Ron Vawter
Biography: Ron Vawter (December 9, 1948 – April 16, 1994) was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Vawter performed in most of the group's works until his death from a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 45.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 09, 1948
Deathday: April 16, 1994
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991-02-14
The Silence of the Lambs
Overview: Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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sex, lies, and videotape
1989-08-04
sex, lies, and videotape
Overview: Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-04
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Fat Man and Little Boy
1989-10-20
Fat Man and Little Boy
Overview: Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Philadelphia
1993-12-22
Philadelphia
Overview: Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1991-08-18
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
Overview: Three short stories about women & men relationship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-18
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Buying a Landslide
1992-09-02
Buying a Landslide
Overview: Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne, ex Democrat turned Republican. But Tyne is alarmed by an unexpected twist in the Partin campaign and reacts in devastating fashion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Plymouth
1991-05-26
Plymouth
Overview: The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work. Their first big test comes in the form of a wave of radiation from a massive solar flare.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
1995-08-04
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Overview: When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-04
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Made in Hollywood
1990-10-20
Made in Hollywood
Overview: Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of television and cinema. Quoting from a catalogue of popular styles and sources, from TV commercials to The Wizard of Oz, the Yonemotos construct a parable of the Hollywood image-making industry from a pastiche of narrative cliches: A small-town ingenue goes West to find her dream and loses her innocence; the patriarch of a Hollywood studio nears death; a New York couple seeks screenwriting fame and fortune in the movies. With deadpan humor and hyperbolic visual stylization, the Yonemotos layer artifice upon artifice, constructing an image-world where reality and representation, truth and simulation, are meaningless distinctions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Fresh Kill
1996-01-12
Fresh Kill
Overview: Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-12
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Volcano Saga
1989-01-01
Volcano Saga
Overview: 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 whose dreams foretell the future.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
1992-01-01
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
Overview: 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 seen by New York audiences. In its first half, Ron Vawter, following a script by Gary Indiana, conjures an after-dinner speech as it might have been delivered by notorious right wing political figure and closeted gay man Roy Cohn, as he addresses “The American Association for the Protection of the Family”. In its second half, Vawter re-emerges on stage in flamboyant costume as fiercely queer performance art pioneer, Jack Smith. Together, the two portraits present a complex, incisive, and discomforting view of queer identities as they collide with American culture. – Anthology Film Archives
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Landscape Suicide
1987-09-17
Landscape Suicide
Overview: Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Protti was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-17
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The Last Time I Saw Ron
1994-01-01
The Last Time I Saw Ron
Overview: Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations," directed by Jan Ritsema and co-authored by Ritsema and Vawter. It was produced by the Kaaitheater in Brussels. All of the images in this video were originally created for the play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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White Homeland Commando
1993-03-04
White Homeland Commando
Overview: White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based cop shows, White Homeland Commando offers a straightforward story: four members of a special police unit investigate and infiltrate a New York-based white supremacist organization. But that is where the commonplace ends. The teleplay is shot and edited in a highly textured visual style, the colors are subdued yet somehow garish, and the sound is deliberately just out of sync with the speaker's lips. Occasional static combines with jumps in the plot — the editing is reminiscent of a television viewer flipping channels.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-04
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The Machine That Killed Bad People
1990-02-14
The Machine That Killed Bad People
Overview: The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines leading up to the overthrow of President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. It also addresses the role of electronic media in the struggle for power, and more broadly, American intervention in the Third World. Using a structure that emulates the way television news programs construct meaning through fragmentation, the tape interweaves clips of Filipino activists and reporters, a fictional television anchorwoman and correspondent, commentary by independent filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha, Fagin's off-camera voice and script, and anonymous excerpts from commercial television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-14
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Rumstick Road
2014-05-01
Rumstick Road
Overview: A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater performance created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte after the suicide of Gray's mother. Archival recordings are combined with photographs, slides, and other materials to recreate the original production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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Arena Brains
1987-10-01
Arena Brains
Overview: 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 New York City, satirizing the neuroses and eccentricities of this milieu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Used Innocence
1989-02-22
Used Innocence
Overview: Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia Bembenek, aka "Bambi", former "Playboy bunny" turned cop, turned accused and convicted killer who disappeared after a daring escape from prison. The film shows the evolution of Benning's and Bembenek's relationship presented through their actual letters read in voice over which depict the filmmaker's curiosity with the subject as it evolves from intrigue to a love obsession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-22
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Mastergate
1992-11-01
Mastergate
Overview: A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Swoon
1992-09-11
Swoon
Overview: Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Brace Up!
1993-04-01
Brace Up!
Overview: The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Anna Kohler, Beatrice Roth, Ron Vawter, and Willem Dafoe. This presentation of the 2003 production of BRACE UP!, designed by Ken Kobland and LeCompte, incorporates close-up recordings of the performers simultaneously with continuous wide-angle footage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Johnny Suede
1991-08-18
Johnny Suede
Overview: A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-18
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Strong Medicine
1981-11-25
Strong Medicine
Overview: Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-25
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
1991-12-04
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Overview: Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1991-12-04
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Sudden Death
1977-05-01
Sudden Death
Overview: When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ruthless "syndicate of businessmen" intent on raping a South Pacific Islands nation of its resources keep the pace fast.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Internal Affairs
1990-01-12
Internal Affairs
Overview: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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Born in Flames
1983-04-01
Born in Flames
Overview: In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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King Blank
1983-03-10
King Blank
Overview: 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 psychotic delusion and his immigrant wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-10
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King of the Hill
1993-08-20
King of the Hill
Overview: Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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Twister
1989-06-30
Twister
Overview: An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter and her precocious 8 year old daughter, his would-be artist son, the son's fiancée, and the black maid. Also thrown into the mix is the daughter's ex-husband, a ne-er-do-well who is seeking to get back in his ex-wife's good graces.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-30
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Atalanta Strategy
1984-01-01
Atalanta Strategy
Overview: The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Postcards
1990-02-18
Postcards
Overview: A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the mail. Misunderstandings arise; passion subsides; romance fades... Yet the postcards keep on coming.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-18
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Empty Suitcases
1980-01-01
Empty Suitcases
Overview: Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of representation and identification in cinema."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Minus Zero
Minus Zero
Overview: A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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