The best Judith Malina’s movies

Judith Malina

Judith Malina

04/06/1926- 10/04/2015
We present our ranking of the best Judith Malina’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Judith Malina.
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The Addams Family

The Addams Family
6.9/10
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.

Awakenings

Awakenings
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/12/1990
  • Character: Rose
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

When in Rome

When in Rome
5.5/10
After fishing out coins from a water fountain in Italy, cynical New Yorker Beth Harper finds herself being wooed by several ardent suitors. As she deals with the attention, Beth tries to figure out whether a charming reporter really loves her.

The Secret of My Success

The Secret of My Success
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/04/1987
  • Character: Mrs. Meacham
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.

Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon
8/10
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

Radio Days

Radio Days
7.4/10
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

China Girl

China Girl
6.3/10
Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

Music from Another Room

Music from Another Room
6.3/10
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.

Enemies, A Love Story

Enemies, A Love Story
6.6/10
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/12/1969
  • Character: Self
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Let It Snow

Let It Snow
5.5/10
Two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school.

Porn to Be Free

Porn to Be Free
6.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 24/06/2016
  • Character: Self - Actress
Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

Household Saints

Household Saints
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1993
  • Character: Carmela Santangelo
A chronicle of an eccentric Italian-American family in New York City in the 1950's and 60's. Young Teresa dreams of joing the convent, over the objections of her family.

The Deli

The Deli
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/11/1997
  • Character: Vincenza Amico
The wacky goings-on at a NYC deli—a comedy starring Mike Starr, Ice-T and Michael Imperioli.

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 15/03/2002
  • Character: Herself
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Flaming Creatures

Flaming Creatures
4.6/10
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/04/2007
  • Character: Herself
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.

Les Chemins perdus

Les Chemins perdus
Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in rehearsal, interviews with Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Donovan in concert and The Who in the studio recording 'Pictures of Lily'. Re-broadcast on INA in 1984.

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1981
“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monumentally Grand are joined in masterly pas de don’t [...] The awed couple do battle with the status quo and teach the world to dance on the head of a bin. Rice detects real dignity in Bryan and amazing grace in Mead as they essay solitary promenades through the parks, subways and streets of a wintery New York landscape. Photographed and directed by Ron Rice, edited and scored by Taylor Mead.” –Edward Leffingwell

Wheel of Ashes

Wheel of Ashes
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1968
A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.

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