Movies: Daniel Kremer

  • 2023
    It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point

    It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023)

    It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point

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    Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary but controversial counterculture art film Zabriskie Point (1970) into the same narrative...

    It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
  • 2024
    Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

    Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024)

    Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

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    Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as a "one-hit wonder" director. Upon closer inspection, however, likely no other filmmaker used cinema...

    Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
  • 2022
    Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision

    Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision (2022)

    Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision

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    What do the movies First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's have in common? One man with a clear and curious thematic focus, that's what. Ted Kotcheff is an auteur filmmaker. He is a director with a unifying style, a clear thematic concern, and a coherent...

    Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision
  • 2018
    Torch

    Torch (2018)

    Torch

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    Clara grew up in the Belize jungles but was sent to live in San Francisco after a childhood trauma. Her older boyfriend, Gabriel encourages a trip back to her jungle home. Once arriving, the familiar faces and tropic environment fills Clara with hope...

    Torch
  • 2022
    The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972

    The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 (2022)

    The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972

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    Between One Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Godfather (1972), Marlon Brando appeared in twelve feature films. The actor called this period his "F*** You Years" and it was during this time that his on-set behavior hit erratic and unpredictable new heights. ...

    The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
  • 2012
    A Simple Game of Catch

    A Simple Game of Catch (2012)

    A Simple Game of Catch

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    A young woman named Emily has just arrived in New York from Pittsburgh and has recently changed her name to Chazz. Jobless, she responds to an ad involving parrot-sitting for a Manhattanite going out of town, and must weather the emotional repercussi...

    A Simple Game of Catch
  • 2007
    Sophisticated Acquaintance

    Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007)

    Sophisticated Acquaintance

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    Mixing elements of narrative, experimental, pseudo-documentary and essayist cinema, Sophisticated Acquaintance tells the story of a tormented individual whose short life and long death were affected by a great many factors. Klaus Mann (John Gross), a...

    Sophisticated Acquaintance
  • 2022
    Faultline

    Faultline (2022)

    Faultline

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    A ten-year drought brings local ranches to the brink of disaster. The search for Bert Neville takes its toll on Rail and Mitra. They break up and Rail continues on alone. Travis, Ziggy and Karin hitchhike in high country and get lost in a burnt out f...

    Faultline
  • 2016
    Love Twice

    Love Twice (2016)

    Love Twice

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    "What do you do when the spark touches down-brief and hot?" So begins award-winning director Rob Nilsson's (Permission to Touch, MVFF 2015; A Bridge to a Border, MVFF 2014) provocative meditation on the Möbius relationship of fiction to reality, and ...

    Love Twice
  • 2022
    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes (2022)

    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

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    A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and sexual mores, in life and in cinema, and how these "codes" (in partnership with a production Code, capital C, which was almost antediluvian in terms of sexual politics) molded and then trapped ...

    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
  • 2015
    Raise Your Kids on Seltzer

    Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015)

    Raise Your Kids on Seltzer

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    A husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them....

    Raise Your Kids on Seltzer
  • 2019
    Overwhelm the Sky

    Overwhelm the Sky (2019)

    Overwhelm the Sky

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    Eddie Huntly, an east coast radio personality, moves to San Francisco to marry Thea, the sister of his best friend Neil, a successful entrepreneur. Shortly before Eddie's arrival, Neil is found murdered in what the police surmise was a simple mugging...

    Overwhelm the Sky
  • 2011
    The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour

    The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011)

    The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour

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    Max Plugin is a jaded but flamboyant relic of the 1960s. In his teens, Max ran away to California, where he met Teschlock, a charismatic ascetic and guru renowned among a small group of young followers. At that time, when Teschlock asked Max to join ...

    The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour
  • 2022
    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures

    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures (2022)

    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures

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    Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never fully part of it, cementing his reputation instead with films like Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Zazie dans le Metro (1960), and Murmur of the Heart (1971)...

    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
  • 2023
    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur (2023)

    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

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    Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many iconic American films: Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), The Boys from Brazil (1978), and others. Though he was an often enigmatically quiet but no less confident and decis...

    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
  • 2023
    Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount

    Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount (2023)

    Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount

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    Canadian-born filmmaker Sidney J. Furie made his name with British hits like The Young Ones (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), and The Ipcress File (1965). When he arrived in Hollywood, Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra wreaked havoc on his first major s...

    Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
  • 2022
    Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky

    Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky (2022)

    Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky

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    John G. Avildsen has only recently cemented his reputation as the "king of the underdogs," owing to his having directed both Rocky (1976) and The Karate Kid (1984). Within the last decade, a feature-length biographical documentary was released and a ...

    Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky
  • 2024
    Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

    Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director (2024)

    Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

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    We all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know the history of Jack Nicholson the screenwriter, and especially Jack Nicholson the director. Nicholson's lifelong friend, filmmaker Henry Jaglom, reflects on the icon's behind-the-camera career, while...

    Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
  • 2018
    Drive Me to Vegas and Mars

    Drive Me to Vegas and Mars (2018)

    Drive Me to Vegas and Mars

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    Cowboy, a senior citizen ex-lawyer and gambler, is persuaded by his spunky seventeen year old neighbor, Rachel, to seek retribution for having been cheated in Las Vegas many years ago. So begins a wild adventure that marks a young girl's rite of pass...

    Drive Me to Vegas and Mars
  • 2017
    Summer Sacrament

    Summer Sacrament (2017)

    Summer Sacrament

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    During one fateful summer, Richie is forced to deal with his mom's deportation and prepare for his First Holy Communion as a Catholic while living with a caring adoptive family whose young son becomes Richie's closest friend and support....

    Summer Sacrament