Francis Francine Trailers
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith TrailerComing Attractions TrailerNo President Trailer
Frank di Giovanni, elevator operator, was the first of the Andy Warhol transvestite superstars.
Francine had been intended as the star of Flaming Creatures, 1962, but disappeared partway through filming, leaving Mario Montez the throne.
He was given star treatment in the Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey film Lonesome Cowboys, 1968, as a the transvestite sheriff. The camera lingers as he puts on drag and makeup. This in a cowboy village partly owned by John Wayne.
Most Popular Francis Francine Trailers
Total trailers found: 7
01 November 1968
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
29 December 1963
Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it.
19 March 1970
“Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine, an elegantly dowdy transvestite of, and indeed beyond, a certain age.
31 October 1965
A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that clearly affirms Smith’s role as the driving force behind underground cinema and performance art of the post-war era.
29 April 1963
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick.
02 February 1969
Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign.
26 January 2017
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performance legend Jack Smith, deals less with Smith’s life than with his work, analyzing Smith’s aesthetic idiosyncrasies in 21 thematic chapters.
