Rodrigo Perez
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Struggling Tastemaker |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip, Wishlist |
| Introduction | Jackass; quipster; cynical optimist; A film student graduate, I have written for MTV News & Movies, SPIN, the Fader, Magnet, Pitchforkmedia, Complex, CMJ and other places I can't remember. I still contribute to the MTV Movies blog occasionally when duty calls or the opportunity arises. Feel free to email me with soundtrack tips or related topics you'd like covered. I'm also looking for contributors so let me know if you're interested. Contrary to popular opinion, The Playlist is not a music blog. Rather, the site is a movies blog with a focus on music and where the two meet (thought that was rather obvious from our mission statement), but movies is our bread and butter. I'm sure you can agree that the world doesn't need another straight-up music blog. Keep in mind if/when pitching us, thank you. |
| Interests | THEPLAYLIST.NET |
| Favorite Movies | Of All Time (too many to list): Early Woody Allen especially Interiors, all Almodovar especially all of them, all Krzysztof Kieślowski including the Decalogue, the Red, White, Blue trilogy, and the Double Life of Veronique which is top 10, all Kubrick especially Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, Fletch, Barfly, all Bertolucci especially Il Conformista, Boorman's Point Blank, all M. Antonioni especially all of them, but La Notte is fantastic, all Wong Kar-wai especially Days of Being Wild, all Billy Wilder especially The Apartment, all Hal Ashby especially the Landlord, all Bergman especially Fanny and Alexander, Cria Cuervos, The Spirit of the Beehive, All Polanski especially The Tenant and Repulsion, all Tarkovsky especially Ivan's Childhood, All That Jazz, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, All Douglas Sirk, esp Imitation of Life, Putney Swope, The Third Man, Sunset Boulevard, Alain Renais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year At Marienbad, all Jean-Pierre Melville especially Le Samourai, all Louis Malle especially Elevator to the Gallows and Murmur of the Heart, Truffaut and the Antoine Doinel series but especially Bed & Board, Che, Les Mepris, A Woman Is A Woman, I Vitteloni, Nicholas Ray, especially In A Lonely Place, Sam Fuller, especially White Dog, Pickup On South Street, Jules Dassin, especially Brute Force, Rififi and Night and the City (Richard Widmark rules), Mike Nichols, especially Who’s Afraid Of Virgina Woolf, and the Graduate, the Bogdanovich triple threat era (esp Paper Moon and What's Up Doc), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Wim Wenders especially Paris Texas and The American Friend, Rocco And His Brothers, Minnie and Moskowitz, His Girl Friday, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, many Werner Herzog films including Little Deiter Needs To Fly, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is maybe the best movie ever made aside from possibly Rashomon, but they're kind on the exact same level. Another top 10 film is Jacque Rivette’s Celine & Julie Go Boating which is amazing. |
| Favorite Music | Always: Fleetwood Mac, Scott Walker, Bill Callahan, Ennio Morricone, Margot Guryan, Wong Kar Wai soundtracks, The Beach Boys, Margot Guyran, Harmonia, The Magnetic Fields, Dylan, France Gall, Fracis Lai, Serge Gainsbourg, Arthur Russell, George Harrison, Caetano Veloso, Gustavo Santaolalla, Harold Faltermeyer, Edith Piaf, The Kinks, Eno, The Feelies, Aphex Twin, George Delerue, too many to list. |
| Favorite Books | As of this moment: the Hal Ashby biography, Cormac McCarthy, Che biographies, Revolutionary Roard, lots of scripts, send me more. I want the revised Where The Wild Things Are, Getting Away With It, Being Hal Ashby, Classics: Rebels on the Backlot, Easy Riders And Raging Bulls, Most early Vonnegut, I was Interrupted, Robert Mckee's Story, Final Cut, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Bob Dylan's Chronicles, The Greatest Sci-Fi Films Never Made, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Road, Waiting For Godot, I Lost It At the Movies by Pauline Kael, Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Apendices, Greil Marcus' In The Fascist Bathroom and Lipstick Traces, Nick Kent's the Dark Stuff is a must read rock-book |