6 great books and 7 questionable films: poetry, experimental cinema and more (March report)

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[@ocdtdc]

I always appreciate your defense of Lolita. It remains so misunderstood despite being such a popular book.

[@Pazoo_underscore]

books mentioned: 1) louise gluck's poetry 1962-2020 2) women in power - Mary Beard 3) strange land - tracy emin 4) tracy emin- Johnathon Jones 5) letters to vera - vladimir nabokov 6) lolita - nabokov

[@bianquita1]

It's Nabokov.

[@Pazoo_underscore]

@@bianquita1 oops I'll change that, thanks

[@Conallycassady]

Ty

[@sweetviolents29]

You know the sound your throat makes when you wake up in the middle of the night *knowing* that a bug just squeezed itself down your esophagus? Nabokov named Humbert Humbert after *that* sound. We should not have to tiptoe around Lolita EVER.

[@litchrllyjustagirl]

this information made my day and i will be taking a full shower today, i will eat my breakfast and stay hydrated, thank u sm!

[@remoonyy]

@@litchrllyjustagirlwell done 🙏💋

[@IWitnessStudios]

This is potentially the greatest comment I've read on this godforsaken platform, thank you 🫶

[@joejs7659]

I like Nabokov, he’s charming at first, but his prose gets so carefully crafted that I lust for Anarchy and chaos, it’s like those realistic middle-age paintings of fruits and meat, it makes one tired quickly.

[@BeautifullyTragicxx]

If you're looking for new memoirs, I'd really suggest "I Am I Am I Am" by Maggie O'Farrell, and "Why Fish Don't Exist" By Lulu Miller. "I Am I Am I Am" traces O'Farrell's life through her seven brushes with death. It considers violence, illness, and coming of age as a teenager and young woman into a mother. "Why Fish Don't Exist" is part biography of the taxonomist David Star Jordan who wanted to identify and catalogue all the different kinds of fish, and part memoir of the author's own life and experience researching Jordan's life. It's about the nature of chaos and how people cope in the face of that chaos.

[@whoreforjaneausten]

Mother has watered us 🙌🏻

[@whoreforjaneausten]

This one character from Suture by Nic Brewer said: "I get paid to stay in the hard parts of it [life] long enough to make sense of them." about writing and it stuck with me

[@sweetviolents29]

Wow

[@whoreforjaneausten]

​@@sweetviolents29it's a damn good book, my favourite this year so far. A warning though, there's a lot of body horror in it

[@sweetviolents29]

@@whoreforjaneausten Thanks for the heads up, it looks really cool.

[@alezkha]

this month i read 4 books: the bell jar the stranger kim jiyoung born 1982 minor detail + watched a daring 13 films…

[@sausana2501]

Wow someone wants to off themselves 🤡 all of these in one month? Have mercy

[@kat-jp6bc]

What films? We must know 🫶

[@lakhanchauhan4507]

@@kat-jp6bcyes yes

[@alezkha]

@@kat-jp6bc my favs i watched this month: 13 going on 30 (this was a rewatch!) spider-man across the spider verse (5⭐️) dune poor things knives out the grand budapest hotel emergency ------------------ millers girl joker hereditary nope the godfather harry potter and the chamber of secrets (yes it was my first time watching this movie)

[@alieneleni]

kim jiyoung is truly a must read. i recommend it to so many people bc of how important and and accessible it is

[@tamannayousuf3629]

lady dakota never fails to bring me joy. thanks for sharing your march report. I read a book after almost a year, and finished it 2 days ago. circe by madeline miller. I honestly think madeline is such a brilliant writer, the way she makes millenia old stories feel like they were woven by her own loom is something I have never seen before. circe is such a complex character, and the way she is portrayed is so vulnerable and empowering at the same time. only a woman could write a woman like that. I'm planning on reading homer's odyssey to align references of circe and see the difference in the portrayal of the character. your take on art is so refreshing. waiting for the april issue of this series I'm coming to love.

[@KostaParadise]

Curious to know your thoughts on Poor Things

[@joelharris4399]

A wine glass filled with sunny orange juice is a sure way to usher in the spring Dakota🌅 My first real introduction to Louise Gluck's work came a few months back when I contemplated purchasing her collection in a Montreal bookstore, 'The Wild Iris,' but I ended up choosing Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music instead. Based on her earlier poetry, I didn't particularly find her work personal, it lingered on the abstract plane and thus I found it detached. I'm not easily won over with awards prestige. Jared Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germ and Steel, it didn't make his book academically sound and rigorous. To the contrary, it was quite unfounded in many respects. But that said, it is good to hear you found enjoyment reading Gluck's poetry. I never read Nabokov's Lolita, but I've seen the movie adaption with Jeremy Irons, which I thought was done really well.

