The Secret Life of Karl Borges

MOVING PICTURE MAKING

silent cinema / clowns / romanticism / early jazz / phonographs / vintage clothes / classic cartoons / the ghosts of old hollywood / hollywood late at night / late nite diners / coffee / burlesque / the circus / carnivals / vaudeville / juggling / mimes / mad scientists / solitude / independance / individualism / rocking chairs

I'd like to meet:

Music:

VINTAGE JAZZ DANCEBANDS

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra / Tiny Parham and his Musicians / Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra / Doc Cook and his Dreamland Orchectra / Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers / Papa Celestin's Original Tuxedo Orchestra / Bix Beiderbecke and his Rhythm Jugglers / Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra / Sam Morgan's Jazz Band / Freddie Keppard and his Jazz Cardinals / Sidney Bechet and his Creole Orchestra / Johnny Dodds and his Black Bottom Stompers / Louise Dumaine's Jazzola Eight / Charlie Johnson and his Paradise Band / Richard M. Jones and his Jazz Wizards / Cab Calloway and his Orchestra / Don Redman and his Orchestra / King Oliver's Original Creole Jazz Band / Alfonse Trent and his Orchestra / James P. Johnson and his Orchestra / Ethel Waters and her Jazz Masters / Bessie Smith and her Blue Boys / Ma Rainey and her Tub Jug Washboard Band / JosÃ¨phine Baker et les Comedian Harmonists / Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Biltmore Orchestra / Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band / The Original Dixieland Jazz Band / Ted Lewis And His Band / Al Jolson / Eddie Cantor / Annette Hanshaw / Marion Harris / Ruth Etting / Sophie Tucker / Billy Holiday / Ella Fitzgerald / Sarah Vaugn / Nina Simone / Edith Piaf

Tom Waits / Leonard Cohen / David Bowie / Barry Adamson / Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds / Siouxie And The Banshees / The Creatures / The Cure / Radiohead / Velevet Underground / The Kinks / Queen / Roy Orbison / Tori Amos / Kate Bush / Bjork / Tangerine Dream / Angelo Badalamenti / Astor Piazzolla / Philip Glass / Henry Mancini / Bernard Herman / Franz Waxman / Max Steiner / Les Baxter / Danny Elfman / CELESTE PARADISE

Movies:

SILENT MOVIES

BUSTER KEATON:
Our Hospitality / Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator / Seven Chances / Go West / Battling Butler / The General / Steamboat Bill Jr. / The Cameraman

CHARLES CHAPLIN:
The Kid / The Gold Rush / The Circus / City Lights / Modern Times

TOD BROWNING:
The Unholy Three / The Blackbird / The Show / The Unknown / Freaks / Miracles For Sale

BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN:
HÃ¤xan: Witchcraft Through the Ages / The Devil's Circus / Mockery / Seven Footprints to Satan

VICTOR SJOSTROM:
He Who Gets Slapped / The Scarlett Letter / The Wind

PAUL LENI:
Waxworks / The Cat And The Canary / The Man Who Laughs

FRITZ LANG:
Destiny / Dr. Mabuse The Gambler (parts I & II) / Die Nibelungen (parts I & II) / Metropolis / M / The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse

F. W. MURNAU:
Nosferatu / The Last Laugh / Faust / Tartuffe / Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans

G. W. PABST:
The Joyless Street / Pandora's Box / Diary of A Lost Girl / The Lost Atlantis

E. A. DUPONT:
Variety / Moulin Rouge

REX INGRAM:
The Garden of Allah / The Magician / Our Sea

CARL THEODOR DREYER:
Leaves from Satan's Book / Michael / The Passion of Joan of Arc / Vampyr

JOSEF VON STERNBERG:
The Exquisite Sinner / Underworld / The Last Command / The Docks of New York / Thunderbolt / The Blue Angel

ERICH VON STROHEIM
Blind Husbands / Foolish Wives / Merry-Go-Round / Greed

ROBERT WEINE:
The Cabinet Of Dr. Calagari / The Hand Of Orlac /

LOUIS FEUILLADE:
Fantomas / Les Vampires

D. W. GRIFFITH:
Intolerance / Broken Blossoms / Way Down East / Orphans Of The Storm

LON CHANEY:
He Who Gets Slapped / The Hunchback Of Notre Dame / The Phantom Of The Opera / The Blackbird / The Monster / The Unholy Three / Mr. Wu / The Unknown / Mockery / Laugh, Clown, Laugh

LOUISE BROOOKS:
A Beggars Life / A Girl In Every Port / Pandora's Box / Diary of A Lost Girl

CLARA BOW:
It / Kid Boots / Man Trap

LILLIAN GISH:
The Wind / The Scarlet Letter / La Boheme / The White Sister / Orphans Of the Storm / Way Down East / Broken Blossoms

