Perhaps best known for The Pleasure Garden (1953), a film shot at Crystal Palace and awarded a prize by Jean Cocteau in Cannes, James Broughton was a man of many parts: a poet, a filmmaker, a socialite, a traveller, a husband, father, teacher and in the last third of his life, an out and radical gay man. He spent most of his creative life in San Francisco and from the late 1940s helped nurture an artistic culture that eventually gave birth to the Beats.
Broughton's bisexual life changed foreve...
Perhaps best known for The Pleasure Garden (1953), a film shot at Crystal Palace and awarded a prize by Jean Cocteau in Cannes, James Broughton was a man of many parts: a poet, a filmmaker, a socialite, a traveller, a husband, father, teacher and in the last third of his life, an out and radical gay man. He spent most of his creative life in San Francisco and from the late 1940s helped nurture an artistic culture that eventually gave birth to the Beats.
Broughton's bisexual life changed forever when he began a love affair in 1975 with a young man 35 years his junior. Beautifully illustrated with extracts from his poetry and his many films, and liberally sprinkled with interviews from key collaborators, friends and family, Big Joy reveals James Broughton as a brilliantly perceptive visionary, a bold and inspiring interpreter of art and life and the joy of creation.
‘Fascinating…a revealing portrait of a man who helped to broaden our ideas of what films could accomplish.’ - The Hollywood Reporter
‘A great documentary’- Variety
Enjoy THREE Big Joy: the Adventures of James Broughton screenings at FLARE:
Thursday, March 27 ~ 6:10 PM
Saturday, March 29 ~ 1:00 PM
Sunday, March 30 ~ 2:10 PM
Tickets go on sale 03-03-2014 11:30 AM here:
http://bit.ly/1nWgemQ
