I Am Divine

I Am Divine is a 2013 American documentary film produced and directed by Jeffrey Schwarz of the Los Angeles-based production company Automat Pictures. The documentary focuses on the American actor, singer and drag performer Divine (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988), born Harris Glenn Milstead, a lifelong friend and collaborator of filmmaker John Waters.

I Am Divine
Directed byJeffrey Schwarz
Produced byJeffrey Schwarz
Jon Glover
Lance Robertson
Lotti Pharriss Knowles
StarringSee Participants
Music byMichael Cudahy
CinematographyJohn Chater
John Davis
Dan DeJesus
David A. Ford
Marsha Kham
Cameron MacDonald
James Mulryan
Elle Schneider
Steven Wacks
Clay Westervelt
Edited byPhillip J. Bartell
Production
company
Distributed byWolfe Video
Release date
  • March 9, 2013 (2013-03-09) (SXSW)
Running time
90 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
Box office$81,497[2]

The film features extensive contemporary interviews with Waters, as well as Divine's mother Frances Milstead, and surviving members of the Dreamlanders.

Participants
Archive footage

Release

I Am Divine premiered at South by Southwest 2013, and had its premiere in Divine's hometown of Baltimore, Maryland as part of the Maryland Film Festival 2013.

Reception

The film garnered critical acclaim, holding a 96% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 48 reviews; the general consensus states: "With warmth and affection, I Am Divine offers an engaging portrait of the complex personality behind a trailblazing cinematic figure."[3] On Metacritic, the film has a 71/100 rating based on 11 critics, signifying "generally favorable reviews".[4]

gollark: It also does have the whole "anything which implements the right functions implements an interface" thing, which seems very horrible to me as a random change somewhere could cause compile errors with no good explanation.
gollark: - `make`/`new` are basically magic- `range` is magic too - what it does depends on the number of return values you use, or something. Also, IIRC user-defined types can't implement it- Generics are available for all of, what, three builtin types? Maps, slices and channels, if I remember right.- `select` also only works with the built-in channels- Constants: they can only be something like four types, and what even is `iota` doing- The multiple return values can't be used as tuples or anything. You can, as far as I'm aware, only return two (or, well, more than one) things at once, or bind two returns to two variables, nothing else.- no operator overloading- it *kind of* has exceptions (panic/recover), presumably because they realized not having any would be very annoying, but they're not very usable- whether reading from a channel is blocking also depends how many return values you use because of course
gollark: What, you mean no it doesn't have weird special cases everywhere?
gollark: It pretends to be "simple", but it isn't because there are bizarre special cases everywhere to make stuff appear to work.
gollark: So of course, lol no generics.

References
  1. "I AM DIVINE (15)". Peccadillo Pictures. British Board of Film Classification. July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  2. "I Am Divine (2013)". Box Office Mojo. March 27, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  3. "I Am Divine". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  4. "I Am Divine Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved May 15, 2014.


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