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Cockettes, The
Strand Releasing
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the legendary San Francisco theatrical troupe, a group of flamboyant hippies who decked themselves in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter.
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Bill Weber
David Weissman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 21, 2003
Video: January 21, 2003
Theatrical: June 28, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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100
Film Threat
Chris Gore
This is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The Cockettes weren't talented, exactly, yet the bedazzled flakiness of their passion takes you closer than just about any movie has to what was once really meant by the term ''free-spirited.''

90
New Times (L.A.)
David Ehrenstein
Brilliant new documentary.
90
Variety
David Rooney
Joyously re-creates the brief but resplendent reign of the legendary freakadelic drag troupe.

89
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Cue the footage of Cockettes in spangles and glitter, high-kicking and belting out show tunes at the top of their lungs. Damn, it looks grand.

88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The Cockettes is a grand place to visit, even for those who wouldn't want to live there.
88
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
It puts The Cockettes into social, political and popular cultural context and gives the documentary a moving resonance.

83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The film does leave you with the lingering regret that you missed a hell of a good party. It is, as the kids used to say, a trip.
80
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
A fascinating, richly detailed documentary about the legendary queer collective based in San Francisco in the late '60s and early '70s.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Has the glorious, gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days, featuring all manner of drag queen, bearded lady and lactating hippie.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
This comprehensive and charming film not only recalls those days exactly, it also manages the wonderful trick of taking us back there along with it.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Looks like Weimar decadence and feels like down-home friendship.
80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
An absorbing primer in one of the most fascinating chapters in American social history.

80
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Revisits the San Francisco of the late 1960's and early 70's, a time and place so encrusted with legend and cliché that you might wonder if there is anything left to say. It turns out there is quite a lot -- which the filmmakers have brought triumphantly to life.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
A sweet reminder of their lost and lively world.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
James Sullivan
A sweet-natured reconsideration of one of San Francisco's most vital, if least widely recognized, creative fountainheads.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
The Cockettes is a fascinating poke into the soul of the '60s and it moves past a simple chronology of a counterculture phenomenon to examine how this predecessor to glitter rock and camp movies, such as "The Rocky Horror Show," could ever have ascended to such heights.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The Cockettes epitomized a brief confluence of new possibilities, not so much in theater as in personal style, lending them a certain historical value that greatly exceeds their contribution to theater.
70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This amazing footage alternates with interviews that include more than a dozen surviving members of the troupe, whose recollections are by turn funny, touching and mind-boggling. What a time!

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Makes a terrific case for the group's historical importance, even though its performances seem more fun to discuss than watch.

60
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Fond, funny documentary.

38
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Indulgent, tedious documentary.


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