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filmmaker JK

Too many ideas for such a short time on earth. Visit jesseknightfilms.com for more info.

About Me

I am a struggling filmmaker doomed to make films because I have no other choice. Please check out my new website at www.jesseknightfilms.com MySpace Layouts by Grabalayout.com

My Interests

film making

I'd like to meet:

pretty much anyone that occurs on my path naturally, or unnaturally for that matter.

Music:

ministry, nin, tool, perfect circle, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, front 242, Jobim, Bloodjinn, KWD, judas priest, iron maiden, system of a down, Pink Floyd, Burnt Bridges, the Malamondos, Wide Spread Panic, Soul Fly, Sepultura, Slayer, Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan (mainly the older stuff especially Liquid Swords and Tecal),

Movies:

apacalypse now, ivan's childhood, andrey rubalev, nostalgia, solaris(tarkovsky version of course), stalker, the sacrifice, mirror, hour of the wolf, seventh seal, Persona, Interiors, Shame, throne of blood, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, satyricon, roma, cure, pulse, charisma, dead or alive 1-3, Ichi the killer, visiter Q, izo, ozu, 3-extremes, kwaidan, sword of doom, Devil's Rejects, Big Trouble in Little China, star wars, 2046, In the Mood for Love, Days of Being Wild, Ley Lines, Young Thugs, old boy, shinjuku outlaws, black triad society, rainy dog, zatoichi, lone wolf and cub, kagemusha, ran, dreams, dersu uzala,

Television:

television is dead already though I find myself watching it an awful lot.

Books:

film theory books and existential writers as of late. (Camus, Sartre, Kafka, Hesse, etc...)

Heroes:

mother, father, step father, grandmother, grandfather,

My Blog

Editing

When you are watching a movie, you are really seeing the biological expression of the editor. Every cut is dependent on the biorhythms of the person putting it together. I am sure that no two humans...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:04:00 PST

a few words on my filmmaking experiences thus far

I made my first film in 1996 during the North Carolina School of the Arts film immersion summer program. It was a wonderful experience where entirely too much information was crammed into my head at ...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:22:00 PST

Akira Kurosawa's

My step father got a great film in the mail the other day and we watched it in the evening. As I sat there half doped up on pain medication for my wisdom teeth (alas my poor wisdom teeth are gone mos...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:20:00 PST

Michelangelo Antonioni's

To continue my foray into Antonioni, a good starter film for this auteur in addition to "The Passenger" is "Blow-Up," probably the most famous of his films starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, a...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:18:00 PST

Antonioni's "The Passenger"

This is a very interesting film. For those of you who aren't familiar with Antonioni's work, let me first say that this film is very stylistic in it's way of composition, ambiguities in storytelling ...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:53:00 PST

Woody Allen films

I just read a good interview book called "Woody Allen on Woody Allen." Very inciteful and informative, especially compared to the limited and bias information that my film professors chose to give me...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:35:00 PST

the thin red line

Terence Malick's "The Thin Red Line," was way better the second time, eight yrs later. I had recently gotten a new perspective on Malick's work having seen "The New World." I gained an appreciation ...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:24:00 PST

the united states of leland

Mathew Hogg's "the united states of leland," intriqued me with some possible actors that may stay the test of time, though this film dealing with issues that I am interested in such as the state of th...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:56:00 PST

tristan and isolde (I know I was just curious)

Kevin Reynolds' "Tristan and Isolde" isn't the best film in its genre or the worst. It simply exists somewhere in between.There really isn't much to say about this film other than this;The shots are ...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:26:00 PST

domino

Tony Scott's "Domino" isn't a bad film at all.  A bit of a very good music video combined with an ARMY commercial.  Very experimental in image making and editing. Remember how I referred to ...
Posted by filmmaker JK on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:50:00 PST