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Athena 2022-08-14 12:15:33
[Film Commentary] Talking about Paris burning
In just little bit over 1 hour, Paris Is Burning( Jennie Livingston, 1990), a seminal and eye-opening documentary, invites us back to the 1980s to survey Harlem's drag ball subculture, and by extension, queer existence, proffering a snapshot of the late 1980s via the eyes of New York City's...
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Burnice 2022-08-14 13:11:42
[Film Review] Paris Is Burning (1990) 8.0/10
It's again, double-bill time! Two seminal documentaries invite us back to the 1980s, Jennie Livingston's PARIS IS BURNING is an eye-opening watershed to survey Harlem's drag ball subculture, and by extension, queer existence, meanwhile Hiroshi Teshigahara's ANTONIO GAUDÍ lingers mesmerically in...
Pepper LaBeija
Extended Reading
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Octavia St. Laurent: I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs. I honestly do. You know, every man starts barking sooner or later.
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Venus Xtravaganza: Some of them say that we're sick, we're crazy. And some of them think that we are the most gorgeous, special things on Earth.
