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Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses) (1987)
Directed by Jon Jost
Documentary · 1h 50m
Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse, made for Britain's Channel Four in the year 1986-87. The work involved extensive travel around the United States, and poses an examination of just what America is/was, or what do we mean when we speak of it. Done in a series of radically different sections which collide with each other in a manner intended to provoke thinking, Plain Talk, which was made by an American and intended for American viewers, was indeed broadcast in Britain, but somewhat predictably, not in the USA.
Crew
- Director
- Jon Jost
- Writer
- Jon Jost
- Director of Photography
- Jon Jost
- Original Music Composer
- Jon A. English
- Editor
- Jon Jost
- Producer
- Jon Jost
Details
- Release date
- 1987-09-06
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN