The highlights of a 12-hour interview with Aaron Payne, alias Jason Holliday, a former houseboy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler who, while drinking and smoking cigarettes and pot, tells stories and observations of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960s America.... (Full plot summary below)
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The highlights of a 12-hour interview with Aaron Payne, alias Jason Holliday, a former houseboy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler who, while drinking and smoking cigarettes and pot, tells stories and observations of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960s America.
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| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitBorn Aaron Payne, Jason Holiday gives the performance of any lifetime, and it is superb artifice. |
| NPRJohn PowersWhether Jason is laughing or crying, he holds you rapt with tales that conceal as much as they reveal. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis unscripted and uncompromising study of a self-proclaimed street hustler is a fine example of the pioneering film movement of cinema verité. |
| Windy City TimesRichard KnightA non-stop, fascinating monologue that is enormously entertaining. |
| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierShirley Clarke counters Jason's queen-bitch attitude by reminding us with vocal and technological interjections that this is a performance, and that aesthetic judgments have been made while recording it. |
| Film ThreatPhil HallA mesmerizing journey into experimental filmmaking. |
| Time OutDavid FearServes as a sideways time capsule, creating a blurry snapshot of an Afro-camp subculture during the era of Christopher Street bar raids and burn-baby-burn rioting. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectA reminder that character is the heart of drama, even in a documentary made on a shoestring. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA riveting portrait of a black male prostitute from the bold, gifted director Shirley Clarke |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey[PODCAST] Shirley Clarke's 1967 cinéma vérité masterpiece remains a scathing social and character study of race in America for the enigmatic quality of its unreliable subject, Jason Holliday (nee Aaron Payne, 1924-1998). |
