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Paris is Burning was listed by The Washington Post on September 9, 2022 as a                                                                   , listed next to Singing in the Rain and Apocalypse Now. Sept 9, 2022

On December 7, 2022, in a                                                                          of the100 best films of all time, AO Scott included Paris is Burning as one of  the ten best films – of all time. (Scroll to last paragraph)  Dec 11 2022

Paris is Burning is in the Stories of Cinema exhibit at the new Academy Museum that opened September 30, 2021.
Here's LA Times film critic Justin Chang on how the museum is 

Jennie’s March 2021 interview on                                       March 15, 2021

Esquire's Emma Carey and Brady Langmann discuss Paris is Burning as a documentary that will                               February 26 2021

New York Times columnist Charles Blow on life, death, health, and happiness, invoking the wit and                                         April 18 2021

In a Jezebel interview Jennie                                   of Paris is Burning. February 28, 2020

to WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart interview Jennie and Sol Williams Pendavis  

February 25, 2020

Jennie spoke with Interview Magazine about why Paris is Burning is “The  Americans Need.” June 18, 2019

The New York Times's Cassidy George interviewed Jennie about 'Paris is Burning' and its influence on                                     landscape. June 12, 2019

Jennie was interviewed by CherryPicks on                                  of 'Paris is Burning'. June 4, 2019

The Verge's Noel Murray breaks down 'Paris is Burning's influence on the FX drama series Pose, on which Jennie serves as a Consulting Producer, encouraging readers to                                                                                  June 1, 2018

Wesley Morris includes Paris is Burning alongside Princess Mononoke, Do the Right thing, and Die Hard in                                                              for a special kids-only section of the New York Times pullout.  November 19, 2017

PBS's Independent Lens' "LGBT Movies That Rocked Their World"              on the legacy of "Paris is Burning" as a touchstone of queer cinema   June 10, 2017

Paris is Burning has been            to the Library of Congress National Film Registry. New York Times  December 14, 2016

AV Club published a               about Paris is Burning and the other 24 films added to the National Film Registry   December 14, 2016 

Jennie weighs in for a              to Frank Rich's New York Magazine article on Todd Haynes' film "Carol"   November 18, 2015 

Jennie discussed her work on Earth Camp One, Paris is Burning, and her show at AMP Gallery with                                         June 3, 2015 

In an interview with Manohla Dargis for the New York Times, Jennie, along with Ava DuVernay, Barbara Streisand, Jill Soloway, Kimberly Peirce, and others, weighs in on the topic of                         January 21, 2015 

Jennie           this for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival website. The blog piece kicked off the festival's Freefail event, on the uses and meaning of failure, which included a panel with festival founder Robert Redford and director Jill Soloway (Transparent)  January 22, 2014

A          on the making of, critical response to, and influence of Paris is Burning: Paris is Burning a Queer Film Classic, Lucas Hilderbrand, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014 (first volume in a series, Queer Film Classics) 

                         that Pay Homage to ‘Paris is Burning,’ Saeed Jones, buzzfeed.com  February 7, 2013

                      New Doc from Paris is Burning" Director, Bryce J. Renninger, Indiewire.com  January 6, 2011

last interview, Petter Wallenberg, Dazed 2009.

An                with Jennie Livingston by Dena Seidel, Films for the Feminist Classroom, volume 1, number 1, Rutgers University  2009

                          for Jennie Livingston, Director of Paris is Burning and Who’s the Top?, Eugene Hernandez, indiewire.com  August 6, 2005

Home, Houses, Nonidentity: Paris is Burning, Chandan C. Reddy, Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity, Westview Press  1997

Jackie Goldsby, Queer Looks, Routledge  1993

                           Michael Cunningham on Angie Xtravaganza  December 1993

Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter, Routledge 1993

 Manfred Hermes, Konkret  October 1991

Paris is Burning, Michelle Parkerson                                       vol. 6., no. 3

Paris is Burning                                                 Essex Hemphill, The Guardian  July 3, 1991

                                   , Bodo Fründt, Suddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 254  November 4, 1991.

               , The Current Cinema, Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker Magazine  March 25, 1991 

, Entertainment Weekly  April 5, 1991

Jennie wrote about gender and the ball world in Aperture, 1988

A Gay Subculture is                                        , Jennifer Dunning, Dance Section, The New York Times  March 23, 1991 

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