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Today's Sundance "trailer of the day" — the last for this year, with the festival starting tomorrow — is one from the archives.
"Paris Is Burning" is the landmark 1990 documentary by Jenni Livingston that put the mirrored-ball spotlight on black and Latino drag balls of the 1980s. It's where rival houses competed, "realness" was prized and the dance move known as "voguing" (later immortalized by Madonna) was invented.
LGBT film historian Jenni Olson (who, by the way, has her movie "The Royal Road" playing in the New Frontier program) posted the original trailer for "Paris Is Burning" last August. The transfer here isn't the greatest, but it gives you a sense of the movie's history.
A restored digital print of "Paris Is Burning," overseen by the UCLA Film and Television Archive (home of The Sundance Collection at UCLA), will screen in the "From the Collection" series of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Monday at 3 p.m. at the Egyptian.