Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)

5.8
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 110 min
  • Premiere: 1987. September 6.

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.

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Camera

Jon Jost

Director of Photography

Directing

Jon Jost

Director

Editing

Jon Jost

Editor

Production

Jon Jost

Producer

Sound

Jon A. English

Original Music Composer

Writing

Jon Jost

Writer