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oldfilmsflicker

26 / F / Straight / Single

San Francisco, California

Her Details

Last Online
Today – 7:00pm
Ethnicity
White
Height
5′ 2″ (1.57m).
Body Type
Curvy
Diet
Strictly vegetarian
Smokes
No
Drinks
Socially
Drugs
Never
Religion
Atheism and laughing about it
Sign
Cancer
Education
Working on masters program
Job
Student
Income
Offspring
Doesn’t have kids, but might want them
Pets
Likes dogs and likes cats
Speaks
English (Fluently), French (Okay), Italian (Poorly)

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My self-summary
Watcher of movies. Consumer of tacos. Drinker of coffee. Listener of music.

Democrat in politics, Episcopalian by upbringing, dissenter by disposition. [I stole this from Humphrey Bogart, but it describes me as well.]

Dilettante.

These quotes pretty much sum up my existence:

"Getting up in the morning. It's oppressive."
~ Quentin Tarantino, on the hardest part of directing.

"Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.” ~ Pedro Almodóvar

"If coffee were smack, we'd be Pete Doherty and we'd refuse to give it up, even if it cost us our career and our supermodel girlfriend" ~ GQ, June 2008

" ‘If I should die,’ said I to myself, ‘I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.’ " ~ John Keats
What I’m doing with my life
Graduated from UC Berkeley (Comparative Literature and French Literature)

I run this site http://cinema-fanatic.com/
and I write for http://yam-mag.com/

Working on my MFA in Film Production (emphasis on screenwriting) at the Academy of Art University.

I like to go see classic movies at the Castro Theatre. Wednesday double features are the best.

Someday I hope to write books on film history. Recently wrote the foreword to a biography of Lew Ayres.
I’m really good at
drinking coffee. talking. procrastinating, watching films.
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food

food: tacos curry, cheese, tomatoes, avocados, tea, coffee, bourbon.

music:
80s music, Joy Division, The Replacements, My collection of vinyl, 40s on 4, big band, jazz, standards, Grizzly Bear, Sigur Rós, Stars, Jens Lekman, Sufjan Stevens, Miles Davis, Glenn Gould, Cole Porter songs, Nat King Cole, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Pulp, Bloc Party, The Beatles, Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Neil Young. The Smiths, The Clash, A Flock of Seagulls, Chris Isaak, Kate Bush, Roy Orbison

tv shows:
Gilmore Girls, Jeopardy!, Justified, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Boardwalk Empire, Black Books, The 4400, The Hour



movies:
The English Patient, Gone With The Wind, Pretty In Pink, Little Women (1994), It's A Wonderful Life, Bright Star, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The Thin Red Line, Sabrina (1954), Amelie, Moulin Rouge!, Zodiac, Children of Men, Sunset Blvd., Labyrinth, As Good As It Gets, Jerry Maguire, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Third Man, After Hours, Citizen Kane, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Seventh Heaven, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, West Side Story, Holiday (1937), Personal Property, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Stardust Memories, The Red Shoes, Shadow of A Doubt, Touch of Evil, The Moon Is Blue, Portrait of Jennie, Bell Book and Candle, Adventureland, The Grapes of Wrath, Somewhere, Wings of Desire, Midnight In Paris, The Tree of Life, Rango, Raging Bull, Serpico, True Romance, Bullitt, A Streetcar Named Desire, Days of Wine and Roses, The Godfather, Grand Hotel, Wings, Metropolis, The Immigrant, Modern Times, The Cameraman, Sherlock Jr., Cinema Paradiso, The Petrified Forest, Pygmalion, Play It Again Sam, Brief Encounter, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Je t'aime je t'aime, Breathless, The Magnificent Ambersons, Cabaret, Repo Man, An American Werewolf in London, Jurassic Park, Jaws, The Princess Bride, A. I.: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, La passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Carnal Knowledge, Moonstruck, Apocalypse Now, Valley Girl, L’Atalante, Paper Moon, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, The Haunting (1963), A Bucket of Blood, Carnival of Souls, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Animal House, The Blue Brothers, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, The Crying Game, Interview With The Vampire, The Shawshank Redemption, Reservoir Dogs, Mona Lisa, Paris Texas, Something Wild, Down By Law, Mystery Train, That Thing You Do,! The More The Merrier, Now Voyager, Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Lost Highway, Who's That Knocking At My Door, Drive, Beginners, Le notti di Cabiria, Divorzio all'italiana, Le notti bianche, Pina, Good Night, Nurse!, La cité des enfants perdus, Barton Fink, The Longest Day, How The West Was Won, Red River, The Searchers, The Most Dangerous Game, My Cousin Vinny, Reality Bites, Safe In Hell, Mrs. Doubtfire, Clue, Away We Go, Five Easy Pieces, Shadows, Independence Day, Chicken With Plums, Heathers, Magic Mike, Modern Girls, Vanilla Sky, Laura, Dodsworth, Ben-Hur, Children of Paradise, Jackie Brown {this list could go on forever}

books:
Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Ulysses, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, François Truffaut: The Films in My Life, The Film That Changed My Life, David Lynch on David Lynch, A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, Cat's Cradle, Slaughter-House Five, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, These Happy Golden Years, The House of Mirth, The Crucible, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H., Zodiac, Zodiac Unmasked, The Maltese Falcon, The Bell Jar, The Painted Veil

The six things I could never do without
classic films. my dvd collection. my macbook. my gorilla Tom. coffee. sleep.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Elvis Elvis Elvis, Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, The crackling sound a record makes just before the first song plays, trying to watch every film ever made
On a typical Friday night I am
Watching a movie. or three.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit
I watched 1117 new-to-me films in 2011. Total count for 2012 was 617 new-to-me films. So far for 2013 it's 182 new-to-me films (as of 4/12/13)

Elvis is still the King and Springsteen will always be the Boss.

also, my username has nothing to do with my love of movies (and I do love movies. A LOT) it's actually a song reference.
I’m looking for
  • Everybody
  • Ages 25–50
  • Near me
  • Who are single
  • For long-term dating, short-term dating
You should message me if
you've seen a Lew Ayres film.

and/or you enjoy 80s culture

don't message me if you are going to call me "cute" or a "girl." I'll probably set you on fire.