Release Date:
April 11, 2007 (NY)
Studio:
Film Forum
Director:
Mary Jordan
Screenwriter:
Mary Jordan
Starring:
Jack Smith, Tony Conrad, Gary Indiana, Ken Jacobs, Judith Malina, Jonas Mekas, Mario Montez, Andrew Sarris, John Waters
Genre:
Documentary
MPAA Rating:
Not Available
Official Website:
Not Available
Review:
Not Available
DVD Review:
Not Available
DVD:
Not Available
Movie Poster:
Not Available
Production Stills:
Not Available
Plot Summary:
For Jack Smith (1932-1989), Atlantis was both the idea of a fantastical utopia and the reality of the Lower East Side apartment in which this prophetic artist staged baroque, improvisational multi-hour one-man theatrical productions, often with a cast of stuffed animals and dolls. An avant-garde photographer, filmmaker, actor, performance artist, and all around "flaming creature," Smith has been credited as a major influence by Fellini, Godard and Jarmusch. In Mary Jordan's mesmerizing portrait, he fairly jumps off the screen: a combination mystic, comedian and madman, a protean artist whose vast energy and creativity were undermined (or perversely fed?) by the poverty of his day-to-day life and his paranoid misgivings about just about everything. If there is a heaven for the wonderfully bizarre, Jack Smith resides there, accompanied by his patron saint, Maria Montez.
Trailer:
Coming Soon!
Beware The Batman Set to Premiere this July
Mary Jane Won't Appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Role Pushed to Third Film
New Godzilla Set Photo Teases Underground Laboratory
New Trailer for Edgar Wright's The World's End Hits
Three New Images From the Set of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Transformers 4 Will Destroy Several Chinese Landmarks
New International Poster for Kick-Ass 2
Codeblack Films Acquires Charles Murray's Things Never Said
Greg Berlanti to Direct Sony's Sci-Fi Film Epsilon
The International Trailer for The LEGO Movie