Priscilla revisited
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
http://sxnews.e-p.net.au/feature/priscilla-revisited-3297.html (http://sxnews.e-p.net.au/feature/priscilla-revisited-3297.html)
When Priscilla was released in 1994, it broke new cultural ground. Fifteen years on, Iain Clacher examines the legacy of that desert journey.
Released in 1994, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, is the ultimate drag road movie, winning an Oscar, a raft of AFI Awards and a GLAAD Media Award. Its midnight screening at Cannes brought the house down. Younger readers may be unaware of the film at all - "It's a musical, isn't it?"