Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024)

Documentary

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.

Director: Daniel Kremer

Casts

	David Del Valle as Himself
	Silvio Narizzano as Himself
	Paul Carafotes as Himself
	Michael Murphy as Himself
	Mark Lester as Himself
	Daniel Kremer as Narrator
	Paul Lynch as Himself
	Jon Jost as Voice of Silvio Narizzano
	Julie Kirgo as Herself
	Nathaniel Thompson as Himself
	Stathis Giallelis as Himself
	Sidney J. Furie as Himself
	Lynn Redgrave as Herself

Crew