Many. Many, many.
You and you and you.
Arcade Fire, Devotchka, Nick Drake, The Clash, The Cure, White Stripes, Raconteurs, Goldfrapp, Cog, Cat Empire, Pixies, System of a Down, White Stripes, Dead Can Dance, Gogol Bordello, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Iron and Wine, Thomas Newman, Tom Waits, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Spoon, Queens of the Stone Age, Miranda Lee Richards, Carla Werner, Scissor Sisters, Bjork, Tori Amos, Jesca Hoop, The Doors, David Bowie, Diana Krall, Chet Baker, "cool jazz", Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, great jazz singer-songwriters -Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin...
The Staircase (the BEST true crime documentary you will ever see!), Oliver Twist (David Lean version), The Usual Suspects, Woman in the Dunes, Read my lips (Sur mes levres), The Dinner Game (Le diner de cons), all French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism (Bicyle Thief, Umberto D.), Topsy-Turvy, Gladiator, early Kurosawa (High and Low), Ten Conversations about One Thing, You and Me and Everything We Know, Lifeboat (Hitchcock), anything with Barbara Stanwyck.
Manor House, Extras (Stephen Merchant is GREAT as an idiot talent agent!!), Masterpiece Theater, poker shows (of course!), Prime Suspect, Arrested Development,LOST, Fawlty Towers, Nigella Lawson, cooking shows, travel shows - Globetrekker with Ian Wright, Planet Earth (what a series!)
A Year in the Merde, Out, The Post-Birthday World, A fine balance, Life of Pi, A confederacy of dunces, The sheltering sky, The Financial Expert (or anything by R.K. Narayan), Poisonwood Bible, Alias Grace, Cousin Bette (and all the French "comedy of manners" early 19th C lit), White Man's Grave, Sacred Hunger, anything Chekhov, Running with Scissors, Michael Ondaatje
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