Eric Mitchell Movies

  • 1979
    Sleepless Nights

    Sleepless Nights

    Sleepless Nights

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    New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie...

    Sleepless Nights
  • 1981
    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

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    A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
  • 1978
    Dear Jimmy

    Dear Jimmy

    Dear Jimmy

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    How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.

    Dear Jimmy
  • 1979
    Minus Zero

    Minus Zero

    Minus Zero

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    A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.

    Minus Zero
  • 1978
    Rome '78

    Rome '78

    Rome '78

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    Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...

    Rome '78
  • 1978
    The Scenic Route

    The Scenic Route

    The Scenic Route

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    An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...

    The Scenic Route
  • 1981
    Only You

    Only You

    Only You

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    In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic)...

    Only You
  • 1979
    Men in Orbit

    Men in Orbit

    Men in Orbit

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    A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...

    Men in Orbit
  • 1977
    Snakewoman

    Snakewoman

    Snakewoman

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    Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.

    Snakewoman
  • 1978
    Bikers or Vanity in Leather

    Bikers or Vanity in Leather

    Bikers or Vanity in Leather

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    1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...

    Bikers or Vanity in Leather
  • 1978
    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

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    Eric Mitchell's debut film, shot in Super 8, stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip "poseurs," talking...

    Kidnapped
  • 1982
    A Matter of Facts

    A Matter of Facts

    A Matter of Facts

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    Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter...

    A Matter of Facts