Alan Berliner Movies

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and...

Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny...

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.

Part road trip, part coming-of-middle-age tale, Cowles’ laconic humour and frank approach to his subject proves effective in exploring aspects...

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly...

Director Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this affecting and graceful study of family history and memory....

Alan Berliner uses the internet to track down 12 men who share his surname, and invites them over for dinner in New York.

Cars, trucks pedestrians and the line they cross over, by and through.

Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner considers the power of photography and what may be lost as daily newspapers face extinction, in this documentary...

Alan Berliner has been chronicling the final years of his friend, cousin, and former mentor, Edwin Honig - distinguished poet, translator, critic,...

THE FAMILY ALBUM is a one-hour experimental documentary film utilizing a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the 1950s....

A symphony of found footage scenes, each shot loosely connected to the one before.

A documentary about the director's maternal grandfather.

City Edition immerses us in a lived experience of the fourth estate, beginning with the print-run and purchase of a single issue of the New York...

A student film by a fledgling master––a single-shot "research report" on Berliner's experiences as the Harpur College Film Society...

"From there to here...from then to now. The soundtrack feature 33 frogs, 22 birds, lion growls, bomb whistles, a heartbeat and the chromatic scale."

"...Berliner's film which talks about nature, culture, and technology impresses through its outstanding classical editing technique...Berliner finds...

Relentless camera movements over a busy urban intersection, following the lines of force.