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Last Chants for a Slow Dance is a 1977 American independent drama film directed by Jon Jost and starring Tom Blair. In some quarters Last Chants is now considered an American classic; Jonathan Rosenbaum lists it as one of the "alternative" top 100 American films, and it is listed in the book 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die.
Aug 31, 1977 · Last Chants for a Slow Dance: Directed by Jon Jost. With Tom Blair, Wayne Crouse, Jessica St. John, Steve Voorheis. A man who is dissatisfied with his family life leaves home for weeks at a time, drifting from town to town.
Last Chants for a Slow Dance breathes with an exploratory structure as it twists together it's series of vignettes examining the exploits of misanthropic Tom Bates, a working-class husband and father who is ostensibly attempting to look for employment in the Midwestern United States.
Nov 2, 2017 · Jon Jost’s Last Chants for a Slow Dance is a fascinating film which seems to stylistically predict the works of Béla Tarr and Jim Jarmusch. Without relying on the over-abused metaphor of the Death of the American Dream, suffice it to say that Jost’s film is a scathing rebuke of traditional American machismo and individualism.
This chilling portrait of an embittered, misogynistic proletarian (Tom Blair) driving through Montana consists of a series of virtuoso long takes. Jost’s original technique and Blair’s searing performance combine to create one of the most provocative profiles of a motiveless killer found on film.
" Last Chants for a Slow Dance is a film of extraordinary restraint and formal elegance - a paradox which provides an exceptionally telling indication of the nature of Jost’s attitude to film." - Alan Sutherland, Sight and Sound.
Aug 24, 2021 · Last Chants for a Slow Dance. by Jonathan Rosenbaum October 26, 1985. My own favorite among Jon Jost’s experimental narratives, this chilling portrait of an embittered, misogynistic lumpen...
