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- 2000
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 12 m
- 2000
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 12 m
Summary A documentary which examines the life of the HIV-positive leader of the Atlanta band Smoke.
Directed By: Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen
Written By: Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen
- 2000
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 12 m
- 2000
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 12 m
Benjamin Smoke
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Summary A documentary which examines the life of the HIV-positive leader of the Atlanta band Smoke.
Directed By: Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen
Written By: Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
71
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
As ethereal, moving, and uncompromising as its subject.
It's the hypnotic long-form music video Smoke never got to make.
The film has a richer, more various visual texture than most documentaries, combining still photographs, black-and-white video and Super-8 film, sometimes with wild sound or none at all.
It feels as though we're on a journey with Benjamin, who proves to be a wryly funny, passionate and complex traveling companion.
Poignant portrait.
As a portrait of a man barely qualifying for a cinematic portrait, Benjamin Smoke is a trifle, but when Sillen and Cohen turn their cameras on the weedy, workaday, hellhole America that Benjamin calls home, the movie comes alive.
Rather morbid.
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Production Company
C-Hundred Film Corporation,
Gravity Hill Films,
Pumpernickel
Release Date Jul 21, 2000
Duration 1 h 12 m
Genres
Tagline What is the sound of the queer southern blues?
Awards
DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
