About
Basics
My name is Ariel Esteban Cayer
I’m a film student, writer and and aspiring/occasional filmmaker.
Origin story
Raised on Star Wars, Spielberg, James Bond films, Stephen King novels and European bande dessinée. First cinematic obsessions: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Sofia Coppola.
Present
Favorite filmmaker of all time: Akira Kurosawa
Favorite genre: Horror
Favorite period/cycle: Japanese post-war cinema
Favorite actor: Toshiro Mifune
Favorite actress: Chloë Sevigny.
Crushes: Christina Hendricks, Alison Brie, Scarlett Johansson, Matthew Fox, Aubrey Plaza, Daisy Lowe, Traci Lords, Neve Campbell, Setsuko Hara & more…
TV
LOST
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The X-Files
Freaks & Geeks
Mad Men
Grey’s Anatomy
Pokémon
The Simpsons
Twin Peaks & more…
Favorites
The Criterion Collection
Kurosawa’s oeuvre
Exploitation & Trash
Not doing drugs & alcohol
The 2 O’s of Japanese cinema: Ozu and Oshima.
Roger Corman
6th Generation Chinese filmmakers
Ridley Scott’s early science-fiction masterpieces
Early James Cameron
Classic slasher franchises
Silent Horror
Pinku Eiga
Montreal’s Blue Sunshine
Horror Journalism
Kevin Smith’s Askewniverse
Harmony Korine’s hipster everything
Masaki Kobayashi and his 9h mammoth
Charlie Chaplin
Richard Linklater’s first films
The Marvel Universe
Penguin book covers
Redheads
& much more.
Read away.
