Alexandre Rockwell

Directing

Alexandre Rockwell

Born

1956-08-18 (70)

Place of birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

37 titles

Alexandre Rockwell was born in Boston in 1956. His first film, LENZ, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982. After his road movie HERO (1983), he directed the legendary SAM FULLER IN SONS (1989). In 1992 he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his film IN THE SOUP, which made his reputation as one of the most interesting filmmakers on America’s independent film scene. SOMEBODY TO LOVE (1994) competed at the Venice flim Festival. Rockwell also directed ‘The Wrong Man’ segment of the anthology film FOUR ROOMS (1995), as well as the comedies LOUIS & FRANK (1998), 13 MOONS (2002) and PETE SMALLS IS DEAD (2010). In 2017, he was appointed head of directing at the gradu…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

13 Moons poster
5.5

Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.

13 Moons

2002

Nobody Wants Your Film poster
4.0

Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking process, capturing the trivialities, aggravations and enthusiasm that go into completing a picture. Using footage from an indie movie set, e-mails constructing a plotline about distributor difficulties and interviews with indie mainstays such as Steve Buscemi and Sam Rockwell, the film provides a riveting look at one producer's rejections and rewards.

Nobody Wants Your Film

2005

Edge of Outside poster
5.8

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.

Edge of Outside

2006

Rockets Redglare! poster
7.7

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character actor who left his indelible mark wherever he went. This film chronicles Rockets' last days, hunting for methadone in Puerto Rico and telling stories from his past.

Rockets Redglare!

2003

Dreams about Alfeoni poster
NR

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films in the history of animation and the inventor of a unique device — a needle screen . He did the first color commercials and the prologue to the Orson Welles film "The Trial". He made dreams come true and subordinated reality to his own imagination.

Dreams about Alfeoni

2002

Behind the camera

Four Rooms poster
5.9

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.

Four Rooms

1995

Four Rooms poster
5.9

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.

Four Rooms

1995

The Projectionist poster
NR

In a forgotten theater, a haunted man's past flickers back to life-forcing a final reckoning.

The Projectionist

2026

Pete Smalls Is Dead poster
4.6

Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.

Pete Smalls Is Dead

2010

Pete Smalls Is Dead poster
4.6

Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.

Pete Smalls Is Dead

2010

Pete Smalls Is Dead poster
4.6

Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.

Pete Smalls Is Dead

2010

Somebody to Love poster
5.2

Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.

Somebody to Love

1994

Somebody to Love poster
5.2

Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.

Somebody to Love

1994

In the Soup poster
6.7

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

In the Soup

1992

In the Soup poster
6.7

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

In the Soup

1992

Sweet Thing poster
6.7

For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and their apparently idyllic family life collapses. Their mostly absent and irresponsible mother is not much help either. But their friendship with Malik, a boy of Billie’s age, frees them from their shackles. Together they embark on a journey full of intense moments of freedom. The colourful, emotional world of the three young people is depicted in kaleidoscopic black and white imagery, which opens space for their own notions of childhood. Alexandre Rockwell's tale portrays a profound sense of solidarity and deep love: for cinema and Billie Holiday, and also for risk and adventure.

Sweet Thing

2020

Sweet Thing poster
6.7

For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and their apparently idyllic family life collapses. Their mostly absent and irresponsible mother is not much help either. But their friendship with Malik, a boy of Billie’s age, frees them from their shackles. Together they embark on a journey full of intense moments of freedom. The colourful, emotional world of the three young people is depicted in kaleidoscopic black and white imagery, which opens space for their own notions of childhood. Alexandre Rockwell's tale portrays a profound sense of solidarity and deep love: for cinema and Billie Holiday, and also for risk and adventure.

Sweet Thing

2020

13 Moons poster
5.5

Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.

13 Moons

2002

13 Moons poster
5.5

Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.

13 Moons

2002

13 Moons poster
5.5

Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.

13 Moons

2002

Little Feet poster
6.1

Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey.

Little Feet

2013

Little Feet poster
6.1

Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey.

Little Feet

2013

Hero poster
5.4

A group of misfits sets out from Los Angeles for a destination they never arrive at.

Hero

1983

Hero poster
5.4

A group of misfits sets out from Los Angeles for a destination they never arrive at.

Hero

1983

Lump poster
5.0

Ralph, a mourning detective, discovers an unwelcome lump and an equally unwelcome partner, Xavier. The investigator contends with Xavier’s exuberance as they navigate a quirky partnership between unlikely cases, themselves and a mysterious lump.

Lump

2024

Lump poster
5.0

Ralph, a mourning detective, discovers an unwelcome lump and an equally unwelcome partner, Xavier. The investigator contends with Xavier’s exuberance as they navigate a quirky partnership between unlikely cases, themselves and a mysterious lump.

Lump

2024

Louis & Frank poster
4.5

Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.

Louis & Frank

1998

Louis & Frank poster
4.5

Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.

Louis & Frank

1998

Louis & Frank poster
4.5

Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.

Louis & Frank

1998

In the Same Garden poster
NR

We all live on the same planet, under one sun which nurtures and renews our unique and common hopes for the future. No matter how much we differ from each other in color, ethnicity and belief, we all share the same source of life, united in our destinies. An omnibus film on the topic of Turkish - Armenian relations.

In the Same Garden

2016

Sons poster
5.2

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.

Sons

1990

Sons poster
5.2

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.

Sons

1990

Lenz poster
4.8

A loose adaptation of German writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner's novella of the same name, which in turn chronicles the life of writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-92) and his gradual slide into insanity.

Lenz

1982

Lenz poster
4.8

A loose adaptation of German writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner's novella of the same name, which in turn chronicles the life of writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-92) and his gradual slide into insanity.

Lenz

1982

Lenz poster
4.8

A loose adaptation of German writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner's novella of the same name, which in turn chronicles the life of writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-92) and his gradual slide into insanity.

Lenz

1982