Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024)
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as a "one-hit wonder" director. Upon closer inspection, however, likely no other filmmaker used cinema as effectively to exorcise personal demons in ways both ugly and beautiful. And few directors' sensibilities were more gay, both overtly and covertly. Film historian Daniel Kremer is your tour guide through an obscure, perplexing body of work heretofore ignored and often unfairly shunned. Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano is an essay documentary of discovery.
- Released
- 2024-08-30
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Daniel Kremer
Cast
- David Del Valle as Himself
- Silvio Narizzano as Himself
- Paul Carafotes as Himself
- Michael Murphy as Himself
- Mark Lester as Himself
- Daniel Kremer as Narrator
- Paul Lynch as Himself
- Jon Jost as Voice of Silvio Narizzano
- Julie Kirgo as Herself
- Nathaniel Thompson as Himself
- Stathis Giallelis as Himself
- Sidney J. Furie as Himself
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