[@quinni241]

Books Mentioned: Poems: 1962 - 2020 by Louise Glück (3:23) Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard (6:13) Strangeland by Tracey Emin (7:06) Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones (10:14) Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov (10:54) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (12:33) Films Mentioned: Natural Born Killers dir. Oliver Stone (15:13) The Colour of Pomegranates dir. Sergei Parajanov (16:39) Toni Erdmann dir. Maren Ade (18:13) Miller’s Girl dir. Jade Halley Bartlett (19:16) The Last Year of Darkness dir. Ben Mullinkosson (20:39) Backspot dir. D.W. Waterson (22:09) Touch Me Not dir. Adina Pintilie (23:17) (i myself read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - 5/5 stars, The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader edited by Joan Nestle - 4/5 stars and am almost done with The Unloved by Deborah Levy)

[@bethysbarn]

Thank you so much lovely! 🥰❤️❤️❤️ you’re an angel amongst book nerds! 😂❤❤❤ I truly appreciate that you do this on all the book recommendations ❤

[@quinni241]

@@bethysbarn thanks you’re sweet

[@milaniezh]

16:43 i’m so glad that you've discovered Parajanov's work. he has an Armenian origin, but as a Ukrainian, i’m more familiar with his influence on our culture. his film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” (based on a same-name classical Ukrainian novel) was released in 1965, and the '60s happened to be a period of [second wave] oppressions of Ukrainian intellectuals by Soviet regime. the act of appearance at the premiere was a dangerous political protest on its own. i believe you would like this picture as an artwork, but at the same time, it has a huge historical importance.

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

You always hurt the one you love The one you shouldn't hurt at all You always take the sweetest rose And crush it till the petals fall You always break the kindest heart With a hasty word you can't recall, so If I broke your heart last night It's because I love you most of all

[@nacho6438]

you're so articulate in your thoughts. your perspective is refreshing

[@brunagraca563]

love all of the book recommendations :) this month I read the secret history for the first time and I must say it was brilliant! not sure how i feel about the characters but that honestly just made me like it even more. plus the writing was gorgeous! thank you for recommending it in your videos!

[@courtenaywrites]

For Poetry, I ardently recommend Mariosa di Giorgio's 'I Remember Nightfall'. For Memoir, I again fervidly recommend 'Running With Scissors' by Augusten Burroughs. For Film, I positively recommend 'Reprise', directed by Joachim Trier.

[@elisazouza]

i love these monthy reports

[@infinitynow90]

Natural Born Killers is genuinely a great film, and satire, and liked its critical look at media and romanization of violence and killers, especially when seen in the context of the time it came out. (and agreed about the editing, took a whole 11 months to edit it!!) It makes sense that Tarantino hated it, and he didn't even watch the whole thing, not sure he even watched most of it. Though I do actually like his stuff too. LOVE Toni Erdmann. The Color of Pomegranates was also good, visually reminds me of Tarsem Singh's films, especially The Fall (2006), though they're narrative.

[@juliannearlene7244]

I finally read The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Interesting. Have been reading Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and it is brilliant. Rewatched Nosferatu by Werner Herzog. Beautiful, wonderful film! I love his work documentary and otherwise.

[@biskit8050]

I think you would like the films: Possession (1981), the Seventh Seal (1957), Persona (1966), First Reformed

[@ewlong1031]

I loved your rant. Authors need to be able to explore uncomfortable ideas in order to further honest discourse and the suppression of those subjects helps no one.

[@romanovinwonderland]

Always feel a bit weird when having to admit how great I think Lolita is! Novikov's way with words is just so captivating and down right enjoyable. Good video as always - must give that Tracey Emin one a go!

[@chrissy1510]

I also reread Lolita this month! I completely agree with you, Dakota. It’s a beautiful masterpiece, and I couldn’t be friends with anyone who has a problem with it.

[@bethysbarn]

So weird but a few videos of yours ago I saw and thought I ought to recommend Strangeland to you by Emin cuz I just knew you’d get it and appreciate it! I also thought it was great but I read it when I was a student artist many years ago now and it’s one that has remained in my collection and I refuse to get rid of it 😂❤ you may also like Grayson Perry’s book! ❤

[@laurenschenck5355]

Love you Dakota and I appreciate you so much 💚🫶🏻💜💗

[@emmaberger3748]

Going back to the same cafe to read the same book sounds incredible. I need to do this

[@_gnocchi]

since you ve enjoyed the colour of poegranates, you ll also love Avetik (1992)

[@vansf3433]

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Besides the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

[@liaislonely]

dakota I recommend the 2006 film "the fall" it is so beautiful and poetic!!

