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Other directors I'm interested in are Fincher, Allen, Scorsese, Leone, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Carpenter, Coppola and the Coen brothers.
A few of my favourite films -
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Kikujiro
Last Life In the Universe
Hana-bi
Taxi Driver
The Big Lebowski
Clockwork Orange
Crimes And Misdemeanours
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Ghost World
Sonatine
The Bird People In China
Rainy Dog
Ley Lines
Stalker
Kids Return
Dolls
Hannah And Her Sisters
Battle Royale
Dark Days
I'm a big fan of REM and my other favourites are Tom Waits, King Crimson, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Neil Young, Wire, Grateful Dead, The Moody Blues, The Beatles, Frank Black, Pixies, Roxy Music, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, The Stooges, The Beach Boys, The Fall, Amon Duul II, The Byrds, Talk Talk, My Bloody Valentine, Can, Tangerine Dream, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Love, Talking Heads, The Flaming Lips, The Smiths, The Cure, Yes, Soft Machine, Sonic Youth, DJ Shadow, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Patti Smith, Pavement and Radiohead.
May Favourite albums are -
King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
REM - Fables Of The Reconstruction
The Cure - Faith
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
The Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Can - Tago Mago
Pixies - Bossanova
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Wire - Chairs Missing
I'm a slow reader but a pretty consistent one. Some of my favourite authors are Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Bill Bryson and [occaisionally] Stephen King.
Reviews
Primal Force (1999)
Comic Masterpiece
Primal Force is a terrible movie but it's one of those ones that's so bad you actually enjoy it. Now, Ron Pearlman is a fine actor but this film probably isn't one of his proudest moments.
It is hilarious at times. The 'mad scientist' giving his speech is unbearably funny and the psychopathic mutant baboons will make you wet yourself (not with fear, of course). When you're not dying of laughter, you'll be marvelling at just how bad this films is.
It is awful but I recommend it just because it's so much fun to watch a great 'bad' movie sometimes. If you're not up for Kurosawa or Tarkovsky, some beer, a few friends and Primal Force are a great way to spend an evening.