"Actor: Candy Darling"

• The Cockettes | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.09   |  Saving you £12.90 (181.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1969. San Francisco. Sexual Anarchy! Emerging at the end of the `60s The Cockettes were a theatrical troupe of assorted hippies drag queens and gay men who embraced the new drug-fuelled anti-establishment counterculture in San Francisco. Founded by the flamboyant `Hibiscus' they started out by doing improv musicals before the midnight film at the Palace Theatre. As their popularity grew so did the number of performers and the flamboyance of the events which continued into th

• Beautiful Darling | DVD | (05/01/2016) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautiful Darling pays tribute to the short but extraordinary life of actress Candy Darling Although born a man she was drawn to the feminine from childhood and by the mid-Sixties James had become Candy a blonde actress and well-known New York character. There she became close to Andy Warhol and starred in two of his movies. Candy used her Warhol fame to land further film roles but tragically she died of lymphoma at only twenty-nine. The film uses both current and previous interviews excerpts from Candy's own diaries and letters to explain her life. The films explore the glamorous parties the famous friends and most of all the strength of will she demonstrated in her remarkable act of self-creation. “An extraordinarily sad touching and compassionate documentary...” - Rex Reed - New York Observer

• Flesh / Trash / Heat | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This box set features three films all directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol using his 'factory' actors. The films loosely form a trilogy designed to encapsulate the 60's generation. Flesh (1968): Joe 'the hustler' earns money to pay for his girlfriend's abortion. Taking to the streets he meets an artist obsessed with body worship a couple of transvestites an ex-girlfriend working as a topless dancer and a friend whose arm-pits have been torched with a fla

• Silent Night Bloody Night | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Maniacs have taken over the asylum! The new owner of a mansion discovers it was once a mental home. When he visits his inheritance he sets about investigating some old crimes that took place at the mansion scaring the local populance in the process.

• The Paul Morrissey Collection | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Women in Revolt | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Women In Revolt

• The Cockettes (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £17.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It was complete sexual anarchy, which is always a beautiful thing! John Waters Celebrating 50 years of the original gender revolutionaries, Peccadillo Pictures proudly presents The Cockettes digitally restored. A flamboyant ensemble of gender-bending hippies, The Cockettes created a series of LSD-fueled musicals in early 1970s San Francisco. When famed writer Truman Capote and film critic Rex Reed raved about a Cockettes show to their East Coast chums, it began a madcap saga of grand delusions that led to one of the most anticipated, and most disastrous, theatrical debuts in off-off Broadway history.