Stephen Kijak Movies
The recording sessions that produced The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street have become mythic in rock history. This documentary, made to coincide with the 40th anniversary remaster of that LP, features new interviews with the band members alongside archival footage that attempts to demystify the sordid tales of sex and drugs that have surrounded this beloved album since its initial release. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- 2007
Explore the life and career of a musical artist who penned some of the biggest hits of the 1960s before turning his back on fame and completely reinventing himself as a reclusive outsider artist. In the mid-'60s, few bands rose higher up the British pop charts than the Walker Brothers, and as the front man of the group, Scott Walker was constantly in the spotlight. In the years that followed, the American-born Walker would split from the group to establish himself as a successful solo artist while inspiring such popular musicians as David Bowie and Bono. Now, as the release of Walker's 2006 solo album, The Drift, draws near, the existential crooner notorious for not granting interviews allows filmmaker Stephen Kijak to follow along for tantalizing glimpse at one of the world's most enigmatic musicians. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Scott Walker, Sara Kestelman, (more)
- 2004
Filmmaker Louisa Achille looks at the changing role of women in the adult film industry in this documentary. While for years the conventional wisdom was that women were physically and psychologically abused within the porn business, The Naked Feminist focuses on women who have learned to succeed on their own terms in the business of adult films. Among Achille's interview subjects are actresses Marilyn Chambers and Christi Lake, performance artist Annie Sprinkle, porn star-turned-director and producer Jane Hamilton, and Sharon Mitchell, a former adult film star who now runs the Adult Industry Medical HealthCare Foundation, a industry watchdog group which administers AIDS tests to performers. The Naked Feminist was screened at the 2004 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
For his feature debut, writer/director Christopher Herrmann chose a subject near and dear to his heart. Herrmann had been the biographer and a close friend of renowned choreographer Martha Graham before the dance legend passed away in 1991 at the age of 96. With Ghostlight, Herrmann pays tribute to Graham by recreating the events that preceded Phaedra. Graham is portrayed by drag queen Richard Move (who also co-wrote the script), and Ann Magnuson plays Barbara Rosen, a filmmaker who is permitted to document the process of bringing Phaedra to the stage. Deborah Harry and Mark Morris appear as themselves in cameo roles. Ghostlight screened at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Richard Move, Ann Magnuson, (more)
Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak direct the documentary Cinemania, concerning five individual New Yorkers with self-styled movie obsessions that border on the psychotic. Living on disability is Eric Chadbourne, who is an obsessive collector as well as viewer; Harvey Schwartz, who has memorized countless amounts factual data like movie running times; and Roberta Hill, who is such an aggressive audience member that she has been kicked out of several theaters. Unemployed and living in denial, Bill Heidbreder is into European art films to a serious degree, while the somewhat self-aware Jack Angstreich lives off of an inheritance and claims to keep a schedule of watching five movies a day. The conclusion appropriately features the five subjects screening a rough cut of the documentary and offering their comments. Shot on digital video, Cinemania contains a cinema-themed soundtrack provided by witty French indie pop band Stereo Total. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Angstreich, Roberta Hill, (more)
This gay-oriented drama centers on the life and exploits of Andrew, an aspiring painter. Still living at home with his mother Genna, an avant garde actress, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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