A book and a film, summer 2024

film bookshelf for fun

Have really enjoyed a couple things I watched and/or read lately.

Perfect Days, dir. Wim Wenders (movie)

The premise (a few days in the life of a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo) is going to polarize; if you are immediately interested, you are primed for the film you are about to see. One incredible performance anchors this moving, meditative movie.

The Wheel of Doll, by Jonathan Ames (book)

The Doll series is about as hard-boiled of a crime novel as you can get, except Jonathan Ames writes with the beauty of Fitzgerald and with a protagonist who is basically a more sensitive and neurotic Bukowski. I couldn't put it down. Also definitely written by a man who owns a small dog.