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matthew ackerman

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

About Me

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My Interests

film, art, music, books, riding bicycles, travel, vegetarianism, The Criterion Collection, exercising, the ocean and the beach, photography, my family and friends, life.

I'd like to meet:

Agnes Varda, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, John Cassavetes, Wes Anderson, Albert Camus, early 60's Anna Karina, Haruki Murakami, Francoise Hardy...

Music:

The Beatles. Belle and Sebastian. The Smiths. The Velvet Underground. Leonard Cohen. Bob Dylan. The Rolling Stones. Francoise Hardy. Broken Social Scene. Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Explosions In the Sky. Do Make Say Think. Ride. My Bloody Valentine. The Jesus and Mary Chain. Slowdive. Radiohead. Air. Portishead. Broadcast. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Nick Drake. Elliott Smith. Rites of Spring. Jesu. Mouth of the Architect. Kaki King. Sigur Ros. Johann Sebastian Bach. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Miles Davis. John Coltrane. Morrissey/Marr songwriting.

Movies:

2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
Alphaville (Godard)
Amarcord (Fellini)
Amelie (Jeunet)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Annie Hall (Allen)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
Army of Shadows (Melville)
Band of Outsiders (Godard)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Breathless (Godard)
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
Children of Paradise (Carne)
Chinatown (Polanski)
City Lights (Chaplin)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
The Conformist (Bertolucci)
Contempt (Godard)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Don't Look Back (Pennebaker)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
Elevator to the Gallows (Malle)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Faces (Cassavetes)
A Fistfull of Dollars (Leone)
For A Few Dollars More (Leone)
Forbidden Games (Clement)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Gimmie Shelter (Maysles & Zwerin)
The Godfather (I, II, III) (Coppola)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone)
The Graduate (Nichols)
The Grand Illusion (Renoir)
La Haine (Kassovitz)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
Interiors (Allen)
In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai)
Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach)
Kill Bill Vol. I & II (Tarantino)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (W. Anderson)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie)
Lost In Translation (S. Coppola)
Magnolia (P.T. Anderson)
Manhattan (Allen)
Masculin Feminin (Godard)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
Mr. Arkadin (Welles)
My Life to Live (Godard)
No Direction Home (Scorsese)
La Notte (Antonioni)
On the Waterfront (Kazan)
Orpheus (Cocteau)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Performance (Cammell & Roeg)
Persona (Bergman)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)
The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
Rushmore (W. Anderson)
Le Samourai (Melville)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Shadows (Cassavetes)
Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Stardust Memories (Allen)
La Strada (Fellini)
The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
The Third Man (Reed)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
A Woman Is a Woman (Godard)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Films directed by Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Federico Fellini, Jean Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Bunuel, Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, etc,...starring Alain Delon, Robert DeNiro, Anna Karina, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Pierre Leaud, Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjorstrand, Liv Ullman, Bibi Andersson, Jeanne Moreau, etc...

Television:

The Office (BBC).

Arrested Development. Seinfeld. Lost. The Daily Show.

Books:

J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Plague (Albert Camus)
Post Office (Bukowski)
Sentimental Education (Flaubert)
Kafka on the Shore (Murakami)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy) No Country for Old Men (McCarthy) House of Leaves (Danielewski)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
The Story of B (Daniel Quinn)
My Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
After Dachau (Daniel Quinn)
The Holy (Daniel Quinn)
Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)
On the Road (Kerouac)
Journey to the End of the Night (Celine)
Candide (Voltaire)
Blankets (Craig Thompson)
Maus (Art Speigelman) Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Vonnegut)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon)
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Woody Allen on Woody Allen (Stig Bjorkman)
Woody Allen and Philosophy (Skoble and Conard)
Godard on Godard
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Smith)

Heroes:

my mom...my brother...br

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My Blog

Ingmar Bergman & Michelangelo Antonioni R.I.P.

two cinema greats, and two personal favorites passed away yesterday, which is not only extremely saddening, but extremely odd. Top 5 Bergman films: 1.  Wild Strawberries 2.  Persona 3. ...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:13:00 PST

La Haine and If...

two of the newer Criterions I have purchased. La Haine is definitely my favorite of the two.  I was totally blown away by this film.  A Jew, an Arab, and a black kid hang out and live i...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:50:00 PST

criterion collection: army of shadows dvd

best dvd bought since...I don't know.  the film is fantastic.  buy it now. *It concerns the French Resistance during WWII.  The opening scene is tremendous, frightening, and equally mem...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:27:00 PST

mon amie la rose

I love you Francoise. ...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:51:00 PST

The Lives of Others

I saw The Lives of Others the other night and was thoroughly impressed.  It's definitely the best film I've seen at the theater since Children of Men, and I would go as far as to say that it is t...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:02:00 PST

my terrific tuesday and 30 Rock

yesterday was an absolutely beautiful weather day that only got better as the day went on.  Early in the Tuesday hours (midnight till about 4) I was hanging out at my friend Charlie's house, drin...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:00:00 PST

a couple movies I've watched lately

1.  Vertigo (Hitchcock)--My favorite Hitchcock movie, without a doubt.  One of the things I love about this film more than anything else is San Francisco.  I've been there and it is a b...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:06:00 PST

last 6 movies I've watched

1.  Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg)--This movies was awesome!  Mick Jagger is terrific.  The photography is very inventive and interesting and will definitely grab your at...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:37:00 PST

Criterion in May + recent purchases

The Criterion Collection has been killing it lately, what with Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Mouchette, the new Bicycle Thieves release, etc., and May looks to be an exceptional month.  To be released i...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:10:00 PST

NYC (part II) with pictures

as I promised, some NYC pictures from trip number 2.  I might get around to actually writing about the trip someday, and I might also post pictures from my first trip to NYC, from May 2006. ...
Posted by matthew ackerman on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:22:00 PST