What is cool? Where does it come from? What does it look like? How do you get it?How do you define it? What is your definition of cool?

My name is Dan Gennoe. I am a London-based writer and journalist. My work has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Arena, Q, Mojo, FHM, Front, Red, Time Out, Voyager, Flipside, Notion, Seven, Juice, Making Music, Dotmusic, Yahoo! Music, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, The Mail On Sunday’s Live Magazine and many, many other strange places. I have written on all aspects of lifestyle and pop culture from music to vintage film posters, I've ghosted celebrity memoirs and am currently working on several book projects, including one relating to my lifelong fascination with the concept of cool.

This right here is my random collection of images, quotes, links and musings on the subject. It's not meant to be a definitive list, just bits and pieces that I like and that I think are cool.


Posts tagged Cool on film


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Nov 3, 2011
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Brilliantly atmospheric short film/longform advert from Epoch films, directed by Martin De Thurah, for BLK DNM clothing brand. Very cool, very stylish, referencing and evoking lots of very cool, very stylish films, most obviously, The Conversation, The Lives Of Others, Three Days Of The Condor and Rear Window. A full 15 minute version of the film can be found here.


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Nov 1, 2011
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Trailer for Gary Hustwit’s new film, Urbanized. Gary’s previous films, Objectified and the legendary Helvetica, are well worth seeing, so I have high hopes for this one. Not only does Gary make films about very cool things - cities, design, typefaces (what? typefaces are cool!) - the films themselves are also very cool, very stylish.


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Oct 31, 2011
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Short video promo for the Design Museum’s Dieter Rams exhibition, Less And More from a couple of years ago. 


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Oct 31, 2011
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Short interview film with Dieter Rams on his designs, many of which inspired Apple’s Jony Ive’s designs, including the iPod and iMac.


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Oct 31, 2011
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Trailer for the upcoming film Coast Modern which looks at the mid-century modernist architecture from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Should be amazing.


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Oct 31, 2011
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Trailer for new Eames film.