Hello! My name is Kyle Laurentine, and I'm a third-year Film & Media Studies student here at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (also pursuing a minor in linguistics.) I originally hail from San Francisco (which I'm fairly convinced is the best city in America) and I enjoy dim sum, Radiohead, drawing African masks, riding my bike, philosophy, Spoon, playing squash, not eating squash, drawing weird abstract shapes, cooking pasta alla carbonara, watching movies, talking about movies, and writing about movies.
I'm a bit of an omnivore as far as films are concerned. I've never been particularly fond of the notion of a "canon," so instead of progressing chronologically through the classics, I tend to just haphazardly watch a variety of films from different eras, regions, and directors -- just whatever strikes my fancy. Off the top of my head, I would say that some of my favorite films are: A Prophet, Mulholland Drive, Out of the Past, Trouble Every Day, La Dolce Vita, Eyes Wide Shut, Anatomy of Hell, Last Year at Marienbad, The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven, Somewhere, Notre Musique, Being John Malkovich, Blade Runner, Contempt, I'm Not There, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
Here's a fact I don't tell many people, mostly because it's crushingly embarrassing: none of the above films has ever made me cry, but Michael Bay's Armageddon has. It was in a hotel room in Squaw Valley and I don't want to talk about it.
I hope you enjoy my writing here on HopkinsCinemAddicts, and I urge you to visit my own personal blog, The Smoldering Screen.
Bye!
