Billy Pilgrim

About me

Gender Male
Industry Student
Location Milano, Milano, Italy
Interests International Relations, Foreign Policy, Quantitative Research, Oil Dependency, Hydrocarbon Dependency, Regime Change, Regime Diffusion, Geospatial Clustering, History, History of literature, History of cinematography, History of music
Favorite Movies Jules et Jim (François Truffaut), Videodrome (David Cronenberg), Stalker (Andrej Tarkovskij), Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Lost highway (David Lynch), Dead Man (Jim Jarmush), Gozu (Takashi Miike), La Double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto), Traité de bave et d'éternité (Isidore Isou), Waking Life (Richard Linklater), Brazil (Terry Gilliam), Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel), À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard), Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi), Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson), The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick), 8 ½ (Federico Fellini), Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai), Uccellacci e uccellini (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Shadows (John Cassavetes), Det Sjunde inseglet (Ingmar Bergman), Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa), Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica), Alice in den Städten (Wim Wenders), Lola Montès (Max Ophüls), The Addiction (Abel Ferrara), Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais), Neco z Alenky (Jan Svankmajer), Koroshi no rakuin (Seijun Suzuki), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Seishun zankoku monogatari (Nagisa Oshima), In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Guy Débord), Badlands (Terrence Malick), Soshun (Yasujiro Ozu), La maschera del demonio (Mario Bava), Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson), La grande abbuffata (Marco Ferreri), Hotaru no haka (Isao Takahata), Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer), C'era una volta in America (Sergio Leone, Il grido (Michelangelo Antonioni), Ma nuit chez Maud (Eric Rohmer), Il sorpasso (Dino Risi), Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog), Idioterne (Lars Von Trier), Π (Darren Aronofsky), La battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo), Le Locataire (Roman Polanski)
Favorite Music Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis, Boards of Canada, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Mazzy Star, Portishead, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, The Kinks, Autechre, Nick Drake, Catherine Wheel, Pere Ubu, Church, Can, Interpol, Low, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joy Division, Black Heart Procession, Microphones, Husker Du, My Bloody Valentine, The Fall, Gang of Four, Faust, Dinosaur Jr, CLOUDDEAD, Slint, The Rapture, John Martyn, Global Communication, Hood, Laura Nyro, Felt, DNA, The Pop Group, Lisa Germano, Dream Syndicate, Disco Inferno, Radio Dept., Manuel Gottsching, Colder, Piano Magic, Murcof, Patrick Wolf, Khonnor, Moonshake, Popol Vuh
Favorite Books Brave New World, Douglas Adams, Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, Finnegans Wake, Foucault's Pendulum, The Recognitions, L'Étranger, La Nausée, Jorge Luis Borges, The Crying of Lot 49, Caligula, Cien años de soledad, Мастер и Маргарита, Lovecraft, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, Slaughterhouse 5, Le città invisibili, Der Prozeß, The Magic Mountain, Waiting for Godot, The Waste Land, Der Zauberberg, Machado De Assis, Ansichten eines Clowns, Conversazione in Sicilia, Rhinocéros, O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis, les Fleurs Bleues, Los Pasos Perdidos, À la recherche du temps perdu, Mar Morto, Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto De Via Merulana, L'homme qui regardait passer les trains, Петербург, Das Versprechen, Corydon, Jean Anhouil, Louis Hjelmslev