Movies

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Taika Waititi's Favorite Movies from New Zealand
Here is Taika Waititi lists of his five favourite movies from New Zealand. Enjoy!

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Here is Taika Waititi lists of his five favourite movies from New Zealand. Enjoy!

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
#Borat is one of the year's most important films. Not only does
@SashaBaronCohen
deliver those squirmy uncomfortable laughs but the film is also emotional. Yeah I know like wtf dude. I loved it.

Night Raiders
The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get her daughter back. Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
My friend Danis made this cool film called #NightRaiders. I'm an EP on it too which means I sat on my arse while she did the hard work.

1917
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

Kramer vs. Kramer
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Gringo
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

Clueless
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Clueless on tv. Still one of the best movies ever. Surfin the crimson wave.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.

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32 Movie Recommendations from Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi loves cinema, as a director, he draws inspiration from different genre of films. We compiled a list of 32 of his favorite movies.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Taika Waititi loves cinema, as a director, he draws inspiration from different genre of films. We compiled a list of 32 of his favorite movies.

Akira
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
But (the anime) Akira is one of my favourite films; my mum took me to see it when I was 13 and it changed my life.
Books

Fragments
Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity.Marilyn's image is so universal that we can't help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety—and by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her.Beyond the headlines—and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts—notes to herself, letters, even poems—in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.Jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, these texts reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny, and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances indelible emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so affecting.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
And another book I’ve been reading is called Fragments. It’s got poems and little letters from Marilyn Monroe. It’s pretty interesting, she was really well read.

The Organized Mind
Author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin tackles the problems of twenty-first century information overload in his New York Times bestselling book The Organized Mind.'The Organized Mind is smart, important, and as always, exquisitely written' - Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University, author of Stumbling on HappinessOverwhelmed by demands on your time? Baffled by the sheer volume of data?You're not alone: modern society is in a state of information overload. The Organized Mind investigates this phenomenon and the effect it has on us, analysing how and why our brains are struggling to keep up with the demands of the digital age.The twenty-first century sees us drowning under emails, forever juggling six tasks at once and trying to make complex decisions ever more quickly. Using a combination of academic research and examples from daily life, neuroscientist and bestselling author Daniel Levitin explains how to take back control of your life.This book will take you through every aspect of modern life, from healthcare to online dating to raising kids, showing that the secret to success is always organization. Levitin's research is surprising, powerful and will change the way you see the world. It's time to learn why there's no such thing as multitasking, why email is so addictive and why all successful people need a junk drawer.In a world where information is power, The Organized Mind holds the key to harnessing that information and making it work for you.Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, training at Stanford University Medical School and UC Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain On Music (Dutton, 2006), published in nineteen languages, and The World in Six Songs (Dutton, 2008) which hit the bestseller lists in its first week of release. Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
The last one I read was about the human brain – oh wait I have it right here: An Organised Mind by Dr Daniel J Levitin. The tagline is “Thinking straight from the information overload.”

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Taika Waititi 6 Favorite Books
Taika Waititi is eccentri not only in his films'choice, but when it comes to books as well. Check out 6 Taika Waititi favorite books to read!

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Taika Waititi is eccentri not only in his films'choice, but when it comes to books as well. Check out 6 Taika Waititi favorite books to read!
TV Shows

M*A*S*H
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
What have I not I done yet? I know: a vampire. I like things like M*A*S*H. I love the scenes where they’re standing around an operating table, talking. I just like the idea of classic costumes, like a police outfit or a doctor’s outfit.

Making a Murderer
Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
I'm suing the makers of @MakingAMurderer for damages after I furiously threw my keys at the TV and scratched the screen.

Bottom
Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Still have my homemade vhs tapes of Young Ones & Bottom recorded off TV. It was so special I even pause-edited out all the ads. Bye Rik. x

The Young Ones
The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in Great Britain from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series. Shown on BBC2, it featured anarchic, offbeat humour which helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. In 1985, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Still have my homemade vhs tapes of Young Ones & Bottom recorded off TV. It was so special I even pause-edited out all the ads. Bye Rik. x

Land of the Lost
Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, humanoid creatures called Sleestak.
Music

Queen

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Big RG right here. It's a hard decision but for me I think it's Freddie....
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Susanna Hoffs

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Happy Birthday to this LEGEND. @susannahoffsofficial Love yew.
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Taika Waititi's 7 Favorite Musicians
Taika listed 7 of his favorite artists and genres of music he loves.

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Taika listed 7 of his favorite artists and genres of music he loves.
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Music That Influenced Taika Waititi - 4 Songs
Taika was DJing the radio project and chose 4 songs from his childhood that shaped him or left a lasting impact on him. Check this out!

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Taika was DJing the radio project and chose 4 songs from his childhood that shaped him or left a lasting impact on him. Check this out!
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
All cards on the table, Ruban is one of my favourite artists ever.
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The Mint Chicks

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
All cards on the table, Ruban is one of my favourite artists ever. I knew (Ruban’s old band) The Mint Chicks and your brother (Kody)’s stuff, so we’d always known about each other and we just got to chatting online.
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XSCAPE

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Michael Jackson's new album is called "Xscape". I knew he was from the coast.
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Bars

The Waihau Bay Lodge

Taika Waititi
Actor, Director
Where I come from, down in the Bay of Plenty at Waihau Bay, the local pub The Lodge is one of my favourite places to hang out and you never see any strangers there, it’s just like all locals. It’s the most relaxed atmosphere I feel I have ever experienced anywhere.
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