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The Top 25 Films of 2014

The Top 25 Films of 2014

After much deliberation and with a moderate deal of frustration at the exclusion of the many probably-great films I wasn’t able to see in time for this list (A Most Violent Year, Mr. Turner, Force Majeure, Leviathan, Mommy, Goodbye to Language 3D, Winter Sleep, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, The Overnighters, Actress, and about 30 or 40 others), here are my Top 25 Films of 2014:

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Fulci lives! Well, actually he’s been dead since 1996, but his movies live, I mean. Zombi 2, The Gates of Hell, The Beyond, House By the Cemetery… um… I guess that’s pretty much it. But those are all really great horror movies, right?

Conquest doesn’t usually get lumped in with classic...

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I work in shipping for a clothing distributor and last December we had a Secret Santa party. I received a $25 Amazon gift card. My Santa, a guy who shares my obsession with scary movies, instructed me specifically to tell him what I bought with the credit after we got back from Christmas break. I...

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Mark Englert’s Jaws poster, featuring a barely working shark and Spielberg himself.

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The new video I directed for Spider Bags for their track "Chem Trails."  It gets heavy on conspiracy theories 

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THE DARK SIDE OF DREAMS 

In the late 1960’s, photographer Arthur Tress began a series of photographs that were inspired by the dreams of children. Tress had each child he approached tell him about a prominent dream of theirs which Tress would then artistically re-create and photograph with the child as the main subject. 

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Another KILLER music video from my good friend Jonny, check it out guys!

NPR has the first watch on my new music video for Curtis Harding’s Keep on Shining for Burger Records.

Get down to it! 

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sad parenthood story time with nick cave

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My Top 11 Films of 2013

My Top 11 Films of 2013

A brief disclaimer: I GOT BURNT OUT ON OSCAR SEASON EARLY.  It’s a two, maybe three horse race for Best Picture.  The movies nominated are – as usual – a weird smattering of ‘highbrow stand-ins for more worthy films,’ ‘a few films that actually deserve to be there,’ and the obligatory Weinstein Special.  And frankly, with the release dates for almost every film bunched together at the end of the…

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My eye caught a dark form lying on the river bottom. It took me a few moments to comprehend what I had stumbled upon. Lying peacefully in the shallow waters of the river, only a few meters from shore, was a full-grown cougar. The contrast between the serenity of the scene I was witnessing and what must have played out here in the cougar’s final moments made me shiver. It was the first shiver of many, as I stripped down and waded out into the icy water to get this shot. x

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JIM JARMUSCH ON THE TIME HE MET CHRIS MARKER

There were a lot of things that I couldn’t fit into my recent interview with Jim Jarmusch (which you can read at The Guardian). This is one of them.

“I had a great chance to meet Chris Marker, once. I got to go outside of Paris, he was in a little editing room in it, I think? And this guy Anatole Dauman was a big producer, and he said ‘I pay for Chris to have this little editing room, would you like to go visit him, he would love it.’ And I said, ‘Yeah!’. And I went there, not with this guy, and Chris Marker was in a room about the size of this booth, and he was editing, and he was starting to work in video, early video.

So he took a camera and he filmed me for a while, and he had all these trims in a bin, and he said ‘This is a film project I’m working on, but I don’t touch it, because look inside.’ And inside the bin was a mother cat with her little newborn babies, and he said ‘I leave them alone, they are a priority. So now I work on the video until she takes them out and then I can go back to the film project.’  

He was strange and particular and so nice. It was fantastic.” 

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