Pink Narcissus
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Director: James Bidgood
1971 / 65min / 4K DCP
Between 1963 and 1970, photographer, costume designer, window dresser, and female impersonator Bidgood sporadically transformed his shoebox-sized Manhattan apartment into a succession of stunning, tinsel-tasseled sets while painstakingly piecing together his delirious paean to camp Technicolor extravagance and male beauty starring runaway teen Bobby Kendall and his bee-stung lips, with Kendall’s hustler a modern-day Narcissus whose oneiric odyssey takes him from gauzy homoerotic reverie to gritty Times Square toilet-trawling. Anticipating the lavish fantasias of Pierre et Gilles and arguably outdoing them, Bidgood’s newly restored lone feature, obsessive and intoxicating, is nothing less than “a benchmark of underground gay cinema.” [The New York Times]
Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 35mm internegative, 35mm print and 35mm track negative. Funding provided by Snapdragon Capital Partners. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Audio Mechanics. Special thanks to Frameline, Marcus Hu, Michael Lumpkin, Strand Releasing and James Woolley.
A Strand Releasing release
Post-screening conversation with Kelly McKaig, Jim Bidgood Estate, and filmmaker Matt Wolf on Saturday, April 12th.
Book launch of Jim Bidgood's Dreamlands on Saturday, April 12th.
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