Friday, 9 August 2013

20 Films you must see

Paris, Texas – Harry Dean Stanton
Laura – Dana Andrews/ Gene Tierney
The Wind – Lillian Gish
Welcome to the Sticks
Jean De Florette/ Manor des Sources – Gerard Depardieu
Ulzana’s Raid – Burt Lancaster
Battleship Potemkin
Kes
Modern Times – Charlie Chaplin
Man of Iron
Hoffa – Jack Nicholson
Land and Freedom
Missing – Jack Lemmon/ Sissy Spacek
The Producers – Zero Mostel/ Gene Wilder
The Third Man – Orson Welles/ Joseph Cotton
This Sporting Life – Richard Harris/ Rachel Roberts
Reds – Warren Beatty/ Diane Keaton
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Ran
The Apartment – Jack Lemmon/ Shirley MacLaine

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

The novels you must read : -


              
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dosteyevsky
And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Martin Eden – Jack London
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

20 Great Protest Songs

1. Paths of Victory - Bob Dylan
2. This Land is your Land - Woody Guthrie
3. Navigator - Pogues
4. Owenboro - Natalie Marchant
5. Tramp the dirt down - Elvis Costello
6. Everybody knows - Leonard Cohen
7. People get ready - Curtis Mayfield
8. Stand down Margaret - The Beat
9. San Quentin - Johnny Cash
10. There is power in a union - Billy Bragg
11. Ghost town - The Specials
12. Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
13. Change is gonna come - Sam Cooke
14. Southern accents - Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers
15. Southern man - Neil Young
16. No more heroes - Stanglers
17. Another revolutionary - Eddie Grant
18. The story of the blues - Wah
19. Holidays in the sun - Sex Pistols
20. The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Peter LaFarge