Wig

If you're looking for a closer lewk at the real world of Drag, this is for you! This isn't Drag Race; it's a fun, nostalgic doc about the drag festival, Wigstock which was started in the East Village of Manahattan in the '80's and features clips from the past, some of Drag's pioneering Queens to the 2018 resurgence of the festival. Some familiar faces from Rupaul's Drag Race but it's not focused on them.

This doc was insightful and well done. It's right up there up with my other favorite Docs about NYC communities, "Paris is Burning" and "Fetishes" from the 80's and 90's, to name a few.

This doc is also so entertaining containing such talented performers. Not sure what else people want from a doc. I was so excited for this portrait of a colorful and full of life community that keeps NY spinning and incessantly advancing performance, art, culture, and society.

Wigstock was the annual NYC drag event that ran for aprox. 20 years from the 80's to mid 2000's. Much of this doc follows many of the performers as they prepare for the 2018 revival.

The film gives much of its time following Lady Bunny, who was there in the beginning and is co-hosting the revival. It also contains vintage clips of early Wigstock events and performers. However, the film feels like a poorly edited hodgepodge of these clips without a clear focus or direction. I felt like I was watching someone's home movies at times, which I'm sure was the point but felt lost without any narration of what was going on at the time. The doc culminates in about 20 minutes (of the over 6 hour festival) filmed at the 2018 event, which was the most interesting and I wish had been the entire movie (and I wish I had been there).

I enjoyed some of the up close interviews, with a few feeling almost voyeuristic. Ultimately, though, the whole thing, from the title to the editing, feels thrown together and unimaginative (imagine that, some of the most imaginative people on this earth in a film that isn't). The hard-to-find original documentary "Wigstock" is a much better depiction of the early days of the festival.

I thought this movie was a great idea. Catching up with Wigstock as it was making a come back after all this time. Such a good idea.

The clips at the beginning were really great showing the drag scene in new York in the 80s. It made you want to be there you could feel the electric energy from the amazing clips.

Then it kinda starts to go of the tracks. This doc has so much going on that it spreads it's self very thin. It has the vintage clips, planing wigstock, random interviews and more and it doesn't really focus in on Wigstock which is what I wanted I guess.

However I will say it was interesting seeing how the bar scene/non drag race queens have been affected by RuPaul's Drag Race. But this was only mentioned briefly as it was fighting against everything else.

The actual Wigstock performances are only in the last 20 minutes and a lot of them are relegated to montages. I wish it had took more notes from Wigstock: The Movie. The performances are fabulous and it would have been great to see more.

Definitely watch it. It's interesting and has great performances. I would watch Wigstock: The Movie first so you can see the change in time for your self.

A fun and campy documentary about the drag festival Wigstock and its founder, Lady Bunny. Many appearances by drag icons of NYC.