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good film, mostly lost

posted 10 years ago by emncaity
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Repeating this from a response to another poster, but:

I saw the film when it was shown at Sundance in (early) 1991, and a lot of people (I was one of them) thought it could've won the Grand Jury Prize. It's the kind of effort that really makes you think about how many of these there are for every great piece of work that comes to the public's attention and takes hold. This is a very good film that sort of bounced around the art houses and pleased the usual NYphiles, artsies, etc., for awhile, and is almost never seen anywhere now or stocked by the typical video store. And yet, a lot of care and thought and skill went into the making of it. There's something really kind of melancholy about that whole thing that happens with films like this.

[–] leopoldfilmmaker 9 years ago

I loved it a lot. Jost's fanbase is alive and well today. I live in Houston, and here nearly EVERYONE is familiar with his work and loves him. I've seen all his films and only a few of his DV or HD works. I often hear people say that his work is so "obscure" and "underground" but for me his works have been really easy to come by. I just order them off his site where they are really cheap and great transfers.
So yeah, he's pretty famous and well known today. Just wait till he dies, he will be rocketed to fame. That day will come.
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