Shakedown is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Leilah Weinraub. The film centers around a Los Angeles black-lesbian strip club of the same name in its heyday from 2002 to 2004.[1] The film premiered in 2018 and was screened at film festivals throughout North America and Europe. In March 2020 it was released via digital streaming on Pornhub as the first non-pornographic film on the website.[2]
The film documents a black lesbian strip club called Shakedown in Los Angeles from 2002 from the time it was shut down by police in 2004. It follows the staff including Ronnie, the club's owner and promoter, and some of the dancers.
In March 2020 it was released by the pornographic website Pornhub as "the first ever non-adult film" available on the site.[6] It will be available on Pornhub throughout the month of March 2020 only.[7] Starting in May 2020, Shakedown started streaming on the Criterion Channel as part of its “Tell Me: Women’s Stories, Women Filmmakers” series.[8]
ProductionEdit
Weinraub began shooting the film in 2002 when she was 23 years old. She was initially brought to the club by a friend and was so amazed by it that she asked for a job there, eventually being hired as a photographer and videographer. She shot over 400 hours of footage. The film shows the strip club's heyday, between 2002 and 2004 when the club's main venue was shut down by Los Angeles police who cracked down on nude performers in the city.[1]
ReceptionEdit
Devon Yarbrough of Vox magazine called it "an honest, multi-faceted film about freedom, strife and human connection" and noted that while the film contains funny moments it maintains a serious tone.[9] Steve Erickson of Gay City News compared the film to "Paris is Burning" and Derek Jarman's "Will You Dance with Me?"[8]
ReferencesEdit
^ abCosta, Cassie da (16 March 2018). "Leilah Weinraub's Radical Cinema of Privacy in "Shakedown"". The New Yorker.
^Donnelly, Matt (March 3, 2020). "Pornhub to Release First Ever Non-Adult Film, About Black Lesbian Strip Club Culture (EXCLUSIVE)".
^"Shakedown". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
^"Leilah Weinraub". whitney.org. The Whitney Museum of American Art.
^Donnelly, Matt (March 3, 2020). "Pornhub to Release First Ever Non-Adult Film, About Black Lesbian Strip Club Culture". Variety.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^Collins, K. Austin (March 16, 2020). "Shakedown Is a Must-See Documentary Now Streaming on Pornhub". Vanity Fair.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ abErickson, Steve (27 July 2020). "Hidden under plain white". amNewYork. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^"True/False film review: SHAKEDOWN". Vox Magazine. 2 March 2018.
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