| Edition |
Director-approved DVD special edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm). |
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DVD video |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 1087 |
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Criterion collection ; 1087.
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| System Details |
DVD; region 1, NTSC: wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby monaural. |
| Note |
Title and credits from screen. |
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Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
| Cast |
Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin, Marusia Zach, Janne Peters, Helen Nicholas. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Judy Irola ; editor, Lizzie Borden ; original music, David Van Tieghem. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. |
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Wide screen. |
| Summary |
"Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden's immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society's most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly (Louise Smith), a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady stream of clients, balances relationships with her coworkers with the demands of an ambitious madam, and above all fights to maintain her sense of self in a business in which the line between the personal and professional is all too easily blurred. In viewing prostitution through the lens of labor, Borden boldly desensationalizes the subject, offering an empathetic, humanizing, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another day in the office"--Container. |
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Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Lizzie Borden; Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Borden, director of photography Judy Irola, and actor Amanda Goodwin; New conversation between Borden and filmmaker Bette Gordon; New conversation with Goodwin, actor Louise Smith, producer Andi Gladstone, and assistant director Vicky Funari; New conversation with sex workers Antonia Crane, Daphne, Selena the Stripper, and Jo Weldon; An essay by author So Mayer and excerpts from a 1987 interview with Borden by film scholar Scott MacDonald. |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.
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Prostitution. (OCoLC)fst01079562
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New York (State) -- New York.
(OCoLC)fst01204333
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New York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan.
(OCoLC)fst01312688
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Melodramas (Motion pictures) (OCoLC)fst01726217
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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| Added Author |
Borden, Lizzie, 1958- film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
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Gladstone, Andi, film producer.
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Kay, Sandra, screenwriter.
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Irola, Judy, director of photography.
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Van Tieghem, David, composer (expression)
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Smith, Louise, 1955- actor.
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McElduff, Ellen, actor.
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Goodwin, Amanda (Actor), actor.
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Zach, Marusia, actor.
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Peters, Janne, actor.
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Nicholas, Helen, actor.
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Alternate Current (Firm), production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515261913 |
| ISBN |
9781681438627 |
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1681438623 |
| Music No. |
CC3280DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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