Jay Cocks

Jay Cocks

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing. As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York -- a screenplay he started working on in 1976 -- as well as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days. Cocks also performed an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron's screenplay for Titanic. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Cocks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Jay Cocks
  • Popularity: 2.925
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1944-01-12
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Jay Cocks Movies

  • 2019
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    Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'

    Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'

    1 2019 HD

    In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of...

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  • 1970
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    Street Scenes

    Street Scenes

    5.4 1970 HD

    In the late spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major...

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  • 1990
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    Martin Scorsese Directs

    Martin Scorsese Directs

    9 1990 HD

    Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way...

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  • 1993
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    Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

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

    5.5 1993 HD

    A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of...

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  • 2019
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    An American Named Kazan

    An American Named Kazan

    6 2019 HD

    Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War...

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  • 2008
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    A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

    A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

    4.5 2008 HD

    Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films.

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  • 2008
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    The Business End: Violence in Cinema

    The Business End: Violence in Cinema

    8 2008 HD

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

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  • 2008
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    The Craft of Dirty Harry

    The Craft of Dirty Harry

    6 2008 HD

    A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series.

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  • 2017
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    Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

    Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

    6 2017 HD

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

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  • 2008
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    The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

    The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

    5.8 2008 HD

    An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madsen, 'Hal Holbrook', John Milius, 'Shane Black' and...

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  • 1978
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    Movies Are My Life

    Movies Are My Life

    6 1978 HD

    The very first full-length documentary on Scorsese offers an invaluable look at how he was perceived by his colleagues, and himself, in 1977....

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  • 2007
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    Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

    Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

    7.6 2007 HD

    Follow Stanley Kubrick as he creates his savage and brilliant Vietnam film, hewing closely to the theme that dominated his creative life for four...

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  • 1995
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    Strange Days

    Strange Days

    7.001 1995 HD

    Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience...

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  • 1993
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    The Age of Innocence

    The Age of Innocence

    7 1993 HD

    In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's...

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  • 2002
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    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York

    7.323 2002 HD

    In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who...

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  • 2016
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    Silence

    Silence

    7.13 2016 HD

    Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

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  • 1990
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    Made in Milan

    Made in Milan

    5.7 1990 HD

    A short documentary film about fashion designer Giorgio Armani; it shows him preparing for a show and discusses his ideas about fashion, his family...

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  • 1988
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    The Last Temptation of Christ

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    7.245 1988 HD

    Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas...

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  • 2004
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    De-Lovely

    De-Lovely

    6.187 2004 HD

    From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly...

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  • 1988
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    The Last Temptation of Christ

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    7.245 1988 HD

    Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas...

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  • 2002
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    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York

    7.323 2002 HD

    In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who...

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  • 2024
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    A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    1 2024 HD

    New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota...

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