From: Marcos Ortega (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 21:12:24 PDT
There's a small review at NYT[1] and the usual page at Metacritic[2].
I'll post more as soon as I see them.
Regards,
Marcos
http://www.expcinema.com
Quoting gyoungblood <email suppressed>:
> Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis starts todayIt would be
> nice if some Frameworkers could link us to reviews...
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> From: kenneth wayne peralta
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:12 AM
> Subject: [FRAMEWORKS] Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
> starts today
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> NYC Film Forum. Mary Jordan will be on hand for Q and A after
> tonight's 8pm show.
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> Beyond crumbs and crusty plastered vaults
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> JACK SMITH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS
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> a feature documentary film by Mary Jordan
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> U.S. Theatrical Premiere
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> Wednesday April 11- April 24 two weeks
> Film Forum 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00
>
> Film Forum is pleased to present the U.S. theatrical premiere of
> JACK SMITH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS, beginning Wednesday,
> April 11. 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.
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> Tickets online or box office: (212) 727-8110
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> www.filmforum.org/films/jacksmith.html
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> "The only person I would ever try to copy." - Andy Warhol
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> "...the only true 'underground filmmaker." - John Waters
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> "Jack Smith changed the art world." - Laurie Anderson
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> "Irresistible." - Richard Corliss, Time
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> "Extraordinary. A triumph!" - Jay Weissberg, Variety
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> "A lovingly crafted portrait of the artist...an aesthetic
> manifesto." - Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine
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> Jury Award- Extraordinary documentary Film Talent, Leipzig Dokfest
> Jury Award- Tribeca Film Festival New York documentary competition
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> JACK SMITH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS (2006, 95 mins.)
> Directed and written by Mary Jordan. Produced by Kenneth Wayne
> Peralta and Mary Jordan. Cinematographers: Mary Jordan and Jon
> Fordham. Editor: Alex Marquez. Featuring Tony Conrad, Gary Indiana,
> Ken Jacobs, Judith Malina, Jonas Mekas, Mario Montez, Andrew
> Sarris, Ronald Tavel and John Waters, among others. USA.
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> Film Forum is located at 209 W Houston Street, between 6th
> Avenue & Varick, in New York City.
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> __________________________________________________________________
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> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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Vínculos:
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[1]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/movies/11atla.html?bl&ex=1176436800&en=8d8812abb96e5775&ei=5087%0A
[2]
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/jacksmithandthedestructionofatlantis?part=rss
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.