James Laxton Movies

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he...

One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented...

Sarah Silverman hosts the first episode of Rubberhead - a night of comedy shorts featuring some of her favorite performers. With comedy from Nathan...

In all my years of doing press, I've been repeatedly asked about the white gaze. Rarely have I been set upon about the Black gaze; or the gaze...

After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope...

Aadid tells us his life in seven minutes. He's an Arabic-speaking young man working the night shift at a laundromat and dry cleaners somewhere in the...

In an idyllic suburban neighborhood, Jerry runs his big business lemonade stand and has the market cornered, until ten-year-old Addie opens her own...

The Murder of Hi Good is a true-crime revisionist western set in Northern California, 1870. It details the eventual murder of California’s most...

Another Young Couple — borne out of a camera test for If Beale Street Could Talk, James and I asked my friends Essence and Jihaari, newly...

Wasted on the young? A sci-fi film about growing old in a world of perpetual youth.

A couple discuss their relationship.

Orphaned and haunted by her father's murder, Padma grapples with shattered faith. Enter Dev, a mysterious stranger that challenge her beliefs. As a...

A little brown boy gets caught up in a violent shooting and must come to terms with the incident and the part he has played.

The life of a gay, undocumented immigrant is drastically altered when circumstances take him to a conservative town in Pennsylvania.

This short documentary focuses on the life of Josh Spencer, owner and operator of “The Last Bookstore”, located in Downtown Los Angeles....

A former Black Panther in South Central Los Angeles teaches a course that brings rival gang members and community outreach workers together to...