Robert Benson

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Nantucket
1

Nantucket

Sep 06, 2002
Nantucket est un film de Glenn Klinker avec Jennifer Morrison.
Blue Moses
4.9

Blue Moses

Dec 31, 1962
One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against an unseen audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Fight for Life
5.7

Fight for Life

Mar 23, 1987
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only available in England) for use in the U.S.
Drama
Nothing Personal
5.8

Nothing Personal

Mar 28, 1980
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
Comedy
Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
4
In “Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life”, Mr. Tompkins learns about biology. In a wild and entertaining dream, his creator, author George Gamow, sends him through his own blood steam to investigate how his body really functions. Professor Igor Gamow and legendary filmmaker, Stan Brakhage, made the film “Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself” based on George Gamow’s book. The film includes an introduction by George Gamow, himself.
Comedy
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
6.5
An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There's a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls. On a remote road, the car stalls. The driver hitchhikes for help. Led by the intrepid girl, the others walk toward abandoned buildings, perhaps a mining operation. One of the three guys sits and reads. The intrepid one explores the building and sees something that scares her. She screams; the two rivals and the second girl run to find her. Something she says starts a fight between her two suitors. The one reading a book walks away in disgust. After stopping the fight, the two young women follow. How can this end? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
Drama
Desistfilm
5.5

Desistfilm

Jan 01, 1954
Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door opens and in comes a young man, cigarette between his lips, a swagger on his face. The young woman laughs. As the four young men continue disconnected activities, the other two become a couple. When the four realize something has changed, first they stare at the couple who have kissed and now are dancing slowly. The four run from the house in a kind of frenzy and return to stare. The power of sex has unnerved them.
Drama
The Extraordinary Child
5.4
The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.
Comedy
Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher
7
Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the divorce go against him, Thatcher decides a more drastic solution is needed - murder! A series of attempts on Jo-Ann's life follow, most of which don't succeed. Finally one does, and the arrogant Thatcher believes he is above the law and immune to prosecution. But his arrogance proves to be his undoing, as Crown Counsel Serge Kujawa builds a case against this psychopathic monster for 1st-degree murder - charging that Thatcher hired someone to kill his wife. The true story of one of the most disturbing stories of murder-for-hire in Canada.
Drama
Un tandem de choc
7.6

Un tandem de choc

Mar 14, 1999
Benton Fraser, un officier de la police montée canadienne, est affecté à l'ambassade de son pays à Chicago. Aidé de son loup Diefenbacker et de Ray Vecchio, un policier de Chicago, il tente de mettre hors circuit les bandits de la ville grâce à ses méthodes très personnelles, issues de son enfance, dans les forêts canadiennes.
Drama
Alfred Hitchcock présente
7.3
Alfred Hitchcock présente (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) est une série télévisée américaine en 80 épisodes de 26 minutes, créée d'après la série éponyme d'Alfred Hitchcock et diffusée entre le 5 mai 1985 et le 11 mai 1986 sur le réseau NBC, puis entre le 24 janvier 1987 et le 22 juillet 1989 sur USA Network.
Drama