The Playlist
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Pisces
- Industry: Arts
- Location: Brooklyn : New York : United States
- Wishlist
About Me
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
Favorite Movies
- Lately: Lucrecia Martel
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Always (too many to list): Early Woody Allen especially Interiors
- all Almodovar especially all of them
- all Kieslowski including the genius masterwork the Decalogue
- all Kubrick especially Lolita
- Dr. Strangelove
- Fletch
- Barfly
- Bertolucci especially Il Conformista
- all Michaelangelo Antonioni especially all of them
- 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
- all Tarkovsky especially Ivan's Childhood
- All That Jazz
- The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
- Putney Swope
- The Third Man
- Che
- Les Mepris
- A Woman Is A Woman
- I Vitteloni
- Rocco And His Brothers
- Minnie and Moskowitz
- His Girl Friday
- The Treasure of Sierra Madre
- 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.
Favorite Music
- Lately: Rodriguez
- Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
- Silvio Rodgiguez
- Mercedes Sosa
- Afro Cuban All Stars
- Max Richter
- George Delerue
- Always: Scott Walker
- Bill Callahan
- Ennio Morricone
- 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 Classics: Rebels on the Backlot
- Easy Riders And Raging Bulls
