Critical Essay by Henry Breitrose
Shirley Clarke was originally a dancer. Before making films she took the precaution of learning a great deal about film technique; but she remains an instinctual fil...
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Critical Essay by Ernest Callenbach
In Portrait of Jason, a man talks to the camera for almost an hour and a half; yet the film is intensely interesting. We hear some other voices besides his—...
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Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
Thanks to the responsiveness of the subject, and the cold simplicity with which Miss Clarke handles the camera, ["Portrait of Jason"] is a good deal more...
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Critical Essay by Charles Hartman
Perhaps the closest that cinema has yet approached the province of Genet, [Portrait of Jason] is an incredible peeling away of a man's soul layer by layer...
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For eight months, Glen Barker's body lay hundreds of feet underground _ far from relatives desperate to give him a proper funeral.He had entered a coal mine in eastern Kentucky on March 11, 1976, t...
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Critical Essay by Henry Breitrose
Utah's terrible wait known to others
