Kent Jones is a programmer at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in New York. He is the author of L'Argent (BFI, 1999) and a forthcoming book on Hou Hsaio-hsien. He is also the co-writer of Il Dolce Cinema (2001), a documentary on Italian cinema directed by Martin Scorsese.
In his latest film, Linklater's inquiries into reality and perception continue a tradition of American philosophizing that makes him, in Jones' view, America's Tarkovsky.
It's well-known that Ernst Lubitsch had an autocratic way with actors, modelling gestures for them in order to get the precise timing and physical articulation of emotions. An interesting approach to cinema...
