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Jay Cocks

Jay Cocks

Jay Cocks

1944-01-12

Age: 81

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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.

Best known for:

Gangs of New York

Silence

Strange Days

A Complete Unknown

The Age of Innocence

The Last Temptation of Christ

De-Lovely

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

Made in Milan

Street Scenes 1970

The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

Movies Are My Life

An American Named Kazan

Martin Scorsese Directs

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

A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

The Business End: Violence in Cinema

The Craft of Dirty Harry

The Scorsese Machine

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'

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Filmography:

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
6.1
WORK AS:
Additional Writing, Writer
Made in Milan (1990)
WORK AS:
Writer
The Age of Innocence (1993)
5.9
WORK AS:
Screenplay
Strange Days (1995)
5.9
WORK AS:
Screenplay
Gangs of New York (2002)
7
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Story
De-Lovely (2004)
4.8
WORK AS:
Writer
Silence (2016)
6.3
WORK AS:
Screenplay
A Complete Unknown (2024)
6
WORK AS:
Screenplay

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