Jean-Pierre Gorin
United States
Edition: DVD
Jean-Pierre Gorin established
his personal voice with this trio of fascinating,
nontraditional documentaries.
Jean-Pierre Gorin
1992 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets
Jean-Pierre Gorin’s gripping and unique film about a Samoan street gang in Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language.
Jean-Pierre Gorin
1980 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets
Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else. With little exposure to the outside world, the two girls have created a private form of communication that’s an amalgam of the distinctive English dialects they hear at home.
Jean-Pierre Gorin
1986 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets
What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two lines intersect in Jean-Pierre Gorin’s lovely and distinctly American film.
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
1972 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #275 Edition: DVD
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s free-ranging assault on consumer capitalism and the establishment left tells the story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory as witnessed by an American reporter (Jane Fonda) and her has-been New Wave film director husband (Yves Montand).