Directing
John Magary
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Directing
Credits
14 titles
Magary grew up in Dallas, Texas.
Known for
5.6A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.
Between the Temples
2024
5.5A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.
Love After Love
2018
NRA failed filmmaker turned single dad tries to make a living while retaining his sense of self, in James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ experimental 3D-rendered home renovation comedy, which doubles as an acidic treatise on working conditions for the contemporary creative.
The Misconceived
2026
10.0This video journal of the film's production features unseen on-set footage of the cast and crew. A part of the Criterion Collection release of Marriage Story.
The Making of "Marriage Story"
2020
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Ghosts
2005
4.8Mat and Alan, estranged brothers, reunite just before Alan leaves for a vacation with his girlfriend. When he returns sooner than expected without his girlfriend, Alan finds Mat and his family have moved into his apartment.
The Mend
2014
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
5.6A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.
Between the Temples
2024
NRA failed filmmaker turned single dad tries to make a living while retaining his sense of self, in James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ experimental 3D-rendered home renovation comedy, which doubles as an acidic treatise on working conditions for the contemporary creative.
The Misconceived
2026
NR14 years after Dan Sallitt’s The Unspeakable Act (2012), we catch up with Jackie, now a married therapist-in-training who attempts to resolve issues of sexual dysfunction with her husband before deciding to visit her brother and newly pregnant sister-in-law.
What Can't Be Mentioned
2026
7.0This short film evokes the COVID-19 pandemic’s hemorrhaging of our normalcy while paying homage to Martin Scorsese’s 1967 short, “The Big Shave.”
The Big Trim
2021
2010s · 3 titles
5.5A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.
Love After Love
2018
An educational film that compares and contrasts the life of a monkey from Bali with the life of a man from New York.
Monkey and Man
2017
5.5Caterina was born in South America but lives in New York. Her willingness to make close emotional connections to others is as much of a burden as it is a gift.
Caterina
2019
2000s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
10.0This video journal of the film's production features unseen on-set footage of the cast and crew. A part of the Criterion Collection release of Marriage Story.
The Making of "Marriage Story"
2020
4.8Mat and Alan, estranged brothers, reunite just before Alan leaves for a vacation with his girlfriend. When he returns sooner than expected without his girlfriend, Alan finds Mat and his family have moved into his apartment.
The Mend
2014
4.8Mat and Alan, estranged brothers, reunite just before Alan leaves for a vacation with his girlfriend. When he returns sooner than expected without his girlfriend, Alan finds Mat and his family have moved into his apartment.
The Mend
2014
4.8Mat and Alan, estranged brothers, reunite just before Alan leaves for a vacation with his girlfriend. When he returns sooner than expected without his girlfriend, Alan finds Mat and his family have moved into his apartment.
The Mend
2014
7.0This short film evokes the COVID-19 pandemic’s hemorrhaging of our normalcy while paying homage to Martin Scorsese’s 1967 short, “The Big Shave.”
The Big Trim
2021
NRAfter MacArthur's savings are stolen from his FEMA trailer, he and his cousin Natt take work gutting a house.
The Second Line
2007