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 United States, and poses an examination of just what America is/was, or what do we mean when we speak of it. Done in a series of radically different sections which collide with each other in a manner intended to provoke thinking, Plain Talk, which was made by an American and intended for American viewers, was indeed broadcast in Britain, but somewhat predictably, not in the USA.
Jon Jost
Director, Writer
Sherman's March65%
The Class of ‘9271%
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
McQueen74%
Dawg Fight65%
The Corporation76%
21 Up74%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
35 Up76%
Fuck64%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars63%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
