Hello. I'm Roger, a thirty-something cinephile from County Westmeath, Ireland. My tastes in movies are broad and varied and I attempt to give every film I watch a fair chance to impress me.
My greatest cinematic passions include attempting to explore and appreciate the creative essence that drives and informs the work of my favourite directors, actors and cinema personnel. I also enjoy seeking out interesting and intriguing efforts that may not be quite as well-known as the major releases.
Cinema at its most sublime can sweep one away into a realm of utter wonder and enchantment. Movies that are realised with nuance and verve can transcend genres with their timeless and unique brilliance. These are the kind of movies that most appeal to me.
Favourite actresses: Danielle Darrieux, Barbara Stanwyck, Judy Davis, Rebecca De Mornay, Maja Komorowska, Janet Gaynor, Emily Watson, Sandrine Kiberlain, Ginger Rogers, Jean Arthur, Michele Morgan, Nutan, Debra Winger, Aissa Maiga, Rosalind Russell, Julia Ormond, Setsuko Hara, Catherine Frot, Vera Farmiga, Audrey Totter, Mischa Barton.
Favourite actors: James Cagney, Michel Bouquet, Anton Yelchin, Ronald Colman, Jean Rochefort, Christopher Walken, Naseeruddin Shah, Edward G. Robinson, Patrick Chesnais, Sam Neill, Joseph Cotten, Jesse Eisenberg, Jack Nicholson, Javier Bardem, Fredric March, Gian Maria Volonte, Charles Laughton.
Favourite directors: Jacques Tourneur, Yasujiro Ozu, Károly Makk, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Henry Hathaway, Todd Field, Barbara Meter, Anthony Asquith, Pál Fejos, Alejandro Amenábar, Bimal Roy, Aivars Freimanis, Ossama Mohammed, Alanis Obomsawin, William Dieterle, Shirley Clarke, Mitchell Leisen, Krzysztof Zanussi, Roman Polanski, Ousmane Sembene, Bruce Conner, Paul Clipson, Yves Angelo, Urban Gad, Warren Sonbert, Max Ophuls, Artavazd Peleshian, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Paulo Rocha, Richard Boleslawski, Maya Deren, Frédéric Back, Patrick Carey, Slavko Vorkapich, Bill Douglas, Wei Te, Julien Duvivier, Cécile Fontaine, John Sayles, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Michael Curtiz, Joris Ivens, Claude Autant-Lara, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Willi Forst, Sidney Gilliat, Vincente Minnelli, Matjaz Klopcic, Fritz Lang, Dave Fleischer, Shohei Imamura, Léa Pool, Jean Boyer, Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Raj Kapoor, George Albert Smith, Budd Boetticher, Garri Bardin, Duilio Coletti, Mikheil Kobakhidze, Bob Quinn, Stewart Main & Peter Wells, Memduh Un, John Carpenter, Jorge and Laura Honik, Mervyn LeRoy, Lucie Sunková, George Sidney, Segundo de Chomón, Mikio Naruse, Jean Rouch, Raoul Servais, Tran Anh Hung, Fred Zinnemann, Marcell Jankovics, Larry Jordan, Agnes Varda, Howard Hawks, Leonids Leimanis, Costa-Gavras, Ingmar Bergman, Viktor Eisymont, Frank Capra, Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Anthony Mann, Martin Arnold, Uldis Brauns, André Delvaux, Margaret Tait, Jean Cocteau, Douglas Sirk, Sergei Eisenstein, Georges Mélies, Helmut Kautner, David MacDonald, Wolfgang Staudte, Marcel Varnel, Toshio Matsumoto, Martinus Daane Klemet, Gregory La Cava, Evelyn Lambart, Richard Fleischer, Mark-Toomas Soosaar, Jean-Pierre Melville, Mikhail Bogin, Lotte Reiniger, Alexander Mackendrick, Masha Godovannaya, Preston Sturges, Souleymane Cissé, Mary Ellen Bute, Claude Chabrol, Michaela Pavlátová, George Roy Hill, Vulo Radev, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Orson Welles, Karel Zeman, Sam Wood, Harry Watt, Theodore Ushev, Uriel Jaouen Zrehen, George Stevens, Liviu Ciulei, Georg Jacoby, Ernest and Gisele Ansorge, William A. Wellman, Nacer Khemir, Mani Kaul, Jean Delannoy, Zivko Nikolic, Paolo Benvenuti, Wilfred Jackson, Mark Robson, Kresimir Golik, John Ford, Marcel Carné, Aleksandr Petrov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, James Whale, Michel Brault, Ronald Neame, Chuck Jones, Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, Catherine Corsini, Kar-Wai Wong, John Frankenheimer, Henrikas Sablevicius, René Clair, Isaac Julien, Rouben Mamoulian, Guy Maddin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Lewis Milestone, Robertas Verba, Len Lye, Jorge Sanjinés, Boris Barnet, Aki Kaurismaki, Michael Dudok de Wit, Regina Pessoa, Grigoriy Chukhray, Jacques Becker, George Cukor, Herz Frank, Billy Wilder, Dusan Vukotic, Harry Smith, Karel Kachyna, Carlos Hugo Christensen, Laurence Olivier, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Robert Wise, Jirà Trnka, Luis Saslavsky, Victor Sjostrom, Paul Cox, Walerian Borowczyk, Andrzej Zulawski, Oskar Fischinger, Henri Decoin, Chris Marker, Joe May, Yu Sun, Alain Resnais, Mircea Saucan, Norman McLaren, Lucian Pintilie, Alfred Hitchcock, HermÃna Tyrlová, Vittorio De Seta, Ming-liang Tsai, Caroline Leaf, Werner Herzog, Rafael Gil, Frank Borzage, Valerio Zurlini, Paul Vecchiali, Ernst Lubitsch.
