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1. Snow Falling on Cedars. Historic Romance. Director: Scott Hicks. Starring: Youki Kudoh, Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow, Max Wright

2. Trois Couleurs: Bleu. French Art Movie. Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski. Starring: Juliette Binoche
3. Germinal. French Art Movie. Director: Claude Berri. Starring: Gerard Depardieu
4. Jean De Florette. French Art Movie. Director: Claude Berri. Starring: Gerard Depardieu
5. Manon des Souces. French Art Movie. Director: Claude Berri
6. My Father's Glory. French Art Movie. Director: Yves Robert
7. My Mother's Castle. French Art Movie. Director: Yves Robert
8. City of Lost Children. French Art Movie / Science Fiction. Directors: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
9. Delicatessan. French Art Movie / Science Fiction. Directors: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
10. The Professional. French Crime Movie. Director: Luc Besson. Starring: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman
11. Nikita. French Crime Movie. Director: Luc Besson
12. Frantic. French Art Movie. Director: Roman Polanski
13. In the Mood For Love. Chinese Art Movie / Romance. Director: Wong Kar-wai. Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung
14. Red Sourghum. Chinese Art Movie. Director Zhang Yimou
15. Raise the Red Lantern. Chinese Art Movie. Director Zhang Yimou
16. Shanghai Triad. Chinese Art Movie. Director Zhang Yimou
17. Emperor and the Assassin. Chinese Art Movie. Director: Kaige Chen. Starring: Gong Li
18. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Chinese Art Movie. Director: Ang Lee
19. The Last Emperor. Chinese History Art Movie. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
20. Emperor and the Assasin. Chinese Art Movie. Director: Kaige Chen. Starring: Gong Li
21. Koyaanisqatsi. Art Movie. Director: Godfrey Reggio
22. The Pillow Book. Art Movie. Director: Peter Greenaway
23. Rumble Fish American Art Movie. Driectro: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke
24. The Mission. Historical Art Movie. Director: Roland Joffe. Starring: Jeremy Irons, Robert Di Niro
25. M Butterfly. Chinese Drama. Director: David Cronenberg. Starring: Jeremy Irons
26. Tampopo. Japanese Art Movie. Director: Juzo Itami
27. Ran. Japanese Art / War Movie. Director: Akira Kurosawa
28. Babette's Feast. Danish Art Movie. Director: Gabriel Axel
29. Kika. Spanish Art Movie. Director: Pedro Almodovar
30. The Crying Game. English Art / Romance Movie . Director: Neil Jordan

31. Blade Runner. Science Fiction / Film Noir. Director: Ridley Scott
32. The Abyss. Science Fiction. Director: James Cameron
33. Dune. Science Fiction. Director: David Lynch
34. Alien. Science Fiction / Horror. Director: Ridley Scott
35. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Science fiction. Director: Steven Spielberg
36. GATTACA. Science Fiction. Director: Andrew Nichol
37. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Science fiction. Director: Stanley Kubrick
38. Scanners. Science Fiction / Horror. Director: David Cronenberg
39. The Thing. Science fiction. Director: John Carpenter
40. Dark Star. Science Fiction. Director: John Carpenter
41. Star Wars 1,2,4,5,6. Science Fantasy. Director: George Lucas
42. Escape from New York. Science Fiction / Film Noir. Director: John Carpenter
43. The Matrix. Science Fiction. Directors: Andy & Larry Wachowski
44. Existenz. Science Fiction. Director David Cronenberg

45. Apocalypse Now. War. Director: Francis Ford Coppola
46. Heaven and Earth. War, Romance. Director: Oliver Stone
47. Platoon. War. Director: Oliver Stone
48. Thin Red Line. War. Director: Terrence Malick
49. Saving Private Ryan. War. Director: Steven Spielberg
50. Schindler's List. War. Director: Steven Spielberg
51. The Tuskagee Airmen. War. Director: Robert Markowitz
52. Glory. War. Director: Edward Zwick. Starring: Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick
53. Waterloo. War. Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
54. The Longest Day. War. Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton etc. Starring: Everyone in Hollywood.
55. Sands of Iwo Jima. War. Director: Allan Dwan. Starring: John Wayne
56. Flying Tigers. War. Director: David Miller. Starring: John Wayne
57. Flying Leathernecks. War. Director: Nicolas Ray. Starring: John Wayne
58. The Fighting Seebees. War. Director: Edward Ludwig. Starring: John Wayne
59. Dangerous Moonlight. War. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

