Paris Is Still Burning

Paris Is Still Burning—The Documentary of '80s Drag-Ball Culture Remains Complicated, Glorious, and Essential at 25by David SchmaderFor sheer density of vibrant life, few films compare with Paris Is Burning. Released in 1990, Jennie Livingston's documentary dives into the gay ball culture of Harlem, New York, in the late 1980s, getting up close and personal with a number of the scene's key individuals, who hold forth on their lives and art with the otherworldly self-possession of superstar