[@laurenschenck5355]

Love it beautiful book recommendations and poetry and movies thanks Dakota ❤😊❤

[@candiesyrup]

new dakota warren post !!!

[@ic3peak276]

oh god, here we spiral again in great art rec

[@lilac__heaven]

Lolita is my favorite book of all time. I could talk about it for ages. Thank you for defending it ❤️

[@chocolateoreo6489]

I’m sending you love❤❤❤

[@jaysemitchells497]

Very excited to dive deep into Tracey Emin!

[@paulkendall7890]

I adore your style! ❤❤❤

[@plumdutchess]

0:20 Betrayal. It feels like betrayal. Damn you, ring!

[@KumkumWaskale-yh8og]

Yayy, I love you Dakota ❤❤

[@vansf3433]

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing Sun; Conspiring with him now to load and bless With fruit the vines which round the thatch -eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more , later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o're-brim'd their clamy cells.

[@florenceouellet4445]

My “I’m an adult with autonomy and free will” yet juvenile moment recently was buying Dino chicken nuggets for myself at the grocery store. 5 stars would recommend

[@krjames203]

The Color of Pomegranates is just staggering. Like a movie from an alternate timeline where film evolved along a completely different path.

[@maxkproductions]

natural born killers was written by Tarantino but a bunch of screenwriters came in and turned his basic script into something way better. you can read his script online and it's just a generic crime film, whereas Stone and his writers turned it into something much more meaningful. editing is so good.

[@emmaberger3748]

I recently got broken up with :/ and it sucks. First breakup. Not ready to hear about love yet. But I am ready to hear people talk about it if it’s fictional, maybe, I think

[@elisazouza]

9AM girlll teach me your ways!!!

[@AliceLucindaBronte]

I love you too. I've not really been reading at all. I've been playing Fallout New Vegas but I did buy Emily Dickinson's poems and Sylvia Plath's poems. Well all of Emily's and a significant chunk of Sylvia's. I've also done a little of my own writing, what with being a Poet. Real name: Simon Warwick Beresford. But yeah mostly I've been playing FNV, plus obviously doing boring stuff like my day job. x

[@wellthatsjustduckie]

I did the audio book of Grief is for People by Sloan Crosley which was beautifully written. It didn’t stick with me the way I thought it would, but I loved the structure and how she compared two different types of losses to express how she reacted in her grief and trauma from the experiences. I saw in a past video that you got a copy of Geoff Rickley’s SWIM and I hope you get a chance to read it soon. I’d love to know your thoughts about it.

[@srilankarelaxation5889]

If you like Sandra Hüller you need to watch the film ”Sissi & I” which is a lovely hedonistic, homoerotic film about empress Elizabeth of Austria and her Lady in waiting. The cinematography is magnificent esp for a modern film, and it’s shot on film!!!

[@unimpressedalchemist]

Read (listened to) my first book since 2016 in March. Also watched 45 films + 1 short film

[@davidpendergrass659]

People misunderstand Lolita because they don’t read the forward

[@HeatherMascara]

Yesss if you are interested in something you should go and read books about it, even if you have other books you could read! 🙌🏻

[@sananne3681]

"critical thinking exists for a reason" me every day on bookstagram lol

[@Grimscribe732]

Miller's Girl was made by people who read Nabokov's Lolita and did not understand a thing. All they took from the experience is that people "like" controversial age differences in their media.

[@mvhLinda]

Have you seen Daisies from 1966? I think you would love it! Czechoslovakian surrealist psychological comedy-drama, girlhood hanging from chandeliers.

[@thefatalflaw]

Today was a good day Now it is better

[@unimpressedalchemist]

Not sure if you've seen it already (new here), but I think you'd be into the film Daisies. It's a different side of experimental film in that it is pure chaotic energy. One of the best feminist films of the 60s and got the director banned from making films in her country (Czech Republic) for a decade.

