Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024)
"Hey there, Silvio. Why do all the film buffs pass you by? Could it be you just don't try, or is it the pain you share?"
134 min
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.
- Release date
- August 30, 2024
- Country of origin
- Not yet available · likely United States (estimated from cast and crew)
Cast
- Daniel Kremer as Narrator
- Jon Jost as Silvio Narizzano
- Kenneth Anderson as Self
- Howard S. Berger as Self
- Judd Bernard as Self
- John Bloom as Self
- Paul Carafotes as Self
- David Del Valle as Self
- Sidney J. Furie as Self
Crew
- Silvio Narizzano · Archive footage
- Daniel Kremer · Director
- Daniel Kremer · Writer
- Josh Hibberd · Producer
- Charles Thackeray · Cinematographer
- Daniel Kremer · Editor