Monday, July 25th, 7:30 PM,
Leave it on the Floor at The Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue and 135th Street. The last Harlem Stage event of the summer will be a screening of
Leave it on the Floor which explores a modern-day fictional tale set in L.A. that takes some cues from the classic documentary
Paris is Burning. Get more information and purchase $14 tickets on line at the Harlem Stage site:
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The new movie musical “Leave It On The Floor” does for the world of Ball competitions & gay houses what Birth of a Nation did for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both films written, directed & produced by white men seek to portray one dimensional, dysfunctional, shiftless, self destructive African Americans. The men in Leave it on the floor are gay ball dancers in the House of Eminence who are so self loathing they actually except abusive, destructive relationships and sing about those conditions as “Black Love”. Leave it on the Floor is a gay black exploitation film. The subject matter as well as the performers are exploited for the benefit or the writer, director and producers. It is highly offensive to African-Americans and Gay African American males specifically.
ReplyDeleteThe actors did the best they could with an uninspired script and weak amateurish song writing. Poorly written, filmed, edited & directed. Was Newfest that desperate for submissions?