Les Branson
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Location | Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | I am the co-founder and artistic director of Thin Dime Theater Company, and I am the owner of the independent film company Dilligaf Productions, both based in Dallas. Some of the plays I have written, produced and directed for Thin Dime include Warboots, Dead or in Huntsville, 3 Violent Plays and Hillbilly Karma. Screenplays I have written include Having My Baby, Blood is Thicker, Dead or in Huntsville, Junkyard Dog, King Lear and the Indians, and Joey & Jeffie, based on the life of New York mobster, Joey (Crazy Joe) Gallo, and adapted from the biography Joey, by Donald Goddard. Other original screenplays in the works are A Girl and a Gun, and, Jacksboro Highway. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, independent filmmaking, book collecting, movies, walking, hobos, working girls, tramping, Zen, Eastern religions, The Sixties, bibliophiles, heroes, books, movies, writers, poets, martial arts, Kung Fu movies, Shaw Brothers, NBA Basketball, Dallas Mavericks |
| Favorite Movies | Henry & June, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Platoon, Wild at Heart, Emperor of the North Pole, Streetwise, Harlan County U.S.A., The Illustrated Man, Mulholland Drive, Natural Born Killers, The Long Riders, King of New York, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, Scarface, True Romance, Born Losers, Reservoir Dogs, Born on the Fourth of July, Sling Blade, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Body Heat, Out for Justice, Dirty Harry, Midnight Cowboy, Shane, Naked Lunch, Hardware, Cape Fear, Reds, Altered States, The Nightcomers, Easy Rider, Chopper, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Conan the Barbarian, Raging Bull, Ironweed, Germinal, JFK, The Tao of Steve, Bonnie & Clyde, The Long Riders, Terminator, Bad Lieutenant, The Last Picture Show, Pink Floyd The Wall, Salvador, Day of the Locust, Love & a .45, Memento, Grizzly Man, sex lies and videotape, Last Tango in Paris, The Sheltering Sky, 1900, Training Day, Into The Wild |
| Favorite Music | Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, Rage Against the Machine, Old Crow Medicine Show, Woody Guthrie, Alan Parsons Project, Steely Dan, Danzig, The Band, The The, Matt Johnson, John Hiatt, Kris Kristofferson, John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band |
| Favorite Books | Cimarron Rose, Last Car to Elysian Fields, The Void Captain's Tale, Rolling Nowhere, Going Going Gone, God Is Not Great, The Big Kill, The Dharma Bums, The Way of Zen, Logan's Run, Neuromancer, The Artificial Kid, The Yage Letters, Seven Plays, The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud, Tropic of Capricorn, Howl, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Pill vs. The Spring Hill Mine Disaster, Babel, The Iron Heel, Lies My Teacher Told Me, People's History of the United States, Marx in Soho, Desert Solitaire, Hardware, No Pie in the Sky: The Hobo as American Cultural Hero in the Works of Jack London John Dos Passos and Jack Kerouac, The Freighthopper's Manual for North America: Hoboing in the 1980's, Deserted Cities of the Heart, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Hardwired, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, The Drop Edge of Yonder, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Johnny's Song: Poetry of a Vietnam Veteran, Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Yearling, The Big Sky, Fast Food Nation, Goodbye to a River, Tarantula, Hollywood Animal, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, The Cold Six Thousand |