All Time Favorites
Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther and as Clare Quilty in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, The Producers by Mel Brooks, Monty Python, The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore by Wes Anderson, Charade by Stanley Donen, the music and dance sequence featuring Slim Galliard and Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in Hellzapoppin’, A Prophet by Jacques Audiard, Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight, Jackie Brown by Quentin Tarantino, Jazz on a Summer’s Day by Bert Stern, Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson, Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade, Band of Outsiders by Jean Luc Godard, Umberto D. by Vittorio De Sica, Seinfeld, Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live and as Liz Lemon in 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in 30 Rock, all of René Pollesch’s productions, all of Roz Chast’s cartoons and illustrations, New York City’s inhabitants, the Number 7 subway line in NYC, The Emerald Inn in NYC, Stephen Colbert, Ricky Gervais, Phoebe Waller-Bridge …
Listening
Jazz, Bluegrass, Soul and Latin Music (actually any kind of music), Shostakovich, Beethoven, Anita O’Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha, Mahalia Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Al Green, The Beatles, Frazey Ford, Jon Batiste, David Byrne …
Reading
Poor George and Desperate Characters by Paula Fox, Alice Munroe’s stories, Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The First Bad Man by Miranda July, Tina Fey’s autobiographical Bossypants, Weather by Jenny Offill, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Lydia Davis’ short story collection Can’t and Won’t. A Manual for Cleaning Women stories by Lucia Berlin, Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles, The Unwinding and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer, Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, And Their Children After Them by Nicolas Mathieu …
Causes
Watching
Amadeo Modigliani / Magnum Photos / Elliott Erwitt / Cartoons by Miriam Wurster, Rattelschneck, Til Mette, Hauck & Bauer, Hannes Richert, Ambra Durante
Visiting
Friends
taz newspaper, Filmgalerie 451, Deutsche Kinemathek, Magnum Photo Agency, Alabama Cinema Hamburg, Klick Cinema Berlin, and many more …