Stephen Cone is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party and The Wise Kids are available on DVD and VOD. His latest, Princess Cyd, premiered at Maryland Film Festival, was an official selection of BAMcinemaFest and Frameline, and will be theatrically released by Wolfe Releasing. In November 2017, he will be the subject of a career retrospective at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. Stephen also teaches acting and filmmaking at Northwestern University and Acting Studio Chicago.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
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Shadows
John Cassavetes
1959
97 min
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Faces
John Cassavetes
1968
130 min
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A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
1974
155 min
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
John Cassavetes
1976
135 min
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Opening Night
John Cassavetes
1977
144 min
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Love Streams
UnavailableJohn Cassavetes
1984
141 min
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The Long Day Closes
Terence Davies
1992
85 min
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Shoah
UnavailableClaude Lanzmann
1985
566 min
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Mulholland Dr.
UnavailableDavid Lynch
2001
147 min
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French Cancan
Jean Renoir
1955
102 min
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Broadcast News
UnavailableJames L. Brooks
1987
133 min
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Days of Heaven
UnavailableTerrence Malick
1978
94 min
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The Thin Red Line
UnavailableTerrence Malick
1998
171 min
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The New World
UnavailableTerrence Malick
2005
151 min
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Day of Wrath
Carl Th. Dreyer
1943
97 min
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Ordet
Carl Th. Dreyer
1955
125 min
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Gertrud
Carl Th. Dreyer
1964
119 min
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
UnavailableDavid Fincher
2008
166 min
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Close-up
Abbas Kiarostami
1990
98 min
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A Christmas Tale
Arnaud Desplechin
2008
152 min
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Something Wild
Jonathan Demme
1986
114 min
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My Darling Clementine
UnavailableJohn Ford
1946
97 min
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News from Home
Chantal Akerman
1976
89 min