Trivia about Jeremy Thomas
Not a lot of people know this...
Places 'Taking Leave' was written:
- Patmos
- Poynings Sussex
- Pacific Palisades Los Angeles
- Vancouver B.C. Canada
- Fulham London SW6
- Castle Cary Somerset
My Top Ten Favourite Books
- Top ten books
- Henry Miller 'Tropic of Capricorn'
- Graham Swift 'Last Orders'
- Tim Binding 'A Perfect Execution'
- Carl Hiassen 'Lucky You'
- F.Scott Fitzgerald 'The Diamond as Big as The Ritz'
- Haruki Murakami 'Kafka on the shore'
- Roald Dahl 'Boy'
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Love In The Time of Cholera'
- Lynne Truss 'With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed'
- William Boyd 'Any Human Heart'
Taking Leave soundtrack – both for writing and in forthcoming film
- Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
- Dusty Springfield – The Look of Love
- B Gees – Staying Alive
- B52s – Rock Lobster
- The Sugar Hill Gang – Rappers Delight
- Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
- Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Barry White – Let The Music Play
- Abba – Money Money Money
- Pink Floyd – Welcome To the Machine
- Joel Gray – Wilkomen/Bienvenu/Welcome
- The Vapours – Turning Japanese
- Billy Joel – You May Be Right
- Grover Washington Jr – Mister Magic
- W.A. Mozart – Mass in C Minor
- Hans Zimmer – The Thin Red Line (soundtrack)
Lucky Photo: 'Researching for Ned
My Favourite US Films
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Being John Malkovich
- The Odd Couple
- Jaws
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Deerhunter
- Trading Places
- Spinal Tap
- Donnie Darko
- The Godfather
My Favourite UK Films
- Bedazzled
- Pure Hell at St. Trinians
- Kind Hearts Coronets
- Zulu
- The Servant
- Crying Game
- Goldfinger
- Life is Sweet
- The Long Good Friday
- From Russia with Love
My Favourite Foreign Films
- Cinema Paradiso
- 3 colours red- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Knife in Water- Roman Polanski
- Belle du jour -Luis Bunuel
- Kuikka- Aki Kaurismäki
- L'Argent due poche- Truffaut
- Day for Night- Truffaut
- La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
- Das Boot- Wolfgang Petersen
- Il Postino - Michael Radford
- Fahrenheit 451- François Truffaut
Reviews
"Jeremy Thomas is a complete original. His writing, like his life, is a whirlwind of brilliance, wonder and blunder, by turns, hilarious and terrifying. Highly recomended".
Stephen Fry
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