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Paris Is Burning


DVD / R / 1991


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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. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
 

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  Kelly from Sarasota, FL Vvia NYC
This is real life...there were few survivors!!
This was the world I lived in. I am one of only a very few survivors. In 1990 my then, new husband, over heard me on the phone with a friend and I used the trem "LeBeiga" His response "I know that character...Peppa from a movie I saw" I had to explain Peppa was not a character, but someone I knew. It took some searching but we found a rental and I sat in astonishment to find my NYC family on my TV screen. Most have gone to a better place. But how comforting to have them imortalized and the ability to visit my past any time I wish. Muah, Muah, Muah...Love and miss all of you!!! Kelly!

  I love this movie so much. I love the different houses and how from cincinnati, ohio
This is the cutest movie ever, so informative
Oh my god, I love this movie. Though I am not gay I am fascinated and intraced by gay culture. I love the "o-p-u-l-e-n-c-e" of it all, as one drag queen spelled out. Most of my friends are gay. Anyway, I digress, the movie showed great vogueing. I love vogueing, it would have been great for them to add madonna's vogue song to the film but the film was very informative. It was so cool how they showed both sides of the drag balls. The fights and the "reading" and "shading" and that vogueing is a way of shade. Like one guy was vogueing and he acted as if his hand was a mirror and he applied "makeup" to his face them flipped the mirror around as if to say you look bad to the other person he was vogueing with and began to apply makeup to their face. it was quite enjoyable and there are great extras as well. Hope I hepled you out. By the way it takes place in the underground drag ball scene in new york city from 1987- 1989 and a little bit of 1990.

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