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Eleganza Extravaganza: 20 fabulous films featuring performers in drag

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By Barry Levitt, Ella Kemp Verified, Patrick Sproull
| Letterboxd
Barbra Streisand, Katharine Hepburn, Martin Lawrence, Charlie Chaplin, Tyler Perry, John Travolta, Nathan Lane, Gael García Bernal, Angelina Jolie and Tom Hanks. That’s not just a list of some megastar performers—every single one of them has been in drag in the movies. The term “drag” was first used in the late 1800s to describe the action of performing in clothes that differ from one’s own gender (and not in Shakespearean times, as is commonly believed).
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Rose of Nevada: Mark Jenkin’s Bewitching New Film Is Trapped in a Time Loop

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By Patrick Sproull
| AnOther Magazine Verified
Rose of Nevada, 2026 Tragic, funny and perplexing in ways that are difficult to put into words, Rose of Nevada unites, among other genres, a ghost story and a time travel sci-fi drama When Mark Jenkin scooped a Bafta for Outstanding Debut with Bait in early 2020, it felt like the arrival of a fantastic new voice in British film. That was only half true.
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How did the most depraved films of all time end up at the BFI?

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By Patrick Sproull
| MSN UK Verified
Patrick Sproull Moviemaking's most cherished creepy uncleJohn Watersonce gave Melanie Griffith a wig, a gun and a manifesto to scream: “Death to those who support mainstream cinema!”Cecil B DeMented, Waters' madcap 2000 satire, remains the filmmaker'smost explicit and passionate defence of his bread and butter: trash cinema. It's a genre so nebulously defined that it doesn't even possess a Wikipedia page.
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