Eric Mitchell
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis:
Locus Natus: France
Et ut:
The Foreigner
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 2.008
Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy...
release : 1992.03.21popularis : 3.102
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...
release : 1981.05.11popularis : 0.333
Force of Circumstance
A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.
release : 1990.06.01popularis : 0.526
Underground U.S.A.
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor...
release : 1980.11.06popularis : 1.534
Last Cry
This thriller looks at the defection of a terrorist and focuses on frequent violence and repetitive sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Henri...
release : 1988.07.24popularis : 0.531
Red Italy
Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an...
release : 1979.03.13popularis : 0.339
The Scenic Route
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...
release : 1978.04.15popularis : 1.083
Only You
In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic)...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 1.589
Permanent Vacation
In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He...
release : 1981.03.06popularis : 5.219
Men in Orbit
A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...
release : 1979.04.10popularis : 0.981
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and...
release : 2005.11.02popularis : 3.651
End of the Night
A domestic accident causes a quiet and simple man to undergo drastic personality changes which will takes him to New York’s underground...
release : 1990.03.18popularis : 0.301
Rome '78
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse...
release : 1978.12.23popularis : 2.285
The Long Island Four
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's...
release : 1980.12.23popularis : 1.627
For Sale
A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her...
release : 1998.08.26popularis : 2.61
The Way It Is
A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.
release : 1986.04.04popularis : 1.148
Candy Mountain
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
release : 1988.01.20popularis : 3.085
Unmade Beds
Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 0.65
Blank City
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...
release : 2011.04.06popularis : 1.601
Kidnapped
Eric Mitchell's debut film, shot in Super 8, stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip "poseurs," talking...
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 1.029
Snakewoman
Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 1.131
Dreamland
Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes.
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 0.232
Minus Zero
A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.627