Jackie Curtis
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Jackie Curtis was a pioneer transgender film star, poet, playwright, and Warhol Superstar.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Birthday: February 19, 1947
Deathday: May 15, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Overview: What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-05-10
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Women in Revolt
Overview: Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Disclosure
Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Andy Warhol
Overview: With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Underground U.S.A.
Overview: The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-06
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The Queen
Overview: In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer into rehearsals and dressing rooms as the drag queen subculture prepares for this big national beauty contest. Jack/Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies, and their protégé, Miss Harlow, is in the competition. But, as the pageant approaches, the glamorous contestants veer from camaraderie to tension.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-17
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Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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Burroughs: The Movie
Overview: An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-10
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Flesh
Overview: A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs and decadence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-16
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Beautiful Darling
Overview: James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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The Cockettes
Overview: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-05
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Overview: Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Stone Age
Overview: "The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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Jesus
Overview: Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at The Kitchen in 1980 – mixes documentary elements such as footage of evangelical TV programs, books, cartoons, paintings, and other Jesus related imagery – with performances including Taylor Mead as a priest in the West Village and Florence Lambert playing a crucified Jesus. Also, intercut throughout are surprisingly candid interviews with Auder’s friends, family, and people he approaches on New York City streets about their faith and relationship to the world’s most famous person. Among those interviewed are Diego Cortez, Jackie Curtis, Gerard Malanga, Alice Neel (Andrew Neel’s grandmother), Larry Rivers, and Viva.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Doris and Inez Speak the Truth
Overview: His queer performance melodrama Doris and Inez Speak the Truth, adapted from a Squat Theatre production, centers on two weary transgender characters struggling to find a version of heterosexual normality. The film features the final role for Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis and one of the first for rising off-Broadway actor-director Tom Noonan.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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