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Last Five Films Seen: (* indicates a rewatch)
The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976) .... 7/10
The Fox and the Hound (Ted Berman and Richard Rich, 1981) .... 8/10
Aladdin* (Ron Clements and John Musker, 1992).... 9/10
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi, 1959)... 9/10
Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, 1953).... 7/10
Some Favourites: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2046, The 400 Blows, After Hours, Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, All Quiet on the Western Front, Amadeus, Amelie, American Beauty, The Antena, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Badlands, Ballad of a Soldier, Barry Lyndon, Beauty and the Beast, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, La Belle et la Bête, Blood Simple, Blue Velevt, Boogie Nights, Breathless, Brick, Bridge on the River Kwai, Brief Encounter, Brighton Rock, Brokeback Mountain, Bullets Over Broadway, Capote, Casablanca, Chinatown, Chungking Express, Clockwork Orange, Control, C.R.A.Z.Y, Crimes and Misdemeanours, Days of Heaven, Dead Man's Shoes, Die Hard, Double Indemnity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Election, Evita, Fallen Angels, Fargo, Finding Nemo, The Fountain, Full Metal Jacket, Goodfellas, Hannah and Her Sisters, Happy Together, Harry Potter, The Hustler, If..., In the Mood for Love, It Happened One Night, The Jungle Book, King of Comedy, Lacombe Lucien, The Lady Vanishes, The Lion King, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Lost Weekend, Lost in Translation, Love Me If You Dare, M, Man on Wire, The Man Who Wasn't There, Manhattan, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Mean Streets, Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Drive, Murmur of the Heart, My Blueberry Nights, Naked, Nights of Cabiria, No Country for Old Men, North by Northwest, O Lucky Man!, On the Waterfront, Once, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pan's Labyrinth, Paris, Texas, Persona, A Place in the Sun, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Psycho, Pulp Fiction, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, Raging Bull, Ratatouille, Rear Window, Rebel Without a Cause, The Red Shoes, The Remains of the Day, Reprise, The Roaring Twenties, Roman Holiday, Romeo + Juliet, The Rules of the Game, Run Lola Run, The Science of Sleep, Secrets & Lies, Seven Samurai, The Seventh Seal, Shadow of a Doubt, Shine, A Short Film About Killing, Singin' In the Rain, Sleeper, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and.. Spring, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sunset Blvd, Taxi Driver, There Will be Blood, Titanic, Trainspotting, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Truman Show, Toy Story, Volver, Wall-E, Werckmeister Harmonies, West Side Story, White Heat, Wings of Desire, The Wizard of Oz, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Zodiac.
Some of my favourite music:
Anything Peter Doherty related, Air, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Babyshambles, Bat for Lashes, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beethoven, The Black Lips, Blur, Bjork, Blondie, Bon Iver, Broken Social Scene, The Clash, Daft Punk, Damien Rice, Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Dinosaur Jr., Emmy The Great, The Field, The Flaming Lips, Gideon Conn, The Go! Team, Guillemots, Jamie Cullum, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, The Kinks, Larrikin Love, The Last Shadow Puppets, Laura Marling, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Lemon Jelly, Les Savy Fav, The Libertines, M.I.A, McFly, Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds), Norah Jones, Pulp, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Regina Spektor, Robbie Williams, Scott Matthews, The Sex Pistols, The Shins, The Smiths, The Specials, Strategy, The Streets, The Strokes, Texas, Underworld, Vampire Weekend.
I also love to read, some of my favourite novels are:
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (Oscar Wilde)
"East of Eden" (John Steinbeck)
"A Clockwork Orange" (Anthony Burgess)
"In Cold Blood" (Truman Capote)
"The Catcher in the Rye" (JD Salinger)
"Brighton Rock" (Graham Greene)
"The Road" (Cormac McCarthy)
"Rebecca" (Daphne du Maurier)
"1984" (George Orwell)
"The Heart of the Matter" (Graham Greene)
"The Remains of the Day" (Kazuo Ishiguro)
"Harry Potter" Series (JK Rowling)
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