film, filmmaking, film theory, culture, history, social blending, networking with deep minds, fine art, traveling, costume parties, masquerades, egyptology, dining on the finest wines and foods, classic cars circa 1940s-early 1960s, shipwrecks, 1920s antiques, art deco, surrealism, dadaism, cabaret voltaire, marine life, metaphysics, museums, the universe, trance-like and altered states of consciousness, the Light
I'd like to meet:
outlandish, idiosyncratic, fascinating, cockeyed, and whimsical people; those who have higher sensiblities and magnetic personalities. the more beautiful the better.PERIOD.(.)below is me discussing the making of RETURN TO BABYLON and excerpts.
Music:
rock, disco, new wave, psuedo-electronica, trance, psychedelic, classical, progressive opera, cellos, violins, violas, ennio morricone, bernard herrmann, francis monkman, kate bush, peter gabriel, billy joel, the smiths, alphaville, tears for fears, the eurythmics, roxy music, abba, blondie, the beatles 1967-72, scorpions, styx, the doors, queen, frankie goes to hollywood, fancy, duran duran, panic! at the disco, comedian harmonists, palastorchester & max raabe, josie cotton
Movies:
silent films (particulary those of european and victorian persuasion), psychological thrillers; von stroheim, von sternberg, griffith, eisenstein, hitchcock, kazan, frankenheimer, fellini, forman, polanski, kubrick, herzog, wilder, welles, bertolucci, antonioni, russell, verhoeven, almodovar; and anything with hedy lamarr, bridgette bardot, isabel adjani,beyond the valley of the dolls, shadow of a doubt, rebecca, vertigo, marnie, psycho, some like it hot, suddenly, last summer, the tenant, saturday night fever, grease, v for vendetta, the fourth man (foreign), the others, imitation of life, the manchurian candidate (1962), bonnie and clyde, the conformist (foreign), in a glass cage (foreign), phantom of the opera (1925), ballet mecanique (1924), intolerance, who's afraid of virginia woolf?, a place in the sun, the driver's seat, the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie (foreign), matador (foreign), orphans of the storm (1921), salome (1923), the thin blue line, american gigolo, apartment zero, 8 1/2, farinelli, the hunger, eyes wide shut, the illusionist, the towering inferno, the servant
Television:
vintage television, stock footage, 60 minutes, 20/20, cnn, history chanel, discovery (planet earth series/blue planet series), animal planet, bbc, benny hill show, dallas (who shot JR?), laugh in, donny and marie show, sonny and cher show, carol burnett show, saturday night live in the mid 70s thru early 80s, johnny carson, forensic files, anderson cooper 360
Books:
film biographies, history of cinema and related subjects, reference books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, anne rice, christopher rice, ernest hemingway, theodore dreiser, gore vidal; animal farm, memoirs of a geisha, the bible (particularly the four gospels, ACTS, PSLAMS)
Heroes:
myself, montgomery clift, alfred hitchcock, the lumiere brothers, rasputin, my mentor jerry marshall, my parents, Jesus the Christ
