Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
5.9
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.
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Cast
18 people
Ron Vawter
Roy Cohn / Jack Smith
Known for
Philadelphia
The Silence of the Lambs
Coco McPherson
Chica
Known for
I Shot Andy Warhol
Jonathan Demme
Known for
The Incredible Melting Man
Ellen Kuras
Gary Indiana
Also in
Cold in Colombia
Terror 2000
Jill Godmilow
Jack Smith
Ted Hope
Reilly Steele
Bill Seery
James Schamus
Also in
Keep It for Yourself
That Film About Money
Marianne Weems
Jill Godmilow Director · Gary Indiana Writer Ellen Kuras Cinematographer
United States release August 4, 1995 · Produced in United States
Production
Good Machine
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Release dates
Canada · September 11, 1994
Premiere
United States · August 4, 1995
Theatrical
Czechia
January 27, 2002 · Febio Film Festival
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