Mike's Movie Room
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Retired Blue Collar |
| Location | Champaign, IL, United States |
| Introduction | I was born in 1951, and that makes me part of the first generation to experience television. My love of old movies began when I watched the Early Show every day after school in the 1960s. I began collecting in the 1980s, first VHS, and now have an extensive collection of DVDs and Blu-rays. I'm a strong supporter of physical media. |
| Interests | I'm interested in films of many genres, including horror, film noir, old Hollywood studio classics, Poverty Row, crime thrillers, foreign films, cult movies, etc. |
| Favorite movies | The Night of the Hunter (1955), Black Sunday (1960), Vertigo (1958), All About Eve (1950), Forbidden Planet (1956), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1943) |
| Favorite music | John Abercrombie, Dave Brubeck, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills & Nash, John Coltrane, Underworld, Fleet Foxes, Judy Garland, Sandy Bull, Lumerians, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus |
| Favorite books | The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg, A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film by Marshall Fine, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film by Michael Weldon, Have You Seen.....by David Thomson, Lulu In Hollywood by Louise Brooks |