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Behind the Burly Q

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The golden age of burlesque is revealed through personal and intimate stories from the performers who lived through it.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Settles too easily for an editing formula which alternates talking heads, too cursory performance footage and montages of headlines and photographs. Rated: 2/4 Aug 19, 2010 Full Review Jeff Shannon Seattle Times More than a dozen of the burlesque performers featured here have died since they were interviewed in 2006, making Zemeckis's slapdash survey definitive by default. Rated: 3/4 Aug 6, 2010 Full Review Ronnie Scheib Variety Too scattershot to present a truly coherent picture of the burlesque experience, docu nevertheless provides a privileged front-row seat to sample several of the form's most memorable practitioners. Jul 7, 2010 Full Review Corey Hall Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Revealing doc tells all about the sassy gals of the vaudeville stage Rated: A- Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Keith Cohen Entertainment Spectrum This documentary from Leslie Zemeckis affectionately tells everything you ever wanted to know about the golden age of burlesque. The standout interviewee is Alan Alda. Rated: 3/4 Jul 10, 2010 Full Review Robert W. Butler Kansas City Star Behind the Burly Q is a mess, but an enjoyable one. Rated: 3/4 Jul 9, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Rather incomplete. Found the dismissive attitude towards non-white performers (who received maybe two minutes total) particularly annoying. The complete omission of Tura Satana is unforgiveable. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Woof what catyness even when you get that far up in age. LOL. A great doc though. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Really interesting and really funny! It's awesome to see all of the old footage and pictures and hear from the people who were part of it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Very interesting -- The stories from the former performers & their relatives & friends were interesting to hear. Great collection of video, photo & audio clips. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Extremely interesting subject matter and people, ,some of the stories these women have are really incredible! unfortunately the film lacked any sort of coherent narrative, geographic or chronological thread, it was pretty amateurish story telling / editing, i wish there was a better documentary on the subject... Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Not that great of a doc. but good enough. It gets a little slow at points. And the stories of all the ladies could have been investigated a bit more in depth. Seems a cursory glance inside a dead industry. Some of the ladies are truly fascinating. I would have liked more information. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The golden age of burlesque is revealed through personal and intimate stories from the performers who lived through it.
Director
Leslie Zemeckis
Producer
Sheri Hellard, Jackie Levine, Leslie Zemeckis
Screenwriter
Leslie Zemeckis
Distributor
First Run
Production Co
Mistress Inc.
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 23, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 2, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$23.9K
Runtime
1h 37m
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