Mike Nichols, Julie Taymor, Nicole Holofcener, Judd Apatow, Jane Campion, Todd Haynes, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sam Mendes, Kim Pierce, Michael Moore
Awards
Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship, ECU European Independent Film Festival 2006 Short Film Nomination, Eisner Award for Outstanding Acting Talent, Pillsbury Award for Outstanding Artist, Mann Prize of Outstanding Talent in the Performing Arts, four-year scholarship from the Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation, four-year scholarship from the Cloverlane Foundation, two Hickman Awards for Most Outstanding Talent of the Year and three ArtsBridge Fellowships, Irene Ryan nomination for Best Actress in a Play 1999
Festivals
Cannes Film Festival 2008, Sundance Film Festival 2008, Berlin International Film Festival 2008, Berlin International Film Festival 2007, ECU European Independent Film Festival 2006
Professional Affiliations
Polyamorous Productions International
Sarah Arlen Films's Interests
General
This is a big catagory, but surely I love anything that has to do with film, theatre, design, dance, art and all that jazz; and my goodness do I love food! And cooking food, which makes a good pairing with the whole "food" thing...and traveling all over the world with my husband to eat food...but not so much with the plane food.
Frou Frou, Coldplay, Man.., Tori Amos, Counting Crows, Fiona Apple, Nick Drake, Ani DiFranco, Simon and Garfunkel, Tracy Chapman, George Winston, Dar Williams, David Bowie, Nora Jones, Damien Rice, Devotchka, Sigur Ros, Cat Steven (from Harold and Maude only!) I also love the music of Holly Mae Haddock and of Justin Walters, and all the composers I work with!
Movies
FAR TO MANY TO LIST, BUT HERE'S A START:
Harold and Maude, An American in Paris, Amélie, SiCKO, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinsey, Little Miss Sunshine, Singing in the Rain, Boys Don't Cry, Cléo 5 to 7, Chicago, Far From Heaven, Dr. Strangelove, Waiting for Guffman, American Beauty, Annie Hall, Angels in America, The Queen, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Three Seasons, Fight Club, Orlando, Some Like It Hot, Sense and Sensibility, The Incredibles, Kramer vs Kramer, The Ice Storm, Return to Oz, Edward Scissorhands, Bowling for Columbine, George Washington, Parenthood, Trainspotting, Empire of the Sun, Lawn Dogs, Raising Vistor Vargas, Citizen Kane, All the Real Girls, all Wallace and Gromit, The Corpse Bride, Love Actually, Mean Girls, Oscar and Lucinda, Momento, Pride and Prejudice, The Fisher King, Something's Gotta Give, Fargo, A History of Violence, Good Will Hunting, The Devil Wears Prada, Maria Full of Grace, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, You Can Count on Me, Pollack, Sophie's Choice, Delicatessen, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Postcards from the Edge, Closer, Manhattan, Jaws, In Her Shoes, The Family Stone, Borat, Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different, An Angel at My Table, Raising Arizona, The Children of Men, Away From Her, This Filthy World, Notes on a Scandal, I'm a Cyborg But That's OK AND MANY, MANY MORE!!!
And my films, Like Trees and The Adventures of Mom and Dad; goes without saying, doesn't it?
Television
ME NO LIKE TV... I have to agree with Roald Dahl's stance on this one and say that it rots people's brains... This statement does NOT include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as it is available and commercial-free online (easier to watch from France anyway) (I adore me some Daily Show; please see "licking Jon Stewart" comment in my "People I'd like to meet" section) and The Simpsons which are readily available on DVD (and soon in cinemas, hurrah!) and the Actor's Studio, for which the word "classy" and the material known to man as Blue Notecards were cleverly and thankfully engineered...
Books
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Heroes
My husband, honestly and truly, and my mom are the top two... My Granny was fabulous from here to there and everywhere and her lovely spirit is inside of the lady you know as Sarah Arlen... Christine Vachon and all such strong and courageous women in film and the arts top my charts as I head in their and in new directions...
And here are some photos from the set of Like Trees...
This is my personal photo collection of pictures I've taken of My Paris...
These are some of our many travel pictures...
I love The Daily Show so very, very much...
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WHO I'D LIKE TO MEET:
All the international citizens of the world...Specifically, I'd like to meet the kick-ass team from Killer Films, especially Christine Vachon who could speak French with me (and probably correct my mistakes)... I'd love to lick Jon Stewart, as I think my husband would definitely understand and as Jon Stewart is sex on (short) legs, although maybe Jon Stewart's wife wouldn't think that was so tasteful, so to speak... It would be just smashing to meet and make a movie as an actor for/with Chistopher Guest; he funny...me love him long time... So very many film artists, artists in general, writers, audience members and, as saccharinely Anne-of-Green-Gables-esque as it may sound, as many kindred spirits as there are in the world for me to get to know and love...
