Stephen Lack

Stephen Lack talks about playing the lead in David Cronenberg's 1981 sci-fi/horror cult classic SCANNERS.

Jon Jost: "RANT is a discursive portrait of Steven Lack, actor (Cronenberg's Scanners, Alan Moyle's Rubber Gun, Jost's All the Vermeers in New York) and full-time painter/artist in the New York scene since the late 1970's. The film provides a glimpse of this world through Lack's friends, dealers, and family, while showcasing his paintings and sculptures, and giving an insight into the creative processes of this driven artist."

Stefan Balsiger is a congenial, average councillor to the Swiss embassy in Havanna. While accompanying an US senator on his mission in Cuba, he makes a botch of so many things, that a minor blunder by the Senator turns into a serious incident, which intensifies into a second Cuban crisis - thanks to further entanglements by the media, police, and diplomats who represent the arch-enemies USA and Cuba. Only one person can eventually solve the crisis: Stefan Balsiger himself.

A parable of the missteps of life enacted in the hothouse world of late 1980’s New York, in which the art market and the stock market each boomed, and in process spawned a smorgasbord of “yuppie” delusions which still persist. Anna, a French actress studying in New York, crosses paths with a successful stock-broker, Mark, standing before a Vermeer portrait at the Metropolitan, thence ensues a peculiar romance of missed meanings and connections, with tangential asides to the steaming arts world and stock market, loft-mate conflicts, and, perhaps, love. Wrapped up in their blindered worlds, Anna and Mark deflect away from their chances, leaving at the conclusion the wistful face of Vermeer’s portrait enigmatically asking questions. All the Vermeers in New York is a comedy of manners which, as gently as a Vermeer, looks beneath the skin of this time and place, and of these characters.

少年時代からいつも一緒にいる一卵性双生児の兄弟、エリオットとビヴァリー。容姿はうり二つだが、性格は兄エリオットが社交的で野心家、弟ビヴァリーが内気な努力家と正反対。兄弟はトロントで婦人科医の医院を営むが、ビヴァリーは診察した女優クレアの子宮が3つに分かれていたので驚く。やがてクレアはエリオットと肉体関係を持つが、クレアはエリオットに双子の弟がいることを知らない。こうして異様な三角関係が生まれる。

A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Greg and Charles, two young men in Montreal, are trying to find creative fulfillment in their professional lives; Greg pursues work as a freelance writer of human interest journalism, while the openly gay Charles takes a job as a dancer in a gay bar.

超能力をビジネスに利用している警備会社コンセックの科学者により、その能力をさらに開発された超能力者のベイル（スティーヴン・ラック）。ベイルの任務は、もう一人のスキャナー、レボック（マイケル・アイアンサイド）の追跡。しかし、驚異的な力で世界をわがものにしようとたくらむレボックは、彼の野望に逆らうスキャナーたちを虐殺し始め……。

A young couple gets so caught up in their sexual games and role playing that they begin to act them out in public.

A communal drug family begins to dissolve from within while a University student watches and records it all.

Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysterious stranger, who heals her wounds and reanimates her by blowing on them. After he takes her back to his cabin, they fall in love.

An open and honest autobiographical account of male sexuality centered on Frank, an unemployed photographer, and his circle of mainly gay friends. He and his best friend, Bozo, attempt to have sex, although they consider themselves straight. But things begin to fall apart when Frank meets and falls in love with Johnny, a 13-year-old boy.

film by Jon Jost