IAN DARKE
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Location | MANCHESTER, CHESHIRE, United Kingdom |
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| Introduction | When I was 19, whilst sat in a pub car park, my father told me to go to univeristy. His words were: "even if you do a rubbish course, you should go. You're missing out." His sketchy logic aside, I set out to establish what it was that I actually cared about enough to devote 3 years of my life to. The answer was film. I was accepted to read Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and 3 years later I graduated with a first class honours. I have just been accepted to the MA Journalism course at Salford University where I hope to further develop my ability to write and broaden my horizons so as to include more than the area of film criticism. Some of my critical essays have found their way on to Montage Film Reviews.com, but we have recently fallen out over the merits of reviewing films via youtube (there are none). Therefore, I will no longer contribute to the website and will instead post my reviews and thoughts regarding my favourite medium here. The title of this blog, She Haunts the Roads, is taken from a song titled Rivière. e-mail: ian_darke@hotmail.co.uk tel: +44 (0)7834 073313 |
| Interests | films, music, drums, vibing, writing, cranes |
| Favorite movies | 2001: a space odyssey, adaptation, alien, l'amico di famiglia, apocalypse now, before the devil knows you're dead, being john malkovich, benny's video, blade runner, bloodsimple, blue velvet, boogie nights, cache, calvaire, carlito's way, casino, casualties of war, chinatown, le conseguenze dell'amore, dead man's shoes, el laberinto del fauno, el orfanto, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, das experiment, fargo, the fountain, funny games, the godfather, the godfather part II, halloween, haute tension, heat, ils, irreversible, the limey, lost highway, magnolia, miller's crossing, million dollar baby, the mist, mulholland drive*, mystic river, the nines, no country for old men, pi, raging bull, requiem for a dream, seven, sheitan, the shining, sleepers, sunshine, the texas chainsaw massacre, there will be blood, the thin red line, this is england, der untergang, united 93, the untouchables, wild at heart |
| Favorite music | antony & the johnsons, biffy clyro, brand new, clint mansell, death cab for cutie, further seems forever, glassjaw, hundred reasons, jimmy eat world, kings of leon, lamb of god, the mars volta, mastodon, metallica, oceansize, one day as a lion, pantera, a perfect circle, radiohead, rage against the machine, reuben, sevendust, soundgarden, taking back sunday, tool, we are scientists |
| Favorite books | cormac mccarthy, hubert selby jr., hunter s. thompson, peter biskind |