Magdalen (1998)
Magdalen is a tavern Scheherazade, a prostitute who sells stories in a seedy Philadelphia dive bar. Her clients include Mr. Jones, an angry black businessman who wants to hear the same graphic, sexual fantasy every night; Jace, a droll, Mishima-loving slacker/writer looking for an ending to his novel; Phil, a precocious skater-boy who wants to understand his dead father; and Edward, a shy 53-year-old virgin looking for love. Alix D. Smith is Magdalen McElhinney, a tough, brainy femme noir, whose name suggests that the film's director is the father she talks about obsessively. Littered with literary and cinematic allusions, the film's narrators make Magdalen part Warholian confessional and part Brechtian taproom comedy.
Director: Andrew Repasky McElhinney
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Alix D. Smith as Magdalen McElhinney |
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David Semonin as Edward Semonin |
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David Semonin as Edward Semonin |
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Moira Rankin as The Old Lady |
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Jace Gaffney as Jace |
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John Terry Jones as Mr. Jones |
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Phil Hooven as Phil |
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Nathan Hopson as Nathan |
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Suzanne B. Repasky as The Heroine Of Jace's Novel |
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Andrew Repasky McElhinney as Andrew |
| Production | Andrew Repasky McElhinney | Producer |
| Writing | Andrew Repasky McElhinney | Writer |
| Directing | Andrew Repasky McElhinney | Director |
| Crew | Abe Holtz | Cinematography |
| Sound | Ron Kalish | Sound Editor |
| Production | Amanda Scheiner | Associate Producer |
| Production | Carl Spicer | Associate Producer |
| Production | Erica Downe | Co-Producer |
