Helen’s Lists

Movies

Title Director Link
1 Dancer in the dark Lars van Trier
 2 Lost Highway David Lynch
 3 Moulin Rouge! Baz Luhrman
 4 Until the end of the world Wim Wenders
 5 Amadeus Miloš Forman
 6 American Beauty SamMendes
 7 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola
 8 Casablanca Michael Curtiz
 9 Darwin’s Nightmare Hubert Sauper http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/darwins-nightmare/
 10 The edge of heaven Fatih Akin Great movie! Plays in Istanbul and – believe it or not – in Bremen. With Hanna Schygulla – star of the Fassbinder movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8rhDyhIloM
 11 The Fog of war Errol Morris http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-fog-of-war/
 12 Kill Bill Quentin Tarantino
 13 Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
 14 Koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio Music by Philip Glass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
 15 Themroc Claude Farraldo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY2kOnsFGfoUnbelievable: the wild 70ies! Sociocritical movie à la French! Watch the scene at 9:25!
 16 Harold and Maude Hal Asby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_MaudeAlso the wild 70ies, here on the soft side of the social revolution.
 17 Airplane! Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!
 18 City Of God
(Cidade De Deus)
Fernando Meirelles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_%282002_film%29
 19 Berlin Alexanderplatz Rainer Werner Fassbinder
 20 New York Ric Burns PBS Home Video

Music

Title Composer Link
 1 Heroes David Bowie
 2 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album) Brian Eno / David Byrne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_in_the_Bush_of_Ghosts_%28album%29
 3 Remain in Light Talking Heads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remain_in_Light
 4 Satyagraha Opera Philip Glass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha_%28opera%29
 5 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto D Major op. 35 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9P79-1_iGU(Anne Sophie Mutter)
 6 Beethoven Piano concerto No. 2, B Major, op. 19 Ludwig van Beethoven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNcM8vDtrMY
 7 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Sergei Rachmaninoff The first piece of classical music I fell in love with!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBx-tr1FDvY
 8 Panda Meredith Monk http://www.boosey.com/cr/sample_detail/Meredith-Monk-Panda-Chant-II/11439
 9 Every single night Fionah Apple http://www.fiona-apple.com/
 10 Music for Airports Brian Eno /
Bang on a can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIMhXFJjBgA
 11 Small Change Tom Waits All albums of him!One exemple
 12 Cool & Steady & Easy Brooklyn Funk Essentials Nice memories of NYC
 13 Child (Album) David Lang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmkTNhwHF0
 14 Baby Snakes Frank Zappa Just one example of his vast body of work!
 15 Gene Pritsker https://soundcloud.com/gene-pritsker
 16 Dvořak:
Cello Concerto B Minor
Antonín Leopold Dvořák Played by Piatgorski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG2C4nOxlJk
 17 Orly Jacques Brel The best Chansonnier ever! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ghbs_jacques-brel-orly_music
 18 Bach & Händel Kathleen Ferrier http://www.allmusic.com/album/kathleen-ferrier-sings-bach-handel-mw0001847593
 19 Suites for Keyboard Georg Friedrich Händel Played by Keith Jarrett:http://www.amazon.de/Suites-Keyboard-H%C3%A4ndel-Keith-Jarrett/dp/B000025XCW
 20 Released and Unreleased Kronos Quartett http://www.amazon.com/Released-1985-1995-Unreleased-Kronos-Quartet/dp/B0018ARN8S
 21 In a Silent Way Sessions Miles Davis http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-complete-in-a-silent-way-sessions-mw0000013982
 22 I’m a Victim of this Song Pipilotti Rist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBI5-icTytQ
 23 Lanterns lit Son Lux Unbelievable stuff from Iceland!http://vimeo.com/101920672 If you lie this stuff, check also n Sigur Rós: Heima
 24 Music for 18 Musicians Steve Reich Analog music sounding like electronic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c
 25 Epic that never was Wim Mertens https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ALBTKoXRg38BCv5zDQulo04SLJPO9oEsv3
 26 The Well Tempered Clavier Johann Sebastiian Bach Played by Wanda Landowska:http://www.allmusic.com/album/bach-the-well-tempered-clavier-book-ll-bwv-870-93-mw0001356637

