Flaming Creatures (1963)Director:Jack SmithWriter:Jack Smith |
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Flaming Creatures (1963)Director:Jack SmithWriter:Jack Smith |
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Francis Francine | ... |
Himself
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Sheila Bick | ... |
Delicious Dolores
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Joel Markman | ... |
Our Lady of the Docks
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Mario Montez | ... |
The Spanish Girl
(as Dolores Flores)
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Arnold Rockwood | ... |
Arnold
(as Arnold)
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| Judith Malina | ... |
The Fascinating Woman
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Marian Zazeela | ... |
Maria Zazeela
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His own performance style--half dashing, half mongoloid--is better preserved in the Jack Smith routine that caps off Andy Warhol's CAMP: the great man, looking dapper as a Lower East Side Clark Gable, does a ten-minute performance piece about, literally, coming out of a closet. And the late, great Ron Vawter's extraordinary "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith" preserves the molasses, the stupor, and the head-thumping epiphanies that made up a live Jack Smith performance.
CREATURES, one of the most notorious of all American "avant-garde films," seems at first to be a queer-theory seminar avant la lettre. Then Smith's processional of silent-movie-looking waifs and queenies repeats and repeats. I find George Kuchar and even Kenneth Anger more interesting on similar territory; but Smith is a man-god, and CREATURES should be seen...once.