Ron Vawter Movies
- 1989
Volcano Saga
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This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman...
- 1977
Sudden Death
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When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses,...
- 1989
Used Innocence
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Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia...
- 1992
Buying a Landslide
Buying a Landslide01992HD
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky...
- 1980
Empty Suitcases
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Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...
- 1987
Arena Brains
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A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s...
- 1995
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
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When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related...
- 1983
King Blank
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Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of...
- 2014
Rumstick Road
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A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater performance created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth...
- 1984
Atalanta Strategy
Atalanta Strategy01984HD
The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.
- 1990
Postcards
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A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the...
- 1992
Mastergate
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A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate...
- 1970
Minus Zero
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A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
- 1992
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
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Recorded during the initial run of the Obie Award-winning ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, this video documents the seminal performance piece as it was first...
- 1994
The Last Time I Saw Ron
The Last Time I Saw Ron01994HD
Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations,"...