Double Feature: SURE FIRE & THE BED YOU SLEEP IN July 21, 2010

Double Feature: SURE FIRE, 1990, Strand Releasing, 83 min. Dir. Jon Jost. A dark and mesmerizing portrait of a small town entrepreneur. Wes, portrayed brilliantly by Tom Blair, is a bully of a man full of get-rich-quick schemes. Director Jon Jost captures an America we seldom see, through elegantly composed conversation and arresting visual stylistics, in this film strikingly shot in the “Mormon Dixie” of central Utah. "It's clearly an American masterpiece...SURE FIRE burns slowly, then explodes." Georgia Brown, Village Voice

THE BED YOU SLEEP IN, 1993, Complex, 117 min. Dir. Jon Jost. A haunting portrait of a family in crisis, set against the backdrop of tough economic times. Ray (Tom
Blair) and his wife Jean, who operate a lumber mill in central Oregon, are forced to confront painful truths when their daughters says she has recovered memories of sexual abuse. Shot on 35mm with a crew of three, it’s nothing short of a miracle. "A tragic, beautiful, and mysterious film....as evocative and apocalyptic as Jost's cinema gets." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.

Discussion between films with actor Tom Blair and producer Henry Rosenthal.

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