Ron Reed
About Me
I'm an actor, playwright and director, the founder and artistic director of Vancouver's Pacific Theatre. I write about the movies at Filmwell, participate in the Arts & Faith film conversation, and am currently working on a book, "1000 Soul Food Movies: A Guide To Films With A Spiritual Flavour."
Interests
Favorite Movies
- 1 Tender Mercies
- 2 Magnolia
- 3 Dogville
- and in alphabetical order...
- About A Boy
- American Beauty
- Casablanca
- Chinatown
- Days Of Heaven
- Field Of Dreams
- Harold & Maude
- Ikiru
- It's A Wonderful Life
- My Fair Lady
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Rivers And Tides
- Say Anything
- Schindler's List
- Shakespeare In Love
- The Shining
- The Son
- Titus
- Twelfth Night (Nunn)
- Vanya On 42nd Street
- The Year Of Living Dangerously
Favorite Music
- Miles Davis
- The Beatles
- John Coltrane
- Susie Arioli & Jordan Officer
- The Original Sloth Band
- U2
- Charlie Haden Quartet West
Favorite Books
- The New Testament
- The Raymond Chandler Omnibus
- An American Childhood / Teaching A Stone To Talk / For The Time Being (Annie Dillard)
- Shoeless Joe / The Thrill Of The Grass ( W.P. Kinsella)
- Burning Chrome / Neuromancer (William Gibson)
- The Chronicles of Narnia (and plenty of other books by C.S. Lewis)
- The Lord Of The Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Mark Lewisohn)
- The Davidson Affair (Stuart Jackman)
- Life After God (Douglas Coupland)
- Sharp Teeth (Toby Barlow)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
- How To Be Good (Nick Hornby)
- The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- Pigs In Heaven (Barbara Kingsolver)
- The Book Of Guys (Garrison Keillor)
- A Separate Peace (John Knowles)
- Dracula (Bram Stoker)
- Modern Poetry (ed. Mack
- Dean
- Frost)
- Finding Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihaly)
- The Stature Of Waiting (W.H. Vanstone)
- The Road Less Traveled (Scott Peck)
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| Oblations | |
|---|---|
| Pacific Theatre History | |
| Soul Food Movies | |
| Pacific Theatre | |
| Day To Day | |
| Soul Food Vancouver | Andrea Loewen |
| Date Movies |