Books – Fiction

Title Author Link
1 L’étranger Albert Camus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_%28novel%29
 2 Les jeux sont faits Jean Paul Sartre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chips_Are_Down_%28screenplay%29
 3 Moon Palace Paul Auster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Palace
 4 When Nietzsche wept Irvin Yalom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Nietzsche_Wept
 5 1984 George Orwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
 6 Die Glücklichen Peter Paul Zahl http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter-Paul_Zahl
 7 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being
 8 Gedichte über die Liebe Bertolt Brecht http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/gedichte_ueber_die_liebe-bertolt_brecht_22161.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecht
 9 Die Rückeroberung Franz Hohler http://www.amazon.de/Die-R%C3%BCckeroberung-Erz%C3%A4hlungen-Franz-Hohler/dp/3423132809
 10 Ach Europa! Hans Magnus Enzensberger http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3518381903/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=479289147&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=3518125516&pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_r=0VG8DXSHYCT0NCT0JWER
 11 Die Entdeckung des Himmels Harry Mulisch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_Heaven
Also: Het stenen bruidsbed (Dutch: The stone Bride’s Bed – about the bombardment of Dresden
 12 Der Vorleser Bernhard Schlink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reader
 13 The Aesthetics of Resistance (German: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands) Peter Weiss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aesthetics_of_ResistanceInteresting Literary experiment: the central thought s the to achieving unity between the communist and social-democratic workers movements, the proletariat and the art avant-garde. In this big œuvre he describes a lot of details of Berlin in the time of the fascism, which I used for my explanations being a tour guide in the divided city on the late 80ies. Fantastic how vividly he describes the fighting scenes depicted in the friezes of the Pergamon Altar in the similar named museum on Berlin’s Museum Island!
 14 Chronik der Gefühle Alexander Kluge http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/alexander-kluge/chronik-der-gefuehle-band-1-basisgeschichten-band-2.html

 Books – Non-Fiction

Title Author Link
1 Payback Frank Schirrmacher http://www.romanistik.info/rezensionen/schirrmacher-payback.html
2 Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Freedom
3 Gemeinsam sind wir reich Alexander Dill http://www.amazon.de/Gemeinsam-sind-wir-reich-Gemeinschaften/dp/3865812880
4 Art and Illusion Ernst H. Gombrich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Gombrich
5 The Runner’s Handbook Bob Glover http://www.amazon.com/The-Runners-Handbook-Bestselling-Intermediate/dp/0140469303
6 Grundformnen der Angst Fritz Riemann http://www.amazon.de/Grundformen-Angst-Eine-tiefenpsychologische-Studie/dp/3497007498
7 Grundlegung der Psychologie Klaus Holzkamp http://www.grundlegung.de/
8 Gesellschaftsentwurf Europa Oskar Negt http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/der-weg-ins-andere-europa.950.de.html?dram:article_id=216108
9 On Food and Cooking Harold McGee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Food_and_Cooking
10 Beyond the limits (Limits of Growth II) Meadows / Meadows 1992 (!)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Limits
11 The Fall of Public Man Richard Sennett http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Public-Richard-Sennett/dp/0393308790
12 The Outdatedness of Human Beings(Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen) Günter Anders http://www.notbored.org/baudet-anders.html
13 The Noonday Demon Andrerw Solomon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noonday_Demon
14 Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
15 Control your destiny or someone else will Tichy / Sherman http://www.amazon.com/Control-Your-Destiny-Someone-Else/dp/B005SNN826
16 Die Geschichte Europa Jacques Le Goff http://www.amazon.de/Jacques-Goff-erz%C3%A4hlt-Geschichte-Europas/dp/3593384183
 17 Berlin, Berlin: Die Ausstellung zur Geschichte der Stadt : Katalog (German Edition) Exhibition Catalogue Important, as I was working as a museum guide in this phatastic exhibitionhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/3875842146
 18 Flights – 100 Years of Aiation R.G. Grant http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Complete-R-G-Grant/dp/0756619025
 19 The Encyclopedia of New York City Kenneth T. Jackson http://www.amazon.com/The-Encyclopedia-New-York-City/dp/B0093MW0AE
 20 Theorie und Praxis der Psychiatrie Redlich / Freedman http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/theorie_und_praxis_der_psychiatrie-frederick_c_redlich_27748.html
 21 Das Vokabular der Psychoanalyse Laplanche / Pontalis http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/das_vokabular_der_psychoanalyse-j_laplanche_27607.html