P.S. Burn This Letter Please (2020)

Directed by

Michael Seligman, Jennifer Tiexiera

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This documentary uses letters and footage from the 1950s to show the secret lives of drag queens in New York City. It centers on a stolen wig heist and the friendships that held a hidden community together.

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What happens

P.S. Burn This Letter Please is a 2020 documentary film about gay life in New York City among 1950s drag queens. The title is taken verbatim from a letter recounting the autumn 1958 theft of 33 luxurious wigs from the Metropolitan Opera House. The film is based on a trove of correspondence found in a storage unit in 2014, and includes archival footage of cross-dressing balls. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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