John Lurie
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Biography: John Lurie (born December 14, 1952) is an American musician, painter, actor, director, and producer. He co-founded The Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble, has acted in 19 films, including Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law, has composed and performed music for 20 television and film works, and produced, directed, and starred in the Fishing with John television series. In 1996 his soundtrack for Get Shorty was nominated for a Grammy Award, and his album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits has been praised by critics and musicians alike. Since 2000 Lurie has suffered from chronic Lyme disease and has focused his attention on painting.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Stranger Than Paradise
Overview: A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Down by Law
Overview: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-20
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Paris, Texas
Overview: A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-16
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Overview: Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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Blue in the Face
Overview: Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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New Rose Hotel
Overview: A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-19
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Permanent Vacation
Overview: In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Face Addict
Overview: Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s, known as the downtown scene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-15
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The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Overview: Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman and directed by Tom Bowes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-03
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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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John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards Live in Berlin 1991
Overview: John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards performing live in Berlin.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-09
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Tortured by Joy
Overview: A short film narrated by John Lurie comprised of still images La Jetee-style about the middle-aged rediscovering punk rock.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-19
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The Offenders
Overview: A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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The Little Devil
Overview: Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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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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Wild at Heart
Overview: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Genres: Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Rome '78
Overview: Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Stranger Than Paradise
Overview: 30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger Than Paradise" at the 1983 International Film Festival Rotterdam. When it was later expanded into a three-act feature, that name was appropriated for the feature itself, and the initial segment was renamed "The New World".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-31
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Red Italy
Overview: Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an American G.I., dumps him, then falls for a Communist worker.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-13
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Sleepwalk
Overview: At loose ends drifter stumbles upon a struggling painter as he searches for answers under the stars and rooftops of New York.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Underground U.S.A.
Overview: The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-06
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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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Desperately Seeking Susan
Overview: A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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5 Sides of a Coin
Overview: "5 Sides of a Coin" is a comprehensive overview of the worldwide cultural movement of Hip-Hop.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Just Your Luck
Overview: Six million dollars suddenly goes up for grabs when an aged diner's heart fails after he discovers that he has won the lottery. Which of the remaining late-night dining regulars will get the cash? How many will have to die to get the answer?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone
Overview: "Lounge Lizard" John Lurie — actor, performer, and musician — talks about love and life and gives a gentle insight into modern time's hipster attitudes.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Overview: Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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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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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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Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
Overview: Behind the scenes of 'The Last Temptation of the Christ'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-07
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Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
Overview: Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 and 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘝𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-20
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Overview: An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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Some Days in January, 1984
Overview: A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director Jim Jarmusch’s brother, during the filming of STRANGER THAN PARADISE.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-01
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Sleepless Nights
Overview: New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie *Laura*” that plays “fast and loose with the noir detective genre.”
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-05
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