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- 2013
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 1 h 45 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Shirley Clarke interviews Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne, house boy, would be cabaret performer, and self proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be coloured and gay in 1960's America.
Directed By: Shirley Clarke
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 1 h 45 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 1 h 45 m
Portrait of Jason (re-release)
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
87
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Summary Shirley Clarke interviews Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne, house boy, would be cabaret performer, and self proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be coloured and gay in 1960's America.
Directed By: Shirley Clarke
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
87
100% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The roles of affect and artifice in mediating the realities of racism, homophobia, and poverty are perhaps the true subjects of Shirley Clarke's landmark doc.
Artistically, though, you can’t help but trust him. Like any star turn, Holliday’s performance rings utterly true. It’s that indefinable but unmistakable reality-beyond-reality called art.
The film is a conversation between two disadvantaged artists with indelible personalities, both of whom are unabashedly manipulating their way into at least the esoteric side of the everlasting.
You could spend a lifetime peeling the glass onion of Shirley Clarke’s merciless documentary, in which a born performer drops incinerating truth bombs while putting the con in confessional moviemaking.
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Production Company
Shirley Clarke Productions,
Graeme Ferguson Productions
Release Date Apr 19, 2013
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline "The most fascinating film I've ever seen" - Ingmar Bergman
Awards
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
