Lino Ventura as Philippe Gerbier, Kobo Abe (Secret Rendevous), Dai Sijie (Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch), Pauline W. Chen (Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality), & Barney Kessel
Masaki Kobayashi “Samurai Rebellion,†“Harakiri†& "Kwaidan" Kihachi Okamoto “The Sword of Doom†Masahiro Shinoda “Samurai Spy†Akira Kurosawa “Ran†Kenji Mizoguchi "Ugetsu" & "Sansho The Bailiff" Yasujiro Ozu “Early Summer†Mou Gaan Dou and Siu Fai Mak (Alan Mak) “Infernal Affairs I†& “Infernal Affairs III†Wong Kar-Wai “2046†& “Fallen Angels†Im Sangsoo “The President’s Last Bang†Ichikawa Jun “Tony Takitani†Jean-Pierre Melville “Le Samourai†& “Le Cercle Rouge†& "Army of Shadows" Tsai Ming Liang “Goodbye Dragon Inn†Seijun Suzuki “Gates of Flesh†Shohei Imamura "Vengeance is Mine" Paul Greengrass "Bloody Sunday" Anton Corbijn "Control" Ryan Fleck "Half Nelson" Sidney Lumet “Fail-Safe†Samuel Fuller “Pickup on South Street†and “The Big Red One†and “Shock Corridor†Mike Leigh “Naked†Ingmar Bergman “From the Life of the Marionettes†Sam Raimi “Army of Darkness†Gillo Pontecorvo “The Battle of Algiers†Werner Herzog “Aguirre the Wrath of God†George Lucas “THX 1138†Wolfgang Staudte “Murders Are Among Us†Jules Dassin “Brute Force†Pier Paolo Pasolini "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" and "Porcile "
Kobo Abe “Secret Rendezvousâ€, "The Box Man" & "the Woman in the Dunes" W.G. Sebald "On the Natural History of Destruction," "Austerlitz," "Campo Santo," "The Emigrants" Frigyes Karinthy "A Journey Round My Skull" Yukio Mishima “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion†and "The Sea of Fertility, Cycle of Four Novels" Natsuo Kirino “Out†Thom Jones “Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine†Robert Anasi “The Gloves†Benjamin Cavell “Rumble Young Man Rumble†Dai Sijie “Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch†Jens Bjorneboe "Moment of Freedom" & "Semmelweiss" Jonathan Safran-Foer “Everything is Illuminated†Margaret Atwood “The Tent†Franz Kafka “The Trial†Mark Leyner “The Tetherballs of Bougainville†John Kennedy Toole “A Confederacy of Dunces†Mike Leigh “All or Nothing†Ford Maddox Ford "The Good Soldier" Bernard Malamud “The Assistant†and “The Tenants†Isaac Bashevis Singer “Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories†Zora Neale Hurston “Their Eyes Were Watching God†Saphire “Pushâ€Stephen Eliott “Happy Baby†Doris Lessing “Canopus in Argos: Archives - The Sirian Experiments†Tom Perrotta “Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies†August Kleinzahler “Cutty, One Rock†Sebastian Faulks (Ed) “The Vintage Book of War Fiction†Stewart O’Nan (Ed) “The Vietnam Reader†Beryle Markham “West with the Night†Colonel Dandridge Malone “Small Unit Leadership: a commonsense approach†Colonel Roger Nye “The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence†Anton Myrer “Once an Eagle†Sigmund Freud “Leonardo Da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality†Krafft-Ebing “Psychopathia Sexualis†Erich Fromm “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness†Pauline W. Chen, MD “Final Exam†Adam Phillips “Houdini’s Box†Masutatsu Oyama “This is Karate,†“What is Karate,†“Advanced Karate,†“Essential Karate†& “Vital Karateâ€
Katy the Surly Cat, need I say more!