60. La Luna. Romance. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Jill Clayburgh
61. Memory and Desire. Japanese Romance. Director: Niki Caro. Frame Up Films (Ponsonby). From the story by Peter Wells
62. What Dreams May Come. Romance. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson. Director: Vincent Ward
63. The Piano. Historical Romance. Director: Jane Campion
64. When Harry Met Sally. Romance. Director: Rob Reiner. Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan
65. Unbearable Lightness of Being. Historical Romance. Director: Philip Kaufman. Starring: Daniel Day Lewis, Juliette Binoche
66. Nine 1/2 Weeks. Romance. Director: Adrian Lyne. Starring: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger
67. Caligula. Historical / Pornography. Directors: Tinto Brass & Robert Guccione. Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole

    

68. Queen of the Damned. Horror. Director: Michael Rymer. Starring: Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend
69. Interview with a Vampire. Horror. Director: Neil Jordan. Starring: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt
70. Near Dark. Horror. Director: Kathryn Bigelow. Starring: Bill Paxton, Lance Henrikson
71. Angel Heart. Horror. Director: Alan Parker. Starring: Mickey Rourke. Robert Di Niro
72. Hellraiser. Horror. Director: Clive Barker
73. Cat People. Horror. Director: Paul Schrader. Starring: Nastasia Kinsky, Malcolm McDowell
74. Daughters of Darkness. B-Grade. Horror. Director: Henry Ku mel. A B-Grade horror flick, but with a lot of style
75. Nosferatu a Venezia. Horror. Directors: Augusto Caminito, Luigi Cozzi, etc. Starring: Klaus Kinski
76. Gothic. Horror. Director: Ken Russell. The Story of the weekend that Mary Shelley gave birth to the novel Frankenstein
77. Lair of the White Worm. Horror / Comedy. Director: Ken Russell. Based on the novel by Bram Stoker.

78. Modern Times. Comedy. Director:Charles Chaplin Starring: Charles Chaplin
79. Mars Attacks. Science Fiction / Comedy. Director: Tim Burton. Starring: Jack Nicholson
80. Ed Wood. Hollywood Historical Comedy. Director: Tim Burton. Starring: Johnny Depp
81. Being John Malkovich. Comedy / Fantasy. Director: Spike Jonze
82. 'A' Gai Waak Juk Jaap. Comedy. Jackie Chan and Maggie Cheung. Superb slapstick chop socky movie!
83. Lilo and Stitch. Animated comedy. Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. Animation about a Hawaiian girl and an alien

84. Lord of the Rings. Fantasy. Director: Peter Jackson
85. Excalibur. Historical Fantasy. Director: John Boorman
86. Legend. Fantasy. Director: Ridley Scott
87. Wizards. Fantasy. Director: Ralph Bakshi

88. The Untouchables. Crime / American Gangster. Director: Brian De Palma. Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Di Niro
89. Scarface. Crime / American Gangster. Director: Brian De Palma. Starring: Al Pacino
90. Heat. Crime. Director: Michael Mann; Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Di Niro
91. Kalifornia. Crime. Director: Dominic Sena. Starring: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny

92. Batman Returns. Superhero. Director: Tim Burton
93. The Crow. Superhero / Horror. Director: Alex Proyas. Starring: Brandon Lee
94. X-Men. Superhero. Director: Bryan Singer. Starring: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Halle Barry, Anna Paquin, Hugh Jackman
95. The Shadow. Superhero. Director: Russel Mulcahy. Starring: Alec Baldwin

96. Deliverance. Drama. Director: John Boorman
97. A Beautiful Mind. Drama. True story of Professor John Nash. Director: Ron Howard. Starring: Russel Crowe
98. Twister. Drama. Director: Jan De Bont. Starring: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton

99. American Beauty. Middle American Angst. Director: Sam Mendes
100. The Ice Storm. Middle American Angst. Director: Ang Lee. Starring Kevin Klein, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood

