Jeff Kite

Composer
Actor
Music Department

NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: LASZLO AND VILMOS. The lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond and their impact on American cinema. As film students in Hungary, Laszlo and Vilmos took to the war-torn streets of Budapest to shoot footage of the Russian invasion, and subsequently volunteered to smuggle it out of the country. Barely escaping with their lives, the two friends fled to America and settled in Hollywood, eventually saving enough money to buy their own 16mm camera.

After working on a string of low-budget horror and biker movies, both men soon rose to prominence in the late 60's and 70's, shooting the films that defined what came to be known as the American New Wave: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, Paper Moon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and more. Working with directors including Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich, and Martin Scorsese, they helped create a new American film aesthetic, and pioneered innovative, fearless ways to tell stories.

Â“When it comes to Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, it's clear that the American New Wave of the late 1960's and early '70s wouldn't have flowered as it did without them." Â– Leonard Maltin

Told through interviews with Laszlo (who died in 2007) and Vilmos, as well as directors including Rafelson, Bogdanovich, John Boorman, Graeme Clifford, Richard Donner, William Richert, Mark Rydell, composer John Williams and actors such as Jon Voight, Peter Fonda, Sandra Bullock, Karen Black, Dennis Hopper and Sharon Stone, NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY is an intimate portrait of two giants of modern imagemaking and their deep bond of brotherhood that transcended every imaginable boundary. Two heroes. One road.

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Jeff Kite is an American musician, composer, producer and member of the band, The Voidz. He also plays keyboards and produces in, Coastal Kites. Kite has also composed music for several feature-length films, most notably: No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos, Rio Breaks and Dark Country. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

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Habit

2.9

Music Department

2021

Dark Country

5.3

Music Department

2009

Search Party

7.6

TV Series

Soundtrack

The House That Jack Built

3.1

Composer(as Jeffrey Kite)

2009

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My Left Arm
Short
- Composer
- 2022
A Companion for All Occasions
Short
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2014
Deconstructing the House That Jack Built
Video
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2013
Salaam Dunk
8.1
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2011
The New Dork
Short
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2010
Tweet It
Video
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2010
I'm on a Mac
Short
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2009
Independent Lens
8.1
TV Series
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2009
Rio Breaks
7.7
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2009
The House That Jack Built
3.1
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2009
Big Days Ahead
Short
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2009
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
7.8
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2008
His Good Will
7.3
Short
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2008
Soup Ladle
7.0
Short
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2007
The Fast One
Short
- Composer (as Jeffrey Kite)
- 2006