From: kenneth wayne peralta (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2007 - 16:26:42 PDT
the april issue of interview magazine has a piece on the film, as does dazed
and confused.
also bomb magazine this month ran an interview with mary jordan by nayland
blake.
many of the reviews are linked from this compendium:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jack_smith_and_the_destruction_of_atlantis/
the film runs through april 24 at film forum.
kwp
On 4/12/07 12:40 AM, "Marcos Ortega" <email suppressed> wrote:
> Another one:
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> http://newsblaze.com/story/20070411130223tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Storie
> s.html
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> Quoting gyoungblood <email suppressed>:
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>> Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis starts todayIt would be
>> nice if some Frameworkers could link us to reviews...
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: kenneth wayne peralta
>> To: email suppressed
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> U.S. Theatrical Premiere
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Tickets online or box office: (212) 727-8110
>>
>> 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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