Acropolis Cinema: 2 by Jon Jost (Director in Person) — live event

Acropolis Cinema presents a double feature by Jon Jost: Coming to Terms + Blue Strait (2013/2015). In person and in conversation: Jon Jost and James Benning. ∆ Coming to Terms (Jon Jost, 2013, 89 min) | 1:00pm Director Jon Jost cast fellow filmmaker James Benning as a dying Montana patriarch who gathers his dysfunctional family together for a final request. Jost, a maverick independent filmmaker for the past 50 years, has made a bracing and audacious work that alternates between stark, expressive landscapes and unusually filmed encounters between the father, his estranged sons, and their mothers in which the actors/characters address the audience as much as each other. Q&A with Jon Jost and James Benning | 2:30pm Blue Strait (Jon Jost, 2015, 85 min) | 3:00pm In this under-screened Jon Jost film, the dissolution of a long-term relationship gives subtle, narrative shape to an otherwise poetic still-life study of Port Angeles. The story, of “minor importance” by the filmmaker’s own admiss

Starts: 2025-06-22T13:00:00Z

Ends: 2025-06-22T15:00:00Z

Where: 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90057, United States

Price: $15.0

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