks - the Definitive Gold Box edition - dir. David Lynch
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Poetry time!
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Looking good. By the way, whatever happened to the Wall-E poster contest?
Congrats! I’ll keep an eye out for it on the 16th, then!