Movies: Jon A. English

  • 1993
    Frameup

    Frameup (1993)

    Frameup

    6.21993HD

    Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a lonely romance-novel addict, is hopelessly enamored; Ricky is just in it for the (constant) sex. Bet...

    Frameup
  • 1992
    All the Vermeers in New York

    All the Vermeers in New York (1992)

    All the Vermeers in New York

    5.71992HD

    A parable of the missteps of life enacted in the hothouse world of late 1980’s New York, in which the art market and the stock market each boomed, and in process spawned a smorgasbord of “yuppie” delusions which still persist. Anna, a French actress ...

    All the Vermeers in New York
  • 1989
    Rembrandt Laughing

    Rembrandt Laughing (1989)

    Rembrandt Laughing

    4.71989HD

    This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a gene...

    Rembrandt Laughing
  • 1987
    Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)

    Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses) (1987)

    Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)

    5.81987HD

    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 Unite...

    Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
  • 1994
    Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele

    Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele (1994)

    Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele

    01994HD

    An American independent director comes to Italy to shoot a film. But inconveniences and obstacles stand in the way at every step. These are the years in which “Tangentopoli” rages and the golden rule of officials and collaborators is “one (bribe) to ...

    Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
  • 1986
    Bell Diamond

    Bell Diamond (1986)

    Bell Diamond

    6.31986HD

    A telling story of an unemployed Vietnam vet in Butte, Montana, whose wife leaves him after seven years when she feels there is no longer communication between them and - more painfully and pointedly - because she is unable to have a child owing to h...

    Bell Diamond
  • 1990
    Sure Fire

    Sure Fire (1990)

    Sure Fire

    6.21990HD

    Set in the quasi-Biblical splendor of the Mormon Dixie of central Utah, Sure Fire follows the trajectory of an American archetype, the small town entrepreneur seized by visions of fortune. Wes, eager to sell out the local grandeur to the wealthy hord...

    Sure Fire