John Lurie Movies

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...

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the...

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

A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro.

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...

At loose ends drifter stumbles upon a struggling painter as he searches for answers under the stars and rooftops of New York.

A young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.

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...

Adapted from a novella by James Strahs (the author of “Queer and Alone”, as well as the Wooster Group’s play, “North...

The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances...

Video diary shot by Martin Scorsese during the making of his 1988 film, The Last Temptation of Christ.

30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger...

the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia...

"5 Sides of a Coin" is a comprehensive overview of the worldwide cultural movement of Hip-Hop.

A short film narrated by John Lurie comprised of still images La Jetee-style about the middle-aged rediscovering punk rock.

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American...

A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director Jim Jarmusch’s brother, during the filming...

Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s,...

New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie...