Recommended Entertainments
Waseem asked me to put this up here because he trusts my taste.
Movies
- Rustlers' Rhapsody - the best cowboy movie since 1965
- Fargo - or anything else by the Cohn Brothers
- The Wrong Box - a nice adaptation of a wonderful Robert Louis
Stevenson yarn
- Treasure Island - the real version
- The Wrong Trousers - the best Wallis and Gromit, but they're all
great
- Taxi Driver - it just doesn't get any better
- Cold Comfort Farm - what awful people
- The Secret of Roan Inish - Silkie Stalkings
- Kansas City - part of a long list of Altman films
- The Sweet Smell of Success - snappy patter & that guy from Rte 66 smokin' - a Bruce C request
Television
- Black Adder - all four seasons
- South Park - see Ernie die
Books
- Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico - An amazing story
- Gravity's Rainbow - Everyone sing now... "Ja, ja, ja. In Prussia
they never..."
- Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum invented the Airplane genre
- Whiskey Galore - Listen to this one on Audio Books to get the
accents
- Treasure Island - Of course
- Foucault's Pendulum - By Umberto Eco, the noted Italian Synthetic
Modernist