in no particular order...: Some Like It Hot, Magnolia, Amelie, Les Brodeuses, Pane e Tulipani, Volver, Hable con Ella, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Hannah and her sisters, Bullets over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, E la nave va, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Casanova (2004), The Fall, Stage Beauty, Todo sobra mi madre, Requiem for a Dream, My Summer of Love, Waking Ned, Wonderboys, Tuvalu

Dear Frankie,... but then, I cry easily when watching films, last time actually when I re-watched Lost in La Mancha... ;-)

A film by an 18-year-old French actress whose name I have (I wonder why?) forgotten which was praised to death by Godard but didn't do anything for me.

Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, Francois Truffaut, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch

again, in no particualr order...: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Penelope Cruz, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Steve Buscemi, Paul Newman, Clive Owen, Michael Gambon, Vanessa Paradis, Catherine Frot, Robert Downey Jr, Tobey Maguire

Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen

Manu Chao, any

Julia Cameron: The Artist's Way, Michael Rabiger: Directing & Directing the Documentary

a sense of humour (at most times...)

my biggest adventure: moving not only house but country and continent every few years and trying to re-establish myself as a filmmaker... Thank god for the internet! ;-)