[Frameworks] New Film on James Broughton

[Chuck Kleinhans]

Haven't seen it, but this review makes me want to:


http://www.fandor.com/blog/james-broughton-light-and-dark



The great gay Renaissance man of San Francisco counterculture, James Broughton, disrobes and cavorts among us once again—on screen if not in flesh via Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton. ...
Co-directed by Eric Slade (Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay) and first-timer Stephen Silha (who bunked with Broughton at a Radical Faeries retreat in the seventies),Big Joy blends fascinating archival footage; Beat Generation history lessons illustrated by performance artist Keith Hennessy; insightful interviews with Broughton peers and devotees including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neeli Cherkovski and the late George Kuchar<http://www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-george-kuchar-1697?utm_campaign=kf&source=47852>(undoubtedly a kindred soul); visually rapturous renderings of Broughton’s diary entries; and a plethora of the artist-shaman’s wondrous works of poetry and filmmaking. Deemed “the grand classic master of independent cinema” by no less an authority than Jonas Mekas, Broughton’s enduring legacy as a brilliant funambulist and feisty iconoclast—he ditched Pauline Kael <http://www.fandor.com/blog/a-smart-fun-life-in-the-dark-pauline-kael-bio-reviewed> for a guy, famously stating that “nothing tickles the palate like nipples and cocks”—is playfully sanctified for a new generation of acolytes in need of an empowering role model.
Chuck Kleinhans




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