Speaking Directly is an essay-film making for a kind of State of the Nation address, from the perspective of someone other than the President of the United States, circa 1973-5. This film addresses both the political and cultural situation of the US at the height of the Viet Nam war, Watergate and its aftermath, and likewise addresses the personal life, in this context, of the filmmaker, at that time thirty years of age, recently out of two plus years in federal prison for refusal to accept military service.
Jon Jost
Director, Writer
Directed by John Ford70%
Sherman's March67%
Public Speaking70%
The Class of ‘9271%
McQueen74%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Welcome to Chechnya69%
Being James Bond77%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Love, Antosha74%
Harmontown66%
A Decade Under the Influence79%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Tabloid64%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
My Mom Jayne80%
Above Majestic73%
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me60%
Being Eddie67%