THEDA BARA:
A Fool There Was / Cleopatra / The Rose of Blood / The Soul of Buddha

GRETA GARBO:
A Woman of Affairs / The Mysterious Lady / Anna Karenina / Flesh and the Devil / The Temptress

MARY PICKFORD:
Tess Of the Storm Country / Sparrows / The Poor Little Rich Girl

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS:
The Black Pirate / The Iron Mask / Don Q Son Of Zorro / The Thief Of Bagdad / Robin Hood / The Three Musketeers / The Mark Of Zorro

RUDOLPH VALENTINO:
The Son of the Sheik / The Eagle / A Sainted Devil / The Hooded Falcon / Blood and Sand / The Sheik

HAROLD LLOYD:
Grandma's Boy / Safety Last / Why Worry / Girl Shy / The Freshman

HARRY LANGDON:
Long Pants / The Strong Man / Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

LAUREL & HARDY:
Sugar Daddies / Do Detectives Think? / Should Tall Men Marry? / Leave 'Em Laughing / You're Darn Tootin' / Should Married Men Go Home? / Early To Bed / We Faw Down / Liberty / That's My Wife / Big Business / Double Whoopee / Angora Love

Guy Maddin / Federico Fellini / David Lynch / Quay Brothers / Jim Jarmusch / Wong Kar Wai / Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Melville / Jacques Rivette / Jacques Demy / Rene Clair / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Tati / Jean Vigo / Alfred Hitchcock / Orson Welles / Billy Wilder / Preston Sturges / Frank Capra

Ingmar Bergman / Robert Bresson / Luis Bunuel / Kenji Mizoguchi / Akira Kurosawa / Yasujiro Ozu / Andrei Tarkovsky / Sergei Parajanov / Alexander Sokurov / Werner Herzog / Wim Wenders / Bernardo Bertolucci / Roman Polanksi / Krzystof Kieslowski / Stanley Kubrick / Terrence Malick / Peter Greenaway / Lars Von Trier / Alejandro Jodorosky / Terry Gilliam / Pedro Almodovar / Michael Hanake / David Cronenberg / Takishi Miike / Atom Egoyan / Emir Kusturica / Aki Kaurismaki / Mike Leigh / Woody Allen

Bride Of Frankenstein / The Creature From The Black Lagoon / The Creature Walks Among Us / The Third Man / Casablanca / Out Of The Past / Kiss Me Deadly / Detour / In A Lonely Place / The Maltese Faclon / The Misfits / The Big Sleep / His Girl Friday / Bringing Up Baby / The Last Picture Show / Paper Moon / Picnic At Hanging Rock / The Truman Show / Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / The Science Of Sleep / Pee Wee's Big Adventure / Beetlejuice / Edward Scissorhands / Batman Returns / The Nightmare Before Christmas / Ed Wood / Delicatesen / City Of Lost Children / Amelie / A Very Long Engagement / Being John Malkovich / Adaptation / Barton Fink / Fargo / Bottle Rocket / Rushmore / The Royal Tenenbaums / American Splendor / Crumb / Ghost World / Art School Confidential

Television:

TWIN PEAKS

Breaking Bad / Buffy The Vampire Slayer / The Sopranos / Star Trek (The Original Series) / The Prisoner / The Twilight Zone / The Untouchables / Dark Shadows / Lost In Space / The Avengers / Get Smart / Pee Wee's Playhouse / The Muppet Show

Books:

JAMES THURBER

Ayn Rand / Victor Hugo / Jules Verne / L. Frank Baum / Lewis Carroll / J. R. R. Tokein / C. S. Lewis / H. G. Wells / Ray Bradbury / James Ellroy / Mickey Spillane / Raymond Chandler / Dashiell Hammett / Patricia Highsmith / Jim Thompson / David Goodis / Cornell Woolrich / James M. Cain / Barry Gifford / Charles Bukowski / Anais Nin / Herman Hesse / Franz Kafka / Fydor Dostoevsky / Jean-Paul Sarte / Albert Camus / Soren Kierkegaard / Friedrich Nietzsche / Aristotle

Sherlock Holmes series (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) / The Day Of The Locust (Nathaniel West) / Cyrano De Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) / The Phantom Of The Opera (Gaston Leroux) / Moby Dick (Herman Melville) / The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) / The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man And The Sea (Ernest Hemingway) / Geek Love (Katherine Dunne) / Falling Angel, Nevermore (William Hjortsberg)

Cages (Dave Mckean) / The Question series, Mr. A series (Steve Ditko) / The Sandman series, Neverwhere, American Gods (Neil Gaiman) / The Watchmen, V For Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman series (Alan Moore) / Sin City series, Batman: The Dark Knight series (Frank Miller) / The Weetzie Bat series (Francesca Lia Block) / Harold And The Purple Crayon (Crockett Johnson) / Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)