My cultural favourites

Submitted by kenji on Sat, 02/05/2005 - 05:36
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  • FILMS:
  • Sansho the Bailiff- Mizoguchi
  • Andrei Rublev- Tarkovsky
  • Mirror-Tarkovsky
  • Paris Texas- Wenders
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey- Kubrick
  • Sunrise- Murnau
  • Maborosi- Kore-eda
  • The Green Ray- Rohmer
  • L'Avventura- Antonioni
  • Alice in the Cities- Wenders
  • North by Northwest- Hitchcock
  • Abraham Valley- Oliveira
  • Seven Samurai- Kurosawa
  • Some Like it Hot- Wilder
  • Tokyo Story- Ozu
  • Pather Panchali- Ray
  • Story of the Late Chrysanthemums- Mizoguchi
  • La Regle du Jeu-Renoir
  • Celine and Julie go Boating- Rivette
  • Tales of the Taira Clan- Mizoguchi
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman- Ophuls
  • Vertigo- Hitchcock
  • The Colour of Pomegranates- Paradjanov
  • Casablanca- Curtiz
  • PAINTINGS:
  • 100 Famous Views of Edo- Hiroshige
  • Woman with a Balance- Vermeer
  • Ginevra de Benci- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Whistlejacket- Stubbs
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring- Vermeer
  • Las Meninas- Velasquez
  • Hunters in the Snow- Bruegel
  • Norham Castle, Sunrise- Turner
  • Young Girl Reading a Book- Fragonard
  • Bougival, 1876- Sisley
  • Ville d'Avray- Corot
  • Ranuccio Farnese- Titian
  • The Fighting Temeraire- Turner
  • Early Spring- Guo Xi
  • A Wall in Naples- Jones
  • Sunset, Penmon- Kyffin Williams
  • To my Wife- Chagall
  • Jacob Blessing- Rembrandt
  • Starry Night- Van Gogh
  • The Precious Book- Gwen John
  • Olympia- Manet
  • 36 Views of Mount Fuji -Hokusai
  • Journeys in the Provinces- Hiroshige
  • MUSIC
  • Classical:
  • 2nd Symphony - Sibelius
  • O Mio Babbino Caro- Puccini
  • Ebben?..Ne Andro Lontana- Catalani
  • Vltava- Smetana
  • La Boheme- Puccini
  • The Protecting Veil- Tavener
  • 7th Symphony- Beethoven
  • Concierto de Aranjuez- Rodrigo
  • Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves- Verdi
  • 2nd Piano Concerto- Rachmaninov
  • Benedictus- Jenkins
  • 5th Symphony, Adagietto- Mahler
  • Violin Concerto- Sibelius
  • La Traviata- Verdi
  • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini- Rachmaninov
  • Barcarolle- Offenbach
  • Carmen- Bizet
  • Intermezzo, Cavalleria Rusticana- Mascagni
  • Pastoral Symphony- Beethoven
  • Popular:
  • Art of Amalia- Amalia Rodrigues
  • Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy- Elton John
  • Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
  • Le Pas du Chat Noir- Anouar Brahem
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- Elton John
  • O.K. Computer- Radiohead
  • My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra
  • Aman Iman- Tinariwen
  • The Queen is Dead- The Smiths
  • Tumbleweed Connection- Elton John
  • Histoire de Melody Nelson- Serge Gainsbourg
  • Through the Windowpane- Guillemots
  • Horses- Patti Smith
  • BOOKS
  • The Wind in the Willows- Grahame
  • The Little Prince- St Exupery
  • The House of the Spirits- Allende
  • The Pillow Book- Sei Shonagon
  • Jacques le Fataliste- Diderot
  • Tom Jones- Fielding
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle- Murakami
  • Life of Pi- Martel
  • Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
  • Manon Lescaut- Prevost
  • Nature Diary- Opal Whiteley
  • Evening Clouds- Shono
  • The Garden of Forking Paths- Borges
  • The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
  • Madame Bovary- Flaubert
  • Snow Country- Kawabata
  • Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut
  • The Little Town where Time Stood Still- Hrabal
  • Jude the Obscure- Hardy
  • Macbeth- Shakespeare
  • Our Mutual Friend- Dickens
  • The Alchemist- Coelho
  • 1984- Orwell
  • Summer Book- Jansson
  • Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
  • A Child's Christmas in Wales/ The Outing- Dylan Thomas
  • POEMS:
  • Somewhere i have never travelled- eecummings
  • Nicholas Nye- De La Mare
  • Poem in October- Dylan Thomas
  • The Destruction of Sennacherib- Byron
  • Ode to a Nightingale- Keats
  • Home Thoughts from Abroad- Browning
  • Fern Hill- Dylan Thomas
  • The Lady of Shalott- Tennyson
  • Birth of the Foal- Juhasz
  • The Unfaithful Wife- Lorca
  • Le Dormeur du Val- Rimbaud
  • At Anchor in the Evening- Chang Chi
  • The Frost at Midnight- Coleridge
  • A Marriage- R.S.Thomas
  • The Eve of St Agnes- Keats
  • Tintern Abbey- Wordsworth
  • The Railway Children- Heaney
  • Being on Duty all Night- Po Chu-i
  • This is the Creature- Rilke
  • Thoughts on the Chill of Early Autumn- Meng Hao-Jan
  • Ballad of Chang An- Li Po
  • TV
  • Life on Earth/The Living Planet/The Trials of Life/ The Blue Planet/ The Life of Mammals (David Attenborough)
  • The World at War
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Blackadder 2&3
  • Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Palin)
  • Porridge