Robert Kramer

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American film director

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birth_placeNew York City, United States
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death_placeHaute-Normandie, France
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yearsactive1965–1999
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| image = | name = Robert Kramer | birth_date = | birth_place = New York City, United States | death_date = | death_place = Haute-Normandie, France | occupation = | yearsactive = 1965–1999 Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor who directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view. Born in New York and educated at Swarthmore College and Stanford University, Kramer was a founding member of the filmmaking collective The Newsreel, established in New York City in 1968. Kramer wrote, directed and starred in the 1970 thriller film Ice, and co-directed the 1975 film Milestones with John Douglas. After relocating to Europe in 1979, Kramer directed the 1982 French film À toute allure, which was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1999, Kramer died of complications from meningitis in a hospital in Rouen, France. 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."

Filmography

References

References

  1. Bergan, Ronald. (November 16, 1999). "Robert Kramer".
  2. [http://www.rouge.com.au/9/kramer.html Robert Kramer and the Jewish-German Question] – essay by Hironobu Baba at Rouge
  3. Crais, Benjamin. (January 27, 2023). "The Traveller".
  4. Fresko, David. "Robert Kramer: Cinema/Politics/Community".
  5. "A Toute Allure - Festival de Cannes".
  6. III, Harris M. Lentz. (July 1, 2000). "Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture". McFarland.
  7. Riding, Alan. (November 13, 1999). "Robert Kramer, 60, a Director Of Films With a Political Edge". [[The New York Times]].
  8. "Icarus Films: FALN".
  9. [https://eastman.org/event/film-screenings/peoples-war-scenes-class-struggle-portugal People's War + Scenes from a Class Struggle in Portugal] at [https://eastman.org/ Eastman Museum]
  10. "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal".
  11. "Guns (1980)".
  12. "Figures of Dissent: Thomas Harlan - Diagonal Thoughts".
  13. Lk. (April 8, 2014). "Serge Daney in English: Kramer v. Kramer".
  14. "Diesel".
  15. (October 26, 2010). "DIESEL - Vidéo dailymotion".
  16. [https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DE2DA1F3DF93AA3575AC0A96E948260 Review] by Richard F. Shepard at NY Time, September 9, 1988
  17. [http://www.torinofilmfest.org/?action=detail&id=4187 ''X-Country'' presentation], Turin Film Festival website
  18. [https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE1DB143CF931A35752C1A966958260 Route One USA], review by Caryn James at The NY Times, November 2, 1990
  19. "Against Oblivion (1991)".
  20. "Festival des 3 Continents - Point de départ".
  21. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204463/combined Le manteau] at IMDb
  22. "Walk the walk : Robert Kramer".
  23. [https://iffr.com/en/1998/films/ghosts-of-electricity Ghosts of Electricity] (Kramer's vision of the future of cinema)
  24. "Les Films du Paradoxe".

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