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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis aims an illuminating -- and long overdue -- spotlight on a talented artist and admirable public figure.
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Mary Jordan's documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is part unsparing explication of a life story, part love-stuck personification of Smith's working philosophy. Nov 30, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Mary Jordan's documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is part unsparing explication of a life story, part love-stuck personification of Smith's working philosophy.
Wesley Morris
Jordan's film is a glorious visual achievement in its own right, as well as part of the rancorous ongoing dispute over Smith's legacy. Apr 14, 2007 | Full Review…
Jordan's film is a glorious visual achievement in its own right, as well as part of the rancorous ongoing dispute over Smith's legacy.
Ben Walters
If modern art-lovers want to understand what the Jack Smith experience was like, Jordan's documentary may be their best chance. Apr 14, 2007 | Rating: B+
If modern art-lovers want to understand what the Jack Smith experience was like, Jordan's documentary may be their best chance.
Noel Murray
This invaluable record contains a treasure trove of clips from Smith's hard-to-see and still striking films, plus comments that were culled from hours of interviews with this flamboyant pioneer. Apr 13, 2007 | Rating: 3/4
This invaluable record contains a treasure trove of clips from Smith's hard-to-see and still striking films, plus comments that were culled from hours of interviews with this flamboyant pioneer.
Lou Lumenick
There is invaluable material here, but also a lack of context for the wonderfully outre footage. Apr 12, 2007 | Rating: 2/4
There is invaluable material here, but also a lack of context for the wonderfully outre footage.
John Anderson
An intriguing, and profoundly frustrating, view of the New York underground hero. Apr 11, 2007
An intriguing, and profoundly frustrating, view of the New York underground hero.
Andrew O'Hehir
Depicted as the uncompromising artist who went to the grave for his art. Mar 3, 2013 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Depicted as the uncompromising artist who went to the grave for his art.
Dennis Schwartz
Eccentric and pure like its hero, JSDA may appall or bore the many but should delight devotees of the real reel underground. Jan 8, 2012 | Full Review…
Eccentric and pure like its hero, JSDA may appall or bore the many but should delight devotees of the real reel underground.
Donald J. Levit
It's the only place you'll find clips of his notorious masterpiece Flaming Creatures (1963), and for that alone it's worth seeing. Apr 19, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's the only place you'll find clips of his notorious masterpiece Flaming Creatures (1963), and for that alone it's worth seeing.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Mary Jordan's documentary is an impressive, fascinating achievement. Apr 12, 2007 | Full Review…
Mary Jordan's documentary is an impressive, fascinating achievement.
David Noh
Alternately bizarre and inspired, but an appropriate tribute to an uncompromisingly experimental innovator in the field of cinema. Apr 12, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Alternately bizarre and inspired, but an appropriate tribute to an uncompromisingly experimental innovator in the field of cinema.
Kam Williams
Thank heavens for Mary Jordan's vibrant, funny and tragic documentary, an entertaining hodgepodge of artifacts and impressions of a "creature" whose influence on photography, drama, film and art is still felt today. Apr 11, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Thank heavens for Mary Jordan's vibrant, funny and tragic documentary, an entertaining hodgepodge of artifacts and impressions of a "creature" whose influence on photography, drama, film and art is still felt today.
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