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Eric Mitchell

Eric Mitchell

Eric Mitchell is a French born writer, director and actor who moved to New York City in the early 1970s. He has acted in films such Permanent Vacation by Jim Jarmusch, but he is best known for his writing and directing his own films.

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Movies Starring Eric Mitchell (25)

Blank City (2011)

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 ...

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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005)

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power. ...

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For Sale (1998)

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective. ...

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Dreamland (1997)

Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes. ...

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Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole (1992)

The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle decides to observe the Levy progeny as they sail endlessly round Manhattan in their luxury yacht. ...

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Force of Circumstance (1990)

A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents. ...

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End of the Night (1990)

A domestic accident causes a quiet and simple man to undergo drastic personality changes which will takes him to New York's underground nightclubs. ...

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Last Cry (1988)

This thriller looks at the defection of a terrorist and focuses on frequent violence and repetitive sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Henri (Hubert Lucot) belongs to a terrorist gang that orders him to kill the sister of one of their members. The member ...

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Candy Mountain (1988)

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker ...

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The Way It Is (1986)

A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead. ...

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The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies (1981)

A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the work of Eric Mitchell, Manuel DeLanda and Ericka Beckman is highlighted. ...

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Permanent Vacation (1981)

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. ...

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Only You (1981)

In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic) homo-social encounters he stages. Starting with the familiar premise of the absent woman, so popular with Downtow ...

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The Long Island Four (1980)

Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom. A Swedi ...

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Underground U.S.A. (1980)

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 ...

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Men in Orbit (1979)

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. ...

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Red Italy (1979)

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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Minus Zero (1979)

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

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Rome '78 (1978)

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 ingen ...

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Dear Jimmy (1978)

How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film. ...

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The Scenic Route (1978)

An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama. ...

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The Foreigner (1978)

A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections. ...

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Kidnapped (1978)

Eric Mitchell's debut film, shot in Super 8, stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip "poseurs," talking sex, manners, and politics. ...

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Snakewoman (1977)

Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park. ...

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Unmade Beds (1976)

Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City circa 1976 who longs to inhabit the "New Wave" scene of mid-60s Paris. In Rico's day-to-day life as an unsucce ...

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Movies Made By Eric Mitchell (5)

The Way It Is (1986)

A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead. ...

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A Matter of Facts (1982)

Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter of Facts" draws a parallel narrative which follows the characters from the theatre into real life. ...

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Underground U.S.A. (1980)

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 ...

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Red Italy (1979)

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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Kidnapped (1978)

Eric Mitchell's debut film, shot in Super 8, stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip "poseurs," talking sex, manners, and politics. ...

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