John Cameron Mitchell
Also Known As: John Mitchell
Biography: American writer, director, actor. Mitchell, the son of a U.S. Army general and a Scottish mother, grew up on various army bases, including Berlin; later the family lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he attended a Catholic school. Since the mid-1980s, he has worked as a theatre actor and director in New York City and played small roles in television and film productions. Among other things, he directed a play by Tennessee Williams. From 1991, he appeared in the original Broadway production of Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's musical adaptation of The Secret Garden, which won several Tony Awards. In the early 1990s, together with musician Stephen Trask, he developed the character of Hedwig, a transgender rock musician who grew up in East Berlin, for performances in the New York drag bar Squeezebox. This led to the successful Off-Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 1998, which won two Obie Awards, and three years later to the film version of the musical, again with himself in the title role. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Director's and Audience Awards, and the play won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award. At the 2002 Chlotrudis Awards, he won the prize for best leading actor. At the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in 2001, the film was shown in the ‘PANORAMA’ section and won the Teddy Award. In 2003, he produced the film Tarnation by Jonathan Caouette, which was honoured as best documentary film by the US National Society of Film Critics, among others. In 2004, Mitchell shot the music video for the Scissor Sisters' single Filthy/Gorgeous with stars from the New York drag scene. The clip was not shown on American MTV due to its explicit sexual depictions. IMDb minii bio by; yusufpiskin
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, United States
Birthday: April 21, 1963
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Band of the Hand
Overview: An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-11
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Overview: Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-20
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One More Saturday Night
Overview: The problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get dates for a Saturday night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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Book of Love
Overview: John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, her bullying boyfriend. With the help of his pals Crutch, Floyd, and Spider, he makes every attempt possible to change her mind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Overview: A musical documentary celebrating the life and work of glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan, combined with a behind-the-scenes look at the tribute album of the same name.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-14
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Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Overview: Documentary about the creation of the stage musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and its subsequent film adaptation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One
Overview: Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell pushes them toward escaping the ship-- and each other. "Nation of One" is written by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask (creators of Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and will be found on part two of the benefit album "New American Dream" by John Cameron Mitchell and Friends.
Genres: Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-29
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Overview: The audience is watching genderqueer rock singer Hedwig Robinson's musical act as she follows rockstar Tommy Gnosis' (much more successful) tour around the country. Occasionally Hedwig opens a door onstage to listen to Gnosis's concert, which is playing in an adjoining venue. Gnosis is recovering from an incident that nearly ruined his career, having crashed his car into a school bus while high and receiving oral sex from none other than Hedwig. Capitalizing on her notoriety from the incident, Hedwig determines to tell the audience her story.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-14
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Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Overview: This documentary explores the life of jazz singer Anita O'Day. As a child, Anita had a tonsillectomy, during which her uvula was accidentally removed. The surgery prevents her from singing vibrato and holding long notes, but lends to her much-revered percussive style. Anita overcomes her vocal hurdle, as well as many others -- including poverty, heroin addiction and jail time for a drug arrest -- to become one of the most prolific and respected jazz vocalists of the 20th century. Initial release: 30 April 2007
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-30
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Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
Overview: Eldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television and a gay icon for his generation. When Lance entered hospice in 2001 with a terminal HIV and hepatitis C co-infection, he asked original filmmakers Susan and Alan Raymond to film a final episode of the series. Lance reflects upon his days with Andy Warhol, his band The Mumps, a career as a writer and the experience of being the first reality TV star. It is a celebration of life and a cautionary tale.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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Impresario
Overview: With vintage footage, interviews, and Marc Huestis' own energy and humor at the center, Impresario is an homage to a San Francisco icon and one of the founders of Frameline.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-21
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The Hooping Life
Overview: Learn the origins and rise of modern day hula-hooping through eight extraordinary stories of hoop devotees who have embraced it as an art form, a teaching aid, and even an instrument of redemption. From the streets, to intimate clubs, to giant arenas, we alternate between self-filmed video diaries, verité documentary footage, and spectacularly filmed performances in an attempt to celebrate the healing power of movement and the spirit of human inventiveness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-22
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Totally Gay!
