Cult filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith, whose most famous work is 1963's Flaming Creatures, didn't like the term "underground." But his work could hardly have been more subterranean — featuring elements that would draw accusations of pornography, crafting no-budget trash manifestations of a nascent queer aesthetic, hosting art events that couldn't hope to make money. In "a film essay concerning the works of Jack Smith," Jerry Tartaglia produces a similarly unsellable artifact with Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith. Far from an introduction to Smith's oeuvre (Mary Jordan did that in 2006's Jack Smith and...
- 4/26/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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