Movies: Michael Oblowitz

  • 2015
    Heavy Water

    Heavy Water (2015)

    Heavy Water

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    Follow big wave surfer Nathan Fletcher through the evolution of surfing and his relationship with big waves in this special premiere event from Fathom Events, 1091 Media and Red Bull Media House. Tracing his lineage back to his grandfather, one of t...

    Heavy Water
  • 2010
    The Traveler

    The Traveler (2010)

    The Traveler

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    On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose pas...

    The Traveler
  • 1979
    Sleepless Nights

    Sleepless Nights (1979)

    Sleepless Nights

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    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.”...

    Sleepless Nights
  • 2003
    Out for a Kill

    Out for a Kill (2003)

    Out for a Kill

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    An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence....

    Out for a Kill
  • 1988
    The Golden Bowl, or Repression

    The Golden Bowl, or Repression (1988)

    The Golden Bowl, or Repression

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    Inspired partly by the Henry James' novel. Empty rooms and well kept gardens. Noted by photographer Nan Goldin for its dissections of "romance, mystification and the inability to connect."...

    The Golden Bowl, or Repression
  • 1997
    This World, Then the Fireworks

    This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)

    This World, Then the Fireworks

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    In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder....

    This World, Then the Fireworks
  • 1982
    Cinématon XXV

    Cinématon XXV (1982)

    Cinématon XXV

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    Reel 25 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....

    Cinématon XXV
  • 1979
    Tally Brown, New York

    Tally Brown, New York (1979)

    Tally Brown, New York

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    Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in...

    Tally Brown, New York
  • 2005
    Hammerhead

    Hammerhead (2005)

    Hammerhead

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    When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore....

    Hammerhead
  • 2001
    On the Borderline

    On the Borderline (2001)

    On the Borderline

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    A young couple embark on a cross-country journey, only to run into trouble at the Texas/Mexico border....

    On the Borderline
  • 1979
    Minus Zero

    Minus Zero (1979)

    Minus Zero

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    A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide....

    Minus Zero
  • 1977
    X-Terminator

    X-Terminator (1977)

    X-Terminator

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    “Eric Mitchell – as a Neo-noir punk parody of Lemmy Caution in ALPHAVILLE – and Rosemary Hochschild – as a post-semiotic parody of Patty Hearst – star in a b&w 16mm interrogation of 1970s media and cinema representation. It was my first film made in ...

    X-Terminator
  • 2020
    Frank and Ava

    Frank and Ava (2020)

    Frank and Ava

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    A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From Here to Eternity'....

    Frank and Ava
  • 2001
    The Breed

    The Breed (2001)

    The Breed

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    Vampires have come out of the shadows and are living as normal citizens. Two policemen, one a vampire, are assigned to track down a serial killer who tears the throat of his victims and drains their blood....

    The Breed
  • 1981
    Too Sensitive to Touch

    Too Sensitive to Touch (1981)

    Too Sensitive to Touch

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    The found-footage collage was overlaid with a psychologist expounding on sex offenders, analog video effects, edgy graphics, and a new wave score by the band Human Sexual Response....

    Too Sensitive to Touch
  • 1983
    King Blank

    King Blank (1983)

    King Blank

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    Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of psychotic delusion and his immigrant wife....

    King Blank
  • 1983
    Born in Flames

    Born in Flames (1983)

    Born in Flames

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    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....

    Born in Flames
  • 1969
    Sinatra! Eternity

    Sinatra! Eternity (1969)

    Sinatra! Eternity

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    The movie Sinatra Eternity narrates the stormy relationship between Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. Two huge idols meet, get together, fall in love and chaos reigns....

    Sinatra! Eternity
  • 2014
    The Ganzfeld Haunting

    The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014)

    The Ganzfeld Haunting

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    In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend......

    The Ganzfeld Haunting
  • 2023
    Confidential Informant

    Confidential Informant (2023)

    Confidential Informant

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    During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to co...

    Confidential Informant