Barry Staff

The1940s? His Girl Friday (all that politics); My Darling Clementine (all that love); The Third Man (all that human nature).
The 21st c?: The Tree of Life; There Will Be Blood; Eternal Sunshine. . .; Pan's Labyrinth; The Big Short; Snowpiercer; Hell or High Water; Elle; Poor Things.

Dune. I can take only so much pain.

Dune. I can take only so much guff (and American accents in a dim future!), despite the brilliant sound and images.

Active: Anderson (Wes), Denis, Gerwig, Glazer, Herzog, Lanthimos Joon-ho, Malick, Ramsay, Verhoeven, Villeneuve.

Lee Marvin. James Caan. Tilda Swinton. Samantha Morton. Ryan Gosling.

Jean-Claude Carrière, the Coens, Dudley Nichols, Mankiewicz (Herman) - latter not least for getting Ben Hecht to Hollywood

Those in my vertebrae

'A Season in Hell
' - as a loan. 20 years on, he claims it's been his all along. Any reason in hell why I can't borrow it?

A fig - to be devoured as in Women in Love (1969).

Sanity - in a crazy world. Or am I just deluded?