Jon Jost
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Biography: Jon Stephen Jost (born 16 May 1943 in Chicago) is an American independent filmmaker. Born in Chicago to a military family, he grew up in Georgia, Kansas, Japan, Italy, Germany and Virginia. He began making films in January 1963 after being expelled from college. In 1965 he was imprisoned by US authorities for 2 years 3 months for refusal to cooperate with the Selective Service system. Self-taught as a filmmaker, he made his first full-length film in 1974, and has since that time focused on a wide range of American issues in his films, at present having made 40 long-form films. Jost's work has shown since 1976 in major film festivals around the world.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: May 16, 1943
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Gender: Male
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A Movie Capital
Overview: This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nascent global changes embodied by Perestroika, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and many other contemporaneous events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-12
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Made in the USA
Overview: A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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Chameleon
Overview: A scathing portrait of the Hollywood/LA arts milieu of the late 70’s, Chameleon follows the amorphous day of its lead character, an Armani-jacketed peddler of high-class dope, fraudulent art, and preening postures suited-to-fit the changing victims, though as with all such fakery, the real victim in the long run is the person who lives such a life.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Ghosts of Empire Prairie
Overview: Empire Prairie, where Lonnie Enright grew up. He's headed home now, to see his ailing father and little brother. Bad things are coming.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-26
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Nightshift
Overview: It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask. Like the camera, she gazes steadily, both silent spectator and vicarious participant in the fantasies played out by the hotel's transient guests. As the night progresses, she answers a phone, hands over a key; guests pass back and forth gradually taking on a dream-like presence. She continues to work and, when morning comes, she leaves, her nightshift over. 'NIGHTSHIFT shows what film can do if the conventional pace of narrative is slowed down and montage diminished. It is not a new idea, of course, but the way it is done here is both absorbing to look at and satisfying from the moral point of view.' (Jill Forbes, Monthly Film Bulletin)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Slow Moves
Overview: A bluesy lyrical romance of two ugly-ducklings who meet on the Golden Gate Bridge and after a brief and awkward courtship, live together with the usual problems of money and work, take flight to an illusory freedom on the road, and dances inexorably to a drab doom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Mod Fuck Explosion
Overview: Teenage London is trying to find meaning in the world, or a leather jacket of her own. Unaccepted by neither the Mods or the Asian biker gang, she tries to find her own path. Meanwhile, the two gangs maintain a mutual vendetta sure to erupt in a smorgasbord of violence.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-02
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Cinématon XVIII
Overview: Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-04
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Pequenos Milagres
Overview: A film that Jon Jost dedicated to his daughter Clara, an artistically designed home movie and at the same time a look back at his life, mostly commented off-screen by Jon Jost. He used the technology of the digital camera which contrasts nicely with his newly discovered love for watercolor painting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-11-20
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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
Overview: Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as a "one-hit wonder" director. Upon closer inspection, however, likely no other filmmaker used cinema as effectively to exorcise personal demons in ways both ugly and beautiful. And few directors' sensibilities were more gay, both overtly and covertly. Film historian Daniel Kremer is your tour guide through an obscure, perplexing body of work heretofore ignored and often unfairly shunned. Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano is an essay documentary of discovery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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Overview: A young draft resister finds peace and love in the country, but his solution to the problems of the city may very well be a naive dream.
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Original Language: en
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