Robert Kramer
| Robert Kramer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 22, 1939 New York City, New York |
| Died |
November 10, 1999 (aged 60) Haute-Normandie, France |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1965–1999 |
Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view.[1][2] His film À toute allure was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Filmography
- FALN (1965) [4]
- In the Country (1967)
- The Edge (1968)
- The People's War (1970) [5]
- Ice (1970)
- Milestones (1975)
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977) [6]
- Guns (1980) [7]
- À toute allure (Full speed, 1982)
- Notre nazi (Our Nazi, 1985) [8]
- Diesel (1985) [9][10][11]
- Doc's Kingdom (1987) [12]
- X-Country (pronounced "cross-country") (1987) [13]
- Route One USA (1989) [14]
- Contre l'oubli (Against Oblivion, collective, 1991) [15]
- Point de départ (Starting Place, 1994) [16]
- Le manteau (The Coat, 1996) [17]
- Walk the Walk (1996) [18]
- The Ghosts of Electricity (1997) [19]
- Cités de la plaine (Flat Land Cities, 2001) [20]
See also
- Guerrilla filmmaking
- Newsreel [21][22][23][24]
References
- ↑ Kramer at The Guardian
- ↑ Robert Kramer and the Jewish-German Question – essay by Hironobu Baba at Rouge
- ↑ Festival de Cannes
- ↑ FALN at Icarus Films
- ↑ People's War + Scenes from a Class Struggle in Portugal at Eastman Museum
- ↑ Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal at Metro Cinema
- ↑ Guns, storyline at Letterboxed
- ↑ Thomas Harlan and Robert Kramer at Diagonal Thoughts
- ↑ Kramer v. Kramer, review by Serge Daney
- ↑ Diesel, chronique at Nanarland
- ↑ Trailer
- ↑ Review by Richard F. Shepard at NY Time, September 9, 1988
- ↑ X-Country presentation, Turin Film Festival website
- ↑ Route One USA, review by Caryn James at The NY Times, November 2, 1990
- ↑ Against Oblivion at Unifrance
- ↑ Point de départ at Féstival des 3 continents
- ↑ Le manteau at IMDb
- ↑ Walk the walk: Robert Kramer, interview with Pedro Winter at Les Inroks
- ↑ Ghosts of Electricity (Kramer's vision of the future of cinema)
- ↑ Cités de la plaine – Note (fr) sur Les films du paradoxe
- ↑ Newsreel: Activist film collective
- ↑ Newsreel on Newsreel, Film Quarterly, Winter 1968
- ↑ Reference at Harvard College
- ↑ Documentary Filmmaking on the American Left, New York : Arno Press, 1980, by Bill Nichols
External links
- Robert Kramer (official webpage)
- Robert Kramer at the Internet Movie Database
- Bio and filmography at Harvard Film Archive.
- The Guardian obituary.
- New York Times obituary.
- Robert Kramer at Find a Grave
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