Eric Mitchell
Know for: Directing
Born:
Place of birth: France
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The Foreigner (1978)
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole (1992)
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy...
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies (1981)
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...
Force of Circumstance (1990)
A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.
Underground U.S.A. (1980)
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...
Last Cry (1988)
This thriller looks at the defection of a terrorist and focuses on frequent violence and repetitive sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Henri...
Red Italy (1979)
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...
The Scenic Route (1978)
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...
Only You (1981)
In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic)...
Permanent Vacation (1981)
In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He...
Men in Orbit (1979)
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...
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005)
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...
End of the Night (1990)
A domestic accident causes a quiet and simple man to undergo drastic personality changes which will takes him to New York’s underground...
Rome '78 (1978)
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...
The Long Island Four (1980)
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...
For Sale (1998)
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...
The Way It Is (1986)
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.
Candy Mountain (1988)
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Unmade Beds (1976)
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...
Blank City (2011)
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...
Kidnapped (1978)
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...
Snakewoman (1977)
Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.
Dreamland (1997)
Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes.
Minus Zero (1970)
A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
Sleepless Nights (1979)
New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie...
Dear Jimmy (1978)
How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
Bikers or Vanity in Leather (1978)
1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...
Snake Woman (1970)
Snake Woman, created by Downtown artist and beloved Queen of the Mudd Club Tina L’Hotsky, stars Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself...
Kidnapped (1978)
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...
The Way It Is (1986)
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.
The Way It Is (1986)
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.
Underground U.S.A. (1980)
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...
Red Italy (1979)
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...
Red Italy (1979)
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...
A Matter of Facts (1982)
Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter...
Underground U.S.A. (1980)
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...
A Matter of Facts (1982)
Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter...
Red Italy (1979)
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...
Underground U.S.A. (1980)
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...
Kidnapped (1978)
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...
A Matter of Facts (1982)
Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter...
Red Italy (1979)
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...
Bikers or Vanity in Leather (1978)
1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...