Henry Rosenthal Filmography

Occupation:
Producer

  • The Devil and Daniel Johnston

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Daniel Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Bill Johnston, Kathy McCarty, Jeff Tatrakov

    Synopsis: A decade after wowing critics with his debut feature Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King, director Jeff Feuerzeig finally delivered his sophomore effort -- a documentary about the life and music of singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston. Using archived film clips and recordings with newly shot Read More

    3/31/06

  • Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: If you've ever flipped through a supermarket tabloid, vintage comic book, or various sorts of pulp magazines, it's not unlikely you've seen ads in which a "record company" or "song publisher" claims to be looking for new, fresh material. This is the most public face of what is known to music buffs Read More

    2003

  • A Sign from God

    Actors: Caveh Zahedi, Henry Rosenthal

    Synopsis: Indie filmmaker Greg Watkins directs this indie film about an indie filmmaker who wants to direct indie films. The protagonist (Caveh Zehedi) remains undaunted by overdue loans, eviction notices, and his girlfriend's pregnancy, and he perseveres, trying to direct an all-dwarf version of "Little Read More

    2000

  • Conceiving Ada

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Karen Black, Dr. Timothy Leary, John O'Keefe

    Synopsis: In 1980 the U.S. Department of Defense named the Ada programming language in honor of Lord Byron's daughter, the mathematician Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), credited as the "first computer programmer" because of her plan for calculating Bernoulli numbers. Lady Ada was 18 when Read More

    1997

  • I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Ali Zahedi, Greg Watkins, Amin Zahedi, Caveh Zahedi

    Synopsis: This exercise in documentary self-revelation was prompted in part by the filmmaker's conviction that "if God exists, He'll make it (the film} entertaining..." Aspiring filmmaker Caveh Zahedi travels with his family and film crew to Las Vegas from their homes, quarrelling and bickering all the way. Read More

    1994

  • Mod Fuck Explosion

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Bonnie Steiger, Jacques Boyreau, Jon Moritsugu

    Synopsis: This odd, politically incorrect underground film is focused upon groups of bikers. One of the storylines follows teenaged London who has trouble deciding whether to sacrifice her virginity in exchange for a black leather jacket or to simply make out with M-16, a nervous young biker with a Read More

    1994

  • The Bed You Sleep In

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Ellen McLaughlin

    Synopsis: In this independently produced drama, a timbermill owner is having great difficulty sustaining a livelihood due to overcutting and peculiarities of the international trade situation. Despite the damaging effect his mill has on the local environment, he appears to be someone who really enjoys the Read More

    1993

  • Frame Up

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Howard Swain

    Synopsis: Made on short ends of film left over from The Bed You Sleep In, Frameup is a freewheeling road comedy about a pair of dimwitted lovers on the run. Ricky-Lee (Howard Swain), a two-bit criminal prone to spouting lengthy, obscenity-laced soliloquies, meets Beth-Ann (Nancy Carlin), an airheaded Read More

    1993

  • The Living End

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Darcy Marta, Scot Goetz

    Synopsis: A gentle film critic hooks up with a violent drifter in this HIV-positive road movie, which marked the emergence of writer/director Gregg Araki into the art house mainstream. Jon (Craig Gilmore) has just learned he has the virus that causes AIDS. Still in a state of shock, he stumbles through his Read More

    1992

  • All the Vermeers in New York

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Emmanuelle Chaulet, Stephen Lack, Grace Phillips, Gracie Mansion, Gordon Joseph Weiss

    Synopsis: From experimental filmmaker Jon Jost comes this romantic drama comprised of mostly improvised scenes. Emmanuelle Chaulet plays Anna, a struggling French actress in New York who meets an overworked financial broker named Mark in the Vermeer Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anna resembles one Read More

    1990

  • Sure Fire

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Tom Blair, Robert Ernst

    Synopsis: Like Last Chants for a Slow Dance, Jon Jost's Sure Fire features Tom Blair in a dark, tragic character study. Blair plays Wes, a small-time real estate tycoon with big plans to lure urban Californians to his rural Utah town with the promise of cheap vacation homes. Wes applies his scheming Read More

    1990

  • Rembrandt Laughing

    Crew: Co-producer

    Actors: Jon A. English, Barbara Hammes, Jennifer Johanson, Ed Green, Nathaniel Dorsky

    Synopsis: The title refers to a rare etching of Dutch artist Rembrandt. Jon A. English plays a young musician who expresses his love for former girl friend Barbara Hammes by presenting her with a Xeroxed copy of the Rembrandt etching. Though Hammes is touched, she doesn't want to get back together with English Read More

    1989

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