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5.6/10   229 votes
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Director:
Jack Smith
Release Date:
29 April 1963 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
The Joy of American Avant-Garde
 (From IFC. 7 April 2009, 8:13 AM, PDT)

On DVD: "Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis," "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
 (From IFC. 9 September 2008, 2:14 AM, PDT)

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A barbaric Dionysian more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Francis Francine ... Himself
Sheila Bick ... Delicious Dolores
Joel Markman ... Our Lady of the Docks
Mario Montez ... The Spanish Girl (as Dolores Flores)
Arnold Rockwood ... Arnold (as Arnold)

Judith Malina ... The Fascinating Woman
Marian Zazeela ... Maria Zazeela
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Additional Details

Runtime:
45 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Seized by NYC Police at the premiere, this film was officially determined to be obscene by a NY Criminal Court. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Velvet Goldmine (1998) more
Soundtrack:
Siboney more

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4 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
A barbaric Dionysian, 26 June 2005
2/10
Author: Gerard Gerard from France

I've just seen the movie and his first (only ?) quality is to make me writing my first commentary here. Like a previous writer here, I have nothing against avant-garde especially transgressional one but I think we are in this picture far away from an interesting point of view on the subject of eroticism or whatever the purpose is. On such works as Bataille's books or Bunuel's movies, the transgression was upon the things we're hiding when our representation is giving us something to look at (and eroticism is only one of the way to reveled the invisible and constitutive side of art) ; and I think jack smith made a huge mistake with this "cliché" orgiac scenes where everything is explicitly directed to "shock the bourgeois". The line about the lipstick on the male attribute is just the first wave of the so-called sexual "liberation" which is only a new way to stay under the alienation of what is obvious. This film has probably an historical interest but it's the better way to have no artistic one. ps : sorry for my English which is not fluent.

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