Introduced by Jerry Tartaglia Normal Love, Jack Smith's all-color, would-be "commercial" follow-up to Flaming Creatures, was shot during the summer of 1963 and is very much a film of its season....Various creatures, some in drag, others dressed to evoke the monsters of real or imagined '30s horror flicks, dance, primp, commune with the cows, and engage in spasmodic bouts of heterosexual (or "heterosexual") behavior....As with Flaming Creatures, the mode is glamour-encrusted povera....Normal Love is sumptuous but static-in part because Smith, who died in 1989, never completed it. He exhibited rushes and rough cuts through 1965, and thereafter showed excerpts in various combinations with different sorts of exotic musical accompaniment as a kind of projection-performance piece....Jerry Tartaglia's restoration is an assemblage of already-edited sequences, with a chronology based on notes made by Smith and Tony Conrad in 1963-64; the screenings will benefit the preservation of Smith's other unfinished films.-J. Hoberman