Alexandre Rockwell
1) Lenz
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Alexandre Rockwell's directoral debut is an adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "LENZ", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.
2) Sweet Thing
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
SWEET THING centers around the lives of two children in contemporary New Bedford, Massachusetts in particular one eventful summer spent in a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend. The story is an intense but ultimately uplifting, poetic rendering of childhood that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever. The friendships, loyalties, and challenges of adolescent youth propel the story into a triumph of childhood...
3) Hero
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Alexandre Rockwell's offhandedly eccentric US Film Festival (**Sundance**) award winning debut feature follows a disabled teenager and his older adoptive sisters who, when pronounced by some protective-services bureaucrat to be "not our idea of a normal family," shed their gloomy urban confines and set out for Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Rockwell gathers vitalizing details both grand and small but he is mostly inspired by singular characters...
4) In the Soup
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Broke and desperate filmmaker Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) is a Manhattan wannabe in love with the mysterious woman next door, Angelica (Jennifer Beals). He puts out an ad offering to sell his 'fabulous' movie script for {dollar}500, and gets a response from Joe (Seymour Cassel), who gives him a thousand and says he'll raise the 250,000 to make the picture. The problem is, Joe is a semi-connected wiseguy with a habit of committing oddball crimes....
5) Sweet Thing
Author
Language
English
Description
Two children in contemporary New Bedford, Massachusetts spend an eventful summer in a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend.
6) Four Rooms
Author
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the fun in this hilariously sexy comedy that has a sizzling all-star cast checking in for laughs! It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments.