Ben Barenholtz

Ben Barenholtz

Nacimiento : 1935-10-05,

Muerte : 2019-06-26

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Ben Barenholtz

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Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
Beach House
Executive Producer
El tranquilo retiro en la playa de la joven Emma se interrumpe con la llegada de un enigmático artista, un fotógrafo amigo del pasado de su madre. Él comienza a desafiarla y cautivarla... pero pronto ella comienza a sospechar de que es autor de un terrible crimen.
Alina
Writer
Alina is an independent, ultra low-budget film showing the odyssey of a young Russian woman, Alina, who arrives in the city to find her father with only a 25-year-old photo in her possession.
Alina
Director
Alina is an independent, ultra low-budget film showing the odyssey of a young Russian woman, Alina, who arrives in the city to find her father with only a 25-year-old photo in her possession.
Family Games
Producer
Sloane and her boyfriend Barrett return to her childhood home determined to ruin her father Roan's re-marriage. Family secrets surface and give rise to a puzzling future.
Wakaliwood: The Documentary
Director
A loving husband and father, Isaac is an unlikely multi-hyphenate action filmmaker working from his home in the slums of Wakaliga, Uganda. This funny, touching and inspiring story celebrates the art of filmmaking and the pure joy of creativity.
Stags
Producer
Jack and his pals are NYC bachelors in their super-late 30’s who have spent two decades chasing women and fleeing commitment. When a childhood friend’s sudden tragic marriage shakes up their world of sex and booze, Jack realizes he just may be ready to commit to the one woman hopelessly out of reach.
Music Inn
Producer
During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The Civil Rights Movement, Phil and Stephanie Barber created an oasis in the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts where aspiring musicians came to learn from the very best. Students and faculty, young and old, rich and poor, white, black, and brown convened together and learned from each other. Defying the surrounding environment, Music Inn harbored a racial and cultural harmony where music was all that mattered.
Music Inn
Director
During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The Civil Rights Movement, Phil and Stephanie Barber created an oasis in the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts where aspiring musicians came to learn from the very best. Students and faculty, young and old, rich and poor, white, black, and brown convened together and learned from each other. Defying the surrounding environment, Music Inn harbored a racial and cultural harmony where music was all that mattered.
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Himself
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
El rostro de la venganza
Producer
Un ejecutivo, maltratado por su jefe e ignorado por su esposa, se levanta un día y ve cómo su rostro está borrado y ocupado por una gran mancha blanca, de la que no puede deshacerse. Pero ahora tendrá la oportunidad de vengarse de todos los que hicieron su vida imposible y miserable: amigos, jefes y su propia esposa...
The Naked Man
Other Cop
A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.
Bleeding Hearts
Executive Producer
An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult, male, white tutor (Mark Evan Jacobs) and his 17-year-old, African-American, female student (Karen Kirkland).
Georgia
Executive Producer
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.
Barton Fink
Executive Producer
En 1941, Barton Fink viaja a Hollywood para escribir un guión sobre el luchador Wallace Berry. Una vez instalado en el Hotel Earle, el guionista sufre un agudo bloqueo mental. Su vecino de habitación, un jovial vendedor de seguros, trata de ayudarlo, pero una serie de circunstancias adversas hacen que se sienta cada vez más incapaz de afrontar su trabajo.
Muerte entre las flores
Executive Producer
Año 1929. Entre dos amigos surge una gran rivalidad a causa del amor de una mujer. Leo, un gángster que domina la ciudad, y Tom, su lugarteniente, se enfrentan en una guerra abierta que desencadenará traiciones, conflictos políticos, corruptelas y escisiones internas.
Cielo líquido
Unos aliens invisibles llegan a la Tierra en una pequeña nave espacial en busca de heroína. Los extraterrestres aterrizan en la azotea de un apartamento de Nueva York habitado por una traficante de drogas y su amante, una modelo andrógina, bisexual y ninfómana.
Zombi (El amanecer de los muertos vivientes)
Cowboy Hat Zombie Hit by Sledge
La epidemia que hace resucitar a los muertos convertidos en seres ávidos de carne humana se ha extendido, llegando al punto en el que varias ciudades han quedado prácticamente desiertas. Los supervivientes deben refugiarse en zonas militares ya que los zombies no dudan en acabar con sus propios familiares... Continuación del clásico de horror de George A. Romero "La noche de los muertos vivientes" (Night of the Living Dead, 1968).