Mario Makes a Movie
Emotionally gripping. I only wish I could find the actual movie he made with the class.
Roger Deutsch
Filmography
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Dead People
Filmed in 1974 and edited and released in 1983 (and then rereleased by its director in 2005), DEAD PEOPLE purports to document the final years of Frank Butler, a local fixture in the depressed burg of Ellicot City with a particular fondness for drink and tales of the dead. Over hazy 16mm footage...Watch Movie
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Mario Makes a Movie
Roger Deutsch's simply framed account of a developmentally disabled man learning to use an 8mm camera brokers a beautiful meditation on the subjective nature of the film image. A well-intentioned but blinkered teacher recalls leading his special needs class in a filmmaking...Watch Movie
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Sister Smile
In the early 1960s, the hit single "Dominique" was something of a tonic for the troubles of the era. Little was known then nor now of Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile), the Belgian nun who recorded the astonishingly successful album and then, shortly thereafter, left the convent. In his phenomenal...Watch Movie
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Jews
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families from the 1920s through the 1940s. Much as in similar found footage soliloquies by Péter Forgács, Jay Rosenblatt and Ken Jacobs, director Roger Deutsch wrings unexpected pathos from mundane traces of...Watch Movie
Genres
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / History
- Drama / Biopic
- Drama / Religious
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Drama / Tragedy
- Independent / Documentary
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / European / Italian
- LGBTQ / Narrative
- Music
- Short / Amateur / Home Movie
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Ephemera
Recent Reviews
Dead People
A fascinating cinema verite study of a young white filmmaker's attempt to document a old black neighbor. Frank Butler is a character that only small somewhat isolated towns can create....