The good people of 12.22, frustrated at my 'obscure' references, requested that I post a list of film recommendations. I've decided to add the odd great bit of TV drama or TV comedy in the hope that you will search them out, watch and enjoy. Inevitably, not all of the items on this list will appeal to all but hopefully you'll find something to both entertain and challenge you. This list will evolve and grow as more gems come to mind. Be aware that many of these may be 18s certificate or be considered offensive by some members of the community. However, great art often has the potential to offend because great art challenges conventional thought.
For a list of thrillers to look at go to labels on the right hand side of this blog and click on the label "psychological thrillers."
Coen Brother's films: Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Bother Where Art Thou (2000), No Country For Old Men (2007)
Hitchcock Films: Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), North By Northwest (1959), Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (19540, The Lady Vanishes(1938), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), 39 Steps (1935), Rope (1948)
Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), 2001 Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
David Lynch: The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks TV Series 1&2 (1990-91), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), The Straight Story (1999)
Woody Allen: Take the Money and Run (1969), Zelig (1983), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Hannah and Her Sisters(1986), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Martin Scorcese: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Goodfellas (1990), Raging Bull (1980), Casino (1995), Age of Innocence (1993), The Departed (2006)
Francis Ford-Coppola: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1974), Apocolyspe Now (1979)
Classic TV Comedy: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, The Day Today, Brass Eye, I'm Alan Partridge, Blackadder, The League of Gentleman, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Classic TV Drama: Prime Suspect, The Sopranos, The Wire, Our Friends In The North, Life on Mars, Pride and Prejudice, Deadwood.
Coen Brother's films: Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Bother Where Art Thou (2000), No Country For Old Men (2007)
Hitchcock Films: Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), North By Northwest (1959), Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (19540, The Lady Vanishes(1938), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), 39 Steps (1935), Rope (1948)
Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), 2001 Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
David Lynch: The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks TV Series 1&2 (1990-91), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), The Straight Story (1999)
Woody Allen: Take the Money and Run (1969), Zelig (1983), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Hannah and Her Sisters(1986), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Martin Scorcese: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Goodfellas (1990), Raging Bull (1980), Casino (1995), Age of Innocence (1993), The Departed (2006)
Francis Ford-Coppola: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1974), Apocolyspe Now (1979)
Classic TV Comedy: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, The Day Today, Brass Eye, I'm Alan Partridge, Blackadder, The League of Gentleman, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Classic TV Drama: Prime Suspect, The Sopranos, The Wire, Our Friends In The North, Life on Mars, Pride and Prejudice, Deadwood.
2 comments:
Nice picture of Mr Meade as an A level student!
It would also be interesting to look at some of the Auteurs that Mr Meade suggested, especially Herzog-
'Game in the Sand centers around a chicken.
Signs of Life features a chicken buried up to its neck in a mound of sand.
Signs of Life and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser feature chicken hypnosis.
Aguirre, The Wrath of God chickens are thrown over a cliff.
Even Dwarfs Started Small features cannibalistic chickens, and several sequences of dwarfs throwing chickens.
Stroszek ends with a long shot of a dancing chicken
Invincible features a tale about a man who thinks himself to be a rooster.
The White Diamond features a Guyanese man who adores his pet rooster and wishes to bring it up with him when offered a ride on an airship.
WHAT CAN I SAY? THE MAN HAD ATHING FOR CHICKENS1
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