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Christian Blackwood
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.
As director
Motel
Signed: Lino Brocka
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Aznavour: Breaking America
The Soldier's Tale
Observations Under the Volcano
All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
Edith Head
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Hollywood's Musical Moods
Yesterday's Witness
Isamu Noguchi
Jim Dine: London
Summer in the City
David Hockney's Diaries
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
Monk in Europe
Monk
Juilliard
Tapdancin'
