Christian Blackwood

Christian Blackwood

Christian Blackwood was an American film director and cinematographer. He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. But his major work was as the director of over 80 films, mostly documentaries, over a 25-year career. His most famous films are Observations Under The Volcano and On the Set of Death of a Salesman, behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of movies by John Huston and Volker Schlöndorff from the famous novel and play. The latter film won him the grand prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Christian Blackwood died in 1992 of lung cancer. He was married to film writer, producer and fine art photographer, Carolyn Marks Blackwood. His film archives are stored in the Museum of Modern Art.

  • Title: Christian Blackwood
  • Popularity: 1.078
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1942-07-07
  • Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
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  • Also Known As: Christian Schwarzwald
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Christian Blackwood Movies

  • 1946
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    The Murderers Are Among Us

    The Murderers Are Among Us

    7 1946 HD

    After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences...

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  • 1969
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    Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann

    Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann

    1 1969 HD

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  • 2003
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    Conversations with Philip Guston

    Conversations with Philip Guston

    1 2003 HD

    Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970's. Filmed during the making of "Philip Guston: A Life...

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  • 1984
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    The Soldier's Tale

    The Soldier's Tale

    6.333 1984 HD

    A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil.

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  • 1980
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    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    1 1980 HD

    When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

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  • 1978
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    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    7.4 1978 HD

    Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...

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  • 1986
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    Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    1 1986 HD

    Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions...

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  • 1986
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    Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    1 1986 HD

    Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions...

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  • 1984
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    Observations Under the Volcano

    Observations Under the Volcano

    2 1984 HD

    Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.

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  • 1984
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    Observations Under the Volcano

    Observations Under the Volcano

    2 1984 HD

    Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.

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  • 1984
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    Observations Under the Volcano

    Observations Under the Volcano

    2 1984 HD

    Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.

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  • 1987
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    Signed: Lino Brocka

    Signed: Lino Brocka

    4.7 1987 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

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  • 1987
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    Signed: Lino Brocka

    Signed: Lino Brocka

    4.7 1987 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

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  • 1970
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    Jim Dine: London

    Jim Dine: London

    1 1970 HD

    A concentrated look at one of America's early Pop artists, the film was made during Dine's 4-year residency in London. Actively at work in his studio...

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  • 1982
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    All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

    All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

    1 1982 HD

    Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.

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  • 1982
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    All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

    All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

    1 1982 HD

    Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.

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  • 1978
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    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    7.4 1978 HD

    Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...

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  • 1978
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    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    7.4 1978 HD

    Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...

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  • 1978
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    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    7.4 1978 HD

    Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...

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  • 1969
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    Harlem Theater

    Harlem Theater

    1 1969 HD

    HARLEM, USA: in the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s murder, German filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn turned his 16mm camera on the New Lafayette...

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  • 1970
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    Summer in the City

    Summer in the City

    1 1970 HD

    German writer Uwe Johnson lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside where he got to know his neighborhood very well,...

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  • 1970
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    Sex-Business: Made in Pasing

    Sex-Business: Made in Pasing

    5 1970 HD

    Interview with German softcore film director Alois Brummer

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  • 1982
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    Philip Guston: A Life Lived

    Philip Guston: A Life Lived

    1 1982 HD

    Late in life, the artist looks back over a career that originated in social realism during the '30s, moved to the center of Abstract Expressionism,...

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  • 1970
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    San Domingo

    San Domingo

    5.3 1970 HD

    This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a...

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  • 1989
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    Motel

    Motel

    7 1989 HD

    Documentary looking at the culture of three motels and their owners who remain untouched by homogenization and corporatism, located in Santa Fe, New...

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  • 1989
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    Motel

    Motel

    7 1989 HD

    Documentary looking at the culture of three motels and their owners who remain untouched by homogenization and corporatism, located in Santa Fe, New...

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  • 1981
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    Edith Head

    Edith Head

    1 1981 HD

    A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head...

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  • 1981
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    Edith Head

    Edith Head

    1 1981 HD

    A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head...

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  • 1982
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    All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

    All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

    1 1982 HD

    Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.

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  • 1976
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    Hollywood's Musical Moods

    Hollywood's Musical Moods

    1 1976 HD

    In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

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  • 1976
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    Hollywood's Musical Moods

    Hollywood's Musical Moods

    1 1976 HD

    In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

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  • 1968
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    Monk

    Monk

    1 1968 HD

    Part one of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. In 1968, we had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonious Monk and his...

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  • 1968
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    Monk

    Monk

    1 1968 HD

    Part one of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. In 1968, we had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonious Monk and his...

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  • 1969
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    Christo: Wrapped Coast

    Christo: Wrapped Coast

    1 1969 HD

    In 1969, Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 2.5 kilometers of coast and cliffs up to 26 metres along the coast of Little Bay, in Southeast Sydney,...

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  • 1970
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    Aznavour: Breaking America

    Aznavour: Breaking America

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1987
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    Signed: Lino Brocka

    Signed: Lino Brocka

    4.7 1987 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

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  • 1987
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    Signed: Lino Brocka

    Signed: Lino Brocka

    4.7 1987 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

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  • 1980
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    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    1 1980 HD

    When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

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  • 1980
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    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    1 1980 HD

    When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

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  • 1976
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    Yesterday's Witness

    Yesterday's Witness

    1 1976 HD

    For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

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  • 1970
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    Summer in the City

    Summer in the City

    1 1970 HD

    German writer Uwe Johnson lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside where he got to know his neighborhood very well,...

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  • 1989
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    Motel

    Motel

    7 1989 HD

    Documentary looking at the culture of three motels and their owners who remain untouched by homogenization and corporatism, located in Santa Fe, New...

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  • 1990
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    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

    8 1990 HD

    "Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh...

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  • 1968
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    Monk

    Monk

    1 1968 HD

    Part one of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. In 1968, we had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonious Monk and his...

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  • 1968
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    Monk in Europe

    Monk in Europe

    1 1968 HD

    Part two of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. On his European tour his quartet was joined by Ray Copeland, Clark Terry,...

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  • 1965
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    Not Reconciled

    Not Reconciled

    6 1965 HD

    A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a...

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  • 1976
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    Yesterday's Witness

    Yesterday's Witness

    1 1976 HD

    For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

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  • 1970
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    David Hockney's Diaries

    David Hockney's Diaries

    1 1970 HD

    Renowned English painter, David Hockney, takes us on a visual journey as he shares with us his treasured photo diaries. Consisting of polaroids...

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  • 1967
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    Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966

    Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966

    1 1967 HD

    Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 follows the acclaimed German composer to Salzburg and Berlin, documenting his rehearsals for his now famous opera,...

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  • 1972
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    Larry Rivers

    Larry Rivers

    1 1972 HD

    In free-ranging conversations as he works in his studio, Rivers oppositional nature and independent mind are apparent. He reflects on his past...

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  • 1972
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    Isamu Noguchi

    Isamu Noguchi

    1 1972 HD

    Isamu Noguchi talks about his career in this documentary featuring Ezra Pound.

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  • 1986
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    Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    1 1986 HD

    Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions...

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  • 1951
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6 1951 HD

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