Often cited for his quaint, ironic, humorous, close-to-the-skin story-telling talents - "the Woody Allen of the American Independents," said one critic - Amos Kollek is an actor-writer-screenwriter-director all rolled into one. He knows Manhattan like the back of his hand. His films are filled with a bevy of familiar Village characters: bar-hoppers and park-benchers, retirees and wanabees, the lonely and the beautiful. In ANGELA, his first Erotic Tale, Amos Kollek told a delightfully funny fairy tale about an ordinary guy aching for one last fling at the tender age of 70. In MUSIC he extends the metaphor to embrace a city that never sleeps - as though Manhattan at night is the very essence of the elusive, vulnerable woman. Spiced with surreal, Kafkaesque twists, MUSIC is about a man who loves music and is fascinated by the fair sex. But he is not quite sure why and how he has ended up in this strange hotel room ...
Amos Kollek - Director
Born: Jerusalem, Israel 1947
Israeli Army 1965-1968
BA in Psychology and Philosophy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem 1971
Novels:
1971 Don’t Ask Me If I Love
(Gewinner des M.Evans Award for Fiction,1971)
1973 The Girl Who Brought the War
1976 After They Hanged Him
1980 The Apple, The Singing And The Gold
1995 4 Weeks in Gaza
Non-Fiction:
1979 For Jerusalem, A Life
by Teddy Kollek and Amos Kollek
Filmography:
Feature Films:
2003 Nowhere to go but up (working title) (writer, director)
2002 Bridget (writer, director)
2001 Queenie in Love (writer, director)
2000 Fast Food, Fast Woman (writer, director)
with Anna Thomson, Jamie Harris, Louise Lasser, Robert Modica; produced by Hengameh Panahi
1999 Fiona (writer, directors, co-producer)
with Anna Thomson
1997 Sue (writer, director, co-producer)
with Anna Thomson, Matthew Powers
(winner of the INTERNATIONAL CIRITCS AWARD and the ECUMENICAL AWARD at the Berlin Film Festival 1998 )
(Anna Thomson, winner of Special Acting Award at the Montreal Film Festival, 1999)
1994 Whore 2 (Bad Girls) (writer, director, actor)
with Marla Sucharetza, Mari Nelson; produced by Julian Schlossberg
1992 Double Edge (writer, director, co-producer, actor)
with Faye Dunaway
1989 High Stakes (writer, director, producer)
with Sally Kirkland, Robert LuPne, Richard Lynch, Kathy Bates
1987 Forever, Lulu (writer, director, producer, actor)
with Hanna Schygulla, Alec Baldwin, Deborah Harry
1984 Goodbye New York (writer, director, producer, actor)
with Julie Hagerty
1979 Worlds Apart (writer, co-producer, actor)
Documentaries:
2002 Bitter Glory (nominated for Grimme Award)
1996 Teddy Kollek (director)
Shorts:
Angela – EROTIC TALE (writer, director) 2000
with Victor Argo, Valerie Geffner, Austin Pendleton
Articles:
Ms’ariv, La’Isha, The Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, Die Zeit
