Owen Kline has been making comic books, fanzines, small joke books, and novelty records since he was in high school. He is the codirector of the short film Jazzy for Joe (2014), starring the late talk-show legend Joe Franklin. Kline’s feature debut, Funny Pages, a coming-of-age story about a teenage cartoonist, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
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The Bank Dick
UnavailableEdward Cline
1940
72 min
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W. C. Fields—Six Short Films
UnavailableMonte Brice , Clyde Bruckman , Edwin Middleton , Leslie Pearce , and Arthur Ripley
1933
115 min
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The Lady Eve
UnavailablePreston Sturges
1941
97 min
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Sullivan’s Travels
Preston Sturges
1941
91 min
3
Billy Liar
UnavailableJohn Schlesinger
1963
98 min
4
Box Set
Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.
5 films
5
If....
UnavailableLindsay Anderson
1969
105 min
6
They Live by Night
UnavailableNicholas Ray
1948
96 min
7
Crumb
UnavailableTerry Zwigoff
1995
120 min
8
Ride the Pink Horse
UnavailableRobert Montgomery
1947
101 min
9
The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton
1955
93 min
10
Wise Blood
John Huston
1979
106 min