Banned in 22 states and four countries, this landmark work of the American avant-garde by Jack Smith is a hedonistic tableaux of Hollywood iconography, gender subversion and expansion, classic melodrama, and torrid sexuality.

Banned in its native France and heavily censored around the world, the only film directed by novelist Jean Genet is a masterpiece in poetic homoerotic longing. Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.