Patti Smith Movies

  • 1980
    No. 18: Mahagonny

    No. 18: Mahagonny

    No. 18: Mahagonny

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    Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

    No. 18: Mahagonny
  • 2018
    Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band

    Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band

    Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band

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    Patti Smith's final concerts at the Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of her album "Horses".

    Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
  • 2022
    Patti Smith: Electric Poet

    Patti Smith: Electric Poet

    Patti Smith: Electric Poet

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    At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever...

    Patti Smith: Electric Poet
  • 1971
    West Side Stories

    West Side Stories

    West Side Stories

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    Two impressions of New York - a city of dreams or nightmares. The Outsider: Jonathan Miller 'If you enter New York in the first place in a show...

    West Side Stories
  • 2014
    Three Stones for Jean Genet

    Three Stones for Jean Genet

    Three Stones for Jean Genet

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    In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones,...

    Three Stones for Jean Genet
  • 2014
    The 8th Floor

    The 8th Floor

    The 8th Floor

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    On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David...

    The 8th Floor
  • 1979
    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast

    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast

    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast

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    A career-spanning 1979 concert by Patti Smith and her band from Essen, Germany and broadcast on WDR's Rockpalast. Bonus interview after the concert.

    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast
  • 1997
    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

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    This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close...

    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
  • 2009
    Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)

    Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)

    Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)

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    A short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote. We take a walk in her changing...

    Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
  • 1970
    Chelsea Hotel

    Chelsea Hotel

    Chelsea Hotel

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    A pilot for a documentary film capturing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1970s. The film was never finished due to budget issues. 'A...

    Chelsea Hotel
  • 1998
    Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

    Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

    Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

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    Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". Part of the cycle of The First 40.

    Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
  • 2018
    Kurt Everywhere

    Kurt Everywhere

    Kurt Everywhere

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    Kurt Everywhere
  • 1978
    Still Moving/Patti Smith

    Still Moving/Patti Smith

    Still Moving/Patti Smith

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    Short film by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. A portrait of Patti Smith.

    Still Moving/Patti Smith