FILMS ABOUT TOUGH WOMEN: Boxcar Bertha, Babydoll, Jezebel, Kill Bill v1 & v2, Barbarella, Chinatown, Vixen, Black Mama/White Mama, Coffy, Foxy Brown, The Big Dollhouse, Jackie Brown, Bones, Wild At Heart, Bonnie & Clyde. FILMS ABOUT TOUGH GUYS: Bullitt, The Thomas Crowne Affair (not the remake!), BladeRunner, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Truck Turner, The Maltese Falcon, The Getaway, Papillon, The Warriors, Escape from NY, The Departed, Four Brothers, Danger Diabolik, Omega Man, Towering Inferno, Seven Samurai, The Great Escape, The Last Detail, Five Easy Pieces, The Mechanic, Chato’s Land, Apocalypse Now, Cool Hand Luke, Long Hot Summer, Jaws, Inside Man, Barfly, Rumblefish, Who’s That Knocking At My Door?, The Long Goodbye, Badlands, Scarface, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Raging Bull. STRANGELY POIGNANT FILMS THAT HAVE BEEN COMING OUT IN THE LAST FEW YEARS: CQ, BottleRocket, Rushmore, Little Miss Sunshine, Happiness, Mysterious Skin, Human Nature, Adaptation, Thank You for Smoking, Best in Show, Mifune, Boogie Nights, High Fidelity. OTHER FILMS I'M NOT SURE HOW TO GROUP: Midnight Cowboy, Suspiria, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Team America: World Police, 2001: A Space Odyssey, M*A*S*H*, Haunting of Hill House, and so forth…
Recent reading: Soulsville USA, Casino Royale, The Man with the Golden Gun, Love in a Dead Language, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Best Karate 5 (Heian/Tekki), Middlesex, The Fortress of Solitude, High Fidelity, The Known World, Waiting for Iphigenia, Sacred Hunger...