Becky Johnston
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: South Haven, MI, USA
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Gender: Female
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Blank City
Overview: In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-06
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Be Mine
Overview: A gay man is about to be married. He thinks back to when he was a kissing virgin, waiting for the right person with whom to have that first kiss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-28
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Lightning Over Water
Overview: Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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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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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Overview: A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt with being a black artist in a predominantly white field. The film also explores Basquiat's rise in the art world, which led to a close relationship with Andy Warhol, and looks at how the young painter coped with acclaim, scrutiny and fame.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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Men in Orbit
Overview: 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 New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-10
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Dear Jimmy
Overview: How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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