Authors : Jonathan Henderson : : Cinelogue

Jonathan Henderson was born, raised, and still resides in Oklahoma. He’s a published poet and professional online poker player who desires to be a professional critic, even if it wouldn’t pay nearly as well. For more than a decade he’s been a passionately dedicated aesthete, critic, and student of the arts, including film, music, literature, poetry, and photography. He’s also a rationalist with an interest in philosophy who loves to have his rational philosophy confounded by art that bypasses human intellect and impacts him emotionally and aesthetically. Last but not least, he’s an admitted EvaGeek, and part of the sinister underground cult of lunatics who had their lives changed by writer/director Hideaki Anno’s 1995-1997 anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion and concluding film, End of Evangelion. The cult has only one goal, and that’s to do tonight the same thing we do every night: TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Here’s some of his favorite films:

A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Satantango (Bela Tarr)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
Au Hasard Balthasar (Robert Bresson)

His Ten Directors:

Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Luis Bunuel
Howard Hawks
Yasujiro Ozu
Jean-Luc Godard