Margaret Benbow

My blogs

• Margaret Benbow

Blogs I follow

• Art, Movies, Wood and whatnot . . .
• Bookworm Collective
• By Kubrick's Beard
• Caffeinated Joe
• Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness
• Caroline's Crayons
• Cinema Styles
• Classic Maiden
• Deric's MindBlog
• Film for the Soul
• Flappers & Flickers
• Fourth Grade Nothing
• From the Shadows to the Page
• FULL-ON FORWARD
• Immigrant of the Day
• impeachment and other dreams
• JS-Kit
• Life by Chocolate: Robyn Alana Engel's Blog
• Lost in the Movies (old website)
• Monkee's Spot
• Monkey Muck
• NOT WORTH MENTIONING!
• Padre Mickey's Dance Party
• Patrick Tillett
• Robin Chapman's Poem a Day Blog
• Sarcastic Granny
• She Who Seeks
• shine out loud
• Shrink Wrapped Scream
• The Clean White Page
• The Daily Irritant
• THE DARK OF THE MATINEE
• The Films in My Life - a personal journal of cinema
• The Man-Cave
• The Non-Review
• the platitudes of willful resemblance

About me

Gender	Female
Occupation	Writer
Location	United States
Interests	Supporting the ACLU. Animal rights. And for fun: Reading memoirs, poetry and mysteries; biking, admiring dogs, baking with gusto rather than expertise, watching great movies with friends and family.
Favorite Movies	Blue, White, Red (Trilogy by Kieslowski); Red Beard, and anything else directed by Kurosawa; Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders);most of Werner Herzog's movies; *The Searchers*, with John Wayne;films by Kaurismaaki and Patrice Leconte; any movies with the actors Daniel Auteuil, Anna Karina, Mathieu Almaric, Toshiro Mifune, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimee, or Tadanobu Asano (especially his *The Last Life in the Universe*). These are favorites.
Favorite Music	Opera, blues, French cabaret singers, the Hasidic rapper Matisyahu, the Egyptian icon Oum Kaltoum
Favorite Books	*Jane Eyre* is my lifetime favorite novel. Colette is my favorite writer. Recently I've enjoyed Fred Vargas's Inspector Adamsberg mysteries, Mark Bittner's one-of-a-kind memoir *The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill*, Mark Reynolds' Hemingway biography, and Michael Perry's book of essays, *Population: 485*