Judith Malina Movies

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raúl Juliá

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert De Niro

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Aiello

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Cast: Silvia Calderoni

Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Russo

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jude Law

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Deren

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ron Silver

In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Bloomberg

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ewa Aulin

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Clémenti

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Baker

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julian Beck

In keeping with the intergenerational magic of 'Household Saints', filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling new documentary, 'The Many...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Demme

British director Peter Brook talks about his theatre experience from his first directing gigs of Oxford to the foundation of a company of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jerzy Grotowski

Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Keith Moon

The title Amore amore ( Love Love) defines the primary emotive motor of the film and constitutes the filter through which are selected the materials...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Umberto Bignardi

A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has become muddy and Narcissus finds that mirrors are...

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Cast: Marie Menken

The story of legendary New York City disc jockey Bob Fass who pioneered free expression on the airwaves with his long running FM program 'Radio...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Amram

Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Doug DeLuca

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jerome Hill

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Al Pacino

Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "The Unconscious Rebels". The shots were re-edited...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Beck

An enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mike Starr

a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julian Beck

The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Catarina Abdala

Disillusioned with romance, Beth, an ambitious New Yorker, travels to Rome for her sister's wedding, where she plucks magic coins from a special...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kristen Bell

Signals Through the Flames is at once a history and a celebration of the Living Theatre. Founded in the late 1940s by husband-and-wife performers...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Beck

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steven Pasquale

Belgian director Chantal Akerman avoids her usual "real time" technique in Histoires d'Amérique. The anecdotal nature of the subject matter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Amitin

Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Barbara Girard

Commissioned work by Julian Beck and members of The Living Theatre (featuring Beck and Judith Malina, co-founders of The Living Theatre, in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Beck

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant. “Marty...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Beck

At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diana Van Tosh

Two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kipp Marcus

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Taylor Mead

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Smith

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis Francine

The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985), painter and poet, and the actress and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judith Malina

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tracey Ullman

Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation of the exile theatre group from New York, but...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Beck

A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Brisbin

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lasse Braun

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Timothy Leary

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael J. Fox