Drifter
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£19.00
A
prolific filmmaker who explored documentary, narrative, and
experimental cinema, Pat Rocco captured the essence of queer culture in
the late 1960s and early ’70s, when it was still largely ignored by the
popular media. Having achieved notoriety in the gay underground, Rocco
expected his third feature to cross over to general audiences. A West
Coast response to Midnight Cowboy, Drifter observes the odyssey of an
emotionally ambivalent bisexual hustler (Joed Adair) as he wanders
through a series of relationships with men and women, yearning for a
sense of belonging in a Southern California characterized by impersonal
pick-ups and sex for hire. Playful and irreverent, Rocco‘s films could
also be disarmingly earnest and sensitive, and might have found a
greater audience had not serious gay narratives remained such a stubborn
cultural taboo. As it was, Rocco’s breakthrough film failed to receive
commercial distribution, and for decades Drifter remained virtually
unseen. Fifty years later, Kino Cult celebrates Rocco‘s magnum opus with
a 2K restoration from the original 16mm A/B negatives preserved by the
UCLA Film and Television Archive, setting the stage for a reappraisal of
Rocco’s eclectic and historically significant body of work.
| Format | |
| Format | Blu-Ray |
| Film | |
| Year | 1974 |
| Rating | 18 |
| Director | Pat Rocco |
| Starring | Jon Adair David Russell Bambi Allen Joe Caruso Inga Marie Dean Shah-Kee Ann Collins Gerald Strickland |
| Country | USA |
| Label | Kino Cult |
| Region / TV Standard | Region 0 |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Running time | 98 mins |
| Aspect ratio | 1.37:1 |
| Case type | Standard with slipcover |
| Extra features | • Audio Commentary by Film Historian Finley Freibert • Four Short Films by Pat Rocco Autumn Nocturne (1968, 24 Min.) A Matter of Life (1968, 14 Min. Featuring Joed Adair) Strip Strip (1968, 5 Min.) Sunny Boys (1968, 3 Min.) |
