Four Corners
1998, NR, 77 min.
Directed by James Benning, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Benning’s ninth feature begins in the famous tourist spot where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah meet, but then jumps off into the American desert to become a meditation on landscape, history, and painting. The Chicago Reader describes it as sharing the “all-encompassing ambition of Walt Whitman, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac.” For more info call the AFS at 322-0145.

This article appears in August 20 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.