Search - Party Girl on DVD

Sparkling movie! (But a possibly murky transfer to DVD)

Sean Burke | Ketchikan, Alaska, United States | 08/19/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's a given that I adore this movie. In what other movie is there Parker Posey mastering both vogue-ing and the Dewey Decimal system? I dare you to find any any other.

But viewers might want to know that some (all?) of the DVDs of it are transfers not from film, but from video! -- and that means that no matter how much you get your DVD player to zoom in, the soundtrack credits are just a big blur-- and believe me, this is important, because the music practically makes the movie, and you will want to track down these songs/mixes!

So you'd want to look up this or that song, but its credits listing could be just a big smudge, where a proper transfer would show crisp letters saying, for one example, "Dajae- U Got Me Up (Cajmere Underground Charleston Mix)". (That's the song played during the "Natashaaa!" vogue-ing scene.)

Or maybe your DVD will be unlike mine, and will be a proper transfer, from film, and you'll have great picture quality and can read the music listings in the credit. You pays your money, you takes your chance. (The full listings SHOULD be online somewhere, but good luck.)"