Films
Portrait Of Jason
Light House 4 / Sat Aug 1 / 1.30pm / €8
Dir. Shirley Clarke 1967 USA 105mins
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"I'm a stoned whore!" declares Jason during one of his self-examining introductions in this classic of modern cinema. A perfect hangover film, it could offer the hair of the dog or flashbacks from hell. Whatever the effect, Portrait of Jason is an amazing sucker punch by a filmmaker described by many as New York's greatest.
This is a rare opportunity to see Shirley Clarke's classic portrait of Jason Holliday on a night in with various bottles of booze, crates of nostalgia and stoned dreams of the stage. It is an entertaining, funny, fascinating, sad, exciting and enlightening performance by Jason. His erudite and witty conversation grips your attention in a purposeful and drunken mission to achieve a dizzyingly deep truth about his life. A rare, unique and perfect film that everyone should see at least once.
"The most fascinating film I've ever seen." Ingmar Bergman