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Ira Cohen, Jack Smith, John Waters

Underground filmmaker, photographer, actor, performance artist, Lower East Side fixture, homosexual, and anticapitalist Jack Smith was a central figure of New York underground culture from the 1960s u...( read more  read more... )ntil his death in 1989. This portrait of Jack Smith is replete with an assemblage of photographs, film clips, and audio recordings of Smith's own voice, while resurrecting the seminal importance of Smith to the entire development of the 1960s New York underground scene.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Mary Jordan

Release Date: April 26, 2006

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  • cacutshaw
    December 21, 2008
    cacutshaw
    Interesting doc on experimental filmmaker Jack Smith. It does make me want to see some of his work... but I don't think I'd have him over for Xmas dinner though.
  • Strawberry206
    May 3, 2007
    Strawberry206
    http://www.flixster.com/static/images/ni.gif
  • ornge979
    April 10, 2007
    ornge979
    As I predicted, NEVER HEARD OF IT!
  • nannyslove
    April 10, 2007
    nannyslove
    might be interesting....Ya Think???

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April 9, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

In Jordan's documentary you see the roots of camp as distinctly melancholy and yearning, a world of the spirit that can never be made flesh. full review

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