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Amos Poe

Amos Poe

Amos Poe, born Amos Jay Porges, is a quintessential New York independent filmmaker. He was a key figure in the emergence of the No Wave cinema movement that evolved from the punk music scene and flourished from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s on New York's Lower East Side.

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Movies Made By Amos Poe (16)

A Walk in the Park (2012)

A Walk In The Park is, in the words of its protagonist Brian Fass, "a science fiction film, a psychedelic journey back to the womb..." This documentary-like journey, progresses from non-fiction to fiction, and dizzyingly, dazzlingly back again. ...

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La commedia di Amos Poe (2010)

A new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture. ...

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The Guitar (2008)

The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams. ...

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Empire II (2007)

A tribute to the bustling beauty of Manhattan, inspired by Andy Warhol's 1964 film "Empire". ...

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Just an American Boy: A Film About Steve Earle (2003)

A musical documentary film about the politically minded singer/songwriter Steve Earle. ...

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Frogs for Snakes (1998)

A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles begin. ...

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Dead Weekend (1995)

In the midst of an evacuation effort, True World Forces agent Weed must secure an alien spacecraft suspected to have crashed somewhere in the city. But after Weed meets the ship's beautiful, shape-shifting pilot, he finds himself falling for her. As the tw ...

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Joey Breaker (1993)

Joey is a player, a hot-shot movie agent in New York. If a deal can be made, he'll make it. If a rising talent can be snapped up, he'll be the first in line. And when it comes to luring Hollywood in a bidding war for a script nobody's read, Joey is your ma ...

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Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole (1992)

The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle decides to observe the Levy progeny as they sail endlessly round Manhattan in their luxury yacht. ...

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Rocket Gibraltar (1988)

A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what ...

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Alphabet City (1984)

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters. ...

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Subway Riders (1981)

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down. ...

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The Foreigner (1978)

A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections. ...

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The Blank Generation (1976)

The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, ...

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Unmade Beds (1976)

Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City circa 1976 who longs to inhabit the "New Wave" scene of mid-60s Paris. In Rico's day-to-day life as an unsucce ...

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Night Lunch (1975)

This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be. A "DIY" portrait of the New York music scene, the film is a patchwork of footage of numerous rock acts performing ...

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Movies Starring Amos Poe (12)

HoLEY (2024)

During a visit to New York from Egypt, Mark, a 32-year-old Orthodox Christian, decides to lose his virginity, facing all the cultural and religious restrictions that have shaped his character. After a failed blind date, Mark is persuaded by his friends to ...

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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery (2013)

A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery. ...

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Hunter (2013)

Two friends vie for the attention of a stranger who passes out at their doorstep. ...

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Blank City (2011)

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best ...

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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York (2009)

the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher. ...

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TV Party (2005)

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge ...

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Downtown '81 (2001)

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives ...

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Smithereens (1982)

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene. ...

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Cinématon XVII (1982)

Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

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Subway Riders (1981)

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down. ...

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Stiletto (1981)

A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets of a broken-up time sense. In this emulation of film noir, the investigative structure does not create suspe ...

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The Foreigner (1978)

A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections. ...

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