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Kent Jones

In the American Grain

By Kent Jones
July 25, 2019
On words, images, and why it’s no longer worth our time to be pitting the two against each other

Cinema With a Roof Over its Head

By Kent Jones
July 16, 2019
In this 1999 essay, Kent Jones makes a case for Hou Hsiao-hsien's “difficult” films of the ’90s

Myth Maker: Francis Ford Coppola

By Kent Jones
April 16, 2019
An appreciation of FSLC’s 2002 Chaplin Award Gala honoree, the great conductor of American cinema

To Each Her Own

By Kent Jones
March 29, 2019
Kent Jones shows his fidelity to evoking the weather-beaten reality of living in his dramatic debut feature, Diane

Intolerance

By Kent Jones
March 20, 2019
On Westerns in general, John Ford’s in particular, and why Quentin Tarantino shouldn’t teach film history

Festivals: Drifting Apart

By Kent Jones
July 2, 2018
Cannes risks the loss of cherished ideals, though filmmakers fight the good fight

Labor of Love

By Kent Jones
February 23, 2018
Dan Talbot followed his passion for cinema against the tide of a changing industry

A Six-Letter Word

By Kent Jones
July 3, 2017
There were still auteurs to celebrate at Cannes, despite the festival’s muddled priorities

The Shock of the Real

By Kent Jones
July 5, 2016
The art of life as lived shined through at Cannes

Essential Films: Bridge of Spies

By Kent Jones
December 21, 2015
Armed only with quiet conviction and shrewd calculation, an American everyman becomes a man of action in Steven Spielberg’s intricate Cold War drama

The Turning of the Earth

By Kent Jones
June 30, 2015
In his mesmerizing trance film Horse Money, Pedro Costa stays true to common humanity

Wonders to Behold

By Kent Jones
June 30, 2015
In the festival’s make-or-break cinematic arena, a few films touched with greatness can make all the difference

The Straight Story

By Kent Jones
April 23, 2015
Rescuing movies and the people who make them from the selective readings of anti-narrative purists

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

By Kent Jones
March 5, 2015
A close look at the commonly held ideas about acting in the movies, and why they’re all just one piece of the whole picture

Marriage, American Style

By Kent Jones
October 1, 2014
With this stylishly twisted relationship drama, David Fincher mines Gillian Flynn’s best seller for classical suspense and barbed domestic satire

What’s Up, Doc?

By Kent Jones
October 1, 2014
The dream horizons and phantom vibes of 1970 California are brought tangibly close in Paul Thomas Anderson’s spaced-out private investigation

Empire of Light

By Kent Jones
June 30, 2014
Three highlights from Cannes move in poetic and painterly directions

Bay Watch

By Kent Jones
June 18, 2014
Bigger, faster, louder: Kent Jones on asteroids, egos, and the secret of Michael Bay's excess

Critical Condition

By Kent Jones
March 4, 2014
From the Politique des Auteurs to the Auteur Theory to plain old auteurism, how clear a picture of actual movies are we receiving?

Lone Pilgrim: Inside Llewyn Davis

By Kent Jones
December 12, 2013
A gifted talent just can’t catch a break in Joel and Ethan Coen’s lovingly rendered and poignant vision of the folk scene in early-Sixties New York