Jay Cocks

Jay Cocks

Birthday: 1944-01-12

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Biography: John C. "Jay" Cocks Jr. (born January 12, 1944) is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. Before shifting to screenplay writing, he was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Cocks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'

In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme...

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Street Scenes 1970
Street Scenes 1970

Two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall S...

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Martin Scorsese Directs
Martin Scorsese Directs

Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Sco...

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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's...

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An American Named Kazan
An American Named Kazan

Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the...

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A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethica...

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The Business End: Violence in Cinema
The Business End: Violence in Cinema

An unflinching look at the ongoing debate on violence in movies and its effect on the audience....

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The Craft of Dirty Harry
The Craft of Dirty Harry

A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dir...

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Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Martin Scorsese's "Silence."...

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The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madse...

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Movies Are My Life
Movies Are My Life

The very first full-length documentary on Scorsese offers an invaluable look at how he was perceived...

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Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

Follow Stanley Kubrick as he creates his savage and brilliant Vietnam film, hewing closely to the th...

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The Scorsese Machine
The Scorsese Machine

Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Marti...

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