“I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.” ― José Saramago Prolific Jon Jost’s videographed Imagens de uma cidade perdida, from Portugal and South Korea, now that I’ve seen it, replaces Lars von Trier’s Melancholia as my choice for the best “film” of 2011. Jost has written about “the […]
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Jon Jost describes Swimming in Nebraska, which he shot in digital video in Lincoln mostly in 2006, as “a kind of essay/meditation on the mid-west, creative work, artistry, life, the cosmos and, I’ll be damned, I don’t really know.” It is punctuated by overhead shots of Man alone in an indoor pool, swimming laps, while […]
I do not much care for Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldrey, 2001), but I have revisited it for the sake of the marvelous acting of Jamie Bell and Julie Walters; the next time, however, I am going to pay closer attention to Jamie Draven, who plays Billy’s older brother. I have just seen Draven give a […]
I figure that any town that’s named Walla Walla deserves whatever it gets. — Ricky Lee Gruber, whose home town is Walla Walla, Washington I like blue. It’s my favorite color. Except for red. — Beth-Ann Bolet, whose logic escapes even her Writer-director Jon Jost’s Frameup is one of the Bonnie-and-Clydes, other outstanding examples of […]
Jon Jost’s films have always tended toward parable. Now this is the case again with Parable, the jewel of his Fuck Bush (He Fucked Us) Trilogy. (This overarching title is mine.) Homecoming (2004) homed in on the aftermath of a returning dead soldier; Over Here (2007), of a returning living soldier. Now Jost turns to […]
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