Jack Smith — Actor (9)
Lords of Dogtown (2005) [Movie] Eggplant.place
Lords of Dogtown
other title: Os Reis de Dogtown / Dogtown Boys
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.
How to Date Billy Walsh (2024) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
How to Date Billy Walsh
director: 亚历克斯·皮莱 actor: 唐纳·布坎南 / 露茜·彭奇
other title: 其实我爱你 / 怎样和比利约会
Archie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.
Blonde Cobra (1963) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Blonde Cobra
director: Ken Jacobs actor: Ken Jacobs / Jack Smith
other title: ブロンド・コブラ / 蛇蝎美人
A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes Greta Garbo and Maria Montez, tells the story of a lonely little boy and tells the story of a woman named Madame Nescience who dreams of herself as the Mother Superior of a convent of sexual perversion.
Colours (2015) [Movie] Douban
Colours
director: Peter Scott actor: 哈里·贾维斯 / Makir Ahmed
other title: 色彩
In the aggressive and often hostile world of youth grass roots football Adam (17) faces an ultimatum from the team captain (Mike) when they discover Adam's best friend Tom is gay.
Jack Smith & The Destruction of Atlantis (2007) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Jack Smith & The Destruction of Atlantis
director: Mary Jordan actor: Jack Smith / Nayland Blake
other title: 杰克.史密斯以及毁灭的亚特兰蒂斯 / Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Perhaps America’s most important artist from the last fifty years, Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the ‘William Blake of film’. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks left no generation untouched since, and became essential influences to contemporary art superstars like Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and Matthew Barney.
In her feature-length film debut, director Mary Jordan combines Smith’s rare and unseen films and photographs with rare audio recordings, acting appearances, and other relics squeezed from Smith’s vaulted archives. Commentaries from art luminaries, critics and Smith’s friends and enemies (such as screenwriter/playwright Ronald Tavel, New York Observer critic Andrew Sarris, transvestite extraordinaire Mario Montez, and filmmaker Ken Jacobs) intercut Smith himself proffering condemnations of capitalism, critics and institutional-art “gatekeepers.” Jordan also delves into Smith’s tenuous relationship with Andy Warhol—who adopted Smith’s ideas and actors in his own work (including Smith’s “Superstars” concept), his vilification of New American cinema pioneer Jonas Mekas, and other previously undocumented biographical topics.
From the Whitney to the Louvre, Smith is acknowledged as one of America’s most influential artists, yet his legacy remains at the edges of obscurity. Pure in his artistic pursuits, Smith smashed head-on into the politics intersecting creativity, capitalism and meaning in contemporary art. Since his 1989 death, Smith’s work has been rarely publicly displayed. Still his influence pervades contemporary art and pop-culture today. This documentary portrait pays homage to New York’s ultimate anti-hero and the original King of the Underground.