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Stanley Kubrick, Sam Fuller, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Sirk, Jon Jost, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Nicholas Ray, F.W. Murnau, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Kathryn Bigelow, Jean Vigo, Orson Welles, Nagisa Oshima, Raúl Ruiz, Freddie Francis, Claire Denis, Luis Bunuel, Frederick Wiseman, and so many more...
Beethoven, Verdi, James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Danger Mouse, DJ Shadow, Anthony Braxton, The White Stripes, Bernard Hermann, Ornette Coleman, Timbaland, The Eternals, Cecil Taylor, Prince Paul, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Fela Kuti, PJ Harvey, MIA, George Gershwin, Curtis Mayfield, Mike Post, and so many more...
hard to choose but here are some favorites that come to mind. OLD: Barry Lyndon, Imitation of Life, Rebel Without a Cause, Two or Three Things That I know About Her, Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Sacrifice, Fanny &; Alexander, The Last Laugh, The Exterminating Angel, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Last Temptation of Christ, Man With A Movie Camera, L'Atalante, Spiderman 1 &; 2, The Ten Commandments, Mulholland Drive, Sans Soleil, Vertigo, Fireworks ("Beat" Takeshi), Y Tu mama tambien, The Naked Kiss, Heat (1995), Badlands, Black Narcissus, RECENTLY RELEASED: The New World, Friends With Money, Match Point, Grizzly Man, Broken Flowers, Cache (Hidden), Get Rich or Die Tryin', Nacho Libre, Babel, Notes on a Scandal, Grindhouse, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Darjeeling Limited
Frontline, The Wire, 30 Rock, Charlie Rose, 60 Minutes, Rome, BBC World News, Ebert & Roper
"Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen" by Larry McMurtry, "The Diary of Virginia Woolf", "Ada or Ardor" by Vladimir Nabokov, any Faber and Faber book about film (ala "Sirk on Sirk"), "My Last Sigh" by Luis Bunuel, the plays of David Mamet, "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin, "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, any world atlas and all the biographies in the new books section at the library, and more...
Nelson Mandela, Studs Terkel, Chris Marker