Ron Vawter Movies

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jodie Foster

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andie MacDowell

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Hanks

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Newman

The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cindy Pickett

Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...

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Cast: Patricia Arquette

This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman...

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Cast: Tilda Swinton

Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations,"...

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Cast: Ron Vawter

When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ron Vawter

The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines leading up to the overthrow of President Ferdinand...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Fagin

White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ron Vawter

A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater performance created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Spalding Gray

A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Stipe

Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kevin Henderson

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Reid

Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Schlachet

The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances...

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Cast: Anna Köhler

A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brad Pitt

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kate Manheim

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Gere

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Honey

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosemary Hochschild

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Dean Stanton

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jesse Bradford

When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Conrad

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

Genre: Music

Cast: Willem Dafoe

A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the...

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Cast: Ron Vawter

Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosemary Hochschild

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Allan Tannenbaum

Three short stories about women & men relationship.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Dillon

Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse,...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Sarita Choudhury

Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mahoney

Recorded during the initial run of the Obie Award-winning ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, this video documents the seminal performance piece as it was first...

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Cast: Ron Vawter

Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rhonda Bell