Jake Cole

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• Charles Mingus — Cornell 1964

  

  Long-lost jazz recordings pique my interest as much as the tease of the most infamous lost films. The frequent airing of Miles Davis' vault brings as much... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Ulysses, Chapter Four: Calypso

  Each chapter of Ulysses comes with its own corresponding color for the imagery, and the "Calypso" episode filters its descriptions through orange. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE, TV & VIDEO

• The Darjeeling Limited (& Hotel Chevalier)

  

  In his video essay for the film, critic Matt Zoller Seitz calls The Darjeeling Limited "Wes Anderson's 2001." It is an apt description: like Kubrick's space... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ulysses, Chapter Five: The Lotus Eaters

  Well, dear readers, we move from the waste management system to the playground. Yes, where the digestive system formed the anatomical reference of the Calypso... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ulysses, Chapter Six: Hades

  Sometimes, despite my best effort to get as close a reading as possible, I find myself zipping through a book, so caught up in its narrative and/or style that... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Carpenter's Tools: Escape from L.A.

  

  [Note: This is a stupefyingly belated entry in my John Carpenter retrospective, which I intended to go all the way through his canon but could find scant... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Steven Spielberg: Jurassic Park

  

  At five stages in his career, Steven Spielberg has directed two films in the same year. In each case, both are targeted at a large crowd -- whenever is a... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List

  

  Perhaps the greatest argument for the sincerity and dedication Steven Spielberg put into Schindler's List is how radical a departure it was for the artist. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Television — Marquee Moon

  

  For those in the know, Tom Verlaine is the best alt.guitar soundsmith this side of Robert Quine, though those not in the know would be even less aware of ol'... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Stuff I Like: Miles Davis

  

  "I never thought that the music called 'jazz' was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Sweet Smell of Success: "Sidney, Conjugate Me a Verb."

  My review of Alexander Mackendrick's masterpiece Sweet Smell of Success is up now at Cinelogue. This was the biggest "newspaper movie" I'd yet to see, and it ma... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Rango

  

  When the Rango trailer met with near-unanimous derision and dismissal among critics and, seemingly, audiences, I wonder if Gore Verbinski sat back and... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Drive Angry

  

  resides in the No Man's Land between ignorant bliss and smug self-awareness, noxious tar pit that slowly sucks down fun premises into a black morass of lazy... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Stuff I Like: Prince

  

  Having been fortunate enough to miss the '80s and unfortunate enough to grow up solely on classic rock radio (home of the Eagles catalog and five played-to-deat... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Moment of Innocence

  

  When he was 17 years old, a radicalized, anti-Shah Mohsen Makhmalbaf stabbed a police officer in order to get the man's gun. In the ensuing struggle,... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Capsule Reviews: Alice in Wonderland (1951), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

  

  Alice in WonderlandThe animated Alice in Wonderland does not represent Disney's storytelling peak. Even for a movie that takes two surrealist books and hacks... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Leila

  

  In most circumstances, the narrative of Leila -- a couple unable to conceive dealing with the incessant interference of nosy relatives -- would make for domesti... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Announcement: Cinelogue Contributing

  Good news everyone! I have been invited to be a contributing writer to an upstart online publication called Cinelogue. Begun last April, Cinelogue already has... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2011

• The Naked Kiss

  

  After working in the studio system throughout the 50s and scoring a few hits along the way, Samuel Fuller realized his interests and methods were becoming... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Crimson Gold

  

  [This post was written for Sheila O'Malley's Iranian film blogathon running Feb. 21-27. I encourage all to participate. More details here. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES