Sunday, December 28, 2008
In brief: Revolutionary Road
A well-shot soap opera. Too much talking; it didn't use the medium until the very end. Not boring. Just tedious.
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Mission Statement / Projects
- To direct or produce one feature film every year.
- 2009: Transmissions (Completed)
- 2010: Archetype (In production)
- 2011: Untitled Kentala-Tam Collaboration
- 2011: Old War (Pre-production)
- 2012: Decade
- 2013: Meridien K
About
- Jack Kentala
- Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
- E-mail: j d k e n t a l a [g m a i l]
JDK and MPC Friends
Important Stuff
Recently Watched
- 7/18: The Transporter 2 **
- 7/19: American Splendor (repeat) ****
- 7/20: Following ***
- 7/21: The Transporter 3 **
- 7/23: Ride With The Devil ***
- 7/26: Forrest Gump (repeat?) **
- 7/27: The Artistocrats **
Eleven Favorite Movies (Alphabetical)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Apocalypse Now
- Blade Runner
- Citizen Kane
- Five Easy Pieces
- If...
- Taxi Driver
- The Godfather
- The Thin Red Line
- There Will Be Blood
- Two-Lane Blacktop
2010 Most Wanted
- The American
- The Tree of Life (dir. Terrence Malick)
- Archetype (dir. Jack Kentala)
Favorites By Year
- 2009: The Hurt Locker / The Girlfriend Exprience
- 2008: The Wire (all seasons) / Che / The Wrestler / Generation Kill
- 2007: There Will Be Blood
- 2006: The New World / Half Nelson / Children of Men
- 2005: Good Night, And Good Luck / Me And You And Everyone We Know
- 2004: Primer
- 2003: Master and Commander / Lost In Translation / Elephant
- 2002: The Pianist / Solaris / Punch-Drunk Love
- 2001: Storytelling
- 2000: Traffic / Tigerland
- 1999: Eyes Wide Shut / Three Kings / The Blair Witch Project
- 1998: The Thin Red Line / The Truman Show / Rushmore
- 1997: In the Company of Men
- 1996: Fargo / Schizopolis
- 1995: Living In Oblivion
- 1994: The Shawshank Redemption / Hoop Dreams
- 1993: Schindler's List
- 1992: The Player
- 1991: The Silence of the Lambs / Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- 1990: GoodFellas
- 1989: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
- 1988: Akira
- 1987: Full Metal Jacket
- 1986: Platoon / Blue Velvet
- 1985: Brazil / Ran / Come And See
- 1984: This Is Spinal Tap / Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 1983: The Right Stuff
- 1982: Blade Runner
- 1981: Das Boot / Taps
- 1980: Raging Bull
- 1979: Apocalypse Now / Alien
- 1978: The Deer Hunter / Days of Heaven
- 1977: The Last Wave
- 1976: Taxi Driver / All The President's Men
- 1975: Barry Lyndon / One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest / Picnic At Hanging Rock
- 1974: The Conversation / The Godfather Part II
- 1973: The Last Detail / American Graffiti / Badlands
- 1972: The Godfather / Aguirre, The Wrath of God
- 1971: Two-Lane Blacktop / A Clockwork Orange / The French Connection / Straw Dogs / THX 1138 / Walkabout
- 1970: Five Easy Pieces / Patton
- 1969: Easy Rider / The Wild Bunch
- 1968: 2001 A Space Odyssey / If...
- 1967: Bonnie and Clyde / The Graduate
- 1966: Blowup / The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly / The Battle of Algiers
- 1965: King Rat
- 1964: Dr. Strangelove
- 1963: 8 1/2
- 1962: Lawrence of Arabia / To Kill A Mockingbird / The Manchurian Candidate
- 1961: The Hustler
- 1960: Psycho / Peeping Tom / Breathless
- 1959: The 400 Blows
- 1958: Touch of Evil
- 1957: Paths of Glory
- 1956: A Man Escaped
- 1955: Rififi
- 1954: Rear Window / Seven Samurai
- 1951: The Browning Version
- 1950: Rashomon
- 1949: The Third Man
- 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 1947: The Lady From Shanghai
- 1946: The Stranger
- 1943: Bataan
- 1942: The Magnificent Ambersons
- 1941: Citizen Kane
Favorite Albums
- 2004: The Arcade Fire - Funeral
- 2005: Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
- 2006: The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
- 2007: The National - Boxer
- 2008: Deerhunter - Microcastle
- 2009: Japandroids - Post-Nothing
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