"SHE'S A GIRL OF SO MANY INTERESTS"
(With thanks to Bette Davis' delicious performance of Margo Channing in All About Eve)
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films...
10s
A Daughter Of The Gods (Herbert Brenon, 1916)
20s
Der Blaue Engel / The Blue Angel (Joseph von Sternberg, 1929)
Also, I'm fascinated with silent Louise Brooks films.
Dietrich’s screentest for Der Blaue Engel
30s
Morocco (Joseph von Sternberg, 1930)
Shanghai Express (Joseph von Sternberg, 1932)
Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell, 1934)
The Garden Of Allah (Richard Boleslawski, 1936)
Mannequin (Frank Borzage, 1937)
Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, 1939)
Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage
40s
Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtis, 1945)
Humoresque (Jean Negulesco, 1946)
Joan Crawford is Mildred Pierce
50s
All about Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
Don't Bother To Knock (Roy Ward Baker, 1952)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)
The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, 1955)
Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich, 1956)
Witness For The Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
Classic Bette.. (All about Eve) “A milkshake?â€
60s
Whatever happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1961)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Mike Nichols, 1966)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Belle De Jour (Luis Burnuel, 1967)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Liz Taylor’s best performance) The play I want to direct again.
70s
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
Scemer Ur Ett Äktenskapp / Scenes From A Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
Julia (Fred Zinnemann, 1977)
Höstsonaten / Autumn Sonatas (Ingmar Bergman, 1978)
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
Holocaust (Marvin J Chomsky, 1978 TV mini series)
The Seduction Of Joe Tynan (Jerry Schatzberg, 1979)
Uncommon Women And Others (Wendy Wasserstein, 1979 TV)
Kramer Vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
Holocaust (mini series) a very Haunting scene. You might not want to see this. Meryl Streep and James Woods are brilliant though.
80s
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Karel Reisz, 1981)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, 1981)
Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry, 1981)
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981)
Van De Koele Meren Des Doods / The Quiet Lakes (Dutch film, Nouchka van Brakel, 1982)
Sophie’s Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
Still Of The Night (Robert Benton, 1982)
Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982)
Alice At The Palace (Emile Ardolino, 1982 TV)
Silkwood (Mike Nichols, 1983)
Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)
The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983)
Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
My all-time favourite film is "PLENTY" (Fred Schepisi, 1985), which also is my favourite play ever. (David Hare)
I own all movies my Meryl Streep and I love them
Out Of Africa (Sidney Pollack, 1985)
After Hours (Martin Scorcese, 1985)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985)
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)
Heartburn (Mike Nichols, 1986)
Jean de Florette (Claude Berri, 1986)
Manon des sources (Claude Berri, 1986)
Ironweed (Hector Babenco, 1987)
Camille (Bruno Nuytten, 1988)
Le Grand Blue / The Big Blue (Luc Besson, 1988)
A Cry In The Dark (Fred Schepisi, 1988)
The Hunger with the Amazing Catherine Deneuve
Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria singing Le Jazz Hot
90s
Madonna doc: Truth or Dare (Alek Keshishian, 1990)
Henry and June (Philip Kaufmann, 1990)
Mermaids (Richard Benjamin, 1990)
Postcards From The Edge (Mike Nichols, 1990)
A league of their own (Penny Marshall, 1992)
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis, 1992)
Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara, 1993)
The House Of The Spirits (Billie August, 1993)
This Boy’s Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993)
Prêt a Porter (Robert Altman, 1994)
The Bridges Of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
Now and then (Lesli Linka Glatter, 1995)
Les Voleurs (André Techine, 1996)
Evita (Alan Parker, 1996)
Before And After (Barbet Schroeder, 1996)
Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996)
The woman in white (Tim Fywell, 1997 TV)
The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1997)
Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997)
Dancing At Lughnasa (Pat O’Connor, 1998)
One True Thing (Carl Franklin, 1998)
Hilary and Jackie (Anand Tucker, 1998)
The Parent Trap (Nancy Myers, 1998)
Tea With Mussolini (Franco Zeffirelli, 1999)
Music Of The Heart (Wes Craven, 1999)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (Michael Patrick Jann, 1999)
The talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)
Girl Interrupted (James Mangold, 1999)
Pola X (Leos Carax, 1999)
Aimee and Jaguar (Max Farberbcock, 1999)
Les Voleurs, again.. Deneuve
WATCH this. Madonna is Evita, the best Evita-no discussion.
