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Dennis HopperDecember 4, 2008
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Ken JacobsNovember 12, 1989
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Jim JarmuschOctober 5, 1997
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Jim JarmuschApril 23, 2009
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Chuck JonesDecember 17, 1994
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Chuck JonesDecember 18, 1994
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Tommy Lee JonesDecember 12, 2005
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David O. Russell + Spike JonzeJanuary 19, 2011
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Neil JordanMarch 7, 2003
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Harmony KorineMarch 12, 2013
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Jennifer Jason LeighNovember 23, 1994
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Mike LeighSeptember 25, 2002
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Noah Baumbach + Jennifer Jason LeighNovember 8, 2007
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, Denis Villeneuve, + Aaron GuzikowskiNovember 24, 2013
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Jerry Lewis + Peter BogdanovichNovember 22, 2008
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Richard LinklaterMarch 15, 1998
Ken Jacobs November 12, 1989
Ken Jacobs is a master of avant-garde cinema. For more than 50 years he has inventively probed the nature of the moving image. "Ghosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead," he wrote, fascinated by the power of cinema to coax reality from the flatness of the screen. Finding new ways to delve into filmed images, Jacobs created the Nervous System, a live two-projector system with which he "plays" film, in the spirit of jazz improvisation. During a major month-long retrospective, Jacobs premiered the Nervous System piece Two Wrenching Departures, to mark the deaths of Jack Smith and Bob Fleischner.
