Screenplay: James Benning

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Benning. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Chicago Loop (S)

1976 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Plot In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing rapidity to a point where they first fracture and then...

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Faces

2011 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Cast Lynn Carlin · Seymour Cassel · John Marley · Gena Rowlands

Plot James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As Benning explains, he’s reconstructed Cassavetes’s Faces in such a way...

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Michigan Avenue (S)

1974 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction James Benning · Bette Gordon

Cast Lissa Hirsch · Debby Lippman

Plot An investigation into a relationship between two women in time and space.

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Nightfall

2012 · Documentary · 98 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

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North on Evers

1992 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Cast Willem Dafoe

Plot In "North of Evers", James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, and disturbing portrait of contemporary America. In...

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L. Cohen

2018 · Documentary · 48 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

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Readers

2017 · Documentary · 108 min. · United States

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After Warhol

2011 · Documentary · 65 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

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Farocki

2014 · Documentary · 77 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

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One Way Boogie Woogie 2012

2012 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Plot In summer 2011, James Benning returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to make a third version of his seminal 1977 film 'One Way Boogie Woogie'. In 1977 he filmed 60...

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Him and Me

1982 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Cast Annette Michelson · Rebecca Pauly

Plot "Him and Me" has Benning's hallmarks: pristine cinematography, a quasi-autobiographical stance, and a minimalist structure that juxtaposes concrete realities with off-screen mysteries. This is one man's journey through the American...

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Faces 1973 (S)

2010 · Documentary · 25 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

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The United States of America

2022 · Documentary · 98 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Plot A crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to...

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Fresh Air

2016 · Documentary · 45 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

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Telemundo

2018 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Cast James Benning · Sofía Brito

Plot Two people watch a film being broadcast on Telemundo, a Spanish-language television station. The sound of the film along with commercials can be heard. They occasionally talk to each other,...

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Four Corners

1998 · Documentary · 80 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Cast James Benning · Hartmut Bitomsky · Billy Woodberry · Sup Song Yae

Plot James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and wholly imaginary place Four Corners, that favorite tourist destination...

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The United States of America

1975 · Documentary · 27 min. · United States

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Maggie's Farm

2020 · Documentary · 84 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Plot A portrait of an art institution as a cinematic landscape: in a succession of static shots, James Benning explores the buildings and terrain of the California Institute of the Arts,...

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Grand Opera

1979 · Documentary · 84 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

Plot A transitional film at the end of his first decade of filmmaking, James Benning’s Grand Opera introduces a degree of storytelling to his previously more formalist devices. Benning calls the...

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Postscript (S)

2012 · Documentary · 7 min. · United States

Direction James Benning

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