Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1995)
1h 30m
Running Time
August 4, 1995Release Date
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1995)
1h 30m
Running Time
August 4, 1995Release Date
Plot.
When Jill Godmilow’s movie Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.
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Cast & Crew.

Ron Vawter
Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

Coco McPherson
Chica

Jonathan Demme
Executive Producer

Merril Stern
Editor

Patricia Sztaba
Editorial Production Assistant

Michael Sahl
Music

Jack Smith
Writer

Reilly Steele
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Kathryn Nixon
Costume Design

James Schamus
Producer

Gary Indiana
Writer

Jill Godmilow
Director / Writer

Bill Seery
Supervising Sound Editor

Stan Sztaba
Editorial Production Assistant

Ted Hope
Producer

Susanna Virtanen
Camera Operator

Marianne Weems
Producer

Ellen Kuras
Director of Photography
Details.
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