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Richard Kovitch

It's so hard to be a saint in the City....

About Me

Producer / Writer / Director

My Interests

Writing, directing, producing, travel, photography, music, Psychogeography, football, literature, film. Anything that gives me an adrenalin rush, captures the imagination, stirs the soul and justifies the often painful decision to get out of bed.

I'd like to meet:

The Beautiful and the Damned. I will not discriminate.

Music:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, David Bowie, Biosphere, Burial, Luke Haines / The Auteurs, Suicide, Metro, The Sonics, Dexter Gordon, Sisters Of Mercy, Brian Eno, P.I.L, 80's Pop, Kreeps, Elvis, Dictaphone, Colder, Grace Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Matt Elliot / Third Eye Foundation, Depeche Mode, The Stooges, Talk Talk, Peaches, Can, Sam Cooke, Blind Willie Johnson, Sonny Rollins, Guns N Roses, John Martyn, 16 Horsepower, Benny Goodman, Ministry, The JB's, The Cramps, Interpol, Loefah, Einsturzende Neubauten, City Rockers Label, Alice In Chains, MC5, Surf Rock, Prince, James Chance, Johnny Cash, Tiga, Sam Cooke, Scott Walker, O Yuki Conjugate, Tom Waits, Michael Brook, Soundgarden, Motown, Mazzy Star, Jon Hassell, Them!, Mile Davis, Eric Satie, DJ Hell, The Temptations, 60's Garage, Peace Orchestra, Jeff Greinke.....

Movies:

INLAND EMPIRE, La Samourai, Lost Highway, Heat, Chris Marker, Dust Devil, Claude Chabrol, Dream Of Garuda, James Bond Movies, Greg Araki, In The Company Of Men, Kenneth Anger, London (Patrick Keiller), Raiders Of The Lost Arc, The Tenant, Stalker, This Is Spinal Tap, Ozon's Shorts, The Passenger, Hardware, Betty Blue, Taxi Driver, Ghostbusters, Sex Lie & Videotape, French Connection, Vertigo, Halloween, The Insider, Frantic, Double Indemnity, Velvet Goldmine, Mulholland Drive, The Conversation, Plein Soleil, King Of Comedy, White Heat, Suite 16, The Bedroom, Rear Window, Chinatown, Un Flic, Insomnia (Nor), The Parallax View, Point Blank, Hidden, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Ken Burn's 'History Of Jazz', One Day In September, Collateral, Audition, MC5 - A True Testimonial, Bob Dylan Don't Look Back, Code Unknown, Memories of Murder, Elephant....

Television:

Larry Sanders, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Armando Iannucci Show, Our Friends In The North, Blackadder, Frasier, Crime Story, The Prisoner, Alan Patridge, Alas Smith & Jones, Jam, Chris Rock Stand-Up, Peter Cook, Secret Rulers Of The World, This Life, BBC4, Fry & Laurie, Peter Taylor's docs, Fashion TV....

Books:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bukowski, Bill Henson 'Mnemosyne', Iain Sinclair, Andrew Hussey, James Ellroy, Raymond Carver, B.S Johnson, Albert Camus, Dostoyevsky, Raymond Chandler, Pinter, Bataille, Aldous Huxley, Peter Ackroyd, Burroughs, Gogol, T.S Eliot, Kafka, Robert Hughes, Proust, Jonathon Dollimore, Auden, Paul Auster, James Baldwin, Chris Petit, Rimbaud, Clive James, Guy Debord, Greil Marcus, Jake Arnott, Simon Reynolds, Jon Savage....

Heroes:

Definitely my favourite album ever.

My Blog

The Art of Burial: A Soundtrack for the 21st Century

In The Wire magazine's end of year review Burial described one of his main pleasures as 'watching the rain over London from the roof of my building'. This sense of City life being an almost cinematic ...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:06:00 PST

Let's Get Lynched: INLAND EMPIRE followed by Q&A with David Lynch, NFT, London, Feb 2007

Let's Get Lynched: INLAND EMPIRE followed by a Q&A with David Lynch, NFT, London, Feb 2007     INLAND EMPIRE is the film David Lynch has been working towards all his life. At just under...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:48:00 PST

Everything I Ever Needed To Know

It was a nothing day, and a P.E class was drawing to a close. Our teacher had drop kicked a rugby ball on the school field, then declared that whoever got to the ball first would win a prize. Eager to...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:16:00 PST

Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings

London, Oxford Street, Saturday afternoon. Consumer Fucking Hell. What perfect respite from the stampede above than Brian Eno's latest installation, an oasis of calm at the heart of Selfridges. It's a...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:43:00 PST

Tales From Paris - November 2006

Paris defies transformation almost as a badge of honour. Probably the most beautiful city in the world, it has retained its essence in spite of globalisation, even if commerce has co-opted some of the...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:45:00 PST

Day Of Anger: Kenneth Anger At The London Film Festival 2006

Kenneth Anger's influence remains as prescient today as ever. The so-called 'Godfather of the music video', his Underground cinema of the 1950's and 1960's has influenced filmmakers as diverse as Jean...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:41:00 PST

The Cramps Live: The Bloody Heart of the Matter!

The Cramps, London Astoria, 2006 - The Bloody Heart Of The Matter!    "Lets tear this damn place up!" Lux Interior, London Astoria 2006   The Cramps are pure, unadulterated swagger. 35 ...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:54:00 PST

Tales from the Cannes Film Festival - May 2006

Before Cannes, I understood it was extremely difficult to get a film made. Now I'm not so certain. That it's easier to make a film mankind doesn't need rather than one people might actually want to wa...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:28:00 PST

Tales from Amsterdam  October 2006

If ever a City has earned herself a reputation, it's Amsterdam. Camus described it as a 'middle-class Hell'; strong words that lead me to suspect he paid over-the-odds for a grotty sex show. Yet middl...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:58:00 PST

John Martyn, Barbican, London - A Just About Living Legend

Another humid night in London, another just about living legend witnessed, and in this case it was particularly emotional as there is no good reason that John Martyn should still be alive. Someho...
Posted by Richard Kovitch on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:49:00 PST