[@misstonix]

i also gave Miller's Girl 1 star... it didn't have anything to say and it was boring. total waste lol

[@ariagrace8117]

The marketing of the movie focuses so much on the age gap and the grooming, that I expected something that at least tries to be interesting? Of course it didn't lol, movies of that kind seem to be made for the scandal, and then call themselves "subversive". (I'm being resentful towards the genre of these kinds of movies, the movie itself was meh, I have no strong feelings on it lol)

[@sabalos]

No need to excuse liking Natural Born Killers. Oliver Stone is kind of a genius, a true mad man of cinema, and often the editing is one of the most impressive aspects - nowhere more so than NBK, where literally every moment is pushed to the limit. You could do worse than watching his other movies! JFK is his masterpiece

[@mouettee]

i hate slip covers too, i have that beautiful edition of carmilla but i had to take it off while reading

[@moonymarss]

this month i read: Amor de Perdição (Love of Perdision, this was for school) by Camilo Castelo Branco and Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) by José Saramago

[@bookoffholicbookwart5945]

Awesome video. It would be amazing if you could mention the books mentioned somewhere❤️

[@natalies1624]

The books i read in march: Cleopatra and Frankenstein, The Girl on the Via Flaminia

[@parisbear6062]

I would like your opinion of "Poor thang" starring Emma Stone film

[@marieke8469]

I’d highly recommend the film ‘the Zone of Interest’ as well. It also features Sandra Hüller and uses a very interesting and new way of conveying the spirit of the holocaust.

[@theodoesthings]

'i learned how to sew for a reason' me, right now, with my leg on the table, sewing up a hole in my trousers whilst wearing them

[@darrenreynolds3531]

Tracy Emin, who was lucky enough to make millions from her Saatchi promoted art had a hissy fit about having to pay tax on it in 2009 threatening to become a tax exile in France and went on to support the tories. Does she talk much about that in her memoir? That’s the only ‘controversial’ thing about her in living memory.

[@jemcore]

dakota you MUST read a little life by hanya yanagihara - you’ll either love or hate it

[@brittanymcmcmc9730]

when she titles "six great books" and proceeds to hold up three dictionaries ☠

[@irinamondiaz3404]

What is your letterbox???

[@AScreenwritersJourney]

Have you seen the Czech New Wave movie DAISIES? For some reason I think you'd like it.

[@lenschowbooks]

The way Martin Freeman acts in interviews, laughing about abusing his children etc., I'm not too surprised tbh

[@Emxcix]

you should read mary by nabokov !! what i loved most about it would be a spoiler unfortunately

[@AScreenwritersJourney]

15:29 The American word for "outback" might be backwoods or sticks.

[@jetsinead]

drop the letterboxd perchance?

[@gregorious111]

girl you are it

[@oziphantom9465]

sitting in first class, sipping orange juice out of a champagne glass!

[@hertyhert112]

Refreshing

[@lilacleg3nd]

where is your lovely blouse from ?

[@laurabee2669]

you should wath The Handmaiden

[@rae_diant]

Miller's girl is a horrible film but i enjoyed it so much, I took it to be really just an absurdist piece. Still not well made but it was a fun watch cuz I went with friends and we were trying not to go insane in the theater.

[@thisisnotrobi]

Is she an infp?

[@yurjohnson3726]

Do u like Dostoevsky

[@bzztthundaa]

❤❤❤

[@hertyhert112]

YAYYA

[@lottevanrijssel]

I love film so much, I think you'll enjoy: Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami : a docu-fiction about a man in trial, but it's reenacted but the people involved act as themselves. It's an amazing film about art, authenticity and identity. It brilliantly blurs the line between fact and fiction Blue Velvet - David Lynch : my favorite director of all time, his films are based a lot around dreams and dream logic. This film is a trip, but the humor and absurdness is AMAZING. I can't explain this movie, just watch it Fantastic Planet - René Laloux : an extremely beautiful animation about human and alien life. It's amazing and thought provoking and kind of trippy. The soundtrack is amazing too. Nowhere - Gregg Araki : this movie is just FUN. Bisexual people looking hot, having sex doing drugs. Also the set production is literally perfect. Perfect 90s flick The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke : his films are extreeeemely uncomfortable, like not in a gore disturbing way but it just gets under your skin. This film is about an extremely interesting and complex woman. Funny games is also really good, but literally everything by him Stranger than Paradise - Jim Jarmush : this film is no plot just vibes. It really hit me, it felt so real. Daisies - Vera Chytilova : experimental feminist film, it's 2 girls being bored, eating food and annoying men hehe Please recommend me films as well, I LOVE it and always want to explore more :)❤

[@girlgroupsgivemelife7460]

Dakota what is your letterboxd pls i need to knoww

[@laurenschenck5355]

Tracey Amber love her so much need to read book ❤😊❤