Liesl Swanbeck
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Freelance Writer |
| Location | San Francisco, United States |
| Introduction | "The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure." ~ Oscar Wilde |
| Interests | globe trotting, London, Paris, Florence, composing screenplays, writing book and film reviews, listening to British bands of the indie/rock persuasion, consuming copious amounts of coffee, reading biographies/historical fiction, visiting family and friends, pretending I'm Annie Leibovitz with my camera, never ceasing to be amazed by the power of theatre and film |
| Favorite movies | Days of Heaven, Bleu, Vivre Sa Vie, Big Fish, Almost Famous, The Secret Life of Words, Eternal Sunshine, The Usual Suspects, The Hours, Pickpocket, Week End, Contempt, Vertigo, Psycho, Rope, The Birds, Hiroshima mon Amour, Cinema Paradiso, Umberto D., La Dolce Vita, Nights of Cabiria, The Bicycle Thief, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, M, Chinatown, Scarlet Street, Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, Gilda, Sabrina, Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain |
| Favorite books | Books:, All the King's Men, Midnight's Children, The Bell Jar, Bleak House, Chesapeake, The Horse Whisperer, Portrait of a Lady, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Plays:, Hamlet, Marat/Sade, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, Salome, Raisin in the Sun, Angels in America, A Streetcar Named Desire, Zoo Story, Playboy of the Western World, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Children's Hour, Poems:, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Endymion, Lady of Shalott, Intimations of Immortality, Love the Wild Swan, Dover Beach, Birches, The Highway Man, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, In My Craft or Sullen Art, Mirror, Daddy, Constantly Risking Absurdity |