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About Me
- Jeff (Geoff)
- California, United States
- Interior Designer, Actor, Poet, Artist
About "Oh, By The Way"
All-time Favorite Films
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
- After Hours (Hysterical, hair-raising ride through NYC at night)
- Amelie
- American Beauty (Alan Ball)
- Baby of Macon, The (Greenaway--with hesitation I add this)
- Baraka (Stunning, transcending—the "spiritus mundi" on film)
- Belle et Bete (Cocteau)
- Big Sleep, The (The epitome of film noir)
- Bringing Up Baby (Hepburn & Grant—the epitome of screwball comedy)
- Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, The (Greenaway)
- Crash (Cronenberg—DIFFICULT subject, not for everyone)
- Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg—ultimate modern gothic horror)
- Drowning By Numbers (Greenaway)
- Easy Rider
- Edward II (Derek Jarman)
- Erendira (From magic realist Marquez’ brilliant short story)
- Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick's last film)
- Fearless (Jeff Bridges—life and death)
- Funny Bones (Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis, and the brilliant Lee Evans)
- Grifters, The (Watch for Anjelica Huston’s last scene!!)
- Holiday (Hepburn & Grant)
- House of Games
- Howard’s End (The ultimate statement of the unfairness of class systems)
- Hudsucker Proxy, The (Jennifer Jason Leigh is brilliant in the Kate Hepburn role!)
- Hunger, The
- Ice Storm, The
- Inland Empire (David Lynch)
- Interiors (Woody Allen's ode to Bergman)
- Jetee, La (French short that inspired Gilliam's "12 Monkeys")
- Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
- Juliet of the Spirits (My favorite Fellini)
- Kwaidan (4 Japanese ghost stories)
- Last Temptation of Christ, The (Jesus was a shaman)
- Latcho Drom (Beautiful visual documentary of Romany culture around the world)
- Lion in Winter, The (Hepburn!—Like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” but circa 1183)
- Living End, The
- Lost Highway (David Lynch)
- L’Age d’Or (Bunuel)
- Magnolia
- Maurice (Boy gets boy, they live happily ever after!!!!!)
- Men Don’t Leave (Jessica Lange’s gorgeous delicate performance)
- Nights of Cabiria, The (Fellini)
- Orlando (Tilda Swinton’s pristine performance and Sally Potter’s ravishing visuals)
- Orphee (HEAVEN! Cocteau was a genius)
- Pennies From Heaven (Steve Martin/ stunning Edward Hopper sets!)
- Philadelphia Story, The (Hepburn)
- Pillow Book, The (Greenaway)
- Planet of the Apes
- Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Nicholson/Lange--WOW)
- Prospero’s Books (Greenaway)
- Rebel Without a Cause ("I got the bullets!")
- Satyricon (Fellini)
- Seven (Dense, dark, terrifying, and disturbing thriller)
- Shining, The (Kubrick)
- The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick masterpiece)
- Thin Red Line, The (Malick again--existential poetry cleverly disguised as a war film)
- Titus (Julie Taymor does Shakespeare)
- Tommy (Brilliant, audacious Ken Russell film of The Who's rock opera)
- Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel and Dali, need more be said?)
- Wall,The (Pink Floyd)
- Wings of Desire (All the feelings of the entire human race in one film)
- Woman of the Year (Dated yet charming Hepburn vehicle)
- Zabriskie Point (Empty, open, classic early 70s)
- ZOO, A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway)
The Sounds My Soul Makes: Music
- Annie Lennox
- Brian Eno
- Cocteau Twins
- David Bowie
- David Sylvian
- Dead Can Dance
- Durutti Column
- Elbow
- Everything But the Girl
- Gang of Four
- Goldfrapp
- Joni Mitchell
- José González
- Junip
- Kate Bush
- Laurie Anderson
- M83
- Mogwai
- Morrissey
- Mum
- Nine Inch Nails
- Peter Gabriel
- Rickie Lee Jones
- Sigur Ros
- Simple Minds
- Smiths, The
- Talk Talk
- Tears For Fears
- This Mortal Coil
- Tori Amos
- William Orbit
- Zero 7
Important Books That Have Influenced Me
- 100 Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Doorway (for young people but worth it)—Madeleine L’Engle
- Alice In Wonderland—Lewis Carroll
- An American Childhood—Annie Dillard
- Anna Karenina—Tolstoy
- Black Elk Speaks—John G. Niehardt
- Carlos Castenada series
- Cat’s Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut
- Childhood’s End—Arthur C. Clarke
- Dancing Wu-Li Masters, The—Gary Zukav
- Demian—Hermann Hesse
- Duino Elegies, The--Rilke
- For the Time Being—Annie Dillard
- Great Gatsby, The—F. Scott Fitzgerald
- In Search of Lost Time—Proust
- Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte
- Memories, Dreams and Reflections—Carl Gustav Jung
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek—Annie Dillard
- Poetry of Anne Sexton
- Poetry of Sharon Olds
- Portrait of a Lady, The—Henry James
- Prophet, The—Kahlil Gibran
- Save Me The Waltz—Zelda Fitzgerald
- Siddartha—Hermann Hesse
- Thin Place, The—Kathryn Davis
- Tibetan Book of the Dead, The
- To the Lighthouse—Virginia Woolf
- Wuthering Heights—Emily Bronte
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