Daniel Kremer Movies
- 2018
Torch
Torch02018HD
Clara grew up in the Belize jungles but was sent to live in San Francisco after a childhood trauma. Her older boyfriend, Gabriel encourages a trip...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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
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...
- 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...
- 2018
Drive Me to Vegas and Mars
Drive Me to Vegas and Mars02018HD
Cowboy, a senior citizen ex-lawyer and gambler, is persuaded by his spunky seventeen year old neighbor, Rachel, to seek retribution for having been...
- 1970
Countercurrents
Countercurrents01970HD
Traumatized by his recent divorce, lovelorn Stanley takes off cross country to San Francisco, landing at his enterprising sister Nancy's doorstep....
- 2006
Charles at the Threshold
Charles at the Threshold02006HD
Two brainy 18-year-olds, recent high-school graduates with fine future prospects, get married and then divorce one year later at age 19. Charles, a...
- 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
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...
- 2012
A Simple Game of Catch
A Simple Game of Catch02012HD
A young woman named Emily has just arrived in New York from Pittsburgh and has recently changed her name to Chazz. Jobless, she responds to an ad...
- 2019
Arid Cut
Arid Cut02019HD
Sky-high housing costs, rents no one can pay, urban development, and street crime make life difficult for RV dwellers in Berkeley, California. City...
- 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...