camping, stalking, smoking, reading, firelight, 1930s, heels, walking the dogs, cooking, travel, discovery, jewelled elephants, magnanimity, pirates, exotic trees, indian culture, robotics, threading, space, people in all their glorious forms, love and being in love.
all my wonderful friends
miles davis, cole porter, marlene dietreich, janis joplin, marc bolan, maria callas, beethoven, mahler, wagner, edith piaf, billy holiday, marconi, bernard hermann, rolling stones, van morrison, jacques brel ray charles, elvis costelloe, elvis presley, chet baker , dean martin, nick cave, nina simone, johann strauss, bing crosby, eartha kitt, liza minelli, charles aznavour, shirley bassey, skittle, nico, lou reed, lloyd cole, louis armstrong
so many, over so many decades, all of these films have made left their mark. where to start..sunset boulevard, double endemnity, metropolis, pandoras box, the bad and the beautiful, the third man, rebecca, vertigo, rome open city, the bicycle thieves, the public enemy, the sting, singing in the rain, straw dogs, 2001 a space odyssey, dial m for murder, the graduate, cabaret, midnight cowboy, vanishing point, tootsie, blade runner, some like it hot, wild at heart, the man who wasn't there, breathless, jules et jim, paris texas, whats up doc, the producers, blazing saddles, once upon a time in america, once upon a time in the west, chinatown, the good the bad and the ugly, cinema paradiso, for a few dollars more, all the presidents men, taxi driver, red river, whatever happened to baby jane, all about eve, the big sleep, the treasure of sierra madre, keylargo, casablanca, the blue angel, saturday night fever, shanghai express, dawn of the dead, gilda, one flew over the cuckoos nest, barbarella, the searchers, walkabout, the man who shot liberty valence, the private lives of elizabeth and edward, repulsion, rosemary's baby, la dolce vita, psycho, la strada, get carter, scarface, withnail & i, bodyheat, the squid & the whale, lemmings, goodfellas, raging bull, napoleon dynatmite, performance, the king of comedy, north by northwest, cape fear, strangers on a train, throw momma from the train, the man who fell to earth, the great escape, gone with the wind, grifters, house of cards, his girl friday, birds, the bird cage, as good as it gets, dirty harry, fatal attraction, somethings gotta give, murder on the orient express, ten little indians, a clockwork orange, lolita, dr. strangeglove, arthur, murder by death, the pink panthers, the sleeper, the tenant, papillon, annie hall, close encounters of the third kind, ET, jaws, communion, carrie, apocalypse now, the shining, the exorcist, the omen, sleuth, the italian job, death becomes her, the deerhunter, meet the parents, vie ca vie, amores perres, a streetcar named desire, the godfather, city of god, 21 grams, last tango in paris, who's afraid of virginia woolf, on the waterfront, one eyed jacks, rear window, where eagles dare, the bells of st. trinians, gosford park, the prime of miss jean brodie, frances, the postman always rings twice, the french connection, billy elliot, a fish called wanda, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, cool hand luke, the towering inferno, the hustler, birth of a nation, thoroughly modern millie, the great gatsby, the hunger, the thomas crown affair, bonnie & clyde, pulp fiction, dangerous liaisons, hysterical blindness, look back in anger, ivanxtc, the player, short cuts, mutiny on the bounty, lost highway, funny games, stir crazy, trading places, toy story, nutty professor, mona lisa, the big lebowski, man bites dog, fargo, magnolia, the lives of others, night porter, boogie nights, tie me up tie me down, giant, woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, blue velvet, suspiria, citizen cane, fight club, butterfield 8, to the devil a daughter, the philadelphia story, don't look back, the conversation, cat on a hot tin roof, crash, balzing saddles, the cook the thief his wife and her lover, abigails party, naked, the wicker man, the seventh seal, jason and the argonauts, high noon, the rocky horror picture show, the wild bunch, touch of evil, barry lyndon, unforgiven, festen, a short film about love, a short film about killing, the discrete charm of the bourgeoise, that obscure object of desire, the naked civil servant, the sheik, birth of a nation, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, sweet bird of youth, east of eden, goodbye lenin, the red shoes, peeping tom, black narcissus, the devils, the lair of the white worm, dune, the jerk, mulholland drive, la grand illusion, madame bovary ..