Filmmaker • Screenwriter • Journalist
Peter Cohn is a New York-based filmmaker and writer. He made his first film in 1995, the critically acclaimed dramatic feature Drunks, shot in a church basement and on the streets of Times Square in 14 days. Since then, his films have explored immigration, domestic violence and the conflict in the West Bank.
Films
Stories from the Edge
Holy Land (2014)
An unprecedented documentary about a dramatic and tumultuous year in the West Bank, the film zeroes in on the explosive issue of the Israeli settlements. Its protagonists are both Israeli settlers and the Israelis and Palestinians who oppose them.
Power And Control (2010)
Kim, a Duluth, MN mother of three, is at the center of the story. As Kim and her fragile daughters take up residence in a shelter, we follow the harrowing struggles in a single-parenting survivor’s quest to find work, housing and peace of mind.
Golden Venture (2006)
In what was the largest apprehension of undocumented immigrants in US history, the grounding of the freighter Golden Venture off a New York City beach became a crucial turning point in the legal and political battle over US immigration policy.
Drunks (1995)
Actor-comedian Richard Lewis and Academy Award winners Faye Dunaway and Dianne Wiest lead an all-star cast that includes Amanda Plummer, Parker Posey, Spalding Gray, Calista Flockhart and Sam Rockwell in this story of friendship, survival and redemption.
Rants
A Philosophy of Compassionate Skepticism
BREAKING: Sec. State Rubio clarifies foreign movie tax, explains it will also include 100% to 200% tax on "foreign influenced" film shot in the US, with a 300% tax on any films with "Fellini-sque scenes" and a "Cahier du Cinema tax" to be levied from any film elements that may have been derived from discussions in the famed French periodical...
"Sinners"... I think critics are contorting themselves in order to be polite. This is one half of a very good movie, and one half of a rather dumb vampire flick.. I just don't buy that the vampires are some kind of meaningful metaphor. I respect Coogler, he doesn't want to make an intelligent move that doesn't make any money. So he tacks on the exploitation genre, not only zombies but there's a Rambo machine gun thing as well as a kill the klan thing. But isn't it sad that it could have been a 100% excellent film? He really captured something about the Delta and the birth of the blues in the first half. I could have gone a bit more with the horror thing if he had built it in a little bit more in connection with the crossroads myth and all the superstitious traditions involving mojo hands and black cat bones etc. One of the superb characters was a practitioner of that sort of herbal magic. But any movie that has Buddy Guy in it can't be all bad...
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