Drinks for Halfglass

Here is a list of works to explore for literature and film conversations.

Some items will be introduced as a separate post but tagged “Halfglass” to enable image and video inserts and a discrete thread.

Halfglass people, past and present, check out these if you haven’t and we can keep drinking and sharing here.

Below that is the monthly theme outline to which suggestions can be added as people post replies to this. To many more thirsty evenings together, cheers!

• Roy, Arundhati. “Literature Provides Shelter. That’s Why We Need It.” Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture. The Guardian, 13 May 2019. (abridged transcript)
• Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight. Jonathan Cape, 2019. (novel)
• Panu Trivej. “Nong may pai ngan liang pee mai” [“May Goes to the New Year’s Party”]. Phu ru phu teun phu trorm trom [Knowing, Awakened, Suffering]. Bangkok: Nanmeebooks. 35–43. (short story)
• Chiang, Ted. “The Great Silence.” e-flux 8 May 2015. (short story)
• Ferrerras, Yalitza. “The Letician Age.” Colorado Review 42.2 (2015): 3–20.
• Ali, Mohammed Naseehu. “Ravalushan.” Bomb 131 (2015).
• TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard. Directed by Simon Klose. 2013.

Nature/Environment

• Powers, Richard. The Overstory. W. W. Norton, 2018.
• Chernobyl, HBO, 2019. (TV mini series)
  • Official Trailer (2:38 min.)
  • Episodes
    • 1: “1:23:45” (59 min.)
    • 2: “Please Remain Calm” (1 hr. 5:00 min.)
    • 3: “Open Wide, O Earth”
    • 4: “The Happiness of All Mankind”
  • The Chernobyl Podcast (audio clips)
    • Part One (51:26 min.)
    • Part Two (47:35 min.)
• “David Attenborough on Climate Change: ‘The World Will Be Transformed.'” The Guardian, 29 Nov. 2016. (video clip, 5:52 min.)
• Climate Change: The Facts. Hosted by David Attenborough, BBC, 2019.
• Chen Qiufan. Waste Tide. Translated by Ken Liu, Head of Zeus, 2019. (novel)
• “Faking Volkswagen’s Dieselgate Apology with The Yes Men.” Motherboard, 19 Nov. 2018. (video clip, 11:02 min.)
• “Bhopal Disaster, BBC, The Yes Men,” Razor Foundation, 2007. (video clip, 5:29 min.)
  • “WikiLeaks: ‘Private Spies’ Stratfor Helped Dow Chemical Monitor Bhopal Activists, Yes Men,” Democracy Now!, 28 Feb. 2012. (video clip, 8:56 min.)

Calendar

November: Isolation, Alienation

• Anomalisa. Dirs. Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman. 2015.
• Wittayakorn Chiengkul, “บทสนทนาทาง โทรศัพท์ ในค่ำคืนแห่งความว้าเหว่” [“A Phone Conversation on a Lonely Night”]. ฉันจึงมาหาความหมาย. Bangkok: Foundation of 14 October Academy of Thailand, 2003. 55–61. Print. [short story]

January: Psychological Stories

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Dir. Milos Forman. Perf. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman. Fantasy Films. 1975.
  • Original Theatrical Trailer. Warner Bros. 2014. [2:39 min.]
• Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment. Dir. Ken Musen. BBC. 1992. [documentary]
• The Stanford Prison Experiment. Dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez. 2015.
  • Official Trailer. IFC Films. 2015. (2:44 min.)
• Chiang, Ted. “What’s Expected of Us.” Nature 436 (2005): 150. [short story]
• Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. 1997. New York: Norton, 2009. Print.

February: Love + film blind date

• Captain Fantastic. Dir. Matt Ross. 2016.
  • Official HD Trailer. Bleeker Street. 2016. (2:31 min.)
• Tagore, Rabindranath. “Jayapruksamala.” [“The Victory.”] Trans. Saksri Yamnadda. (short story)
• Intouchables [The Intouchables]. Dirs. Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano.  2011.
  • The Intouchables / Intouchables Trailer. UniFrance. 2014. (1:51 min.)
• Le passé [The Past]. Dir. Asghar Farhadi. 2013.
  • The Past / Le passé Trailer. UniFrance. 2013. (1:41 min.)
• La cage dorée [The Gilded Cage]. Dir. Ruben Alves. 2013.
  • Official HD Trailer. Palace Films. 2013. (1:57 min.)
• Do the Right Thing. Dir. Spike Lee. 1989.
  • Trailer. The Cult Box. 2011. (2:06 min.)
  • Scott, A. O. “Do the Right Thing.” Critics’ Picks. The New York Times. (3:53 min.)
  • Making Do the Right Thing. 40 Acres and a Mule. 1989. (TV documentary; 1 hr. 1:47 min.)
• Seeking Asian Female. Dir. Debbie Lum. 2012. (documentary)
  • Trailer. All So Beautiful. 2013. (3:21 min.)
• The Wind Rises. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Perf. Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto. Studio Ghibli. 2013.
  • The Wind Rises Trailer. TIFF. 2013. (4:16 min.)
  • Official Trailer. Touchstone Pictures. 2013. (2:20 min.)
• Loving. Dir. Jeff Nichols. Perf. Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton. Big Beach. 2016.
  • Official Trailer. Focus Features. 2016. (2:53 min.)
• The Loving Story. Dir. Nancy Buirski. HBO. 2011. (documentary)
• Loving vs. Virginia. Our World. BBC. 2007. (news report; 23:18 min.)

March: Religion and Beliefs

April: Cannes