Burt Kempner's Page

Hometown:

Philadelphia

Relationship Status:

Married

About Me:

Filmmaker, urban mystic, gentleman-farmer who cultivates words, lover of life, light, love and laughter.

Do you remember your dreams?:

Rarely

Have you ever had a psychic or intuitive insight?:

Not that I'm aware of

Have you ever had a dream that came true?:

Not literally (aaagh, what's wrong with me???)

Website:

http://dreamkeepersmedia.com

Favorite Music:

Leonard Cohen, Stuart Davis, Aretha Franklin, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Talking Heads, Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, Van Morrison, Procol Harum, Bruce Sringsteen, Cesaria Evora, Judy Collins, Dar Williams, Roy Orbison, Francis Cabrel, Motown, Classical, World.

Favorite books:

Don Quixote, The Magic Mountain, The Songlines, The Magic Journey, Letters at 3 AM, Zorba the Greek, Huckleberry Finn,
100 Years of Solitude,Bleak House, Our Mututal Friend, 1984,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Montaigne's Essays, Black Elk Speaks, Grace and Grit, The Jew in the Lotus, Norwegian Wood, The Brothers Karamazov, Nobody's Fool, The Things They Carried,
Cloud Atlas, Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Ishmael, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Fine Balance, What Really Matters, The Brothers K,
High Fidelity, The Serpents of Paradise, The Forest People, The Spell of the Sensuous, Slaughterhouse Five, Original Wisdom,
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Travels in a Stone Canoe

Favorite Movies

Citizen Kane, Potemkin, 8-1/2, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Candidate, Some Like it Hot, The Lord of the Rings, Little Big Man,
The Graduate, Bringing up Baby, Jules and Jim, Men with Guns,
The Seven Samurai, Koyannisqatsi, Raising Arizona, The Dead,
The Man Who Would be King, Wings of Desire, The Godfather I and II, Z, Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Modern Times, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill a Mockingbird,
City of God, American Movie, Waiting for Guffman, Blow-Up,
My Life as a Dog, If...