Top 10 Books and Films of 2024
I don't care when they came out, here are ten films and ten books I enjoyed in no particular order
I don't understand people who produce those end-of-year lists full of dozens of books or films that all came out this year. How do they have the time to keep up with it all? I advocate just listing those things you enjoyed. Here are mine.
Top Ten Films of 2024
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, 2024)
The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023)
Tish (Paul Sng, 2023)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)
The High Frontier (John Butler, 2024)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
The Apprentice (Ali Abassi, 2024)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin, 2020)
Top Ten Books of 2024
Phantom Limb by Chris Kohler
Middlemarch George Eliot
Unmastered: A Book on Desire Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel
The Ordeal of Civility by John Murray Cuddihy
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru
Social Sculpture by Sarah Lowndes
Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq by Julian Stallabrass
The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
