Eric Mitchell
Eric Mitchell is a French born writer, director and actor who moved to New York City in the early 1970s. He has acted in films such Permanent Vacation by Jim Jarmusch, but he is best known for his writing and directing his own films.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1955 |
| Birthday | |
| Place of Birth | France |
| Also Known As |
1978
The Foreigner
5.95/10
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 Foreigner
1992
Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole
4.2/5
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle...
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Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole
1981
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
0/0
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the wo...
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The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
1990
Force of Circumstance
9/1
A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.
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Force of Circumstance
1980
Underground U.S.A.
4.833/6
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor...
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Underground U.S.A.
1979
Red Italy
4/1
Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an Ame...
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Red Italy
1988
Last Cry
9/1
This thriller looks at the defection of a terrorist and focuses on frequent violence and repetitive sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Henri (Hubert...
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Last Cry
1978
The Scenic Route
5.647/17
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand o...
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The Scenic Route
1981
Only You
0/0
In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic) homo-so...
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Only You
2005
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
5.769/13
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined...
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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
1998
For Sale
5.184/19
A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her lif...
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For Sale
1990
End of the Night
8/1
A domestic accident causes a quiet and simple man to undergo drastic personality changes which will takes him to New York’s underground nightclubs.
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End of the Night
1988
Candy Mountain
6.077/13
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
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Candy Mountain
1986
The Way It Is
8/1
A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.
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The Way It Is
1980
The Long Island Four
5/1
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's ir...
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The Long Island Four
1981
Permanent Vacation
5.895/215
In downtown Manhattan, twentysomething Allie, whose father is not around and whose mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost...
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Permanent Vacation
1979
Men in Orbit
6.5/6
A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit New York livi...
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Men in Orbit
1978
Rome '78
6.4/7
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a p...
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Rome '78
1976
Unmade Beds
4.5/7
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 circ...
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Unmade Beds
2011
Blank City
7.1/15
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 circu...
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Blank City
1978
Kidnapped
4.5/4
Eric Mitchell's debut film, shot in Super 8, stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip "poseurs," talking sex,...
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Kidnapped
1977
Snakewoman
0/0
Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.
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Snakewoman
1997
Dreamland
9/1
Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes.
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Dreamland
1979
Minus Zero
0/0
A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
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Minus Zero
1979
Sleepless Nights
0/0
New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie *Laura*” t...
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Sleepless Nights
1978
Dear Jimmy
0/0
How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
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Dear Jimmy
1978
Bikers or Vanity in Leather
0/0
1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...
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Bikers or Vanity in Leather
Snake Woman
0/0
Snake Woman, created by Downtown artist and beloved Queen of the Mudd Club Tina L’Hotsky, stars Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the...
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Snake Woman
2025
Doomed and Famous
0/0
New York’s Miguel Abreu Gallery is at the center of Bingham Bryant’s short, which follows Adrian Dannatt across his eponymous exhibit while observing...
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Doomed and Famous
2005
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
5.769/13
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined...
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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
2025
Adios
0/0
"Shortly after Amos went into home hospice he began filming ‘Adios’, a short film, compiled of 16mm and Super 8 footage, to premiere at his memorial,...
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