Music

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1. Soundtrack of The Mission by Ennio Morrricone. Try sailing over a waterfall nailed to a cross
2. Song of an Angel by John Taverner. What heaven sounds like
3. Pachelbel's Canon by Pachebel. He only had one hit. But it's great
4. Adagio for Stings by Samuel Barber. Music they always play at furnerals of famous people
5. Ernslaw Theme by Douglas Lilburn Song about a boat
6. Der Ring Des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. Musical porrige. It's GREAT!
7. Karelia Suite by Sibelius. I like one particular bit, but I forget which bit
8. Symphony No. 7: Leningrad by Shostakovich. Composed in Leningrad during the WWII seige
9. Night on Bare Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky. Evokes a stormy night on a mountain
10. Anything by Prokofiev. This music is wonderful. I like some pieces particularly...
11. Anything by J S Bach. Beyond his tocatta and fugue in D minor, lots of his stuff is great
12. Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. Incredibly evocative sound pictures in this

13. Drive by Bic Runga. New Zealand musical genius; wrote these songs minutes before recording
14. Beautiful Collision by Bic Runga. Mature work by Bic, my favourite is Election Night
15. Reha by Luke Hurley. A friend. And a good musician
16. The Wall by Pink Floyd. The classic. In most people's record collections
17. Faith by The Cure. Music to slash your wrists to
18. Pornography by The Cure. Music of the 80's

19. Soundtrack of The Piano by Michael Nyman. The soundtrack from the New Zealand movie
20. Soundtrack of Near Dark by Tangerine Dream. This link comes with a free movie! :)
21. Soundtrack of Queen of the Damned by Various Artists. Fansite with some of the songs

Books

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1. The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkein. The best fantasy novel of the 20th century
2. The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson. Changlings and goblins and ancient kings
3. Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson. Ancient myth
4. Swords series of books by Fritz Leiber. Swashbuckling sword and sorcery
5. Titus Groan trilogy by Mervyn Peake. Gothic novels set in a castle written by a madman
6. Neuromancer Trilogy by Wlliam Gibson. The first cyberpunk novel
7. Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein. What if life went bad on a generation ship?
8. Beyond the Barrier by Damon Knight. What is a gryb?
9. Gateway Trilogy by Frederik Pohl. Aliens leave atrifacts and humans find them
10. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. Meeting a vampire
11. The Magus by John Fowles. Strange goings on on a Greek Island
12. Space by James A Michener. Fictionalised events about astronauts
13. The Hole in the Hill by Ruth Park. Childrens book about caves at Waitomo

14. The Cuckoos Egg by Clifford Stoll. Chasing computer ciminals
15. Caving Practice and Equipment - edited by David Judson. Text book on technical caving
16. Underground Worlds by Donald Dale Jackson. Time Life book on caves
17. Philips Atlas of the World. Yeah, an atlas. Go figure. I only read it for the pictures
18. The Pelican History of Greece by A R Burn. My first book on Greek history
19. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The inventor of about 50% of our language
20. The Histories by Herodotus. The oldest history book in the world
21. The Republic by Plato. The oldest book to discuss the nature of TRUTH and society
22. The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. The oldest book to discuss RIGHT and wrong
23. Discourse on Method and Other Writings by Rene Decartes. The origin of scientific method
24. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War
25. The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Life inside Russia's Gulags
26. This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson. Biogrpahy of a mountain climber
27. Wild Swan by Jung Chang. The story of three generations of Chinese women
28. Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick. Atom bomb scientist biography
29. Bare Faced Messiah: The True Story of L Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller. Stranger than fiction

30. The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath. Poetry. Amazing poetry. A gift, a love gift...
31. The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes. Poetry by Britain's poet lauerete
32. The Portable Blake by William Blake. Poetry by archane mystical poet

33. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T E Laurence. Lawrence of Arabia in WWI
34. About Face by Col David H Hackworth & Julie Sherman. Why the USA lost Vietnam War
35. Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan. What went wrong in Vietnam
36. Blitzkreig in the West, Then and Now by Jean-Paul Pallud. Coffee table book, France 1940
37. Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor by Bill D Ross. US Marines on Iwo Jima
38. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley & Ron Powers. The story of the flag raising on Suribachi