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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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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Readers
2017 · Documentary · 108 min. · United States
Direction James Benning
Cast Clara McHale-Ribot · Rachel Kushner · Dick Hebdige · Simone Forti
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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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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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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
Direction James Benning · Bette Gordon
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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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