artists, advocates, and angels
I'm all over the map.
Anything by Cronenberg, Egoyan, Jarmusch, or Lynch will interest me. The "auteurs" of the 60s and 70s, especially Antonioni, Wajda, Kurosawa, and Rohmer. An incomplete list of my favorite movies, apart from anything by the aforementioned, in no particular order: Fat City, Midnight Cowboy, Secretary, Last Tango in Paris, All About My Mother, The Man Without A Past, The Crimson Pirate, An American in Paris, A Night at the Opera, Twelfth Night, Big Night, Mother Night, West Side Story, Housekeeping, Do the Right Thing, The American Friend, Donnie Darko, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Casablanca, Duck Soup, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, Casablanca, Manhattan, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Sunset Blvd, Blade Runner, His Girl Friday, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces.
Another incomplete list. Skipping drama, which is a whole other discussion with me, books that I've enjoyed greatly over the past decade or so include Angela Carter's "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman," Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" and "Snow Crash," Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities," Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love," and various short stories by Kelly Link and Julio Cortazar. I binge on poetry from time to time, too, and I keep going back to Yeats, Neruda, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Crane, Whitman, and Blake.
"Your literary style mostly resembles Edgar Allan Poe's. Poe's stories and poems are, for the most part, examples of fantastic realism. The stories or poems often have elements of the fantastic, such as spontaneously crumbling houses, ghosts, and talking ravens, but they also retain a realistic interpretation, and the fantastic elements are almost always realistically explained away in the texts to make them more believable. Regardless, his works are still inherently creepy and reek of the mystical. What further adds to their creepiness is Poe's brooding description of psychological torments, ranging from men anguishing over the death of lost loves to the excessive, delusive guilt felt by criminals. Your literary style is similar in these respects, focusing heavily on the fantastic and relying on horrifying psychological descriptions."