Paul Lazar

Paul Lazar

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Biography: Paul Lazar is an American actor, director, and teacher. As an actor he is best known for his collaborations with Jonathan Demme, having appeared in six of Demme’s films including The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In addition to his film work, he is co-founder of Big Dance Theatre and an associate member of The Wooster Group, and currently teaches theater at Harvard.

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The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

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Sweet Relief
Sweet Relief

A woman's dangerous inclinations, a sadistic child killer, and a panic surrounding an online murder ...

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Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

Three short stories about women & men relationship....

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On the Run
On the Run

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend ...

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Six Ways to Sunday
Six Ways to Sunday

Harry Odum is a henpecked 18-year-old momma's boy with a violent temper in Youngstown, Ohio. After i...

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Memories
Memories

I read a fairy tale called "The Girl Who Destroyed the World." The girl's name is Marin. The word me...

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From Other Worlds
From Other Worlds

FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her...

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The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems
The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems

Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activis...

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Suits
Suits

A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo" pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come...

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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
The Stars Fell on Henrietta

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox fi...

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Henry Fool
Henry Fool

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister....

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The Favor
The Favor

A troubled teenager, left alone after his mother's sudden death, is befriended and offered a home by...

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The Debt
The Debt

In the midst of the current recession, a series of disastrous telephone messages triggers a major do...

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Married to the Mob
Married to the Mob

Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime wo...

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Philadelphia
Philadelphia

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un...

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Mickey Blue Eyes
Mickey Blue Eyes

An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "fav...

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Money Kings
Money Kings

Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. T...

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Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class syst...

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Los Locos
Los Locos

In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people ac...

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Ghostwritten
Ghostwritten

Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a re...

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Experimenter
Experimenter

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this ...

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Trapped in Paradise
Trapped in Paradise

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve....

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Silent Street
Silent Street

Crosby Street Hotel, an outsider becomes an insider. Finding what’s been missing for so long, up in ...

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Toe Tags
Toe Tags

The Valley Creek Apartments seem to be a magnet for rich, beautiful people. But the rent has just go...

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All the Words on the Page
All the Words on the Page

When a script is unexpectedly switched, a dyslexic actor struggles to navigate his conservatory audi...

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Cymbeline
Cymbeline

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire....

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10 Crosby
10 Crosby

A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City....

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Another Telepathic Thing
Another Telepathic Thing

A live performance film documenting Big Dance Theater's production Another Telepathic Thing, a piece...

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How to Seduce Difficult Women
How to Seduce Difficult Women

Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challeng...

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The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a v...

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Starring Austin Pendleton
Starring Austin Pendleton

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of ch...

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Streamers
Streamers

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one anoth...

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Beloved
Beloved

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver...

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No Such Thing
No Such Thing

A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creat...

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Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat

When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police...

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Lorenzo's Oil
Lorenzo's Oil

Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is di...

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Subway Stories
Subway Stories

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which ra...

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Anamorph
Anamorph

A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates...

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29th Street
29th Street

After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at ...

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend

Kimmy's a famous author and she's about to marry a prince! But first she has to foil the Reverend's ...

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The Host
The Host

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han Rive...

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Brace Up!
Brace Up!

The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and dire...

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The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terribl...

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Rachel Getting Married
Rachel Getting Married

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend ...

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Speechless
Speechless

In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick ...

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The Substitute 2: School's Out
The Substitute 2: School's Out

When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his ...

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Arresting Gena
Arresting Gena

A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) an...

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