Alex Ross Perry

Alex Ross Perry

Born: July 14, 1984
in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alex Ross Perry is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He graduated from NYU's film program in 2006. Perry's first feature, Impolex, premiered in 2009. Made on a budget of $15,000 and shot on 16mm film stock, the film is an absurdist comedy inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. Perry's second feature, The Color Wheel, premiered at festivals in 2011. The film, a dark screwball comedy influenced by the work of Philip Roth, was co-written by Perry with Carlen Altman; the two also played the lead roles in the film.

Movies for Alex Ross Perry...

Kim's Video
Title: Kim's Video
Character: Self
Released: September 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks to Kim's Video, a small empire run by Yongman Kim, an enigmatic character who amassed more than fifty thousand VHS tapes.
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Honky Kong
Title: Honky Kong
Released: July 6, 2021
Type: Movie
A soul-battered New York chef begins unraveling during a trip to Hong Kong.
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Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
Title: Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
Released: March 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.
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Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
Title: Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
Character: Self
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the ever-iconoclastic auteur Paul Schrader during the making of his 2017 masterpiece First Reformed. On set and at home- where, for his own pleasure, he continues to work and rework his previous films- Schrader reflects on the highs and lows of his legendary career, the challenges and rewards of slow cinema, and the influences and experiences that continue to shape his approach to filmmaking. With this insightful portrait of one of his filmmaking heroes, Perry captures an artist who is continually at play, intentionally provocative, and never less than vital.
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At the Video Store
Title: At the Video Store
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape.
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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Title: 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Character: Self
Released: August 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Music Box Theatre" depicts filmmakers Werner Herzog, Lana Wachowski, Michael Shannon, Joe Swanberg, and more as they celebrate a 90-year-old cinema institution in Chicago, IL.
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Title: Easy
Character: Mr. Pope
Released: September 22, 2016
Type: TV
This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.
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Joshy
Title: Joshy
Character: Adam
Released: August 12, 2016
Type: Movie
After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him. Focused on drugs and their own hangups, his self-absorbed friends refuse to confront the elephant in the room and ask Josh how he’s feeling. As welcome and unwelcome guests stop by, Josh will attempt to find some closure over this weekend with the guys.
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7 Chinese Brothers
Title: 7 Chinese Brothers
Character: Hats at Cars
Released: August 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
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Devil Town
Title: Devil Town
Character: Detective Ira Goldberg
Released: April 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A young woman's sister goes missing. She then sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her on her own, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.
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Alex Ross Perry
Title: Alex Ross Perry
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Interview with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry.
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The Last Film
Title: The Last Film
Character: Alex
Released: September 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Title: Somebody Up There Likes Me
Character: Pizza Customer #1
Released: January 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.
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Green
Title: Green
Character: Phillip Roth expert
Released: June 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
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The Color Wheel
Title: The Color Wheel
Character: Colin
Released: April 1, 2011
Type: Movie
JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history from which they have long since diverged.
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Happy Life
Title: Happy Life
Character: Donald
Released: January 11, 2011
Type: Movie
New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the early '90's.
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Tiny Furniture
Title: Tiny Furniture
Character: Ashlynn's Friend
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
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Impolex
Title: Impolex
Character: Voice: "It's a dud!"
Released: June 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Impolex tells the story of Tyrone S., a United States soldier in Operation Paperclip, the mission to locate and retrieve German rockets and rocket science after the end of World War II. Tyrone is tasked with finding what he believes are the last V-2’s. Lost in the woods of an undefined European country, people from Tyrone’s past begin to appear in unusual ways, bearing strange tidings. A loved one he abandoned for the war is especially prominent in Tyrone’s journey, as is a fellow soldier and a mysterious man with tidings of the present and the future that are not yet known to Tyrone.