Overview: Totally Gay! is a 2003 television special on VH1 that discusses gay pop culture in the United States. The content of the show includes the hottest sitcoms (Will & Grace), newest gay icons (Kyle and Lane Carlson, who say they are not gay), and the most popular dog breed (pug). The somewhat light-hearted tone of the show was balanced at the end by narrator Trev Broudy discussing the assault that he had suffered shortly before the program was recorded, which left him with permanent brain damage. Totally Gay! was followed by a sequel in 2004 called Totally Gayer.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Overview: Over the years, Nicole Kidman, Oscar and two-time Emmy Award winner, became both a pop culture icon & a complex dramatic actress. Her career is a unique body of work that mirrors her personal life, which is more political than it might seem.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-10
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A Friendship in Vienna
Overview: Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-27
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Misplaced
Overview: The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-14
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Daybreak
Overview: When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Overview: The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-18
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Broadway: The Next Generation
Overview: A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Apparition of the Eternal Church
Overview: The movie captures the responses of 31 authors, musicians, filmmakers and dancers to Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work "Apparition of the Eternal Church." Listening to the 10-minute piece through headphones, the documentary subjects-most of whom are outsiders to the church and do not know what they're hearing-put Messiaen's project to the test: Is it possible to portray, through time-bound, invisible sound, the spiritual, the architectural, the eternal? The result is a collective interpretation improvising its way through an aesthetic landscape defined by violent contradictions. Resolution abuts eternity, eroticism asceticism, spiritual ecstasy physical torture. Together, the music and its interpreters conjure something like what William Blake famously called the marriage of heaven and hell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Overview: A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-12
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My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Overview: Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely-distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of a cover-up by the administration that puts the entire student body in danger.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Heaven Above Rowen
Overview: the mental unraveling of rowen, a religious leader who is faced with questions of identity and meaning as a prophesied revelation approaches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Overview: A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from the feature film. Director John Cameron Mitchell starts with the concept of using real sex in a film with a positive message. The cast of unknowns is selected from homemade audition tapes and then a callback audition workshop. More acting workshops are used to develop the characters and script. The project overcomes a number of obstacles and the rest of the film's development is followed up until its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-13
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The Stepford Children
Overview: Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-15
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David Searching
Overview: The story of a young gay man's search to find himself. David is a young, gay aspiring documentary filmmaker and takes his first tentative steps towards his adult life. His roommate, Gwen, after ending a mysterious marriage, is looking for stability. Together they try to manoeuvre their way through New York on a search for happiness. Instead, they find bad dates, worse job interviews and bizarre sexual encounters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-25
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The Roommate
Overview: Set in 1952, this tells of two young men who are polar opposites being assigned to the same dorm room at Northwestern University.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-20
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I Remember
Overview: Set and shot chronologically in natural light over one hour at dusk, I REMEMBER materialized out of this sense of intangible loss and a desire to hold on to memories that, however fleeting, give our lives meaning.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-24
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Overview: In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they navigate the complexities of intergalactic culture and the trials of first love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Girl 6
Overview: A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Danny Says
Overview: DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts including: the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, MC5, Nico, the Ramones and beyond.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Shortbus
Overview: In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
Overview: From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to curb potentially risky behaviors. Co-founder of both organization Gay Men's Health Crisis and the direct action protest group ACT UP, Kramer was vilified by some who saw his criticism to be an expression of self-hatred, while lionized by others who credit him with waking up the gay community — and, eventually, the government and medical establishment — to the devastation of the disease.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-29
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The Spark: The Origins of Pride
Overview: A story of the LGBT struggle from the 1960s to the present, after the Stonewall riot sparked the militant action in New York that was to spread around the world. From San Francisco to Paris via Amsterdam, between the first Gay Pride, the election of Harvey Milk, the French "decriminalization", the AIDS epidemic and the first homosexual marriages, these few decades of struggle are embodied through numerous testimonies of actors and actresses of this revolution rainbow.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-24
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Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Overview: The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal the greatest cult comedies and campy classics of all-time. From "Fast Time at Ridgemont High" and "Office Space" to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and "Showgirls."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-23
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The Dreamer of Oz
Overview: The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz.
Genres: Family Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-10
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Lisbon
Overview: A broke queer man agrees to an intimate meeting with an older man for cash, only to be confronted with an unexpected and harrowing request that forces him to grapple with life, death, and his own morality.
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Original Language: en
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