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Henry Alex Rubin

Henry Alex Rubin

Directing

Biography

Henry-Alex Rubin studied film at Phillips Academy, Andover and Columbia University. The son of a French mother and American father (art historian James H. Rubin), he spent his life between Europe and the United States. Henry-Alex directed the humorous cult film Who is Henry Jaglom? (PBS, First Run Features, w/ Candice Bergen, Dennis Hopper) produced Freestyle (Palm Pictures, w/ Mos Def, The Roots, Biggie), which won Best Documentary at the Woodstock, LAIFF and Urbanworld Film Festivals and co-directed Murderball (Thinkfilm, MTV Films) with his friend, the novelist Dana Adam Shapiro. Murderball won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Henry-Alex was mentored by James Mangold (Walk the Line) directing the Second Unit on several films including Cop Land and Girl, Interrupted. His next project is a fiction film, scheduled to shoot in Spring 2007, about a group of returning Iraq War veterans. He is signed to SMUGGLER for directing commercials. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry-Alex Rubin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Girl, Interrupted
7.6

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Girl, Interrupted

1999
Cop Land
6.8

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.

Cop Land

1997
Disconnect
7.1

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

Disconnect

2013
Semper Fi
6.0

Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.

Semper Fi

2019
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.8

Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

1997
Murderball
7.1

Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Murderball

2005
The Raid
7.0

Set nine months before 24: Legacy begins, The Raid puts us at the center of a Special Forces assault against the compound of terrorist leader Sheik Ibrahim Bin-Khalid.

The Raid

2017
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
6.9

From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hip-hop--the rarely recorded art form of rhyming spontaneously. Like preachers and jazz solos, freestyles exist only in the moment, a modern-day incarnation of the African-American storytelling tradition. Shot over a period of more than seven years, it is already an underground cult film in the hip-hop world. The film systematically debunks the false image put out by record companies that hip-hop culture is violent or money-obsessed. Instead, it lets real hip-hop artists, known and unknown, weave their story out of a passionate mix of language, politics, and spirituality.

Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme

2000
The Last Verse
4.0

Award-winning songwriting duo Robert and Richard Sherman wrote some of the most classic scores in history, including Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and the most-played tune around the globe, “It’s A Small World.” As his last contribution to Disney and to further influence the song’s message, Richard wrote a third, final verse for “It’s A Small World.” In this short film, in honor of the song’s 60th anniversary, we follow the track as it travels across the globe, passing from one person and generation to the next, until the final verse is revealed.

The Last Verse

2024
Evan
N/A

As the school year winds down, one student finds himself starting an unexpected relationship.

Evan

2016