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He was trained as an actor at W.E. Scott Theatre in Fort Worth in 1991 and moved to Long Beach California where he trained as an professional actor with Diane Salinger (Simone from Tim Burton's Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure.) Cole appeared on set in many films and on screen including Frank Darabont's, The Majestic (2001) with Jim Carrey and was on set with Dustin Hoffman in Moonlight Mile (2002) directed by Brad Silberling.
He was invited to study with the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City at The New School University in Cohort 8, the school Bradley Cooper attended.
He has performed in various theatres Dallas and Fort Worth including the famous Hip Pocket Theatre and The Dallas Children's Theatre.
Cole has performed as a Shakespearean actor in Calabasas, and worked with AFI prodigy and director Drake Doremus in a play called House Divided on the stage that housed the Orange County Crazies in Orange County, California. Cole moved to New York City to attend the Actors Studio Drama school after being accepted by Dean James Lipton, the host of Bravo's Inside The Actors Studio 2001-02.
In New York City, Cole performed at the 13th Street Repertory Company and read for an original play.
Cole worked with the Sage and Silo theatre in Fort Worth and later for various community theatres through out Dallas and Fort Worth including Hip Pocket Theatre. He worked with The Puritan Players (2013-2017) on several plays as an actor; a Christian drama group that performed in W.E. Scott Theatre in Fort Worth, Brownley in Garland and at a church in Austin, Texas.
Cole was seen as Russian Security guard #2 in Ely Bam and Gabriella Corvina, short film Butterfly (2018 which premiered at Landmark's Magnolia Theatre in Dallas.
He now operates Drive Film Productions of Texas and has published plays, radio shows, music and more on soundcloud. He is a self published author and poet on Fanfiction and Fictionpress as Ash Cole.
Reviews
This Sporting Life (1963)
Look Back in Rugby
This Sporting Life (1963) directed by Linsay Anderson made the criterion collection and is an all time underrated drama following a rising rugby star in Northern England in the 1960. Richard Harris, stockier and buff than usual delivers an amazing Brando-esque performance. The direction by legendary Anderson: If....(1968) Oh Lucky Man (1973) and tele play of Look Back in Anger (1985) reveals a rustic, drab look of a suburban town in Wakedield and the shadow of an injured soul and rugged minor turned sportsman trying to find terra firma among a bog of despairing socialites.
The Time That Remains (2009)
The Time Used Wisely
The Time That Remains is a cinematic marvel about war, family and love. Elia Suleiman with his brilliant comic timing accompanied with visually arresting portraits of Israel and yesteryear's Holyland, exposes his personality for the screen. An art house film with all the fixings especially history, cultural entanglement and humanity during a time of great duress. The story depicts a land that has passed us by but memories remain in dialogue, tradition and repetition. A true masterpiece. X
Compares to the scope and depth and landscape of great cinema like Roma, the humor of Dr. Strangelove and the ingenious of the Coen Brothers.
El abrazo de la serpiente (2015)
A brilliant jungle mission cinematic masterpiece
Embrace the Serpent (2015) is a jungle mission tale and international film by the genius of Columbian director Ciro Guerra, co-written with Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Set in the jungles of South America, an Amazonian shaman known as Karamakate, well played by actor Nilbio Torres, leads two scientists, played by Belgium actor Jan Bijvoet and Brionne Davis, an actor actually from from Paris, Texas. The scientists follow a shaman on a quest to uncover the secrets of a rare, white healing flower known as yakruna.
Jan Bivoet plays Theo, who is struck by deathly illness from the jungle and needs the flower for healing. Briones Davis plays Evan who is an ethnographer who occasionally spins his antique style record player in the midst of the jungle night for relaxation. The story is at times a bit kooky by filled with humanity and important homage to Columbian native culture. One uniqueness of the story reveals a younger and older version of the shaman Karamakate. It is based over journals created through a forty year span.
The film premiered on May 15th at 2015 Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight section where it earned the acclaim of the Art Cinema Award. The film is told in black and white with carefull attention to masterful stoicism and crafted cinematography revealing a unique fashion as black and white cinematic piece and with auteur hands uncovering moments from the travels diaries, spanning over 40 years, of Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evan's Shultes. In ways it is similar to the masterpieces and cinematic triumphs of Roland Joffe' film The Mission (1986) and Alfonso Cuaro'n's Roma (2018).
The end reveals actual photography from the travels of the two scientists.
A masterpiece with unique heartfelt personality. Brilliant.
El abrazo de la serpiente (2015)
A brilliant jungle mission cinematic masterpiece
Embrace the Serpent (2015) is a jungle mission tale and international film by the genius of Columbian director Ciro Guerra, co-written with Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Set in the jungles of South America, an Amazonian shaman known as Karamakate, well played by actor Nilbio Torres, leads two scientists, played by Belgium actor Jan Bijvoet and Brionne Davis, an actor actually from from Paris, Texas. The scientists follow a shaman on a quest to uncover the secrets of a rare, white healing flower known as yakruna.
Jan Bivoet plays Theo, who is struck by deathly illness from the jungle and needs the flower for healing. Briones Davis plays Evan who is an ethnographer who occasionally spins his antique style record player in the midst of the jungle night for relaxation. The story is at times a bit kooky by filled with humanity and important homage to Columbian native culture. One uniqueness of the story reveals a younger and older version of the shaman Karamakate. It is based over journals created through a forty year span.
The film premiered on May 15th at 2015 Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight section where it earned the acclaim of the Art Cinema Award. The film is told in black and white with carefull attention to masterful stoicism and crafted cinematography revealing a unique fashion as black and white cinematic piece and with auteur hands uncovering moments from the travels diaries, spanning over 40 years, of Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evan's Shultes. In ways it is similar to the masterpieces and cinematic triumphs of Roland Joffe' film The Mission (1986) and Alfonso Cuaro'n's Roma (2018).
