....I fire machine guns and sometimes I make films...
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the knickerman
andsome films ..
..Life behind the lens... travelling towards a storm on a sunny day..... sitting at the front of the bus or in the front row of the cinema..... autumnal light..... the magic hour.... looking through windows...... rape fields and lavender fields in full bloom...... the formations swallows make when they fly....... Yves Klein blue...... The smell of freshly layed tarmac.... Mexico, Lincolnshire and the Norwegian fjords.... ..
People with wild imaginations, adventurers, those with big hearts and colour coordination, people who can dance like the Feist video for 1234...Infact this is the world I would like to live in...
In no particular order... Tom Waits,Cat Stevens, Au Revoir Simone, Red Hunters Peter and the Wolf, Agnes Bernelle, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Francoise Hardy, Syd Barrett, Sonic Youth, Royal Trux, P.J. Harvey, Edith Piaf, The Pixies, Pavement, Nick Cave, Blondie, Nico, Kraftwerk, Prince, Michael Jackson, Muddy Waters, Billie Holliday, Jimmy Webb, El Perro del Mar, Le Tigre, Susumu Yakota, Elvis, Leonard Cohen, The Zombies, Marlene Dietrich,....
In a very particular order... Time of the Gypsies, Stolen Kisses, The King of Comedy, Harold and Maude, Road, Loves of a blonde, Pans Labyrinth, Tenue de Soiree, Les Valseuses, Jules et Jim, North by Northwest, Opening Night, Lilya for Ever, Daisies, The last Picture Show, Wings of Desire, Paris Texas, Death and the Maiden, Seventh Seal, Together, Festen, Blue Velvet, Betty Blue, My life as a dog, Straw Dogs, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, Butcher Boy, Naked, All about my Mother, The Third Man, The Parallax View, Juno, Last Resort, A Room for Romeo Brass, Central Station, The Night of the Hunter, Deer Hunter, Rosemary's Baby, The Return of the Pink Panther, Down by Law, Days of Wine and Roses, Ray, The Childrens Hour, After Hours, Imitation of Life, Dog day Afternoon, The Squid and the Whale, Buffalo 66, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Don't look now, Election, Once upon a time in America, Hidden, Badlands, Amelie, City of the Lost Children, Whistle down the Wind, Breakfast on Pluto, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Women in Love, Jaws, The Omen 1 + 2, The company of Wolves, Spellbound, Eraserhead... All Hitchcock, Polanski, Emir Kusturica, Truffaut,Woody Allen, Alan Clarke, Cassavetes.... I'm just going to stop there for films I love... Except to say that I hated 120 days of Sodom - hated, hated, hated....
..kinda television I suppose... Grey Gardens, Darwins Nightmare, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hearts of Darkness, Fog of War, Capturing the Friedmans, Grizzly Man, Bus 174, One Day in September.
A Confederacy of Dunces, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Widow for a Year, Birds without wings, Vernon God Little, The Blindfold, The Wind up Bird Chronicles, Perfume, In cold blood, American Pastoral, The Stranger, Steppenwolf, The Outsider, The Master and Margarita, What I loved, The Idiot, The picture of Dorian Grey, Lovely bones....... The Late Hector Kipling' All Raymond Carver, Haruki Murakami, Camus, Robert Graves, Spike Milligan, John Irving, Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote,.... R.I.P. John Kennedy Toole...
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