1. Before Sunrise/Before Sunset: When romance works in movies, it's a beautiful thing, these two films should be seen with someone you love, forget all the rotten Katherine Hegel romantic comedies of today, rent or buy these two movies and fall in love.
2. Ida Lupino in "They Drive by Night": Lupino is like one of the great screen sirens of our time, but she was also much more. Back when women weren't getting work as filmmakers, she broke the barriers and directed many memorable film noirs. She was also a great actress, I most recently saw her breakthrough role in "The Drive By Night", where she steals the film from stars George Raft and Humphrey Bogart. Her final courtroom scene where she cracks up is stellar.
3. Against Interpretation and other essays: By Susan Sontag: I have heard the name Susan Sontag but never really knew what she did. I saw this book in Chapters one day and remembered the name and thought to pick it up to see what she's all about. In this collection of essays made by Sontag in the 1960s, she discusses many forms of art and how it should be perceived. Her main discussions focus on literature, theatre, and film. Sontag's writing seems sometimes above my head, I don't always know what she's talking about, plus many of the books and plays are ones I've either have never seen or never heard of before, but she is a passionate voice about art and some of her essays are opening up a new way I see things.
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