"An Act of Jubilant Resurrection"

"During those years of rebounding—and unbeknownst to Christopher—a VHS bootleg of the two-hour-long 54 rough cut began to circulate among film geeks, and, despite being distorted by its poor technical quality, it became the focus of a word-of-mouth campaign: This movie was really good. Petitions to Miramax to release 54 as Christopher intended it began to appear online, and in 2008, the New York LGBT film festival Outfest had a 'secret screening' of the director’s cut—its first public showing since the Long Island test-screening ten years before. 'They sold out immediately,' says Christopher of the Outfest airing. 'There’s been an appetite for this cut for a long, long time.'"


Louis Jordan at New York reports on the return of the 1998 movie 54.