00s
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (segment “1961†Anderson/Coolidge, 2000)
Dancer In The Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
Sous Le Sable (Francois Ozon, 2000)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
Trolösa / Faithless (Liv Ullman, 2000)
The virgin suicides (Sofia Coppola, 2000)
IRIS (Richard Eyre, 2001)
The Banger Sisters (Bob Dolman, 2001)
La Pianiste (Michael Haneke, 2001)
Nynke (Frisian film, Paul Verhoeff, 2001)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrman, 2001)
The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)
Laurel Canyon (Lisa Cholodencko, 2002)
8 Femmes / 8 Women(Francois Ozon, 2002)
Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
Spun (Jonas Ackerlund, 2002)
Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002)
Swimmingpool (Francois Ozon, 2003)
Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers, 2003)
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
Elephant (Gus van Sant, 2003)
Angels In America (Mike Nichols, 2003 TV mini series)
Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)
Lost in translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke, 2003)
Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2003)
Madonna doc: I'm going to tell you a secret (Jonas Ackerlund, 2004)
The Forgotten (Joseph Ruben, 2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme, 2004)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004)
Manderlay (Lars von Trier, 2005)
Vers Le Sud (Laurent Cantet, 2005)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2005)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2005)
Transamerica (Duncan Tucker, 2005)
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006)
The Illusionist (Neil Burger, 2006)
Lives of others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
The Last King Of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald, 2007)
Notes On A Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2007)
The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2007)
Georgia Rule (Garry Marschall, 2007)
MANY MORE & many more to watch!!!
The Hours
The undisputed Dame Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
You can say many things about Lindsay Lohan, but she’s a great actress. Georgia Rule.
I prefer movies over television.
Ok... here's the line-up: Will and Grace, Little Britain, ANTM, Homes under the hammer (BBC - I might do that once I have money), MTV's stupid programmes like Laguna Beach and Roomraiders, VH1 music specials. And I'm a sucker for emo television. Anything on art or history I will watch. And anything on the FBI/other police forces and crime investigation: I've seriously optioned to enroll in the police academy and become an officer believe it or not!
I've got TONS of plays still to read. Recently: Just finished Bernhard Shaw's "Saint Joan" after seeing it in the National Theatre (London) twice: went through a total obsession with the play.
My all-time favourite novel is IRIS MURDOCH'S "THE SEA, THE SEA".
These favourites are in random order:
"The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
"In the beginning" by Chaim Potok
"The Go-between" by L.P. Hartley
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
"Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
"The Complete Works" by William Shakespeare
"My sister Frida" by Barbara Mujica
"Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
"Orlando" by Virginia Woolf
"Sophie's Choice" by William Styron
"Memoirs of a geisha" by Arthur Golden
"Dietrich, my mother" by Maria Riva
"Ich bin gotseidank Berlinerin" by Marlene Dietrich (the contrasts between this book and the book her daughter wrote are astonishing.)
"Piaf" by Simone Bertraut
"Lady sings the blues" by Billie Holiday
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" by DH Lawrence
"Atonement" by Ian McEwan
"Oranges are not the only fruit" by Jeanette Winterson
"Ulysses" by James Joyce
"If not now, when?" by Primo Levi
"The French Lieutenant's Woman" by James Fowles
"Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop cafe" by Fannie Flagg
"A passage to India" by E.M. Forster
ALL books by Isabel Allende, a delicious writer, never disappoints me :)
I have so many more favourites... and so much more to read! I have a pretty large English literature collection at home consisting of more than 220 great novels, due to my late grandfather's collection of which I recently got a part.
I also have and read many books about art.
MY MOTHER.
Other heroes: my late grandfather (mother's side of the family), my grandfather whom I haven't known, my highschool history teacher...
Some of my friends and students are heroes. Love them.