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The Cockettes
Directed by
Bill Weber
,
David Weissman
R
2002
1h 40m
Documentary
7.4
91%
85%
6.5
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Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
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Cast of The Cockettes
Larry Brinkin
Self
Dusty Dawn
Self
Anton Dunnigan
Self
John Flowers
Self
Goldie Glitters
Self
Ann Harris
Self
Fayette Hauser
Self
Jilala
Self
Michael Kalmen
Self
Richard Koldewyn
Self / Music
Sylvia Miles
Self
Peter Mintun
Self
Rumi Missabu
Self
Marshall Olds
Self
Maureen Orth
Self
Kreemah Ritz
Self
John Rothermel
Self
Pamela Tent-Carpenter
Self
John Waters
Self
Errol Wetson
Self
The Cockettes Ratings & Reviews
Variety
David Rooney
Joyously re-creates the brief but resplendent reign of the legendary freakadelic drag troupe.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Maybe it's the old-timey, silent film title cards, or the vaudeville piano tinkering on the score, but The Cockettes produces a yearning wistfulness for another time and place -- specifically, 1970s San Francisco.
Film Threat
Chris Gore
This is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party.
San Diego Metropolitan
Jean Lowerison
Much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s, but words don't really do the era justice. You have to see it.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Cockettes has the glorious, gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days, featuring all manner of drag queen, bearded lady and lactating hippie.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
As Weber and Weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve, the Cockettes weren't as much about gender, sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel, connect and create.
San Diego Union-Tribune
David Elliott
Gaudily filmed, tenderly imagined.
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
An insightfully cheeky entertainment.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
This expert, heartfelt movie establishes them as being as much a part of swingin' San Francisco as the Grateful Dead or the Beats.
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
Manages to transcend the sex, drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer.
Seattle Times
Misha Berson
It celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity, glancing vividly back at what Hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light.'
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
An irresistible documentary look at the ensemble of the moment in the hippie kingdom of San Francisco, this comprehensive and charming film not only recalls those days exactly, it also manages the wonderful trick of taking us back there along with it.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A funny, triumphant, and moving documentary.
New York Post
Megan Turner
Indulgent, tedious documentary.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It turns out there is quite a lot that the endlessly recycled and diluted images of the storied counterculture have obscured about some of the most interesting and vital parts of the culture itself, which the filmmakers have brought triumphantly to life.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Fond, funny documentary.
Boxoffice Magazine
Sheri Linden
A succinct, intelligent and scintillating slice of cultural history.
San Francisco Chronicle
James Sullivan
A sweet-natured reconsideration of one of San Francisco's most vital, if least widely recognized, creative fountainheads.
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