Teeth (2007)
Direction and Screenplay: Mitchell Lichtenstein. Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, John Pais, Hale Appleman, Lenny von Dohlen, Vivienne Benesch, Ashley Springer
Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth is a horror movie with comedic elements that deals with mutation, virginity, and the the myth of vagina dentata.
Dawn O’Keefe (Jess Weixler) is a teenage girl who was born with [...]
Viva (2008)
Direction and Screenplay: Anna Biller. Cast: Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Chad England, Bridget Brno, Marcus DeAnda, John Klemantaski, Paolo Davanzo, Barry Morse
Anna Biller has been labeled the next John Waters. This is not true. John Waters has his own distinctively trashy and marvelous style, which is far different from Biller’s lush and extravagant filmmaking. [...]
Posted in Actors, Film, Sex on May 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
From NBC News Senior Investigative Producer Jim Popkin:
"The FBI does not have a pornographic home movie of actress Marilyn Monroe in its files and never did, FBI officials tell NBC News. Document analysts at the FBI have completed a manual search of FBI records and found no evidence of the film.
"’The records show no indication [...]
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma / Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Direction: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti; inspired by the Marquis de Sade’s book. Cast: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère, Sergio Fascetti, Bruno Musso, Antonio [...]
And you thought that Australia is a democracy, where adults are allowed to make their own choices regarding the movies (or books?) they want to enjoy without government interference? Well, think again…
Via the 2008 Melbourne Queer Film Festival website:
"The films they didn’t want you to see!
"The Melbourne Queer Film Festival special presentation of The Erotic [...]
The new documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood and five Pre-Code films will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, March 3 (more details below).
The five racy Pre-Coders are: The Divorcee (1930), A Free Soul (1931), Night Nurse (right, 1931), Three on a Match (1932), and Female (1933). [...]
CineKink will present two documentaries on the private sex lives of celebrities from the adult film industry, the 46-minute Damon and Hunter: Doing It Together (2006) and the 28-minute Marie and Jack: A Hardcore Love Story (2002), both directed by Tony Comstock. The screenings will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 11, at [...]
With Deborah Kerr, it’s not the bare shoulders that matter. It’s the eyes.
Deborah Kerr, who died at the age of 86 on Oct. 16, has usually been labeled the cinematic embodiment of the English Rose: ladylike from coiffure to pedicure, perfectly enunciated English, a distinctive coolness, poise and class. I won’t argue with that description [...]
Tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Cinekink folks will screen Michael Ney’s documentary feature Liberty in Restraints, about recently deceased sex fetishist [see Ney's comment below] Noel Graydon, at 7 p.m. at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in New York City.
Ney’s Australian-made film is described as a "riveting documentary [that] introduces the mentors, muses and masochists [...]
"Filming sex is fun and bringing joy and levity to other people is the biggest thing we can do in this life."
That’s Aaron Strickler, 36, one of the seven finalists at San Francisco’s Amateur Erotic Film Competition, which took place at the Castro Theatre last Thursday and at the Parkway Theater in Oakland on Friday [...]
New York City’s Film Forum, the institution that about a year ago presented the Paramount Before the Code film series, will have a Fox Before the Code (and Fox before it became 20th Century-Fox) series between Dec. 1-21.
The Pre-Code era went from about 1928, or the beginning of talking pictures, to mid-1934, before [...]
Based on Rupert Thomson’s novel, The Book of Revelation opened this week in Australia. This psychological thriller directed by Ana Kokkinos, and co-written by Kokkinos and Andrew Bovell (Strictly Ballroom), has engendered some controversy because it depicts the horrors faced by a man (Tom Long) who’s turned into a sex slave for three cloaked and [...]
