This special limed edn embossed slipver is limed to 2,500 uns and is only available here at ! The Amerin Genre Film Archive (AGFA) reprents the world's largt theatril talog of exploatn cema. Their home vio le prents a diverse selectn of movi, rangg om new prervatns of classics om the vast library of Somethg Weird to the wilst shot-on-vio (SOV) tl. Vegar Syndrome’s sister pany, OCN Distributn, is thrilled to be reprentg this diverse and unique home vio le! Spearhead by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Ridg Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s unrground gay scene by storm wh drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? AND THE FILMS OF THE GAY GIRLS RIDING CLUB llects the joyo, amb, and wig-filled GGRC films on home vio for the first time ever. From WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, shot only a few months after the release of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, to ALL ABOUT ALICE, the GGRC’s feature-length roast of ALL ABOUT EVE, the pneerg DIY movi are sential snapshots of mid-century drag culture that would feel right at home wh the dreamy work of Mike and Gee Kuchar. AGFA, partnership wh the Outft UCLA Legacy Project, is thrilled to prent the overlooked chapters of queer cema -- prerved om the only known 16mm film elements clud: ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1962, 8 ms), WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1963, 31 ms), THE ROMAN SPRINGS ON MRS. STONE (1963, 19 ms), SPY ON THE FLY (1967, 43 ms), ALL ABOUT ALICE (1972, 75 ms) directed by: Ray Harrisonstarrg: Claire Brennen, Felix Silla1962-72 / 176 m / 1.33:1 / English MonoAddnal :• Regn Free Blu-ray• 2K prervatns om the only known 16mm prts existence• 2K rtoratn of ALL ABOUT ALICE om the 16mm mera reversal• WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?: Commentary wh queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell and AGFA’s Bret Berg• ALL ABOUT ALICE outtak• Reversible ver wh archival GGRC promotnal material• English SDH subtl Vegar Syndrome is the premiere onle statn for cult classic movi on DVD and blu-ray om the 70's, 80's and 90's.
Contents:
- WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? AND THE FILMS OF THE GAY GIRLS RIDG CLUB
- THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
- THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? AND THE FILMS OF THE GAY GIRLS RIDG CLUB
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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
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Spearhead by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Ridg Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s unrground gay scene by storm wh drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films. AND THE FILMS OF THE GAY GIRLS RIDING CLUB llects the joyo, amb, and wig-filled GGRC films on home vio for the first time ever.
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One study published 2014 found that the odds of homophobic discrimatn, suicidal iatn and suici attempts were rced by more than half for lbian, gay and bisexual boys and girls schools wh GSAs that were at least three years old. For s the zany unrground edi of the Gay Girls Ridg Club were all but lost to history. Formed the late 1950s and lastg until the 1980s, the GGRC was a private social club of Hollywood homosexuals whose activi clud horseback ridg Griffh Park and holdg dners, notor Halloween stume parti, and drag performanc.
Whout much reratn, The Brownstone, then a gay waterg hole Hollywood, stands for a portsi taverna. Furi Cote as the bartenr the Gay Girls Ridg Club’s Always on Sunday, 1962.
Clod Hopper as an Osr prenter and Roz Berri as Blanche Hudson the Gay Girls Ridg Club’s What Really Happened to Baby Jane, 1963.