Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
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Aug 4, 1995 · Roy Cohn/Jack Smith: Directed by Jill Godmilow. With Ron Vawter, Coco McPherson. From one of the seminal theatrical events of the 1990s, on Ron Vawter's stunning performance piece ROY COHN / JACK SMITH, Jill Godmilow has crafted a dramatically deft, comic and terrifying film diptych of queer-on-queer.
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- Drama
- Jill Godmilow
- 1995-08-04
Roy Cohn, the homophobic right-wing lawyer and sleazy back-room politico, thunders against the Sodom and Gomorrah of homosexuality at a banquet for the American Society for the Protection of the Family.
Aug 4, 1995 · Overview. When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease.
Roy Cohn, written by Gary Indiana, was a fictitious adaptation of an after-dinner speech delivered by the lawyer Roy Cohn to the American Association for the President of the Family in 1976. Jack Smith was a portrait of the eponymous gay performance artist and filmmaker who was an influential underground figure in the New York arts community in ...
Film. Reviews. Sep 23, 1994 12:00am PT. Roy Cohn/Jack Smith. Ron Vawter, an icon of New York's downtown theater scene who died of AIDS in April, delivers a mesmerizing performance in "Roy...
Ron Vawter portrays both gay power-broker Roy Cohn and gay art-film maker Jack Smith.
- Drama
Brief Synopsis. A double portrait of two complex minds, and two completely opposing approaches to gay sexuality.
