Edward Said, Vandana Shiva, Robert Fiske, Tariq Ali, Norman Finkelstein, Michael Parenti, Franzt Fanon, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, Greg Palast, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Jean Baudrillard, George Galloway, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Nancy Snow, Eqbal Ahmad, John Pilger.I'm currently investigating the systematic network of Washington based think tanks and lobby groups for my project.
Someone I can have a good natter with.
Recently played artists on me ipod - Nina Simone, Bjork, Jay-Z, John Legend, Kanye West, Jeff Buckley, Miles Davis, Blur etc etc
Rocco and his brothers, Ran, La strada, Sancho bailif,Raise red lantern,Short film about love, Ju dou,Jules and Jim, Dr strangelove, The damned, head on,Andrei Rublev,Cries and whispers, Nights of Cabiria,amacord,the tin drum, Throne of blood,Rebecca,seventh seal, La dolce vita,Rashomon,Goodfellas, 8 1/2, l'avventura,Godfather part 2,Life of Oharu, Farewell my concubine,three colours- red,Raging bull, 400 blows,city of god, Mean streets, Paradise Now Dolls,Discreet charm of bourgeois,The story of Adele H, Godfather,The piano teacher,Werkmeister harmonies, The silence,Tokyo story,My life to live,the elephant man Mildred pierce,Wild strawberries,Fanny and Alexander, A streetcar named desire,Secrets and lies,Women in uniform, Tristana, Boogie nights,chinatown,Short film about killing, Ikiru,Belle de jour,Amadeus,Far from heaven, Happy together,viridiana,blue velvet,midnight cowboy, seven samurai,On the waterfront,Beyond the clouds,i the worst of all,lost in translation, Ugetsu,In the mood for love,Taxi driver, lolita, vertigo, Last tango in paris,Double life of veronique, All about Eve,Clockwork orange,repulsion, Festen,Chunking express,Goodbye children, Kagemusha,Women in love,Do the right thing, The hours, Woman in the dunes,battle royale red beard, zelig,east of eden, rosemarys baby, imitation of life, happiness, the magician, Camille claudelle, the earth trembles,Small change,Pereit le fou, Three colours- blue, Hidden fortress, eclipse, Day for night,Blow up,Short cuts,The firemans ball, Hannah and her sisters,Breathless,To live, Fallen angels,The killing fields,Dog day afternoon, Three seasons,Irma vep,Manhattan, Through a glass darkly, before sunset, before sunrise, Giant,Paper moon,L'appartment, three colours-white, Magnolia,The bicycle theif, The wall,malena, Trainspotting,A man escaped,Breaking the waves, The lady vanishes.oh and these films make me smile/laugh :-) - wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit, wallace and gromit the wrong trousers, my cousin vinny, harry potter, east is east, the full monty
office, curb your enthusiasm, sex and the city, six feet under, question time, dispatches, deal or no deal!, creature comforts :-)
Currently reading Samuel Huntington's 'Political Order in Changing Societies (I'm reading this CRITICALLY by the by!), Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth', and trying to plough through Gramsci's 'Prison Notebooks'.
Ethel