CinemaOSMovie · 1995 · 1h 30m

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

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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.

Directed byJill Godmilow

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Language
EN
Released
August 4, 1995

Featuring

Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring
Ron Vawter

Ron Vawter

Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

Coco McPherson

Chica

Creative team
Directed by
Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow
Written by
Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow
Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana
Produced by
Ted Hope
Ted Hope
James Schamus
James Schamus

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