180 of 1001 Movies: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

If you were someone who had to study film in school, or you have gotten curious about the history of it yourself then you most likely at some point encountered The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari somewhere as it is noted as being one of the most influential films in existence, and even though it is classified as horror it's influence spans as far as film noir to other horror films with it's expressionist style. The costumes even remind you of something that punks in the 70's and 80's were wearing, and the goths were wearing when I was in high school.

Summary: The story begins with Francis narrating the story to another person at an asylum, so he can explain how he has arrived there. In a series of flashbacks we then see how the mysterious, Dr. Caligari and a somnambulist that he keeps in a cabinet and hypnotizes know as Cesare. He keeps Cesare on display at a fair that is travelling through. The somnambulist also is said to tell the future. Francis' life becomes wrapped in the horrors of Dr. Caligari and Cesare as he tries to investigate mysterious murders that are taking place upon his arrival.

10 of 1001 Books: D.H Lawerence's Women In Love

After reading The Rainbow I may have got a little more excited than I should have to read Women in Love. Women in Love though seems like a lot more philosophical pondering and less story than The Rainbow had. Ursula almost seems to all have but forgotten the past rocky loves she had, and Gundrun is her sister that is more expanded on in this novel. What keeps the novel a bit more interesting is the two men they fall for, who seem to have a bit of a crush on each other. I would have appropriately retitled this one Men In love.

Summary: Gundrun is an art teacher, and Ursula is still a school teacher, but the two somehow seem to have also fallen into a higher society at the introduction of Hermoine that is apart from the lifestyle they grew up in Beldover in. The two women meet Rupert and Gerald, who are best friends. Ursula falls for Rupert, and Gundrun falls for Gerald. You can't help to wonder why the artist falls for the industrialist though while the school teacher falls for the more intellectual of the two. The reverses just seem better suited. While the women just want the men to love them, it seems the men seem to debacle with their own feelings toward each other, and their own places in the world and what drives them.