This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends Read More »
Tag Archives: Jon Jost
Blue Strait (2015) Jon Jost, Stephen Taylor
For people with a very open minded sense of what cinema can be. Read More »
Plain Talk and Common Sense (1987) Jon Jost
Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly Read More »
Bell Diamond (1986) Jon Jost, Scott Andersen, Dan Cornell, Marshall Gaddis
A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana Read More »
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977) Jon Jost, Tom Blair, Wayne Crouse, Jessica St. John
This film follows an antisocial working-class husband and father struggling to find work in the Midwest. Read More »
Parable (2008) Jon Jost, Stephen Taylor, Rachael LeValley, Ryan Harper Gray
After being thrown out of his house, a cowboy hits the road in a senseless wave of robbery, murder and rape. Read More »
Chameleon (1978) Jon Jost, Robert Glaudini, Kathleen McKay, Ellen Blake
A scathing portrait of the Hollywood/LA arts milieu of the late 70’s, Chameleon follows the amorphous day of its lead character Read More »
Angel City (1977) Jon Jost, Robert Glaudini, Winifred Golden, Pierce del Rue
A detective fiction mixed with an essay-documentary about Los Angeles, Hollywood and the film industry, Angel City is a satiric comedy with serious intentions. Read More »
Sure Fire (1990) Jon Jost, Tom Blair, Kristi Hager, Robert Ernst
Set in the quasi-Biblical splendor of the Mormon Dixie of central Utah, Sure Fire follows the trajectory of an American archetype Read More »
Slow Moves (1983) Jon Jost, Marshall Gaddis, Roxanne Rogers, Bebe Bright
Slow Moves is a bluesy lyrical romance of two ugly-ducklings who meet on the Golden Gate Bridge and after a brief and awkward courtship Read More »
Stagefright (1981) Jon Jost
An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication – intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language, cinema. Read More »
All the Vermeers in New York (1990) Jon Jost, Emmanuelle Chaulet, Stephen Lack, Katherine Bean, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anna, a French actress, is approached by financial broker Gordon in the Vermeer room of a New York gallery. However, romance does not ensue… Read More »
Coming to Terms (2013) Jon Jost, James Benning, Ryan Harper Gray, Roxanne Rogers, Drama
One day, father makes a shocking decision in a family gathering. The family disagrees with it and against him in the very beginning. Read More »
Frameup (1993) Jon Jost, Howard Swain, Nancy Carlin, Kate Sannella, Crime, Drama, Romance
Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Read More »