Mel Howard

Mel Howard

Born: February 17, 1935
Died: July 12, 1996
in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies for Mel Howard...

Buffalo Heart
Title: Buffalo Heart
Character: Jack
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A young Native warrior seeks revenge on the cowboys who killed his buffalo herd.
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Big Man on Campus
Title: Big Man on Campus
Character: TV Director
Released: December 12, 1989
Type: Movie
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He is put on trial and made to go through tests. One of the research doctors falls for him, and he falls for her in the end
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Riding Fast
Title: Riding Fast
Character: Peter Olson
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A daredevil motorcycle rider falls for an older artist.
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Renaldo and Clara
Title: Renaldo and Clara
Character: Ungatz
Released: January 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring appearances and performances by Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Arlen Roth, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton – the film incorporates three distinct film genres: concert footage, documentary interviews, and dramatic fictional vignettes reflective of Dylan's song lyrics and life.
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The Washington Affair
Title: The Washington Affair
Character: Sam
Released: March 4, 1977
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous businessman tries to win a government contract by playing up to the engineer assigned to review the project. He comes to the engineer's hotel room to offer him money, all the while secretly filming the proceedings with a hidden camera. Meanwhile the engineer, unhappily married to an alcoholic, uses the hotel room to continue his affair with the businessman's attractive young wife.
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Hester Street
Title: Hester Street
Character: Bernstein
Released: October 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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Snapshots
Title: Snapshots
Released: January 29, 1973
Type: Movie
This experimental film, a self-described mix of reality and fiction shot in Greenwich Village and a Vermont commune, captures past and present moments from the life of Mel Howard, the film’s co-writer & co-narrator. Scenes chronicling Howard’s doomed romance with Scandinavian girl friend Turid Aarsted are interwoven with scenes detailing Howard’s relationship with his parents and with a former girl friend, as well as his failed attempts at moviemaking. One sequence depicts Aarsted leaving the thirty-seven-year-old Howard for the film’s cameraman, Paul Goldsmith, and includes a sex scene between the new lovers. In off-screen commentary, producer Kenneth E. Schwartz expresses concern about the film’s content. He reveals that he raised $50,000 for the project, complains to the viewer that the film was not supposed to be a “diary of freaky people.” Eventually he and Howard come to terms about the film’s direction and allow the film’s story to unfold unobstructed.