Your tastes in arts (film, novels, music, TV....)

I thought it would be interesting to see people's tastes across various arts. Feel free to come up with your own approaches to lists.   I'm going to do fourteen music choices, fourteen films, fourteen TV shows, and fourteen novels. I could easily choose others, but the idea is to give some idea of ones tastes across a range of arts (I think one's taste in one art will tend to be reflected in other arts). List as many or as few as you like or comment on other people's choices...

So here is my stab at it.

Novels:

- 1984 (George Orwell)
- The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
- Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- The Thee Stigmata of Palmer Eldtritch (Philip K. Dick)
- Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
- The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
- Island (Aldous Huxley)
- Blindness (José Saramago)
- The Club Dumas (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)
- Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
- The World According to Garp (John Irving)

Films (director listed):

- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
- Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
- Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
- The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
- Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway)
- The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
- Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
- The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien)
- Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
- Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)

TV Shows (writer/ creator listed):

- Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- The Singing Detective (Dennis Potter)
- House of Cards Trilogy (British version -- Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs)
- The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)
- I, Claudius (Jack Pulman)
- Fargo (Noah Hawley)
- First Born (Ted Whitehead adapted from Maureen Duffy)
- Inside No. 9 (Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith)
- Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker)
- Utopia (Dennis Kelly)
- Les Revenants (Fabrice Gobert)
- The Twilight Zone (Rod Serling)
- Misfits (Howard Overman)
- Real Humans (Lars Lundström)

Music:

- Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)
- Lamentations of Jeremiah (Thomas Tallis)
- Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 100 (Schubert)
- Cello Suites (J.S. Bach)
- Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
- The Planets (Gustav Holst)
- Lakmé (Delibes)
- Génération sans Futur (Art Zoyd)
- Maddalena (Ennio Morricone)
- First Utterance (Comus)
- Big Fun (Miles Davis)
- Five Leaves Left (Nick Drake)
- Docteur Faust (Igor Wakhévitch)
- I futuribili (Egisto Macchi)

Be interesting to see playwrights, painters, poets etc.

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Edited by Logan - March 02 2019 at 10:33

In lieu of a pompously delusional, lengthy post I know is sure to come, I will just say I like the "hits".

14 is too many but here's a few off the top of my head

Edited by Triceratopsoil - March 03 2019 at 12:06

Can't really think of that many great TV series off the top of my head, might come back to that one later. As for the rest of the categories:

I am not going to number and will sometimes vary from authors to individual books (for instance) and not in any definitive order and may come back as more come to mind and amend.  

Edited by Snicolette - March 09 2019 at 22:20

Author:
Terry Goodkind

Film directors:
Albert Pyun
Walter Hill
Sam Peckinpah
John Woo
Isaac Florentine.

Films:
Anything action, western, exploitation or horror in the 60/70/80/90's periods.

Also Hallmark Christmas movies (yes freaking really - so don't bother contacting me from November-first week of January each year when they're airing! )

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - March 02 2019 at 20:18

I'll go for five. I don't always feel confident in my choices when I go for bigger lists. 

Edited by Polymorphia - March 02 2019 at 19:12

TCat wrote: Great subject, impossible task, quite impossible.  Let's just say I love the arts.    I do love reading everyone else's lists however.

interesting topic Greg.. and worthy of a bit of thought and not just my usual toss off trollish musings.  I'll have to think that over and come up with some lists later today. 

Edited by micky - March 03 2019 at 06:49

hell not just lists Greg.. any monkey can throw sh*t on the wall.  Perhaps a bit of self reflection would be even more interesting...