Lionel Rogosin
1924 - 2000
On the Bowery
Lionel Rogosin
Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City's skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray.
On the Bowery
Arab Israeli Dialogue
Lionel Rogosin
Rashed Hussien, Amos Kenan
The tenth and final film directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. It is a filmed debate between the Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein and Amos Kenan, shot in the basement of Rogosin's Bleecker Street Cinema by Louis Brigante.
Arab Israeli Dialogue
Good Times, Wonderful Times
Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chatter. Good Times, Wonderful Times was released in 1964 at the height of the Vietnam War, and became one of the great anti-war films of the era.
Good Times, Wonderful Times
Black Roots
Lionel Rogosin
Jim Collier, Gary Davis
Black Roots is the fourth feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film gathers a number of African American folk and blues musicians in a room, where they share stories and songs about the black experience in America.
Black Roots
An American in Sophiatown
Earl Lloyd Ross
Lionel Rogosin
Interwoven with clips from the original film "Come Back Africa", the late Lionel Rogosin tells the story of how he penetrated Sophiatown, Johannesburg during the iron rule of the apartheid regime. In what develops like a political thriller, An American in Sophiatown is one of the most damning portrayals of this police state.
An American in Sophiatown
