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JONES

 "JONES is a find."
 Amy Taubin - FILM COMMENT

SELF-DISTRIBUTED PICK of Film Comment Mar/Apr 2008 edition.

Early in Preston Miller's tough, formally elegant, micro-budgeted Jones, the camera, a la Antonioni, tracks the alienated protagonist, a no longer young but hardly middle-aged father-to-be from South Carolina, as he walks along Broadway near Times Square. That Miller stole the three-block-long shot from a moving car without once having stop for traffic or red lights proves that he's either lucky or ingenious or both. The eponymous Jones (Trey Albright) is in New York on a business trip: he videotapes depositions for an insurance company. At night, he does all the things lonely tourists are programmed to do- drinks himself blotto, talks to strangers in bars, gets lost on the subway, telephones his wife, and summons an Asian call-girl to his dreary hotel room. But just when you think you have Jones's number, he surprises you by, say, expressing a passion for the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami or taking a taxi to Queens to further explore his libidinal leanings towards all things Asian. Jones is a find.

-- FILM COMMENT by Amy Taubin March/April 2008

 

ADDITIONAL PRESS ON JONES
N.Y. SUN
12.13.07

THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR
12.12.07

 blogSPOUT
12.12.07

 the FILM
EXPERIENCE
11.30.07

 theREELER
12.12.07

ON THE CIRCUIT:
PRESTON MILLER'S JONES PODCAST INTERVIEW
 

Lichman & Rizov:
Live at Grassroots Tavern
PODCASTS with PM

04.10.08

09.24.08 pt.1

09.30.08 pt.2

09.30.08 pt.3
 

Interview of PM by JEREMIAH KIPP
about the JONES DVD
04.15.08

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theREELER

blogSPOUT

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