Anthony Moore Movies
- 1986
An engaging, broad-based, and informative exploration of the pre-history of movies, this documentary is one of the rare cinematographic looks at the origins of the filmmaker's craft. Director Werner Nekes uses his own collection of "motion picture" techniques to illustrate a chronological progression through the 17th to the 20th centuries, from playing with visual tricks to developing mechanical illusions of movement, and finally, using electricity to create new forms of visual experience. In addition to this tour of devices and their effects, Nekes also provides valuable information on which museums hold significant collections of pre-film and film history, and on which books are the best on the subject. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver), a psychiatrist famous for her writings about serial murderers, is nearly killed by obsessed psychopath Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick Jr.). As a result of this trauma, Helen becomes a drunken, pill-taking agoraphobic who can't leave her San Francisco apartment. After a series of bizarre murders, she calls the police suggesting that the murders were the work of a serial killer. Detective M.J. Monahan (Holly Hunter) and her assistant Ruben (Dermot Mulroney) believe Helen and discover, during the investigation, that the man is re-creating murders by the killers described in Helen's book: The Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy, Son of Sam and the Hillside Strangler. After Helen's secretary, Andy (John Rothmen) is murdered, Helen begins to fear for her own life. The film has a dramatic, terrifying conclusion as Helen confronts the killer and must overcome her own fears to save herself. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, (more)
- 1997
For this 84-minute German-made experimental film, director Werner Nekes created artistic abstractions of nude models in a painterly approach evocative of Matisse, Duchamp, and Durer, heightened by the sonic atmospherics of Anthony Moore's music score. Shown at the 1997 Venice Film Festival, this film should not be confused with Robert P. Davies' Day of the Painter, the 1961 winner of the "Best Live Action Short Subject" Academy Award. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kirsten Dressler, Helde Jansen, (more)
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