FRI NOV 22 & SAT NOV 23 - 9:00 PM
SUN NOV 24 - 7:00 PM
DIR. SHIRLEY CLARKE
1966 | USA | 106 MIN
On the night of December 2, 1966, New York underground documentary filmmaker Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea in New York to make a film. There, for 12 straight hours they filmed the one-and-only Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. This powerful and transgressive film is a mesmerizing portrait of a charming and tortured man, who is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman called it “the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.” When it first screened in a sneak preview, the audience included Tennessee Williams, Robert Frank, Amos Vogel, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, and Terry Southern. In a new re-release, Milestone Films with the help of archivists and researchers from around the world have restored the film with missing elements long thought to be lost. Any way you look at the film, it remains of the most fascinating documentaries in cinema.
