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Ian Courtney

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About Me

No word, sentence, or paragraph can describe.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

any and all, but not any of those

Music:

BLACK KEYS: attack and release - DIRTBOMBS: we have you surrounded - BLACKLISTED: heavier than heaven, lonlier than god - SAID RADIO: tidal waves and teeth - POGUES: if i should fall from grace with god - SPECIALS: s/t - RIGHT IDEA: demo - IAN BROWN: the world is yours - TOM WAITS: blue valentine

Movies:

I like watching these.

Television:

late night talk shows. ebert and roeper.

Books:

Brett Easton Ellis - Jack Kerouac - Kurt Vonneget Jr. - Chuck Palahniuck - Charles Bukowski

Heroes:

Bo Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Sweet Pete, Quentin Tarantino, Shu Jen Wang

My Blog

Top 20 films of 2007

1. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)2. the Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)3. Once (John Carney)4. Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)5. Juno (Jason Reitman)6. Before The Devil Knows Your Dead (Sydney L...
Posted by Ian Courtney on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:58:00 PST

Interview with filmmaker OTTO BUJ

This was an interview I conducted with Otto Buj last Dec. in Windsor. I'm not gonna say much here besides that Otto is a mover and a shaker and an all around good dude. He also just had an article app...
Posted by Ian Courtney on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:23:00 PST

TOP FILMS of 2006

In no particular order (as of yet): -the DEPARTED (Martin Scorsese)-MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)-LITTLE CHILDREN (Todd Field)-AMERICAN HARDCORE (Paul Rachman)-SHORTBUS (John Cameron Mitchell)-HOST...
Posted by Ian Courtney on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:09:00 PST

TOP 20 FILMS of 2005

-*2046 (Wong Kar Wai)-RIZE (Dave Lachapelle)-SQUID & THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)-ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (Miranda July)- A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (David Cronenberg)- BROKEN FLOWERS (Jim Jarmusc...
Posted by Ian Courtney on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:34:00 PST

Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast"

Beauty is the missing link, but the Beast can't be liberated until he gives her up. By giving up love he gains it.
Posted by Ian Courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST