Amos Poe
Also Known As: Амос По
Biography: Amos Poe, born Amos Jay Porges, is a quintessential New York independent filmmaker. He was a key figure in the emergence of the No Wave cinema movement that evolved from the punk music scene and flourished from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s on New York's Lower East Side.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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Birthday: January 01, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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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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The Foreigner
Overview: A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Overview: A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Overview: the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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Subway Riders
Overview: A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Smithereens
Overview: A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-11
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Downtown '81
Overview: The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-13
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HoLEY
Overview: During a visit to New York from Egypt, Mark, a 32-year-old Orthodox Christian, decides to lose his virginity, facing all the cultural and religious restrictions that have shaped his character. After a failed blind date, Mark is persuaded by his friends to seek something other than a soul mate. Their solution? A prostitute.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-08-11
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Hunter
Overview: Two friends vie for the attention of a stranger who passes out at their doorstep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-27
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TV Party
Overview: From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge of civility and "sub-realism" as Glenn would put it. Walter Steding and his TV Party "Orchestra" provided a musical accompaniment to the madness at hand, and many artists and musicians, from The Clash, Nile Rodgers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bryne and Arto Lindsey were regular guests. It was the cocktail party that could be a political party. With 80 hours of disintegrating 3/4 inch videotape as a starting point, we tracked down the trend setting participants still living today and found out what they remember of the period and how the show influenced their lives. This, combined with clips from the orginal show, became the documentary "TV Party.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-03
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Stiletto
Overview: A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets of a broken-up time sense. In this emulation of film noir, the investigative structure does not create suspense; the dialectic murderer/victim does not exist. The crime is fabricated bit by bit, like the staging of a spectacle, and it is in the traditional tools of seduction (the spiked heels) that the weapons will be hidden. Ultimately, the crime Nadja achieves makes her neither a triumphant heroine nor a victim.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-30
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Cinématon XVII
Overview: Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-04
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