I am very keen on theatre, especially on Dario Fo's plays. I have played several comedies acting in the "Theatrical Company of Murano" directed by Lino Toffolo.
Groucho Marx, Ettore Petrolini or another bloody clever comedian of the 30s.
U2
8&1/2 by Federico Fellini. I like Vittorio De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti, Ingmar Bergman. Of the Americans Woody Allen, Tarantino, Soderbergh and very few others.
Television sucks.
Every book by Charles Henry Bukowski, especially his novels. I like Hemingway and some of the italians too: Fenoglio, Moravia, Pasolini.