REMBRANDT LAUGHING   Director: Jon Jost Year: 1989 Runtime: 100 min. Country: USA Language: English Color: Color Format: 16mm

Jon Jost's Rembrandt Laughing is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs, if only for a while. Very obliquely Rembrandt Laughing sketches the time and place, encompassing the AIDS epidemic, the casual sexual revolution, the debris of '68 lingering in the air. A quiet, very San Francisco comedy of life from one of the true independents of American cinema. "A masterful elliptical account of a little over a year in the lives of a few friends in San Francisco... with a warmth, philosophical depth and overall sense of relaxation new to Jost's work. One of the ten best films of 1989." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader "A joy, a gem, a tissue paper tracing of epiphanies." — Amy Taubin, The Village Voice     showtime Tuesday, December 6 at 7 pm location THE GREEN ROOM 144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel) admission $6 general / $4 GBFS members

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