Judith Malina

Judith Malina

Birthday: 1926-06-04

Place of Birth: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Biography: Judith Malina was a German-born American theater and film actress, writer and director. With her husband, Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 60s.

Movies

The Addams Family
The Addams Family

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a c...

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Awakenings
Awakenings

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

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Radio Days
Radio Days

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

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Your Whole Life Is a Rehearsal
Your Whole Life Is a Rehearsal

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China Girl
China Girl

Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown....

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Music from Another Room
Music from Another Room

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who gre...

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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
In the Mirror of Maya Deren

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movemen...

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Enemies, a Love Story
Enemies, a Love Story

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his lon...

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New York Memories
New York Memories

In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and lo...

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Candy
Candy

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while se...

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Wheel of Ashes
Wheel of Ashes

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides ...

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Love and Anger
Love and Anger

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts slee...

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Après la Passion selon Sade
Après la Passion selon Sade

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The Many Miracles of Household Saints
The Many Miracles of Household Saints

In keeping with the intergenerational magic of 'Household Saints', filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has...

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The Five Senses of Theatre
The Five Senses of Theatre

British director Peter Brook talks about his theatre experience from his first directing gigs of Oxf...

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The Lost Paths
The Lost Paths

Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garre...

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Amore, amore
Amore, amore

The title Amore amore ( Love Love) defines the primary emotive motor of the film and constitutes the...

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Narcissus
Narcissus

A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has b...

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Radio Unnameable
Radio Unnameable

The story of legendary New York City disc jockey Bob Fass who pioneered free expression on the airwa...

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Men Lie
Men Lie

Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path....

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Notes for Jerome
Notes for Jerome

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas v...

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Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Son...

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J. & J. & Co.
J. & J. & Co.

Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "T...

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The Deli
The Deli

An enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he start...

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Emergency: The Living Theatre
Emergency: The Living Theatre

a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Myst...

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Diário De Aquário
Diário De Aquário

The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the se...

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When in Rome
When in Rome

Disillusioned with romance, Beth, an ambitious New Yorker, travels to Rome for her sister's wedding,...

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Signals Through the Flames
Signals Through the Flames

Signals Through the Flames is at once a history and a celebration of the Living Theatre. Founded in ...

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All Star Video
All Star Video

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sa...

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Over/Under
Over/Under

A man becomes a bookie after losing his job as a day trader....

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American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy

Chantal Akerman explores Jewish American identity in this multilayered portrait of the immigrant exp...

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Visa de censure n° X
Visa de censure n° X

Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the ...

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Rite of Guerrilla Theater
Rite of Guerrilla Theater

Commissioned work by Julian Beck and members of The Living Theatre (featuring Beck and Judith Malina...

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Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika
Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced ...

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Paradise Now
Paradise Now

At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American undergroun...

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Let It Snow
Let It Snow

Two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school....

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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans ...

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Sm...

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Flaming Creatures
Flaming Creatures

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” ...

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The Living Theatre - a video retrospective
The Living Theatre - a video retrospective

The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1...

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Household Saints
Household Saints

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II...

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Living & Glorious
Living & Glorious

Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation ...

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No Picnic
No Picnic

A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City...

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Porn to Be Free
Porn to Be Free

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom...

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne...

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The Secret of My Success
The Secret of My Success

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, b...

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Looking for Richard
Looking for Richard

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...

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