Charles Rydell
Actor
Movies6
Movie5.4ComedyDramaA 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Union City
1980 · 17 votes
Movie6.7DocumentaryThrough oral histories, archival footage, photographs, and songs associated with the movement, "The Wobblies" tells the story of the Industrial Workers of the World, the radical union founded in Chicago in 1905 to organize workers across trades. Featuring interviews with aging Wobbly members alongside historical materials from early twentieth-century labor struggles, the film explores the union’s role in strikes, worker activism, and the broader fight for labor rights in the United States.
The Wobblies
1979 · 7 votes
Movie7.0ComedyBased on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.
Open the Door and See all the People
1964 · 2 votes
Movie7.0TV MovieCrimeFilmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in the 44th Precinct of the South Bronx, which had the highest crime rate in New York City at that time.
The Police Tapes
1977 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryDuring the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Sitney. The footage of this film comes from those two visits. Later, after Jerome died, Mekas visited his Cassis home in 1974. Footage of that visit constitutes the epilogue of the film. Other people appear in the film, all friends of Jerome.
Notes for Jerome
1978 · 1 votes
Movie7.7ComedyA little boy and his sister forced to spend a day at the beach build a sand castle, to the delight and interest of others. Rich black and white photography collides with a novel fantasy sequence combining color photography, stop motion and cutout animation. Equal parts Jacques Tati, A. Lamorisse and (Hill's perrenial favorite) C. G. Jung.
The Sand Castle
1961 · 3 votes