Robert Kramer
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In 1999, Kramer died of complications from meningitis in a hospital in Rouen, France.[6][7] In a retrospective essay, academic David Fresko wrote that Kramer's "unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism and antipathy for Hollywood (and corporate media more generally) dashed any hopes for his commercial integration into the culture industries", and noted that, in Europe, "he is considered second only to Jean-Luc Godard in the pantheon of political modernists."[4]
Filmography
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- FALN (1965)[8]
- In the Country (1967)
- The Edge (1968)
- The People's War (1970)[9]
- Ice (1970)
- Milestones (1975)
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977)[10]
- Guns (1980)[11]
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- Notre nazi (Our Nazi, 1985)[12]
- Diesel (1985)[13][14][15]
- Doc's Kingdom (1987) [16]
- X-Country (pronounced "cross-country") (1987) [17]
- Route One USA (1989)[18]
- Contre l'oubli (Against Oblivion, collective, 1991)[19]
- Point de départ (Starting Place, 1994)[20]
- Le manteau (The Coat, 1996)[21]
- Walk the Walk (1996)[22]
- The Ghosts of Electricity (1997)[23]
- Cités de la plaine (Flat Land Cities, 2001)[24]
See also
References
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- ↑ Robert Kramer and the Jewish-German Question – essay by Hironobu Baba at Rouge
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- ↑ People's War + Scenes from a Class Struggle in Portugal at Eastman Museum
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- ↑ Review by Richard F. Shepard at NY Time, September 9, 1988
- ↑ X-Country presentation, Turin Film Festival website
- ↑ Route One USA, review by Caryn James at The NY Times, November 2, 1990
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- ↑ Le manteau at IMDb
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- ↑ Ghosts of Electricity (Kramer's vision of the future of cinema)
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External links
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- Robert Kramer at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Bio and filmography at Harvard Film Archive.
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- 1939 births
- 1999 deaths
- American male screenwriters
- American male film actors
- Neurological disease deaths in France
- Infectious disease deaths in France
- Deaths from meningitis
- Film directors from New York City
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- 20th-century American male actors
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters