Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

In Roy Cohn/Jack Smith_, actor Ron Vawter’s legendary, tour de force performance as two public figures who were both gay is captured by director Jill Godmilow. Vawter (_sex, lies and videotape; Silence of the Lambs) dazzles in a dual role as the rabid, conservative lawyer Roy Cohn and the flamboyant experimental filmmaker Jack Smith. Representing two extremes of the political spectrum, Cohn and Smith nonetheless shared something in common – they both died of AIDS. –Facets