Peter Collinson
My blogs
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | screenwriter |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | The man known as Peter Collinson washed ashore at Rio de Janeiro less than a decade ago – two days into particularly wild Carnival, with two bullets and curare-tipped dart in his back, ten-thousand francs and a flask of single malt scotch in his pocket and of course little or no memory of a past life. His love of both films and film criticism began right then and there – when, as fate would have it, he was forced to dispatch a would-be assassin by garroting him with a rare copy of Famous Monsters of Filmland # 57, then hide-out for weeks in a bedraggled movie palace –- run by a formally black-listed ex-stuntman who insisted on screening nothing but Euro-spy flicks, B-grade monster films, Peckinpah inspired Japanese samurai movies and Mexican masked wrestler films 24 hours a day. Afterwards, he wandered north, working at assorted occupations including Greenpeace fundraiser, childcare specialist, bodyguard, reporter, and associate at Ken Starr’s law firm. He is currently prepping an action adventure and danger filled expedition to the farthest reaches of the martial-art of the political/policy blogger. |
| Interests | Politics, Foreign Policy, Filmmaking, Screenwriting, Popular Culture |
| Favorite movies | Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers, Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Inshiro Honda's Gojira (Godzilla: King of the Monsters), Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Tim Burton's Big Fish, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby and Steven Speilberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| Favorite music | TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain, Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere, The Dresden Dolls – Yes Virginia, Cat Power – The Greatest, Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – Rabbit Furcoat, Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, Love is All – Nine Times That Same Song, Lilly Allen – Alright Still |
| Favorite books | The Warrior's Camera by Stephen Prince, Something to Do With Death by Christopher Frayling, The Film Noir Reader by Alain Silver and James Ursini, The Hidden War by Artyom Borovik, Black Earth by Andrew Meier, Rising Up and Rising Down by William Vollmann, The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt, Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said, The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End by Peter W. Galbraith, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller |