Some of my favourites

I've collected here some of the more interesting cultural products, that I have come across. Most of these belong to the favourite category, but some are here just to bring variety. I've also tried to avoid listing the most obvious, popular ones. Enjoy!

I've also found the following CD records and books to be worth owning.

Movies

A Close Shave

Excellent animation from Nick Park. Check also Wrong Trousers.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

#1 horror movie - hands down.

Barton Fink

Quite an interesting one this: it starts just like any other more or less boring film, but then a dramatic change makes you go 'What the heck...?'

Bitter Moon

A british couple finds new meanings to the word lust. Cruel one.

Bound

Classic style crime story. Ain't Jenny a babe?

Brain Donors

It's as if the Marx-brothers were still alive!

Clockwork Orange

The criminals are still human beings, no matter how sick they might be.

Contact

One of the best realisations of any book that I've read.

Cyrano de Bergerac

So I'm a romantic, shoot me.

Dances with Wolves

All indians are bad, and all white men are good. Right?

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Thank you Steve Martin. Thank you Humphrey Bogart.

Dead Poets Society

Good drama with Robin Williams. Express yourselves.

Delicatessen

Visual, entertaining - makes you hungry for more.

Fargo

This one's about crime in Minnesota. Cruel and funny, jaa!

Grand Canyon

It's about life in L.A.

House of Usher

Legendary horror movie with Vincent Price; still gives me the creeps.

Naked

Emotionally stressing story by Mike Leigh.

Once Upon a Time in America

Epic mob movie.

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Visual statement against war. Got to see it, got to hear it!

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

A study of Hamlet done in parody style. Great, if you know your Hamlet.

Strange Days

Is this what future has in store for us?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Yet another love story.

Books

Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card: Children of the Mind

Parts 2 and 4 of the best trilogy I've ever read. Especially the ending is really thought provoking.

Stephen Coonts: Under Siege

Washington becomes a war ground between the government and drug dealers. Can the Capitol survive actual warfare?

Philip K. Dick: Scanner Darkly

Very typical of Dick: gruesome story of people addicted to drugs, and their fight for a way out.

Alan Dean Foster: Sentenced to Prism

One of the best Foster's. A really entertaining description of a silicon based life form.