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The year 2000 was a very good one for documentary films. So good that a handful of worthy efforts fell through the cracks and are just now beginning to resurface. One of these is “Benjamin Smoke,” a ...

Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin Smoke follows the crooked path of this ...

Benjamin was about as underground as you can get. A punk-rock drag queen living in a forgotten fringe town near Atlanta, this odd, mostly unknown person and phenomenon is the subject of Jem Cohen and ...

This bittersweet documentary captures the passion and perversion of Robert Dickerson, a singer, bullshit artist and part-time drag queen known as Benjamin. In interviews and rehearsals shot in Atlanta ...