Angry Monkey Films: December 2008

Another monkey from Tito's collection of stuffed admirers... Lena Philipson photo.

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"The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life" By Tom Reiss
"Journey of the Pink Dolphins: an Amazon Quest" by Sy Montgomery
"Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras" by Harry A. Franck
"The Mauritius Command" by Patrick O'Brien
"H.M.S. Surprise" by Patrcik O'Brien
"Post Captain" by Patrick O'Brien
"Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brien
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Inception
"The White Rock" by Hugh Thompson
"A Sacred Landscape: The Search for Ancient Peru" by Hugh Thompson
"Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest" by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
"The Prince of the Marshes: and other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq" by Rory Stewart
"Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru" by Tahir Shah
The Expendables
Only Angels Have Wings
Tom Jones (with Albert Finney)
Workingman's Death
Lost in La Mancha
The Wolfman (Lon Chaney)
"Frankenstein" (1931)
"Goldfinger" by Ian Fleming
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
"The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the 21st Century" by Thomas P.M. Barnett
"A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq" by Col. Gerald Schumacher" by
U.S. Special Forces : A Guide to America's Special Operations Units" by Samuel A. Southworth & Stephen Tanner
"Beyond the Mexique Bay" by Aldous Huxley
Edge of Darkness
Top Hat
The Smiling Lieutenant
Some Like It Hot
"The Coming Anarchy" by Robert Kaplan
Monsters Vs. Aliens
Sabrina (original)
A Hard Day's Night
The Empire Strikes Back
The Man Who Would Be King
Lawrence of Arabia
Singing In the Rain
"The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu" by Kira Salak
"KGB/CIA: Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Operations" by Celina Bledowska and Jonathan Bloch
"Sex With Kings: 500 years of adultery, power, rivalry and revenge" by Eleanor Herman
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
"Bad Lands: A Tourist on the Axis of Evil" by Tony Wheeler
"An Archeological Guide to Northern Central America" by Joyce Kelly
"Along the Inca Road: A Woman's Journey into an Ancient Empire" by Karin Muller
"Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer" by Chuck Thompson
"Highway 61: A Father-and-Son Journey Through the Middle of America" by William McKeen
"The Elder Brothers: a lost South American people and their message about the fate of the earth" by Alan Ereira
"Alexander's Tomb: The Two Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquerer" by Nicholas J. Saunders
"Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons" by Al J. Venter
"Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him" by Donald Rayfield
"Pursuit of Honor" by Vince Flynn
"The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese" by Margaret Hathaway
"The Border: Exploring the U.S.-Mexico Divide" by David J. Danelo
"Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas" by Matthew O'Brien
"Treasure of Khan" by Clive and Dirk Cussler
"The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet" by Heraldo Munoz
"Race Against Evil" by David Race Bannon
"Armed; New Perspectives on Gun Control" by Gary Kleck and Don B. Kates
"Legends and Lies : Great Mysteries of the American West" by Dale L. Walker
"Dreamsongs: Volume 1" by George R.R. Martin
"The Modern Mercenary: Dog of War or Soldier of Honor" by Peter Tickler
"Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq" by Steve Fainaru
"Nothing to Lose" by Lee Child
"Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945" by Boris Gorbachevsky
"Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky
"Alexander"
"Just How Stupid are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter" by Rick Shenkman
"The Cleaner" by Brett Battles
"Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions" by Richard Cohen
"Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces" by Linda Robinson
"American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly
"The Kill Bill Diary" by David Carradine
"J.R.R. Tolkein: Author of the Century" by Tom Shippey
"The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood" by Mark Kurzem
"Extreme Measures" by Vince Flynn
"Roads to Quoz: An American Mosy" by William Least Heat-Moon
"Horse Soldiers" by Doug Stanton
District Nine
"Blood River" by Tim Butcher
"The Fifth Woman" by Henning Mankell
"Rush" by Kim Wozencraft
"A Painted House" by John Grisham
"Tsar" by Ted Bell
"Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
"American Nerd" by Benjamin Nugent
"Elvis and Nixon" by Jonathan Lowy"
"A Game of Thrones", "A Storm of Swords," & "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin
"The Sweet Trade" by Elizabeth Garrett
"Mask Market" by Andrew Vachss
Star Trek
"The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
"People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks
"Getting Rich First: Life in a Changing China" by Duncan Hewitt
"The Day of Creation" by J.G. Ballard
"Absurdistan" by Gary Shteyngart
"36 Yalta Boulevard" by Olen Steinhauer
The Prestige
The Illusionist
"World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" by Max Brooks
"Restless" by William Boyd
"Afghan Wars: Battles in a Hostile Land 1839 to the Present" by Edgar O'Ballance
"The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova
"The Girl Who Played With Fire" by Stieg Larsson
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
"The West Wing" season 1
"Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam" by Robert Dreyfuss
"Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001" by Steve Coll
Don't Mess With the Zohan
"In the Country of Men" by Hisham Matar
Die Hard II: Die Harder
"The L Word" Season One
"The Sirens of Baghdad" by Yasmina Khadra
