Stanley Kubrick, Gaspar Noe, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Michael Haneke, Mary Harron, Jim Jarmusch, Lars von Trier, Terry Gilliam, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, Larry Clark, David Fincher, Takashi Miike, Harmony Korine, Chanwook Park, Alan Parker, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Brian DePalma, Mike Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Joel Coen, Tim Burton, Paul Verhoeven, John Sayles, Howard Hawks, Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, Michael Moore, Ken Russell, to be continued ...
Awards
Self-styled coolest ever.
Festivals
48 Hour Film Project 2005; Cinema Lounge; Tromadance 2004 (volumteer); Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival (volunteer).
Professional Affiliations
Death Ray Scientific
Ezra Stead's Interests
General
Movies, music, philosophy, and your mom.
Music
SolIllaquists of Sound, Frank Zappa, Saul Williams, James Brown, KRS-One, Bob Marley, Blackalicious, Ministry, Talib Kweli, Tom Waits, Public Enemy, Beethoven, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Pink Floyd, Common, Chopin, Eric B. & Rakim, Mahavishnu Orchestra, De La Soul, Jimi Hendrix, Wu-Tang Clan, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The C.O.R.E., Heiruspecs, Taj Mahal, Mos Def, Aphex Twin, MC Paul Barman, Billie Holliday, Kool Keith, Skinny Puppy, The Blend, GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, Kanser, Weather Report, Eyedea, The Doors, Immortal Technique, Massive Attack, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Illuminous 3, Edupoetic Entertainment, Cunninlynguists, Al Green, Outkast, Sam Cooke, Nas, Fear, Paris, N.E.R.D., Thelonius Monk, Sage Francis, Allison Krauss and Union Station, The Pharcyde, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, 2Pac, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dead Prez, John Coltrane, The Roots, Velvet Underground, Doomtree (and all its solo members), Chopin ... to be continued
Movies
STANLEY KUBRICK: Flying Padre; Killer's Kiss; The Killing; Paths of Glory; Spartacus; Lolita; Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; 2001: A Space Odyssey; A Clockwork Orange; Barry Lyndon; The Shining; Full Metal Jacket; Eyes Wide Shut. DAVID LYNCH: Eraserhead; The Elephant Man; Blue Velvet; Wild at Heart; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; Lost Highway; The Straight Story; Mullholland Dr; Inland Empire. GASPAR NOE: I Stand Alone; Irreversible. ORSON WELLES: Citizen Kane; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Stranger; The Third Man; Lady From Shanghai; Compulsion; A Touch of Evil; The Trial; F For Fake. MICHAEL HANEKE: Funny Games; The Piano Teacher; Cache. TERRY GILLIAM: Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python's The Life of Brian; Monty Python and the Meaning of Life; Time Bandits; Brazil; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; The Fisher King; 12 Monkeys; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Tideland. MARTIN SCORSESE: Mean Streets; Taxi Driver; The Last Waltz; Raging Bull; The King of Comedy; After Hours; The Last Temptation of Christ; Goodfellas; Cape Fear; Casino; Bringing Out the Dead; Gangs of New York; The Aviator; The Departed. DAVID CRONENBERG: The Brood; Scanners; Videodrome; The Dead Zone; The Fly; Dead Ringers; Naked Lunch; Crash; Existenz; Spider; A History of Violence; Eastern Promises. SPIKE LEE: School Daze; Do The Right Thing; Mo' Better Blues; Jungle Fever; Malcolm X; Clockers; Four Little Girls; He Got Game; Summer of Sam; Bamboozled; When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts; Inside Man. JIM JARMUSCH: Stranger Than Paradise; Down By Law; Mystery Train; Night on Earth; Dead Man; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; Coffee and Cigarettes; Broken Flowers. DARIO ARGENTO: Suspiria; Opera; Trauma. LARS VON TRIER: Breaking the Waves; Dancer in the Dark; Dogville; The Five Obstructions; Dear Wendy; Manderlay; The Boss Of It All. JOEL & ETHAN COEN: Blood Simple; Raising Arizona; Miller's Crossing; Barton Fink; The Hudsucker Proxy; Fargo; The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; The Man Who Wasn't There; Intolerable Cruelty; Paris Je T'aime; No Country For Old Men. INGMAR BERGMAN: The Virgin Spring; The Seventh Seal; Wild Strawberries; Persona; The Passion of Anna; Autumn Sonata; Fanny and Alexander. STEVEN SODERBERGH: Sex, Lies and Videotape; Kafka; Schizopolis; The Limey; Traffic; Ocean's Eleven; Solaris; Equilibrium; Ocean's Twelve; Bubble; Ocean's Thirteen. JEAN-LUC GODARD: Breathless; Band of Outsiders; Weekend; Alas For Me. CHANWOOK PARK: Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance; Oldboy; Cut; Sympathy