10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Special Screenings 1992
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL
by John McNaughton
Country: USA
Year: 1992
Duration: 102'
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll is a brutally funny and uniquely original tour of the dark side by monologist Eric Bogosian, captured on film by director John McNaughton.
On a spare stage in front of a live audience, Bogosian brings to life ten astonishingly vivid and richly comic male characters ranging from a smug English rock star to a wheedling subway beggar; from an unrepentant killer to a bullying shark of an entertainment lawyer; from a New York street tough to a millionaire New Jersey in love with his swimming pool. The portraits are drawn in selfcontained five to fifteenminute onecharacter minidramas, a distinctive form that Bogosian has perfected over years of stage work, a form that is now given a cinematic interpretation.
Biography
film director
John McNaughton
John McNaughton was born in Chicago (Illinois) in 1949. He attended fflie University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and then Chicago Columbia College, studying film and television. Initially, McNaughton's interests in films led him to realize his dreams by making video movies. He directed a syndicated television series on famous gangsters. narrated by Broderick Crawford and titled Dealer's in Death. He was known for Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer, an independent feature. His following film was The Borrower, screened last year at Cinema Giovani and not yet released. Mad Dog and Glory, with Robert De Niro, is his next film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (1987), The Borrower (1989-1991), Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director: John McNaughton.
Sceneggiatura e interpretazione: Eric Bogosian.
Director of photography: Ernest Dickerson A.S.C.
Editor: Elena Maganini.
Director of Production: Cary Brokaw.
Production company: McNaughton Jones, 1370 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60622, USA.
Foreign sales agent: Mceg Sterling, 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 2630, Los Angeles, California 90067, tel. 3102820871, fax 3102828303.
Sceneggiatura e interpretazione: Eric Bogosian.
Director of photography: Ernest Dickerson A.S.C.
Editor: Elena Maganini.
Director of Production: Cary Brokaw.
Production company: McNaughton Jones, 1370 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60622, USA.
Foreign sales agent: Mceg Sterling, 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 2630, Los Angeles, California 90067, tel. 3102820871, fax 3102828303.
