Nagisa Oshima. “No other director of Oshima’s generation has made more vital, inventive and challenging films, or taken more risks. He is a giant in contemporary cinema.” - Tony Rayns…
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Viridiana with Silvia Pinal. Viridiana, Luis Buñuel’s provocative 1961 Palme d’Or-winning classic proving that life is a bitch and then you play cards, will run at New York City’s Film…
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Marilyn Chambers. Marilyn Chambers, known for her sexually explicit films of the 1970s, died Sunday at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Canyon Country. She would have turned…
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In Emmanuel Mouret’s quietly observant Un baiser s’il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, “A Kiss, If You Please”), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple,…
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Plato’s Retreat documentary American Swing. Jon Hart and Mathew Kaufman’s entertaining documentary American Swing (review) chronicles the rise and fall of Larry Levenson, whose nightclub & sex club Plato’s Retreat became,…
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American Swing: Larry Levenson and Mary. By way of interviews, photos, and home movies, Mathew Kaufman and journalist Jon Hart’s American Swing humorously chronicles the rise and fall of all-American…
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Erotic sex stories: “Debauched Desires.” PRESS RELEASE Kino International and KimStim are proud to release the four-DVD set Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma. Directed by the master…
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Salvatore Samperi sex tale Malizia with Laura Antonelli and Alessandro Momo. Director Salvatore Samperi, the maestro dell’erotismo all’italiana best known for the 1973 social/sex comedy Malicious / Malizia, died at…
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Joe Dallesandro, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s muse in films such as Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and Heat (1972), and whose crotch adorned the Rolling Stones’ album “Sticky Fingers,” will…
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Brokeback Mountain Gay Love Scenes censored on Italian TV while heterosexual Sex Scene Left Intact. Accident? Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star.
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CineKink goes to Washington, D.C., on November 21-22, with two nights of “sex-positive and kink-friendly” short films and videos ranging from “documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildy…
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Teeth (2007) movie review: Mitchell Lichtenstein’s kinky horror comedy is bound to give some men sexual nightmares. Jess Weixler stars.
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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…
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Banned gay movies in Australia & Singapore And you thought that Australia is a democracy, where adults are allowed to make their own choices regarding the movies (or books?) they…
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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…
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Buck Angel in Schwarzwald. CineKink – the name says it all – has announced the opening night selections of its fifth annual film festival, CineKink NYC. The event, scheduled for…
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Sex Education Film Class courtesy of the BFI + Glasgow Bette Davis Tribute and Woody Allen thriller + Evolution of Russian Cinema from Eisenstein to Sokurov.
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Dubai Film Festival: Belly-dancing Laura Ramsey and Kashmiri frozen Body plus CineKink screening of Tony Comstock docs about adult film stars’ private lives.
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Lust Caution: Sex scenes fail to offend Venice Film Festival jury. Yesterday, surprising many prognosticators, the controversial, near-sexually explicit spy thriller Se, Ji / Lust, Caution earned Ang Lee his…
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Helen Mirren young: Hot future British Queen back in the 1960s. Helen Mirren young: Hot future Queen Helen Mirren, the odds-on favorite to take home this year’s Best Actress Academy…
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Gay Slurs: Sharon Stone vs Isaiah Washington name-calling controversy + Dakota Fanning Hounddog child rape furor and Jessica Lange vs George W. Bush.
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Berlin Film Festival: Nazi era and Cold War Flops + handjob expert Marianne Faithfull and inspirational (but debatable) Nelson Mandela tale.
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Erotic movie Destricted Erotic movie ‘Destricted’ allowed to be screened outside British sex shops Quentin Thomas, head of the British Board of Film Classification – that’s the United Kingdom’s censorship…
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated. ‘This Film Is Not Yet Rated’ movie review: Kirby Dick gives the MPAA an ‘X’ rating for graphic depictions of undemocratic, unethical, and inane…
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Jane Birkin. Jane Birkin Style: Birkin to direct, write, star in autobiopic According to London’s Sunday Times (May 14), Jane Birkin, “whose career highlights include simulating sex in the song…
Jack Wrangler, the blond, handsome 1970s sex star – and a lifelong smoker – has died from complications of lung disease in Manhattan. He was 62. Wrangler: Anatomy of an…
Tina O’Grady, a member of the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s “cultural competency initiative” was scolded by her boss after co-workers complained about an e-mail she had forwarded promoting the…
Young People Fucking / YPF (2007) movie review: Martin Gero’s true-to-life sex romantic comedy-drama is funny, provocative and at times surprising.
A Fool There Was (1915) movie review: Starring Theda Bara, Frank Powell’s creaky early silent also happens to be a cinematic landmark thanks to its portrayal of the power of female sexuality.
Sundance Film Festival Awards: Immigrant smuggling and skyscraper acrobats + Roman Polanski documentary and (non-winning) ‘gay zombie porn.’
The New York Public Library’s Donnell Media Center is presenting “The Two Faces of Wakefield Poole,” centering on the filmmaker of X-rated gay and not-so-gay cult classics such as Boys in…
Male rape: Tom Long in The Book of Revelation. Male Rape in controversial ‘The Book of Revelation’ Based on Rupert Thomson’s novel, the psychological thriller The Book of Revelation opened…