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Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
Koch Lorber Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Penny Banner,
Lillian Ellison,
Gladys Gillem,
Judy Grable,
Ida May Martinez,
Ella Waldek,
and
Mae Young
This documentary shines a spotlight on the forgotten first ladies of the ring. Each woman reflects on her own remarkable life with fond and bitter memories, reconciling a wild, flamboyant youth with the reality of getting older and fading away. (Ruthless Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ruth Leitman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 6, 2005
Theatrical: March 25, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
75 minutes, B/W / Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
An entertaining look at a genuinely offbeat subject.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Dynamite perfectly describes this riveting documentary.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
The film dwells more on the sensationalistic aspects than the sport itself but it's impossible to deny the tawdry entertainment value in this compelling film tabloid.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Generous, slyly tough-minded documentary.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
What a gutsy, sad, seize-the-day, glorious life it was for the women warriors of Lipstick & Dynamite.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What makes Lipstick & Dynamite its own animal is that, intentionally or not, the director has allowed something else into the mix, a glimpse of the unvarnished and the unsanitized.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Highly entertaining and frequently fascinating.

70
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
The women, many in their 70s and 80s, are still tough and proud--and nursing grudges that go back decades, something Leitman plays up by crosscutting between rivals' accounts.

70
Variety
David Rooney
Smart assembly of terrific archive footage is matched by spirited interviews with the tough old broads today.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Leitman gets some wonderful tall tales from her subjects, who open up like they've been waiting for years for someone to come along and ask, and she complements it with punishing footage of their exploits.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The documentary visits elderly women who, then and now, can best be described as tough broads, and listens as they describe the early days of women's wrestling. What they say is not as revealing as how they say it.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Brad Wheeler
The best gal wrestlers had their signature moves: Ida May Martinez, with her flying drop kick; Ella Waldek, with the "short-arm scissor lift." Filmmaker Leitman, for all her good work, is in need of a close-out manoeuvre of her own.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
This visually stylish work, with its vintage glamour photos, film and television clips, and snippets from a 1951 B-movie, "Racket Girls," is more of a scrapbook than a coherent history of the sport during its rough-and-tumble infancy.

50
New York Post
Russell Scott Smith
Offers plenty of fun, nostalgic footage of 1950s pro lady wrestlers kicking butt.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Leitman's interviews are lax and inconclusive.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
At its best, the movie is a collection of entertaining memories from a group of gutsy women.

50
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Leitman has unearthed a terrific collection of vintage footage - yet, as if doubtful about holding our interest, she skims too quickly over the historical background.


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