Robert Elswit Movies

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life...

Family celebrations and tensions, Independence Day, Texas 1948

Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent,...

A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film...

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug...

Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at...

Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league...

Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets...

Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second -...

Based on the story by Ray Bradbury. Set on a planet where the sun shines for just a few minutes once every nine years, this is a classic tale of...

Facing his final season with the Detroit Tigers baseball team, veteran outfielder Billy Young sees his dream of playing in the World Series slipping...

Zac is an idealistic student who, after arriving at college, decides to pledge the Gamma Nu Pi fraternity. Unhappy with what he sees as the bigotry...

A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization.

A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always neglected.

Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their...

In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves...

The Great Valley in Africa - a crack of more than 6,500 kilometers in the earth's crust - is the result of the continental fracture that began about...

A tribute to Richard Lester, Philadelphia-born filmmaker who moved to England to direct the modern classics "A Hard Day's Night," "Petulia," and...

A mayoral candidate (Barbara Eden) for a California town gets romantically involved with her opponent (John Forsythe), a former cowboy star.

A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.