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Favourite films
My favourites are always changing, but these always retain a special place in my heart:
Velvet Goldmine
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and Her Lover
Withnail & I
Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)
The Piano
Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)
Gosford Park
8 1/2
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Pillow Book
Orphée
Trainspotting
Prospero's Books
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Seventh Seal
Cabaret
The Life of Brian
Harold and Maude
Wilde
The Dark Crystal

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As a child, I had casual interest in films, usually costume dramas and period pieces which I adored for their splendour and antiquity. While I am still enchanted by the odd, well-done period film, my current passion for cinema can be blamed, perhaps entirely, on the works of Peter Greenaway. When I was fourteen, I saw "The Pillow Book," and it completely changed the way I thought about films. For the first time, I saw that cinema had the potential to be art, rather than merely a narrative-driven vehicle for entertainment.

Since then, my once casual interest has blossomed into a minor obsession. My undergraduate studies center on literature and drama, and I have aspirations of becoming a dramaturge, but film criticism and analysis have become a de facto part of my Plan of Concentration. A significant portion of my free time is devoted to watching films I've never seen before, and I appreciate and enjoy watching films of almost any kind: From art films, the avant-garde, classics, and foreign films to B-movies, questionable literary adaptations, and soulless blockbusters. My current favourite directors are Peter Greenaway, David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Cocteau, Jan Svankmajer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Terry Gilliam.