oh, google!

i found my late HS Film teacher's homepage: Vincent Russo

My Aversions
Indifferent attitudes
Bigotry of all flavors

Mr. Russo, I hate those, too! I think I will honor him by adopting his booklist:

Poetry of Walt Whitman , John Donne, and Emily Dickinson
Plato’s The Republic, especially Book VII
Voltaire’s Candide
Shakespeare’s plays, especially Much Ado About Nothing
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
from the Bible, The Book of Job
Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon
Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
Edward Gibbons’ The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Curzio Malaparte’s La Pelle and Kaput
Some of Anne Rice’s work
Much of Richard Bach’s work
from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, “The Grand Inquisitor”

and his film list:
Billy Wilder’s
Double Indemnity

Vittorio De Sica’s
Marriage Italian Style
Gold of Naples
Two Women

Ingmar Berman’s
The Seventh Seal

Lina Wurtmuller’s
Seven Beauties

Akira Kurosawa’s
Rashomon
Ran
Dreams