The Third Man, Apocalypse Now, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Closet.

Hurricane and a whole range of movies for a whole range of reasons.

Never walked out of a film.

Francis Ford Coppola, Carol Reed, Michael Winterbottom, Bill Forsyth, Gillies Mackinnon, Ken Loach, Alan Parker, Phillip Donnellan, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch

Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Michael Caine, Daniel Day Lewis, Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor, Audrey Tatou, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dennis Hopper, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Brenda Blethyn and many more.

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, Solomon Burke, Try A Little Tenderness, Otis Redding, Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd, Green Onions, Booker T and the MGs, Norwegian Wood The Beatles, Little Red Rooster The Rolling Stones, My Perfect Cousin The Undertones, Lazy David Byrne, Knocking on Heaven's Door Bob Dylan, Soul Kitchen The Doors

Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano, The Silent Takeover, Noreena Hertz, 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende.

Gravalax, Rare Entrecote steak with Bearnaise sauce, frites and veg and mixed berries with red wine, armagnac, coffee and stilton.

the films I've made or helped make

A documentary director, producer, sometime researcher and AP and former print journalist with an interest in drama and fiction features but mostly current affairs and documentaries on politics, international relations, history and seminal music or film.