Paul Martin
- Age: 49
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Aquarius
- Zodiac Year: Rat
- Occupation: IT Contractor (Technical Analyst/Excel VBA Developer)
- Location: Melbourne : Australia
About Me
I work full-time as an IT contractor, am a committee member of Melbourne Cinémathèque and average about four films a week on the big screen. I like all kinds of films, but am particularly partial to those that challenge, gritty social realism and French and other foreign language films. I've seen little pre-1990's, but am gradually working to rectify that. I'm also taking French lessons with the aim of sitting in a Paris cinema enjoying films without subtitles.
Interests
- Cinema
- independent films
- world cinema
- writing
- photography
- art
- motorcycling
- cycling
- vegetarianism
- urban decay
- social justice
- colour
- ethnicity
- metaphysics
- street art
- gender
- Avant Card postcards
- laneways
- French language
- New York
- industrial wastelands
- Michael Leunig cartoons
Favorite Movies
- Lost Highway
- Three Colours: Blue
- Come and See
- Beau travail
- Elephant
- Paranoid Park
- Climates (Iklimer)
- Monster
- The Circle
- Pollock
- Private Property
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Bringing Out The Dead
- High Art
- The Boys
- Em 4 Jay
- Tom White
- Head On
- Beneath Clouds
- Ten Canoes
- L'enfant
- Winter Light
- The Seventh Seal
- Léon Morin prêtre
- Le feu follet
- Samson and Delilah
- Overlord
- Transylvania
- Azur & Asmar
- Dekalog
- Blind Chance
- Silent Light
- The Thin Blue Line
- Made in Britain
- The Bellboy
- La séparation
- Mister Lonely
- 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days
- Family Life
- The Mother & the Whore
- Donnie Darko
Favorite Music
- Orbweaver
- Radiohead
- PJ Harvey
- Mazzy Star
- Beth Orton
- Carla Werner
- Eels
- Roy Orbison
- Jeff Buckley
- Enigma
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Cat Power
- Interpol
- Trespassers William
- Cowboy Junkies
- Liz Phair
- Moby
- Urge Overkill
- REM
- Heather Nova
- many others
Favorite Books
- Non-fiction
- Books on cinema
- Noam Chomsky
- American Splendour
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Hobbit
- The Travelling Leunig
- Stuart Wilde
- (gee this is hard)
My Blogs |
Team Members |
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| Abhi Martin | |
| Melbourne Film Blog | |
| Melbourne Photo Blog |
