Thom Andersen Movies

  • 2004
    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

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    From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...

    Los Angeles Plays Itself
  • 1984
    Class Relations

    Class Relations

    Class Relations

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    A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

    Class Relations
  • 1975
    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

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    Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection....

    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
  • 2011
    Twenty Cigarettes

    Twenty Cigarettes

    Twenty Cigarettes

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    Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES....

    Twenty Cigarettes
  • 2014
    The Tony Longo Trilogy

    The Tony Longo Trilogy

    The Tony Longo Trilogy

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    Although he has been limited to bit parts, the actor Tony Longo is an axiom of American action cinema: the giant who is too soft-hearted for the job....

    The Tony Longo Trilogy
  • 2019
    The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built

    The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built

    The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built

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    A journey across unique places that challenge the world of their time, landmarks of the future built by revolutionary minds that can be described,...

    The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
  • 1996
    Red Hollywood

    Red Hollywood

    Red Hollywood

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    A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in...

    Red Hollywood
  • 2011
    Maurice

    Maurice

    Maurice

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    A short documentary portrait of Maurice Laroche, owner and projectionist of the 'Beverley', the last Porno Cinema in Paris.

    Maurice
  • 2010
    Get Out of the Car

    Get Out of the Car

    Get Out of the Car

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    A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished...

    Get Out of the Car
  • 2016
    A Train Arrives at the Station

    A Train Arrives at the Station

    A Train Arrives at the Station

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    “This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There...

    A Train Arrives at the Station
  • 1965
    Melting

    Melting

    Melting

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    Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The...

    Melting
  • 2015
    The Thoughts That Once We Had

    The Thoughts That Once We Had

    The Thoughts That Once We Had

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    One of America’s foremost practitioners of the essay film presents a major new work inspired by the writings of Gilles Deleuze on cinema....

    The Thoughts That Once We Had
  • 2012
    Reconversion

    Reconversion

    Reconversion

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    With Reconversão (Reconversion), Thom Andersen opens another fascinating chapter of his ongoing investigation of architectural landscapes,...

    Reconversion
  • 2015
    Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams

    Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams

    Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams

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    Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself, Red Hollywood) reconsiders the films of Spencer Williams, the pioneering African American screenwriter,...

    Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
  • 1974
    Olivia's Place

    Olivia's Place

    Olivia's Place

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    Olivia may have felt no need to change, but the world around her was not bound by such an impractical sentiment. Olivia’s Place is gone. The...

    Olivia's Place
  • 1964
    Act Without Words

    Act Without Words

    Act Without Words

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    Andersen's first extant work as a filmmaker, made as group project while he was a film student at the University of Southern California. A spirited...

    Act Without Words
  • 2015
    California Sun

    California Sun

    California Sun

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    A “music video” to accompany the Farmingdale Sound Machine version of “California Sun,” originally recorded by the Rivieras....

    California Sun
  • 1967
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    A documentary about rock 'n' roll. The Canned Heat, City Lights, Seeds of Time, LA Tymes, Llyn Foulkes, Charlie Watts, Chris & Craig, Duke of Earl,...

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