Schwartzman's
Movie & Book Recommendations

MOST INFLUENTIAL MOVIES

INSTINCT
(1999, Cuba Gooding Jr. & Anthony Hopkins)

THE CORPORATION
(2003,Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, co-directors)

NETWORK

(1976, Faye Dunaway,William Holden,Peter Finch)

INHERIT THE WIND
(1960, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March,
& Gene Kelly)

AMORES PERROS
(
2000, Emilio Echevarría & Gael García Bernal)

BREAD & ROSES
(
2000, Pilar Padilla & Adrien Brody)

AMERICAN HISTORY X
(1998, Edward Norton & Beverly D'Angelo)

ERIN BROCKOVICH
(
2000, Julia Roberts & David Brisbin)

MINDWALK
(
1990, John Heard,Liv Ullmann & Sam Waterson)
BAMBOOZLED
(
2000, Damon Wayans & Savion Glover)

FIGHT CLUB
(
1999, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf & Edward Norton)

RAGTIME
(
1981, Elizabeth McGovern, Moses Gunn, & Howard E. Rollins)

SWEET NOVEMBER
(
2001, Charlize Theron & Keanu Reeves)

V for VENDETTA
(
2005, Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea)


MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS


Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver
Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken
The Shock Doctrine
by Naomi Klein

Biomimicry
by Janine Benyus

Ishmael, My Ishmael & Beyond Civilization

by Daniel Quinn

Living Downstream & Having Faith
by Dr. Sandra
Steingraber

Making Peace with the Planet
by Barry Commoner
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by Michael Brower and Warren Leon

Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser

"Racial" Economy of Science
ed. by
Sandra Harding
The Carbon Wars
by Jeremy Leggett
Mismeasure of Man
by Steve J. Gould
Internal Combustion
by Edwin Blank

MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIES

A FISH CALLED WANDA
(1988, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Kline & Michael Palin)
RUNAWAY TRAIN
(1999, Jon Voight & Eric Robets)
DR. STRANGELOVE
(1964, Peter Sellers and George C. Scott)
LAGAAN
(2001, Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh & Rachel Shelley)
CAR WASH
(1976, Richard Pryor & Arthur French)
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
(1975, John Cleese & Michael Palin)

HOOP DREAMS
(1994, William Gates & Arthur Agee)

AMERICAN BEAUTY
(1999, Kevin Spacey & Annette Bening)
THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY
(1966, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach)
ABRE LOS OJOS
(1997, Penelope Cruz, Fele Martinez & Eduardo Noriega)

WHAT'S COOKING?
(2001, Director: Gurinder Chadha)

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
(1994, Morgan Freeman & Tim Robbins)

MOST ENJOYABLE BOOKS

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

Hotspots
by Russell Mittermeier, Norman Myers,
& Cristina Mittermeier

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis

The Futurological Congress & Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera

Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery