Paris Is Burning [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Paris Is Burning [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Jennie Livingston
Paris Is Burning [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Paris Is Burning [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Jennie Livingston

Blu-ray (Color)

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Overview

Poignant, well-received documentary that reveals the community of New York's minority drag queens, gay black and Latino men who cross dress as women and invent the dance style of "voguing," imitating the fashion poses on the covers of the magazine Vogue. As director Jennie Livingston discovers, her subjects band together into family-like "houses" for protection, taking the same last names and competing in drag balls where awards are given out for authenticity or "realness," as well as other categories like "evening wear" and "executive wear." Both an embracing and a refutation of the world of high fashion, the balls become the social locus of this underclass, underground society of outcasts defiantly refusing to be ignored by a world that scorns them. Paris Is Burning (1991) was one of several critically acclaimed documentaries of the late 1980s and early 1990s excluded from Academy Award nominations, eventually leading to a reappraisal of the Academy's stodgy selection process.

Product Details

Release Date: 02/25/2020
UPC: 0715515241519
Original Release: 1990
Rating: R
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:16:00
Sales rank: 8,363

Special Features

New conversation between Livingston, ball community members Sol Pendavis and Freddie Pendavis, and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris Over an hour of never-before-seen outtakes Audio commentary from 2005, featuring Livingston, ball community members Freddie Pendavis and Willi Ninja, and film editor Jonathan Oppenheim Episode of The Joan Rivers Show from 1991, featuring Livingston and ball community members Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Freddie Pendavis, and Ninja Trailer English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Anji Xtravaganza Actor

Technical Credits
Jennie Livingston Director,Producer
Nigel Finch Executive Producer
Claire Goodman Producer
Davis Lacy Executive Producer
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