I am inspired by film, like dreams, I believe that it taps into our subconscious. It is visual storytelling and uses preverbal language to communicate emotion. Film often has a message and many directors are contributing to the positive evolution of humankind. We all want meaning in our lives and film is like a shared dream, one in which we can explore meaning.
Some favourite directors:
- Hal Ashby
- David Lynch
- Hal Hartley
- Nic Roeg
- Verner Herzhog
- Richard Linklater
- Luc Besson
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Pedro Almodovar
- Stanley Kubrick
A small list of some favourite films:
A Matter of Life and Death
Adaptation
All About my Mother – Almodovar
Alphaville – J L Godard
Amelie – JP Jeunet
American Beauty
Bad Timing – Nik Roeg
Beau Travail – Claire Denis
Being John Malkovich – Spike Jonze
Being There – Hal Ashby
Betty Blue – Jean Jacque Beineix
Blade runner – Ridley Scott
Blow up – Antonioni
Blue Velvet – David Lynch
Bonnie and Clyde
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson
Breaking the Waves – Lars von Trier
Caravaggio – Derek Jarman
Deliverance – Coen Brothers
Diary of a Country Priest – Robert Bresson
Diva – Jean Jacque Beineix
Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet
Donnie Darko – Richard Kelly
Don’t Look Now – Nik Roeg
Dr No
Eraserhead – David Lynch
Fight Club – David Fincher
Freaks – Todd Browning
Get Carter
Gregory’s Girl – Bill Forsyth
Harold and Maude – Hal Ashby
Human Traffic – Justing Kerrigan
If – Lindsay Anderson
It’s a Wonderful Life – Frank Capra
Kes – Ken Loach
Lars and the Real Girl
Leon – JL Besson
Life of Brian – Terry Gilliam
Litle Voice – Mark Herman
Little Big Man – Arthur Penn
Little Miss Sunshine
Live Flesh – Almodovar
Local Hero – Bill Forsyth
Mad Max – George Miller
Mishima – Paul Schrader
Momento – Christopher Nolan
Mullholland Drive – David Lynch
My Left Foot
My Life as a Dog – Lasse Halstrom
Of Freaks and Men – Alxei Balabanov
Oh Brother Where art Thou? – Coen Brothers
Oh Lucky Man – Lindsay Anderson
Old Boy – Park Chan-Wook
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Stanley Kubrick
Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo Del Torro
Paris Texas – Wim Wenders
Performance – Nik Roeg
Pulp Fiction – Q Tarantino
Rope – Alfred Hitchcock
Sex Lies and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh
Sexy Beast – Jonathon Glazer
Short Cuts – Robert Altman
Slumdog Millionairre – Danny Boyle
Solaris – Alexander Tarkovsky
Sring Summer Winter Fall & Spring – Kim Ki-Duk
Star Wars – George Lucas
Talk to Her – Almodovar
Terminator – James Cameron
The Asphalt Jungle
The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan
The Big Sleep – Howard Hawks
The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock
The Blues Brothers – John Landis
The Fall
The Kings Speech
The Lady Killers – Alexander Mackendrick
The Last Woman on Earth – Roger Corman
The Matrix – Wachowski Brothers
The Meaning of Life – Terry Gilliam
The Piano – Jane Campion
The Rocky Horror Show – Jim Sharman
The School of Rock – Richard Linktater
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick
The Wall
This Beautiful Life
This Filthy Earth – Nik Kotting
Total Recall – Paul Verhoeven
Trainspotting – Danny Boyle
True Stories – David Byrne
Underground
Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
West World – Michael Crichton
You the Living – Ingmar Bergman
2010 a Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick