Acclaimed Documentary BIG JOY Now Available on DVD, VOD
By: Caryn Robbins Jun. 03, 2014
Kino Lorber's Alive Mind Presents BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON
Groundbreaking first documentary about a defining artistic voice of the 60's & 70's sexual and artistic revolution.
Summer Theatrical Tour:
* Chicago, May 16-22 at Facets Cinemateque* Portland, May 24, 4:30pm at Hollywood Theatre
* Mendocino Film Festival, May 31, 5:30pm at Crown Hall
* Los Angeles, June 10, 8pm at West Hollywood Library
* Los Angeles, June 12, 7:30pm American Cinematheque Spielberg Theatre
* New York, June 18, 7:00pm New York Public Library (reception at 6pm)
* Seattle, June 19, 7 pm at Gay City Calamus Auditorium
* Dallas, June 27, 9:20pm, Texas Theatre
* Austin, August 27, Austin Film Society Screening Room
**Additional Dates Will Be Announced Shortly Running Time: 82 minutes For more information visit: www.bigjoy.org A charismatic figure, Broughton led a completely unconventional, countercultural existence. The directors of BIG JOY vividly follow the course of Broughton's deeply intertwined creative and personal lives through his involvement with a wide array of artists, activists and spiritual guides. Among them figure movie critic Pauline Kael, choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin, filmmaker Sidney Peterson, theater actor and playwright Kermit Sheets, designer Suzanna Hart, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Eastern philosopher Alan Watts and film student protégé / longtime lover Joel Singer.
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