Flaming Creatures
- 1963
- 45m
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4.6/10
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An experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.An experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.An experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.
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- TriviaThe film caused a national scandal upon its original underground release; it was banned in 22 states and in four countries. Critic Jonas Mekas brought it around to various screenings in the 1960s, but was arrested at several of them.
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Francis Francine: Today Ali Baba comes. Ali Baba comes today.
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The blasphemous autism that was Jack Smith
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.
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.
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- Dec 21, 2001
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- Пламенеющие создания
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- New York City, New York, USA(a rooftop)
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- $300 (estimated)
- Runtime45 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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