Jake Cole
Contributing Writer
Born and raised in Fayetteville, Georgia, Jake Cole is a senior in journalism at Auburn University and writes film criticism in his free time. Open to any kind of movie (as long as it’s good), Jake particularly enjoys Asian cinema and American genre film. He acknowledges that he still has a lot to learn but believes every film has something to teach him, even the bad ones. You can read his thoughts on film, television, music and literature at Not Just Movies.
A handful of favorite films on his (ever-changing) list:
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
Playtime (Jacques Tati)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
Ace in the Hole / The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
Favorite Directors:
Martin Scorsese
Akira Kurosawa
Abbas Kiarostami
Jean-Luc Godard
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Ingmar Bergman
Howard Hawks
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Wong Kar-wai
Olivier Assayas
Reviews
| The Strange Case of Angelica | 08 Oct 2011 |
| Bitter Victory | 01 Sep 2011 |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence | 23 Aug 2011 |
| The Music Room | 03 Aug 2011 |
| Johnny Guitar | 03 Jul 2011 |
| Memories of Murder | 18 Jun 2011 |
| Eros + Massacre | 29 May 2011 |
| Sweetie | 18 May 2011 |
| Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 14 May 2011 |
| The Last Bolshevik | 07 May 2011 |
| Taxi Driver | 24 Apr 2011 |
| Source Code | 11 Apr 2011 |
| Bitter Moon | 05 Apr 2011 |
| Déjà Vu | 19 Mar 2011 |
| Sweet Smell of Success | 11 Mar 2011 |
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