Daniel Kremer Movies
- 2023
Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film
Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film82023HD
Lenny Bruce's depiction on film did not start or end with Bob Fosse's Lenny (1974). Through these other often offbeat cinematic incarnations, this...
- 2024
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano02024HD
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely...
- 2017
Ezer Kenegdo
Ezer Kenegdo4.52017HD
Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend...
- 2016
Love Twice
Love Twice52016HD
"What do you do when the spark touches down-brief and hot?" So begins award-winning director Rob Nilsson's (Permission to Touch, MVFF 2015; A Bridge...
- 2024
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director02024HD
We all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know the history of Jack Nicholson the screenwriter, and especially Jack Nicholson the director....
- 2023
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur02023HD
Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many iconic American films: Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), The Boys from...
- 2023
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema02023HD
The most that mainstream culture knows of the Talmud is from the finale scene of Schindler's List, when Yitzchok Stern hands Oskar Schinder an...
- 2019
Overwhelm the Sky
Overwhelm the Sky102019HD
Eddie Huntly, an east coast radio personality, moves to San Francisco to marry Thea, the sister of his best friend Neil, a successful entrepreneur....
- 2023
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point02023HD
Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo...
- 2015
Raise Your Kids on Seltzer
Raise Your Kids on Seltzer92015HD
A husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them.
- 2011
The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour
The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour72011HD
Max Plugin is a jaded but flamboyant relic of the 1960s. In his teens, Max ran away to California, where he met Teschlock, a charismatic ascetic and...
- 2023
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount02023HD
Canadian-born filmmaker Sidney J. Furie made his name with British hits like The Young Ones (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), and The Ipcress File...
- 2007
Sophisticated Acquaintance
Sophisticated Acquaintance82007HD
Mixing elements of narrative, experimental, pseudo-documentary and essayist cinema, Sophisticated Acquaintance tells the story of a tormented...
- 2008
A Trip to Swadades
A Trip to Swadades72008HD
Shot on black-and-white super-16mm, A Trip to Swadades tells the story of a 74-year-old ex-professor named Schweitzer Haas who, after many years of...
- 2023
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin02023HD
In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian Mayfield on Uptight, a "politically radical" film noir...
- 2022
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger02022HD
Otto Preminger wasn't only one of the most famous directors of classic Hollywood. He was a presence, a brand, and the only one who rivaled Hitchcock...
- 2022
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-197202022HD
Between One Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Godfather (1972), Marlon Brando appeared in twelve feature films. The actor called this period his "F*** You...
- 2022
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes02022HD
A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and sexual mores, in life and in cinema, and how these "codes" (in partnership with a production...
- 2022
Xenolith Atlas
Xenolith Atlas02022HD
An imagined plague diary
- 2022
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision02022HD
What do the movies First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's have in common? One man with a clear and curious thematic focus, that's what. Ted Kotcheff is...