Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2005)

  

  [The following is a belated Blind Spots entry.]The grainy black-and-white imagery and raw sound give Regular Lovers an impression of verité instantly belied by... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Game of Thrones Season 4 Recaps

  Very pleased to say that I am covering this season of Game of Thrones for Slant's House Next Door blog. Here are links to the first five recaps, and this post... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Louie, Season 4, E01 "Back" and E02 "Model"

  I'm covering Louie's new season for Slant's House Next Door, and here is my recap for the premiere double-header, which shows the series operating at its usual... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Link Round-Up (05/06/14)

  Here are the rest of my outstanding review links, all of them Blu-Ray reviews for Slant.-Blu-Ray Review: Hail Mary-Blu-Ray Review: The Long Day Closes-Blu-Ray... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)

  

  [The following is a belated Blind Spots entry.]Fritz Lang stood out as the first master of sound cinema by making talkies that, ironically, seemed quieter than... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Review Round-Up (05/05/2014)

  I like to give every film its own page here, even when linking off-site, but frankly I've fallen too far behind on updating this blog with my clips, so here's... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Ninja 2: Shadow of a Tear (Isaac Florentine, 2013)

  Ninja II came out on home video at the very end of last year, and it was one of the best action films I saw in 2013. From what I've seen of his direct-to-video... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Criminally Underrated: Abel Ferrara

  Over the last year or so I've become a devout fan of Abel Ferrara, the gutter-punk poet of New York, whose works of self-investigating exploitation take Martin... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

  

  Wes Anderson’s latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, has bowed to reviews that link the occasionally staggering scale of its production design to the director’s... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Enjoy the Silents

  This was the first of a planned monthly series on silent cinema, which appears now not to be going forward unless I can find a new home for it. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• John Ford's Lasting Importance

  I had hoped to devote much of February to a celebration of John Ford, whose 120th birthday was on the first of that month. But restructuring at Film.com and... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)

  Back in January I wrote about Michael Mann's incredible theatrical debut Thief (one of the best feature debuts ever, even if Mann had a significant amount of... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)

  I wrote about John Ford's The Sun Shines Bright, cited by the man himself as his favorite of his movies, for Spectrum Culture. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Pleasuring Yourself

  

  It’s been a while since someone got a missive against elitist taste posted in an elite publication, so clearly we were overdue. The latest comes from Adam... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 LIFESTYLE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

  

  [The following is a belated entry in last year's Blind Spots series.]The rhyming book-end shots that open and close Ugetsu—the first shot an out-to-in... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)

  

  [The following is a belated entry in last year's Blind Spots series.]All That Jazz is a New Hollywood film from an Old Hollywood filmmaker; more than that,... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blind Spots 2014

  In writing terms, I had a great 2013. I added some cool new bylines to my resumé, and for the first time I even got paid for my work! Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Him: Why Joaquin Phoenix Is America’s Greatest Contemporary Actor

  I fell in love with Spike Jonze's newest movie, Her, not only for its nuanced and empathetic view of how technology has rewritten, maybe even corrupted, human... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The 10 Best Criterions of 2013

  I felt routinely disappointed this year by Criterion's offerings when they were announced each month, yet when I took stock of all I got this year, I found it t... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• All the Light in the Sky (Joe Swanberg, 2013)

  Swanberg’s prolificacy has allowed those who follow at least a portion of his rapidly-multiplying filmography to effectively see him gain more and more... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO