Alex Ross Perry
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alex Ross Perry is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He graduated from NYU's film program in 2006. Perry's first feature, Impolex, premiered in 2009. Made on a budget of $15,000 and shot on 16mm film stock, the film is an absurdist comedy inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. Perry's second feature, The Color Wheel, premiered at festivals in 2011. The film, a dark screwball comedy influenced by the work of Philip Roth, was co-written by Perry with Carlen Altman; the two also played the lead roles in the film.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: July 14, 1984
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Gender: Male
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Kim's Video
Overview: Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks to Kim's Video, a small empire run by Yongman Kim, an enigmatic character who amassed more than fifty thousand VHS tapes.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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Alex Ross Perry
Overview: Interview with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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The Color Wheel
Overview: JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history from which they have long since diverged.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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Green
Overview: A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-22
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The Last Film
Overview: A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Overview: Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Music Box Theatre" depicts filmmakers Werner Herzog, Lana Wachowski, Michael Shannon, Joe Swanberg, and more as they celebrate a 90-year-old cinema institution in Chicago, IL.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-07
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Tiny Furniture
Overview: After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Happy Life
Overview: New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the early '90's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-11
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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At the Video Store
Overview: Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Joshy
Overview: After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him. Focused on drugs and their own hangups, his self-absorbed friends refuse to confront the elephant in the room and ask Josh how he’s feeling. As welcome and unwelcome guests stop by, Josh will attempt to find some closure over this weekend with the guys.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-12
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Devil Town
Overview: A young woman's sister goes missing. She then sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her on her own, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-16
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7 Chinese Brothers
Overview: Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-14
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Honky Kong
Overview: A soul-battered New York chef begins unraveling during a trip to Hong Kong.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-06
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Impolex
Overview: Impolex tells the story of Tyrone S., a United States soldier in Operation Paperclip, the mission to locate and retrieve German rockets and rocket science after the end of World War II. Tyrone is tasked with finding what he believes are the last V-2’s. Lost in the woods of an undefined European country, people from Tyrone’s past begin to appear in unusual ways, bearing strange tidings. A loved one he abandoned for the war is especially prominent in Tyrone’s journey, as is a fellow soldier and a mysterious man with tidings of the present and the future that are not yet known to Tyrone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-11
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Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
Overview: In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the ever-iconoclastic auteur Paul Schrader during the making of his 2017 masterpiece First Reformed. On set and at home- where, for his own pleasure, he continues to work and rework his previous films- Schrader reflects on the highs and lows of his legendary career, the challenges and rewards of slow cinema, and the influences and experiences that continue to shape his approach to filmmaking. With this insightful portrait of one of his filmmaking heroes, Perry captures an artist who is continually at play, intentionally provocative, and never less than vital.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-26
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Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
Overview: Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-23
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An Almost Christmas Story
Overview: A young owl meets a lost little girl in New York City. Together, they try to get home for Christmas.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-14
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Pavements
Overview: Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.
Genres: Comedy Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-04
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Not Getting Stoned with Alex Ross Perry
Overview: Caveh gets stoned but Alex Ross Perry doesn't.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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