A Few Favorites

(Always under construction.)

Film

Films: A.I., Aliens, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, Austin Powers series, The Big Lebowski, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Contact, The Conversation, A Clockwork Orange, Do the Right Thing, Dr. Strangelove, Dog Day Afternoon, Ghost World, The Godfather trilogy (yes, including III), History of the World Part I, James Bond films (especially From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Licence to Kill, and Casino Royale), Lolita, The Loved One, North by Northwest, Office Space, The Producers (original), Raging Bull, Rear Window, Reds, Shadow of the Vampire, Star Wars (series), Sunset Boulevard, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Taking Sides, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, “View Askew” series, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Music

Composers: Antonio Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Sergei Prokofiev, George Gershwin, Philip Glass

Popular Music: The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, U2, The Cure, Björk, nine inch nails, Rob Zombie, Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Fiona Apple, Poe

Authors (Fiction)

Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Salman Rushdie

Visual Artists (Illustrators, Painters, Photographers)

Hieronymous Bosch, Camille Pissaro, Gustav Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Steichen, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo