Tag Archives: Jon Jost

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends Read More »

For people with a very open minded sense of what cinema can be. Read More »

Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly Read More »

A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana Read More »

This film follows an antisocial working-class husband and father struggling to find work in the Midwest. Read More »

After being thrown out of his house, a cowboy hits the road in a senseless wave of robbery, murder and rape. Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »