Comments on: Film as a Battleground: Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/07/film-as-a-battleground-shirley-clarkes-portrait-of-jason/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:53:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brecht Anderschhttp://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/07/film-as-a-battleground-shirley-clarkes-portrait-of-jason/comment-page-1/#comment-18312 Brecht Andersch Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:25:10 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=3910#comment-18312 The Audio Portrait is a must have for fans of Jason, though for me some of the musical interludes could have been better chosen. Amongst the album’s many highlights is a further impression of Katherine Hepburn in Stage Door, with a monologue which incorporates lines from Hamlet’s soliloquy – very interesting in terms of the levels of self-awareness Jason has as a performer.

Since writing this piece, I came across Kathy Geritz’s excellent and succinct program notes for Portrait of Jason written for her Shirley Clarke retro at the Pacific Film Archive back in ’92:

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN9498

Kathy confirms my ideas regarding Portrait, and there are valuable bits of info and Clarke quotes in these notes.

I’ve also heard one of Clarke’s peeves with Jason was indeed how exhausted by his routines she was – she later claimed to have heard them all fifty times before the shoot!

]]> By: Rex Strotherhttp://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/07/film-as-a-battleground-shirley-clarkes-portrait-of-jason/comment-page-1/#comment-15162 Rex Strother Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:04:07 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=3910#comment-15162 I was introduced to Jason Holliday through a recent CD release I worked on called “An Audio Portrait of Jason” (it’s on iTunes and such now) – which was culled from hours of taped interviews with him. His personality IS infectious, a giggle of self-awareness over a dark soul sadness, to my way of thinking.

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