Ryan
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| Introduction | I am a junior Electronic Media Communications major at Northwestern college in St. Paul, Minnesota. I love film. I've spent the last four years of my life devoting myself to the study of it. I also love to write. I have written in my free time my entire life. Both are loves that I have always had, and really never understood why. However, they have stuck with me. |
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| Interests | Movies: Watching, making, reading about, writing about. |
| Favorite movies | I love movies a lot. I also feel in inexplicable need to rank and define everything that I like. This interest is what ultimately led me to blogging. Below is a list of my fifty favorite films of all time: a list that I will hopefully complete with reviews before too long. 1. Sherlock Jr. 2. The Passion of Joan of Arc 3. The Lord of the Rings 4. Rear Window 5. Out of the Past 6. The Empire Strikes Back 7. Lawrence of Arabia 8. No Country for Old Men 9. The General 10. Vertigo 11. Make Way for Tomorrow 12. M 13. Vampyr 14. Le Circle Rouge 15. The 400 Blows 16. Rio Bravo 17. The 39 Steps 18. Nosferatu 19. The Seventh Seal 20. His Girl Friday 21. The Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn 22. Casablanca 23. Army of Shadows 24. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 25. Night of the Hunter 26. Ikiru 27. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 28. City Lights 29. Patton 30. Wall-E 31. Tokyo Story 32. The Hudsucker Proxy 33. Rififi 34. Shadow of a Doubt 35. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 36. Toy Story 37. Blade Runner 38. White Heat 39. Faust 40. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence 41. Metropolis 42. Bridge on the River Kwai 43. Umberto D 44. Rules of the Game 45. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 46. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 47. Steamboat Bill Jr. 48. 2001: A Space Odyssey 49. Its a Wonderful Life 50. The Bicycle Thief |
| Favorite music | Music- I don't play anything, but I appreciate it. I'm kind of like Dalio in Rules of the Game. I'm the foremost of spectators, with no real hand in or grasp of the process at all. That said, my favorites are Tchaikovski, Vivaldi, Haydn, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg, and Gershwin. I love film scores. John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, Howard Shore, and Carter Burwell being among my favorite. I also love indie music (and the classics as well). Cloud Cult, Passion Pit, the Flaming Lips, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Anberlin, Modest Mouse, Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Ra Ra Riot, Weezer, The Beatles, Spoon, The Killers, Oasis, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, The Foundations, Chicago, The Beegees, Audio Adrenaline, |