These are a Few of My Favourite Things...

ACTORS

AUTHORS & BOOKS

FILMS

About Last Night (Based on Mamet’s ‘Sexual Perversity in Chicago’)
Alice (Woody)
A Love Song For Bobby Long
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis book, with Christian Bale)
Annie Hall Where do I start? (Woody)
Angel Heart (Adrian Lyne, Mickey Rourke)
After Hours (Scorcese, Griffin Dunne)
The Anniversay Party (Jennifer Jason Leigh and others do E for the first time. Yeah, right.
Auntie Mame (Some great lines, with Rosalind Russel)
Awakenings (DeNiro and Robin Williams, Julie Kavner)
Bright Lights, Big City (Michael J. Fox, Diane Wiest) Based on McInerney’s book
Broadway Danny Rose (Woody)
Basketball Diaries (Jim Carroll)
Carlito’s Way
City of Ghosts
Une Crabbe dans le Tete
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody)
The Chateau
The Dealer (French Film)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fifth Element (Mimi Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Bruce Willis)
Falcon and the Snowman (Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)
Good Night and Good Luck
Half Nelson
High Art (Ally Sheedy)
House of Games (Mamet)
Homicide (Mamet)
Imposters (The) (Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Lily Taylor)
Igby Goes Down (Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Susan Sarandon, Keiram McCaulkin)
I Love Your Work (An Adam Goldberg film)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
La Femme Nikita (great music) Eric Serra
Little Miss Sunshine
Less Than Zero (Based on Bret Easton Ellis)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Lost In Translation (Sophia Coppola)
Magnolia
Man with the Golden Arm (Frank Sinatra)
Manhattan (Ultimate Cinema)
Matchstick Men
Music of Chance (Mandy Patinkin, James Spader)
Moonlight Mile (Jake Gyllenhall, Susan Sarrandon, Dustin Hofffman)
Next Stop, Greenwich Village with Christopher Walken,
New York Stories (3 shorts - W. Allen, M. Scorcesi, F. Coppola)
Nine and a Half Weeks
Panic in Needle Park
Paperchase
Paul Thomas Anderson's Films
Pay It Forward
Permanent Midnight (Ben Stiller, based on Jerry Stahl’s life)
Poolhall Junkies (Christopher Walken, Chazz Palminteri)
Pope of Greenwich Village (Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts before they both got worse and weird)
The Professional (Jean Reno, Gary Oldman - nuts and as usual)
Reality Bites (A little light but quality)
Requiem For A Dream (Based on book by H. Selby Jr. who did Last Exit to Brooklyn)
Rushmore (Jason Shwartzman, Bill Murray)
Seven (Brian Singer, who did Usual Suspects)
Sidewalks of New York (Ed Burns stars and directs, quality, sort of)
Slaves of New York (Based on Tama Janowitz’s book)
Spanish Prisoner “…serious Steve Martin…things are not as they seem (Mamet)
Spun (John Leguiziamo, Jason Shwartzman)
Shape of Things
Stealing Home
Swimming with Sharks (Kevin Spacey rocks)
The Office (The BBC Comedy Series)
The Painted Veil
To Die For (Joaquin & Nicole)
Traffic
25th Hour (Spike Lee)
St. Elmos Fire (Sorry, what can I say)
Wonder Boys (Michael Douglas, Toby Maguire)
Withnail and I
Vanilla Sky
Y Tu Mama Tambien well done Mexican film
Zodiac

MUSIC

Aimee Mann
Blue Nile (Along the Rooftops, Hats, Peace at Last)
Cocteau Twins
Curtis Mayfield
City and Colour
Claude Debussy
David Sylvian
Eric Satie
Mike Errico
Jeff Buckley
Nicky Holland (two albums if you can find them)
Red House Painters (beautiful, on the label 4AD)
Sergei Rachmaninov
Shawn Colvin
Sundays (3 albums)
Teddy Thompson
Van Morrison (‘Inarticulate Speech of the Heart’ if you can find)
Wendy and Lisa
Whiskey Town (Ryan Adams)

SOUNDTRACKS

Eyes Wide Shut
High Art
Leaving Las Vegas
Nine and a Half Weeks
Requiem For a Dream
Rocky 1
Rumble Fish (Stewart Copeland)
Siesta
Stealing Home
The Painted Veil