01 Jun 2022
What Is a Woman?
Matt Walsh's controversial doc challenges radical gender ideology through provocative interviews and humor.
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
He was a celebrated playwright and poet. A pioneer in 1960's experimental film and theater. A Warhol superstar. He lived, and performed... sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman.
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
Top Billed Cast
Jackie Curtis Self (archive footage)
Paul Ambrose Self
Michael André Self
Penny Arcade Self
David Bowie Self (archive footage)
Joe Dallesandro Self
Candy Darling Self (archive footage)
Taylor Mead Self
Sylvia Miles Self
Lily Tomlin Self
Holly Woodlawn Self
Harvey Fierstein Self
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