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American writer from Portland, Oregon; author of the novels The Half-Life and Rain Dragon, and writer of the stories and scripts behind Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, Night Moves and First Cow.
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Dead ManOther Jim Jarmusch
Then along came Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch’s visionary Symbolist poem of the American West that begins in the Great Basin (more or less) and ends in the ferns and moss and finally the ocean beyond the Cascades.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Jon Raymond, the entry for Dead Man.
2025-07-11·criterion.com ↗
Topsy-TurvyOther Mike Leigh
Is there a better depiction of the joys of artistic collaboration than Topsy-Turvy ?
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Jon Raymond, the entry for Topsy-Turvy.
2025-07-11·criterion.com ↗
Killer of SheepOther Charles Burnett
As with Kent MacKenzie’s The Exiles—another fragile realist masterpiece set in hardscrabble Los Angeles that also happened to fulfill a thesis requirement—the fact that Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep even exists is amazing.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Jon Raymond, the entry for Killer of Sheep.
2025-07-11·criterion.com ↗
The ExilesOther Kent MacKenzie
As with Kent MacKenzie’s The Exiles—another fragile realist masterpiece set in hardscrabble Los Angeles that also happened to fulfill a thesis requirement—the fact that Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep even exists is amazing.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Jon Raymond, the entry for Killer of Sheep.
2025-07-11·criterion.com ↗
The Parallax ViewOther Alan J. Pakula
Gordon Willis shot all of them, and in The Parallax View he captures the watery grain and hard slant of the Pacific Northwest sun with delicacy and grace.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Jon Raymond, the entry for The Parallax View.
2025-07-11·criterion.com ↗
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