Usual child-of-the-'70s stuff - Altman on any half-decent day, particularly California Split, Long Goodbye, McCabe, MASH, The Player, John Carpenter before he forgot how, Withnail every time, Woody Allen 'cos the kids are alright!, The Kids Are Alright, Miracle Mile, Scorsese before he decided that sweeping vistas + epic canvas = big story + Oscar (wrong so far...), The Honeymoon Killers, Don Seigel all the way, Peckinpah, Argento, Fulci et al., fucken over-the-top De Palma, not Over The Top, Romero but he should have left it at 3..., Walter "over the" Hill, To Live and Die in LA and most Friedkin really (inc. Sorcerer), Wages of Fear, Monty Pee-ton as the French say, Repo Man (plate of shrimp...), Five Easy Pieces, Demme (J not T R.I.P.), Malick, Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell, Lindsay Anderson, Alan Clarke, less-fruity Ken Russell, Greenaway a little but mainly Draughtsman's Contract, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach keeps doing it, Figgis' vibe but mainly Internal Affairs, Arthur Penn (love Night Moves), At Close Range, State of Grace, Near Dark and most Kathryn Bigelow and early Cameron, Michael Ritchie the lost golden-ager, Monte Hellman, all things Warren Oates, John Boorman (great autobiography recently btw), the monolithic Lee Marvin, Lumet in most of the 57 varieties, Billy Wilder, first few Coen brothers, some Stephen Frears but mainly The Hit bigtime, Curtiz, Mackendrick, Powell & Pressburger, Jacob's Ladder (how the hell did such a flashy hack like Lyne pull that off...?!), similarly Alan Parker as far as Angel Heart and Mississippi burning go, House of Games and Homicide, Trainspotting, Out Of The Blue (now there's an opening scene!), lotsa Lynch, Gummo, Van Sant with a couple of major exceptions, John Landis, funny Steve Martin (at the risk of repeating myself - what the fuck happened to him?!), Abel Ferrara, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Pelham 123, No Way Out, Leone, last 10 minutes of Zabriskie Point, Summer of Sam, like Doug Liman, Polanski, Hal Ashby but not as much as I used to, Aldrich, Death Race 2000, Electra Glide in Blue, Glengarry, Paul Schrader (love Blue Collar), Coppola (above all, Jack... only kidding), Paper Moon/Targets/Picture Show, Michael Mann (best to-be-rewritten line in LA Takedown "For me, the action is half the juice"), Frankenheimer (but not Ronin), Slap Shot (anything with Strother Martin, in fact), A Boy and His Dog, White Dog & most Fuller, George Roy Hill somewhat grudgingly, Trees Lounge, Tarantino (but please send back this chop-socky as it tastes stale...), Kubrick, Chopper, Huston, Breaking In and Gregory's Girl, The Vanishing (let's just say Keifer Sutherland doesn't appear in the one I'm talking about...), Bad Company (Benton and Newman rather than Hopkins and Rock...), hacky Capricorn One, Hitchcock, Diner, Das Boots (as my wife calls it), Wenders, Jarmusch, anything shot by Robby Muller, Herzog and Burden of Dreams, Hoop Dreams, used to hate him but Tony Scott, got to give it to Oliver Stone every now and then, Tap!, not bloody much lately...
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Classics
1991 to 1994
Harvard University
Cambridge,Massachusetts
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Classics
Minor: Ethics and International Relations
1990 to 1991
St Paul's School
LONDON, United Kingdom
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
I have a new publishing venture FastCrowd Music, through Universal Music in the US - So if you're a real deal songwriter or writer/performer please drop me a line and I'll do my level damnedest to listen...
