Christian Blackwood
Directing
1942-07-07 · Berlin, Germany
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.
Filmography
Conversations with Philip Guston
2003 · Movie
Real Sex
1990 · Series
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990 · Movie
Motel
1989 · Movie
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
1988 · Movie
POV
1988 · Series
Signed: Lino Brocka
1987 · Movie
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986 · Movie
Aznavour: Breaking America
1985 · Movie
The Soldier's Tale
1984 · Movie
Observations Under the Volcano
1984 · Movie
All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
1982 · Movie
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
1982 · Movie
Edith Head
1981 · Movie
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981 · Movie
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
1980 · Movie
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1978 · Movie
Yesterday's Witness
1976 · Movie
Hollywood's Musical Moods
1976 · Movie
Isamu Noguchi
1972 · Movie
Larry Rivers
1972 · Movie
San Domingo
1970 · Movie
Summer in the City
1970 · Movie
Sex-Business: Made in Pasing
1970 · Movie
David Hockney's Diaries
1970 · Movie
Jim Dine: London
1970 · Movie
Harlem Theater
1969 · Movie
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
1969 · Movie
Christo: Wrapped Coast
1969 · Movie
Monk
1968 · Movie
Monk in Europe
1968 · Movie
Lockenköpfchen
1967 · Movie
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
1967 · Movie
Not Reconciled
1965 · Movie
German Film Award
1951 · Series
The Murderers Are Among Us
1946 · Movie
Tapdancin'
Movie
Juilliard
Movie