Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Studio: Facets Multimedia Release Date: 04/27/2010 Run time: 88 minutes… More >>
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“Roy Cohn/Jack Smith”
A Multi-media Performance
Amos Lassen
Ron Vawter, the star of “Roy Cohn/Jack Smith” was an icon on the New York theater scene until he died from AIDS in April, 2000. In this piece he examines the lives of two gay men who were infamous and he does so for sophisticated audiences.
Roy Cohn was a homophobic right-wing lawyer and a sleazy politician while Jack Smith was a notorious underground film maker. The two had nothing in common save that they were both gay and they both lived in an oppressive society. Unlike Cohn, Smith flaunted his homosexuality and used rag as a form of sexual politics. Cohn used politics as his drag so that he could hide his sexual orientation from the world. Vawter gives us Cohn as a tortured personality and a hypocrite and we especially see this as he gives a lecture at the American Society for the Protection of the Family. Smith, on the other hand, is often considered to be the founder of performance art and he was excessively flamboyant and campy, always seemingly calling attention to himself.
The film is a cinematic oddity–it was shot live at The Kitchen, a theatrical place in New York City in 1993. It is made up of two monologues, each about 40 minutes long. Vawter gives us Cohn as a hateful man and he gives us Smith as a mushy mouthed queen in costume. The cinematography is intense and elegant and we are indeed lucky that this performance has been preserved.
Rating: 5 / 5