Recommendations
Films:
Old faves:
All That Jazz (Fosse)
Annie Hall, Stardust Memories, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan and Husbands and Wives (all by Woody Allen)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Faust, Nosferatu and Sunrise (all by Murnau)
The Russia House (Schepisi)
Le Dernier Combat (Besson)
An American in Paris (Minnelli)
Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Straight Story (Lynch)
Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant (Polanski)
The Street of Crocodiles, The Comb (the Brothers Quay)
Alice, Dimensions in Dialogue, Conspirators of Pleasure (Svankmajer)
The Element of Crime, Dogville (von Trier)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
The Third Man (Reed)
M (Lang)
The Red Shoes (Powell)
Voyage to Cythera, Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)
81/2 (Fellini)
The Magician, The Seventh Seal, Persona, Saraband (Bergman)
Wings of Desire (Wenders)
Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog)
The Duelists (Scott)
The Saragossa Manuscript, The Hourglass Sanatorium (Has)
Stalker, His Name is Ivan, Andrei Rublev, Mirror (Tarkovsky)
My Twentieth Century (Enyedi)
Some Like it Hot (Wilder)
More recently released or discovered:
Being John Malkovich and Adaptation (Jonze)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Angel’s Egg (Oshii)
Frida (Taymor)
Amelie (Juenet)
Black Swans, Dead Man’s Letters (Lopushansky)
Sweeney Todd (Burton)
Atonement (Wright)
The Third Part of the Night (Zulawski)
The Orphanage (Bayona)
Babel (Iñárritu)
Summer at Grandpa’s (Hsien-Hou)
The Bow (Ki-Duk)
Man on Wire (Marsh)
The Fall (Tarsem)
Music:
A completely inadequate top ten:
Miles Davis – Blue in Green
Heavy Weather – Weather Report First Circle – Pat Metheny Group
Tabula Rasa – Arvo Pärt
Debut – Bjørk
Joni Mitchell – Shadows and Light
Anaour Brahem – Voyage de Sahar
Astor Piazzolla – the Lausanne Concert
Tom Waits – Alice
King Crimson – Discipline
New finds and releases:
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – The Bairns
Dhafur Youssef – Divine Shadows
Dhafur Youssef – Digital Prophecy
Chris Woods – The Lark Decending
Tango Crash – Bailá Querida
Tango Crash – Otra Tango
Stefano Bollani – Concertone
Andreas Schiff – J. S. Bach: the Goldberg Variations
SoCalled – Ghettoblaster
Anna Maria Jopek – ID
Joni Mitchell – Shine
Ian Shaw – Drawn to All Things: The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Tomas Gubitsch – 5
Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band ep
The Good Listeners – Crane Point Lodge
Kronos Quartet – Nuevo
Wolf Creek soundtrack – Franc Tetaz and Alan Lamb
Babel soundtrack – Gustavo Santaolalla and Ryuichi Sakamoto