John Erdman

John Erdman

Movies for John Erdman...

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Title: Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Character: Costumer
Released: April 4, 2024
Type: Movie
Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As artist she specializes in the staging of elaborate BDSM fantasies and her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American "trainee," and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.
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The Last City
Title: The Last City
Character: Archaeologist / Artist
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A series of encounters with alternating actors in different roles ensues, which leads the viewer through the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. Among those appearing are: an old artist who meets his younger self; a mother who lives with her two grown-up sons, a priest and a policeman; a Chinese and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist.
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The Lobby
Title: The Lobby
Character: Old White Male
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
“There is no Here here.” A character simply named Old White Male (John Erdman) holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust on death, consciousness, and the state of contemporary human relations. The man’s mostly unsolicited remarks form an unsparing, stitched-together modern-day monologue that alternates between absurd and chilling, reasonable and grotesque. Filmed in Buenos Aires in October 2019, Heinz Emigholz’s spare continuation—and sardonic distillation—of certain themes explored in The Last City is morbid, confrontational, and hilarious.
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Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Title: Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Released: February 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces. At some point, the idea takes hold that this conversation could be turned into a film. And this is the very film we’re watching the two of them in.
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The Holy Bunch
Title: The Holy Bunch
Character: Jon
Released: February 17, 1991
Type: Movie
After Roy's demise, five friends try to reconstruct his life by reading through the late editor's notebooks - only to face some very personal demons. The Holy Bunch is a modernist melodrama: beyond-Antonioni in its images, decisively Dreyerian in its spirituality. One of German cinema's few modern (or Modernist) masterpieces.
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The Big Blue
Title: The Big Blue
Character: Max
Released: February 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Not to be confused with Luc Besson's film of the same title from the same year. Documentarian Andrew Horn's second narrative feature.
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She Must Be Seeing Things
Title: She Must Be Seeing Things
Released: September 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha's transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual obsession.
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Hotel New York
Title: Hotel New York
Character: Landlord
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.
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Committed
Title: Committed
Character: Dr. Taylor
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.
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Film About a Woman Who…
Title: Film About a Woman Who…
Released: December 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.
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Lives of Performers
Title: Lives of Performers
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and tableaux vivants to explore issues of power and gender that influence the emotional lives of her performers.