I've had an interest in cinema for over two decades. A conservative estimate is that I have seen at least 3,000 films, a number that increases weekly. I enjoy all genres of film from all periods of time, silent to modern.

I discovered cinema as something more than light entertainment at the age of thirteen, when my family purchased its first VCR. At the time there were few tapes available for purchase and thost that were sold for $80 or more. Notable exceptions were older films, some of which were sold through the Crown Books chain for $10 and included Battleship Potemkin, Citizen Kane, The Gold Rush, M, Metropolis, Nosferatu, and other classics of the silent and early sound eras. They were my gateways to loving the cinema.

To see a list of DVDs I currently have in my collection, click here. My DVD player is a Jaton PSD7611K all-region player with a built-in PAL-to-NTSC converter.

Filmmakers whose work I particularly like include Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro, Sergei Eisenstein, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Sam Raimi, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, and James Whale.