John Amplas - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Day of the Dead (1985)

Creepshow (1982)

Knightriders (1981)

Bloodeaters (1980)

Midnight (1980)

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Women Make Film: Party Girl (1995), Alicia Malone, Claudia Weill

Women Make Film: Girlfriends (1978), Alicia Malone, Claudia Weill

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Day of the Dead (1985)

Creepshow (1982)

Knightriders (1981)

Bloodeaters (1980)

Midnight (1980)

Casting (Feature Film)

Dawn of the Dead (1979)

Special Thanks (Feature Film)

The Dark Half (1993)

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Life Events

Videos

Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A War With My Mother The first scene following the credits, with the two de facto title characters, previously just introduced, Melanie Mayron as photographer Susan and Anita Skinner as aspiring writer Anne, in Claudia Weill’s celebrated feature debut Girlfriends, 1978.

Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Thank You For The Hideous Buddha Anne (Anita Skinner) and her husband Martin (Bob Balaban) working on thank-you’s for wedding presents, decide to invite her now ex-roommate, photographer Susan (Melanie Mayron) to their suburban home for the weekend, in Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends, 1978.

Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) How Can You Get Married? Minimal staging from first-time director Claudia Weill, Susan (Melanie Mayron) rushes to the laundromat with news for roommate Anne (Anita Skinner), who has an update of her own, with the off-screen first appearance of Bob Balaban as boyfriend Martin, in Girlfriends, 1978.

Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Caught The Bouquet At a party following her roommate’s wedding, struggling New York photographer Susan (Melanie Mayron) is greeted by hostess Terry (Jean De Baer), and the sublime first appearance of Christopher Guest as Harry, Claudia Weill directing from Vicki Polon’s screenplay, in Girlfriends, 1978.

Anna Lucasta (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, That's Anna With a title tune written by composer Elmer Bernstein and Sammy Cahn, Sammy Davis Jr. vocal opening his first movie as an actor, Eartha Kitt in the title role as a San Diego streetwalker, the 1958 re-working of screenwriter Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta.

Anna Lucasta (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Haitian God Of The Sea The jazz score kicks back in as Sammy Davis Jr. (as sailor "Danny," his first scene in his first dramatic role) and pal Lester (Charles Swain) arrive at the San Diego waterfront bar run by Noah (Alvin Childress), come to see the streetwalker title character (Eartha Kitt), in the 1958 version of Anna Lucasta.

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