"Captain Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis de Berniéres
The Wild Geese
Gran Torino
"Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid
"Naked Pueblo" by Mark Poirier
"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel García Márquez
"The Bad Girl" by Mario Vargas Llosa
"Bright Shiny Morning" by James Frey
"The Big Book of Pain: Torture and Punishment Through History" by Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl
"Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War" by Chris Bellamy
"Ancient Rome and Modern America" by Margaret Malamud
"My Mother's Lovers" by Christopher Hope
"When the Women Come Out to Dance" by Elmore Leonard
"Martyrs' Crossing" by Amy Willentz
Män Som Hatar Kvinnor
"Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times" by Amitav Ghosh
"The Debt to Pleasure" by John Lanchester
Clerks II
Queen Christina
"Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn
"American Lightening: Terror, Mystery, The Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century" by Howard Blum
Wanted
300
The Transformers
Shoot 'Em Up
"The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
"A Partisan's Daughter" by Louis de Berniéres
"What I Know" by Andrew Cowan
"The Spanish Game" by Charles Cumming
1492: Conquest of Paradise
The Foreigner
The Glimmer Man
"How To Be Good" By Nick Hornby
"High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanemo Bay
"In Cold Blood" By Truman Capote
"The Geographer's Library" by Jon Fasman
"Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947" by Ahron Bregman
"Last Rituals" by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Ratatouille
"Earthly Remains: The History and Science of Preserved Human Bodies" by Andrew T. Chamberlain & Michael Parker Pearson
"Abyssinian Chronicles" by Moses Isegawa
"Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea" by James P. Delgado
"Paperback Raita" by William Rhode
Don't Mess With the Zohan
"Al-Jazeera" by Hugh Miles
We Were Soldiers
"The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle: Israeli Lives" by Igal Sarna
"Dog Soldiers" by Robert Stone
"The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts" by Louis De Berniéres
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
"Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak" by Jean Hatzfeld
"The Garden of Eden" by Ernest Hemingway
"Doghouse Roses" by Steve Earle
"Blinding Light" by Paul Theroux
Pulp Fiction
"To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, Fire Down Below) by William Golding
Quantum of Solace
"The Interrogator's War: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda" by Chris Mackey with Greg Miller
"The Shelters of Stone" by Jean M. Auel
"General From the Jungle" by B. Traven
"The Rebellion of the Hanged" by B. Traven
"The Wizard of Oz" (film)
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
"The Scorpio Illusion" by Robert Ludlum
"The Bourne Supremacy" by Robert Ludlum
"The Half Brother" by Lars Saabye Christensen
"Brick Road" by Monica Ali
"Under Siege"
"The Plains of Passage" by Jean M. Auel
"Damascus: A History" by Ross Burns
"Fear and Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976" by Hunter S. Thompson
"No Logo" by Naomi Klein
Spike Lee's "The Inside Man"
"The Dark Knight"
"The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein
"Columbo" Season 1
"Palace Walk" by Naguib Mahfouz
"Hancock"
"An Iraqi in Paris" by Samuel Shimon
"Chronicler of the Winds" by Henning Mankell
"Beyond Ararat: A Journey Through Eastern Turkey" by Bettina Selby
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
"Archangel" by Robert Harris
"Tales of the Unexpected" by Roald Dahl
"SSN" by Tom Clancy
"The Talisman" by Steven King & Peter Straub
"Advocate" by Bill Mesce Jr. & Steven G. Szilagyi
"Wild Swans (Three Daughters of China)" by Jung Chang
"A Breach of Promise" by Anne Perry
"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkein
"The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture" edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky
"Kosovo: A Short History" by Noel Malcolm
"Angelgård" a Swedish Film
"The Cossacks" by John Ure
"Victory at Sea" Volume 1
"Enemy at the Gates"
"Darling" a Swedish Film
"Lenin's Tomb" by David Remnick
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West"
"We Were Soldiers"
"Borderland: A Journey Through The History of Ukraine" by Anna Reid
"The Clothesline" and "After the Last Sky" two documentaries on Palestine
"The Matador"
"Koba the Dread" by Martin Amis
"My Other Life" by Paul Theroux
"The Last Letter Home" by Vilhelm Moberg
"Hemingway's Chair" by Michael Palin
"The Clash of Fundamentalisms" by Tariq Ali
"News From El Salvador: The Children of the Mangroves" a film by Andrew J. Tonn
"The Great War For Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East" by Robert Fisk
"Travels in Nepal" by Charlie Pye-Smith
"Frazier" Season Three
"The Jewel of the Nile"
Roman Polanski's "Pirates"
"Afghan Muscles," a Danish produced documentary about bodybuilders in present-day Afghanistan
"The Settlers" by Vilhelm Moberg
The Bourne Ultimatum
"Unto A Good land" by Vilhelm Moberg
"Nations in Transition: Ukraine" by Steven Otfinoski
Masjevlar (a Swedish film)
"The Moon is Down" by John Steinbeck
"We the Living" by Ayn Rand
"20 RFSL Rådgivningen Skåne"
Saving Private Ryan
"Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film" by Erik Barnouw
"Girls of Riyadh" by Rajaa Alsanea
"Skyline" by Patricia Schonstein Pinnock
"In the Blink of an Eye" by Walter Murch
"West With the Night" by Beryl Markham
"On Love" by Alain de Botton
"Inevitable Revolutions" by Walter LaFeber
The Blues Brothers
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
"The A Team" Season Two
The Kingdom
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
"The Closer" Season One
The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg

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