The end reveals actual photography from the travels of the two scientists.
A masterpiece with unique heartfelt personality. Brilliant.
Le locataire (1976)
The tenant is genius
Roman Polanski is one of our finest and masterful international filmmakers and has proven his worth in every film he has crafted. None of his works are as auteur as The Tenant which was crafted in 1976, with the beloved star Shelly Winters and other gifted actors. Like many of Polanski's work he is dealing with extreme exclusiveness, paranoia and disillusionment. Polanski commonly deals with protagonist being ostracized in some form or fashion and this chosen character must struggle with acceptance. This makes sense because he is a holocaust survivor and witness to the brutal capture of his Jewish parents. Not many filmmakers have witnessed suffering as much as Roman Polanski has in his childhood and early years, and this is proven in his interpretation of humanity and creation of stories. Polanski often deals with a secret society and a group that could possibly be compared to a coven.
The Tenant focuses more on the protagonist slowly falling into madness due to a psychological possession from a previous female tenant's persona. Because of the protagonist's isolation he begins to drift off a bit from his own reality and adopts a new gender in dressing up as a woman and appearing as the female that lived in the place before him. He even goes to the extreme to by a wig at a nearby Paris wig shop. At times he wears a woman's dress and make up.
In every Polanski film, the director of photography always reveals a stoic quality to every room and angle of person or more like persona revealed. I have never seen a Polanski film that did not have creative and brilliant cinematography, as well as story. The Tenant, reveals more of Polanski's masterful eye as an auteur artist and photographer of human life, human story and humanness behavior, and humanity is at the center of every action and word and in the essence of every moment. Polanski has mastered filmmaker beyond most in the world today and should be highly regarded as the key study of any future filmmaker. The Tenant is sure proof of masterful creativeness.
The tenant reveals many aspects of life. One, being the new place, or pad, as many say. Roman reveals this new nook as the introduction of the story. Trelkovsky is a bachelor bureaucrat looking for a new place to live in Paris and finds it with the help of an old moody couple, and landlords, that hates the slightest bit of noise. He finds himself walking on eggshells nearly and keeping the noise down, when he occasionally throws a party. One day, strangely enough, Trelkovsky finds a tooth in a hole in the wall plugged by wool cotton and begins to slowly take on the persona of the previous tenant, who jumped over the balcony and later died in nearby hospital, shortly after Trevlkovsky visits her with flowers of sympathy. Later, this previous female tenant is used as a host for his on psyche and a future home as well.
Many mysterious plot points unfold and after a few wild dates and nights on town Trelkovsky begins to fall deeper into his disillusion. One night, Trelkovsky is struck by a car, which is out of place and he is secured by the passerbys. He is given a sedative in a nearby shop by a strange doctor and then rushed back to his bachelor pad by the onlookers.
He is drug in from the streets to his place by witnesses of his accident. The Concierge (played by the genius of Shelly Winters) watches as he is brought in, who represents a lifeline and possible connection to a caring, doting mother, from the early frames of the masterpiece.
In many scenes, a small crowd will hover over him, and a mouse eyed lens affect arises and paranoia follows. The ending is very theatrical and like Rosemary's Baby, climatic and reveals a circus nature like a Felini film with a hint of Hitchcock's Rear Window. It is a bit shocking and absurd. I enjoy the absurdist, but Polanski keeps you grounded to realism, even though supernatural vibes lie underneath it all.
The Tenant (1976) is the reason I go to the cinema and filmmakers with this type of creative and unique personality printed on the silver-screen, is the only reason to watch his mad genius at play. Polanski never fails as a director, writer and even actor. The acting in this film is powerful and especially from Roman Polanski. He is believable in every breath and stoic action before and behind the camera. Nothing about Polanski is false, especially The Tenant.
The Tenant is a masterpiece. Do not miss it, if you love the cinema. ***** (my highest rating is a five star.)
Still (2018)
Still is inventive and uniquely works
For an indie film, Still (2018) reveals a unique twist on the fountain of youth, and exploration of the Appalachian trail with hilly billy moonshiners involved in a menage a trois, unrequited love affair and steamy romance hits it out of the park with great gusto. The story is told in the present and past interweaving a subplot both concerning a mysterious healing water from a magical well deep in the forest in a hidden cave. Doscher's direction deals with the supernatural in a realistic way; using magical realism. The acting is flawless and the soundtrack matches the passion of the players with synchronicity. Great direction by Takashi Doscher.
Better Call Saul (2015)
Better Caul A Masterpiece
The best motion picture show since Orson Welles Citizen Kane.
England Is Mine (2017)
Very charming.
A classic early bio pic and character study of the best songwriter of the 20th Century and beyond. Important look inside the legends pre-career or early days.
Last Days in the Desert (2015)
Last Days in the Desert
The film is fiction. I don't think Jesus was written with a supernatural significance. Jesus Christ is the son of God. In this story, Christ was written as a holy man and never really identified as the son of God. I did like the humanity of the acting and the writing revealed humane qualities. The film needed the resurrection. It didn't have a faith based message without the resurrection. Christ lived a man's life and he died on the cross for our sins and was resurrected. The resurrection was left out, which gave it a stale ending. The resurrection is just as important as the crucifixion. I didn't like the fact that Jesus did not revive the old man (father). Jesus never let anything die around him. He walked in life and all death was resurrected around him. He was a man to bring death back to life. This was missing. I did not like that the director left that out. I don't consider it a Christian film, although it was interesting. Needs resurrecting.