Martin
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Introduction | After many years spent in London, Bath, Birmingham, and Paris, I have found my way back to Berlin - like so many Ex-Berliners. The constant change this city undergoes never ceases to amaze me, especially coming from Paris which, by comparison, seems static in spite of its breathtaking beauty, a beauty a place like Berlin will never have, not least because of its history. What it does have, though, is an abundance of green spaces, and these - along with Berlin's (often controversial) architecture and its cultural and ethnic diversity, most of which is lost to the casual visitor - are what The Berlin Flaneur is all about. In other words, I'm a sort of modern-day flaneur, exploring the city accompanied by my constant companion, my Dandie Dinmont Terrier, Lucas. My second blog, FILM-TALK, is dormant for now, as my interests have shifted, but what you'll find there is a mixed bag of random observations and thoughts on the films I watch and revisit and the (film-) books I read ( ... and re-read). Unless stated otherwise, all contributions to both blogs are my own. |
| Interests | Film (see below), Reading (see below), 17th century Dutch and Spanish Painting, Classical Music (Handel, Purcell), Jazz (see below) |
| Favorite Movies | Chinatown (Polanski); Le confessionel (Lepage); Cria Cuervos (Saura); The Last Seduction (Dahl); Cabaret (Fosse); Double Indemnity (Wilder); Die bleierne Zeit (von Trotta); Wild Strawberries (Bergman); Barry Lyndon (Kubrick); Modern Times (Chaplin); One, Two, Three (Wilder); Jesus de Montreal (Arcand); 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Kubrick); Coming Home (Ashby); Viridiana (Bunuel); City Lights (Chaplin); Marathon Man (Schlesinger); Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir); Une histoire simple (Sautet); The Circus (Chaplin); Atlantic City (Malle); La dentelliere (Goretta); A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan); Don't Look Now (Roeg); Being There (Ashby); Body Heat (Kasdan); The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich); Sunset Boulevard (Wilder); Network (Lumet); Le mepris (Godard); Some Like It Hot (Wilder); Autumn Sonata (Bergman); Melodie en sous-sol (Verneuil); Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Bunuel); l'ascenseur pour l'echaffaud (Malle); The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Allen); Psycho (Hitchcock); Das schreckliche Maedchen (Verhoeven); Bound (Wachowski); Vivement dimanche! (Truffaut); Max et les ferailleurs (Sautet); Repulsion (Polanski); Klute (Pakula); The Birds (Hitchcock); La vie revee des anges (Zonca); Once Upon A Time in the West (Leone); Radio Days (Allen); Death Becomes Her (Zemeckis); Lenny (Fosse); To Have and Have not (Hawks); The Three Days of the Condor (Pollack); Broadway Danny Rose (Allen); All About Eve (Mankiewicz); The Shining (Kubrick); The Go-Between (Losey); Husbands & Wives (Allen); Blood And Wine (Rafelson); Le trou (Jaques Becker); Mulholland Drive (Lynch); L'ete meurtrier (Jean Becker); The Killing (Kubrick); The Little Foxes (Wyler); Jackie Brown (Tarantino); Gold Rush (Chaplin); North By Northwest (Hitchcock); Touch of Evil (Welles); The Last Emperor (Bertolucci); Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (de Sica); Lantana (Lawrence); |
| Favorite Music | Jazz (Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, etc.); Classical (Richard Strauss, L. v. Beethoven, J.S. Bach, Joaquin Rodrigo, Purcell, etc.); |
| Favorite Books | The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton; Die Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann; Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates; An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser; Carrie, Theodore Dreiser; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; Breakfast At Tiffany's, Truman Capote; The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler; The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler; Portrait of a Lady, Henry James; The Diamond Guitar, Truman Capote; Oh, My Darling Daughter, Eric Malpass; Jeder stirbt fuer sich allein, Hans Fallada; Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx; Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst, Hans Fallada, etc. |