The Best of J. Brian

Name: The Best of J. Brian
Director: J. Brian
Released: 1993-01-01
Cast: Jamie Wingo, Hugh Davidson, Ron Pearson, Dean Chasson, Joe Markum

1993•1h 50m

This well-edited and narrated retrospective of gay fuck flick pioneer filmmaker J. Brian (Brian J. Donohue) sparkles precisely because of what it lacks: the artist himself, speaking in his own words. This serious omission allows the artist's work to speak both for him and for itself, and allows the viewer a freshness unencumbered by bias. The work, five films and seven vignettes, speaks loudly of J. Brian's vision of youth, sexual freedom, and naturalism unfettered by society or its constraints.