James Lyons

James Lyons

Birth : 1960-10-08, New York, USA

Death : 2007-12-04

History

James Lyons (October 8, 1960 – April 12, 2007) was an American film editor, actor and screenwriter. He is best known his collaborations with filmmaker Todd Haynes.

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James Lyons

Movies

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
Editor
Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of the Factory era, an homage to Williams's talent, a journey of family discovery and a compelling inquiry into Williams's mysterious disappearance at age 27.
Imaginary Heroes
Editor
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.
Ghostlight
Editor
Richard Move gives a larger than life performance as Martha Graham, the mother of Modern Dance, that traces its roots to the same NY club scene that produced Hedwig. Graham's acknowledged genius remains on par with Stravinsky, Einstein, and Picasso. She was also a legendary eccentric who bristled with sexuality, anger, passion, and humor
Far from Heaven
Editor
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Prozac Nation
Editor
When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concentrate on her true talent. But what starts out so promising leads to self-destructive behavior and paralyzing depression that reflects an entire generation's struggle to navigate the effects of divorce, drugs, sex, and high expectations.
The Château
Editor
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
The Château
First Family of Buyers
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
Spring Forward
Editor
Trying to put himself back together after serving prison time for robbery, Paul takes a job as a parks employee in a small Connecticut town. His co-worker, Murph, a generation older than Paul, is dealing with his own issues, chiefly the the impending death of his very ill son. After the men have a run-in with local snob Frederickson, Murph's age and experience starts to temper Paul's fiery nature, as the younger man begins to embrace his new life.
The Virgin Suicides
Editor
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Velvet Goldmine
Story
Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.
Velvet Goldmine
Editor
Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.
First Love, Last Rites
Editor
Joey and Sissel are two misfits spending most of their time together talking or having sex. Gradually and slowly their relationships are becoming boring for them.
Shooting Porn
Editor
Director Ronnie Larsen interviews some of the most popular people working in porn, focusing closely on two of the industry's top directors: Gino Colbert and Chi Chi LaRue. Larsen follows Colbert and LaRue on video shoots and to porn events and functions (including the AVN Awards). Various performers are given identities as well, including Bryan Kidd, Rip Stone (a gay-for-pay model), Jordan Young, Hunter Scott (who demonstrates the proper way to give yourself an enema), and Blue Blake. While the performers are given voices, writers Mickey Skee and David Widmer are given faces and provide fascinating exposition (including how much the boys are paid), spilling some industry "secrets."
Strawberry Fields
Editor
After a visit from the ghost of her sister, a rebellious 16 year old Japanese American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better life. Hooking up with activist friends along the way, she comes to an important realization about her past: that her parents were incarcerated in an internment camp during World War II. She detours her road trip, ditches her boyfriend and drives off into the Arizona desert in a determined search for the truth that will set her free.
Ratchet
Editor
Having missed several deadlines, and with the studio's attorneys hassling him, screenwriter Elliot Callahan (Tom Gilroy) takes the advice of his agent and rents a beachside house on the island Nantucket to find the peace and quiet he needs to get the creative juices flowing. There he meets the seriously intense Henry Carver (Matthew Dixon), who's written a screenplay he wants Callahan to read. Before long, Callahan suspects that Henry might be a serial killer writing about himself and that his screenplay is worth plagiarizing.
I Shot Andy Warhol
Billy Name
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
Frisk
Gypsy Pete
A first person narrative of a gay serial killer explores violence, sexuality, and imagination.
Safe
Cab Driver
An upper middle-class housewife suffering from various unexplained symptoms of illness comes to believe that she is suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity and moves into a secluded facility to recover.
Safe
Editor
An upper middle-class housewife suffering from various unexplained symptoms of illness comes to believe that she is suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity and moves into a secluded facility to recover.
Postcards from America
Adult David
Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
The Debt
Editor
In the midst of the current recession, a series of disastrous telephone messages triggers a major domestic crisis fro the Kosnicks, a yuppie couple at the end of their rope. In the height of their despair, a door-to-door salesman tries to sell them a book about positive thinking, but for the Kosnicks it may be too late...
Dottie Gets Spanked
Editor
A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie.
My Niagara
Editor
Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions.
Swoon
Prison Mugshot
Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
Poison
Jack Bolton
A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.
Poison
Editor
A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.