For Lady Vengeance. ALFRED HITCHCOCK: The Man Who Knew Too Much; The 39 Steps; The Lady Vanishes; Saboteur; Shadow of a Doubt; Rope; Strangers on a Train; Dial 'M' For Murder; Rear Window; To Catch a Thief; The Trouble With Harry; I Confess; North By Northwest; The Man Who Knew Too Much; Vertigo; Psycho; Frenzy. PAUL VERHOEVEN: Robocop; Total Recall; Basic Instinct; Showgirls; Black Book. GUS VAN SANT: Drugstore Cowboy; My Own Private Idaho; To Die For; Good Will Hunting; Elephant; Last Days; Paris, Je T'aime. LLOYD KAUFMAN: The Toxic Avenger; The Class of Nuke 'Em High; Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD; Tromeo and Juliet; Terror Firmer; Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: Dementia 13; The Godfather; The Conversation; The Godfather, part II; Apocalypse Now; The Outsiders; Rumble Fish; Peggy Sue Got Married; The Godfather, part III; Hearts of Darkness; Bram Stoker's Dracula. TIM BURTON: Vincent; Frankenweenie; Pee Wee's Big Adventure; Beetle Juice; Batman; Edward Scissorhands; Batman Returns; Ed Wood; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Mars Attacks; Sleepy Hollow; Big Fish; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Corpse Bride. LUIS BUNUEL: Un Chien Andalou; Land Without Bread; Diary of a Chambermaid; Belle Du Jour; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. PETER JACKSON: Bad Taste; Meet the Feebles; Dead Alive; Heavenly Creatures; The Frighteners; The Lord of the Rings; King Kong. OLIVER STONE: Salvador; Platoon; Wall Street; Talk Radio; The Doors; JFK; Natural Born Killers; U-Turn; Nixon. SAM RAIMI: The Evil Dead; Evil Dead 2; Darkman; Army of Darkness; The Quick and the Dead; A Simple Plan; The Gift; Spider-Man; Spider-Man 2; Spider-Man 3. AKIRA KUROSAWA: Rashomon; The Seven Samurai; Throne of Blood; Yojimbo; Sanjuro; The Hidden Fortress; High and Low; Dersu Uzala; Ran; Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. JOHN CARPENTER: Halloween; Assault on Precinct 13; Escape From New York; The Thing; They Live; Memoirs of an Invisible Man; In the Mouth of Madness; Escape From L.A. RICHARD LINKLATER: Slacker; Suburbia; Dazed and Confused; Before Sunrise; Waking Life; Tape; School of Rock; Before Sunset; A Scanner Darkly; Fast Food Nation. GEORGE A. ROMERO: Night of the Living Dead; Martin; Dawn of the Dead; Creepshow; Day of the Dead; The Dark Half; Land of the Dead. BRIAN DEPALMA: Carrie; Blow-Out; Dressed To Kill; Scarface; The Untouchables; Carlito's Way; Mission: Impossible. WES CRAVEN: Last House on the Left; A Nightmare on Elm Street (series); Scream; Red Eye; Paris Je'Taime. WOODY ALLEN: Play It Again, Sam; Take the Money and Run; Bananas; The Front; Sleeper; Interiors; Stardust Memories; Zelig; Purple Rose of Cairo; Hannah and her Sisters; Crimes and Misdemeanors; Shadows and Fog; Manhattan Murder Mystery; Bullets Over Broadway; Mighty Aphrodite; Deconstructing Harry; Sweet and Lowdown; Small Time Crooks; The Curse of the Jade Scorpion; Melinda and Melinda; Match Point. MEL BROOKS: The Producers; Young Frankenstein; Blazing Saddles. SAM PECKINPAH: Ride the High Country; The Wild Bunch; Straw Dogs; The Getaway; Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. TAKASHI MIIKE: DOA:Dead or Alive; Ichi the Killer; Happiness of the Katakuris; Audition; Gozu; Box. ROMAN POLANSKI: Knife in the Water; Repulsion; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Rosemary's Baby; Chinatown; The Tenant; Death and the Maiden; The Ninth Gate; The Pianist; Oliver Twist. ALEX COX: Repo Man; Sid and Nancy. WES ANDERSON: Bottle Rocket; Rushmore; The Royal Tenenbaums; The LIfe Aquatic with Steve Zissou; The Darjeeling Limited. RIDLEY SCOTT: The Duellists; Alien; Blade Runner; Legend; Thelma and Louise; Gladiator; Hannibal; Matchstick Men. HOWARD HAWKS: Scarface; Bringing Up Baby; His Girl Friday; Ball of Fire; The Big Sleep; The Thing from Another World; Red River; Monkey Business. CHARLIE KAUFMAN: Being John Malkovich; Human Nature; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Adaptation; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. JAMES CAMERON: The Terminator; Aliens; The Abyss; Terminator 2: Judgement Day; True Lies; Titanic. QUENTIN TARANTINO: Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction; Four Rooms; Jackie Brown; Kill Bill; Death Proof. BILLY WILDER: Double Indemnity; Stalag 17; Sunset Blvd; The Seven Year Itch; Some Like It Hot; The Apartment; The Fortune Cookie. ROBERT RODRIQUEZ: El Mariachi; Desperado; From Dusk Till Dawn; Four Rooms; The Faculty; Spy Kids; Once Upon a Time in Mexico; Spy Kids 3D: Game Over; Frank Miller's Sin City; Planet Terror. DARREN ARONOFSKY: