John Cook

John Cook

출생 : 1935-11-26, Toronto

사망 : 2001-09-21

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John Cook

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Artischocke
Writer
Contemporary love story about the confrontation of French and Austrian culture.
Artischocke
Director
Contemporary love story about the confrontation of French and Austrian culture.
Clinch
Writer
Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria, Canadian-born John Cook (1935–2001) remained, in his own words, "Viennese by choice.” Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris, Cook’s […] first “regular” production was Schwitzkasten, based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker. Today, the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema: a freewheeling, tender, and strangely humorous portrait of working-class (and out-of-work) lives.
Clinch
Director
Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria, Canadian-born John Cook (1935–2001) remained, in his own words, "Viennese by choice.” Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris, Cook’s […] first “regular” production was Schwitzkasten, based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker. Today, the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema: a freewheeling, tender, and strangely humorous portrait of working-class (and out-of-work) lives.
Slow Summer
John
A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.
Slow Summer
Editor
A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.
Slow Summer
Cinematography
A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.
Slow Summer
Director
A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.
Slow Summer
Writer
A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.
I Just Can't Go On
Cinematography
In Canadian-born John Cook’s restless documentary of an Austrian couple, I JUST CAN’T GO ON, the husband Petrus, channeling “Cassius Marcellus Clay,” takes up boxing to supplement the income from his day-job burnishing frames. His companion, the much older Gisi, works as a janitor. They are an odd couple, scavenging at the bottom of the Viennese social ladder. But there is nothing patronizing or exploitative in Cook’s treatment of the couple and their eccentricities as they try to make ends meet. In one of the film’s key aesthetic choices, Cook eschews synched sound in favor of a stream-of-consciousness soundtrack pitting Petrus and Gisi’s unfiltered remarks in relief against the harsh material world.
I Just Can't Go On
Director
In Canadian-born John Cook’s restless documentary of an Austrian couple, I JUST CAN’T GO ON, the husband Petrus, channeling “Cassius Marcellus Clay,” takes up boxing to supplement the income from his day-job burnishing frames. His companion, the much older Gisi, works as a janitor. They are an odd couple, scavenging at the bottom of the Viennese social ladder. But there is nothing patronizing or exploitative in Cook’s treatment of the couple and their eccentricities as they try to make ends meet. In one of the film’s key aesthetic choices, Cook eschews synched sound in favor of a stream-of-consciousness soundtrack pitting Petrus and Gisi’s unfiltered remarks in relief against the harsh material world.