Pi; Requiem For A Dream; Below; The Fountain. JOHN HUSTON: The Maltese Falcon; Let There Be Light; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Key Largo; Moulin Rouge; Moby Dick; The African Queen; Beat the Devil; The Misfits; Freud; The Man Who Would Be King; Wise Blood. DAVID FINCHER: Alien 3; Se7en; The Game; Fight Club; Panic Room; Zodiac. SERGIO LEONE: Fistful of Dollars; A Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Once Upon A Time in the West. KEVIN SMITH: Clerks; Mallrats; Chasing Amy; Dogma; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; Jersey Girl; Clerks II. PRESTON STURGES: Sullivan's Travels; Hail the Conquering Hero. HARMONY KORINE: Gummo; Julien Donkey Boy. LARRY CLARK: Kids; Bully; Wassup Rockers. WERNER HERZOG: Even Dwarves Started Small; Aquirre: The Wrath of God; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Grizzly Man; The Wild Blue Yonder; Rescue Dawn. TODD SOLONDZ: Welcome to the Dollhouse; Happiness; Storytelling; Palindromes. JUDD APATOW: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; Kicking and Screaming; The 40 Year Old Virgin; Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby; Knocked Up; Superbad. MICHAEL MOORE: Roger and Me; Canadian Bacon; Bowling for Columbine; Fahrenheit 9/11; Sicko. To be continued ...
Television
MR. SHOW, THE KIDS IN THE HALL, THE SIMPSONS, FAMILY GUY, MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, TWIN PEAKS, LOONEY TUNES, I LOVE LUCY, MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, IN LIVING COLOR, SEINFELD, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS ... to be continued
Books
THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY, ...SAID THE SHOTGUN TO THE HEAD, BOMB THE SUBURBS, ANIMAL FARM, THE EYES OF THE DRAGON, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, FIGHT THE POWER, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, EVASION, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FILMMAKING I LEARNED FROM THE TOXIC AVENGER, MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE, OF MICE AND MEN, THE LITTLE PRINCE, MATILDA, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, RAGE, THE ART OF WAR, THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF YOGA,1984, LAME DEER: SEEKER OF VISIONS, IT MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER, WATCHMEN, JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, anything by EDGAR ALLEN POE or H.P. LOVECRAFT, MASKS OF THE ILLUMINATI, DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND, FIGHT CLUB, THE SATANIC BIBLE, THE NEW INQUISITION, JUNKY, AMERICAN PSYCHO, THE HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, THE DEAD ZONE, THE DIVIDED SELF, A JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION, SCREENPLAY, ROADWORK, THE BOOKS OF BLOOD, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA, THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE, DANSE MACABRE, THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND SIX MORE, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, HELL'S ANGELS, THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN: A YAQUI WAY OF KNOWLEDGE, A SEPARATE REALITY, JOURNEY TO IXTLAN, THE DEVIL'S NOTEBOOK, LORD OF THE FLIES, BLESS ME ULTIMA, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE COMPLETE POEMS OF STEPHEN CRANE, THE DARK DESCENT, BLACK BOY ... to be continued
Heroes
My father, Malcolm X, Orson Welles, Bob Marley, Jared Paul, Frank Zappa, Chuck D, KRS-One, John "Fire" Lame Deer, Saul Williams, Swami Vishnu-Devananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Anton Wilson, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Rodriguez, Spike Lee, Zack de la Rocha, Lloyd Kaufman, Sol.Illaquists of Sound ... to be continued.
About me: Ezra once kicked Ron Howard's ass in a barfight. He also recently published a book of poetry, short stories and essays (mostly about films), and it's available now, exclusively online at lulu.com. To preview and/or buy the book, go to lulu.com and search Ezra Stead, or simply copy and paste this URL into your browser:
You can also check Ezra out at gambitparty.net, angelfire.com/film/boomstickreviews and here at myspace.com/messcrew, myspace.com/ezraone and myspace.com/ezrasucks
Who I'd like to meet: Saul Williams, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Gaspar Noe, KRS-One, Talib Kweli, Common, Scarlett Johansson, Monica Bellucci, Robert Anton Wilson, Gary Oldman, Dan Savage, and your mom.
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Good-bye for now and may God bless.
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Good-bye for now and may God bless.
Brian Hoffman - Red Skelton tribute artist.
