On the 1987 Burt Reynolds exploitation thriller Malone.
"Burt Reynolds is an ex-_____(moustachioed-noun) running from his past who finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs across a small _____(place/and/or/female) controlled by _____(pony-tailed/and/or/albinoed-noun) and a family that's resisting their _____(whatever).
I love Burt Reynolds Madlibs."
A podcast with Alexis Spraic, the director of Shadow Billionaire
By Adam Lippe
Here’s an audio interview I did with Alexis Spraic, the director of Shadow Billionaire, a movie without a distributor at the moment, that I reviewed here. We talk about how hard it must be to profile her subject Larry Hillblom, DHL magnate and procurer of young Vietnamese and Filipino virgin girls, in an objective fashion, how specific film festivals are, and how documentaries are often just preaching to the converted. You can listen to the podcast by clicking below or downloading it to your computer.
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It’s not a secret that the goal of reputable porn filmmakers has been to make a movie that is both erotic and dramatically riveting. Since the early 70s, the heyday of well made pornography (which includes such titles as The Opening of Misty Beethoven and The Devil in Miss Jones), there have been a few ambitious attempts* to make such a film. Tinto Brass’ Caligula, which is on the big budget end, is a nauseating, unsexy mess, a choppy and badly edited jumble that just happens to star Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, and John Gielgud. That producer and Penthouse creator Bob Guccione chose to cut extraneous hardcore footage into the film didn’t help Caligula, which as a movie might have played better as softcore. The very nature of hardcore pornography, where sex scenes aren’t just graphic, but lengthy and “real,” eliminates the possibility of legitimate dramatic interest, since the movie has to literally stop to provide us with[...]
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Here’s an audio interview I did with Alexis Spraic, the director of Shadow Billionaire, a movie without a distributor at the moment, that I reviewed here. We talk about how hard it must be to profile her subject Larry Hillblom, DHL magnate and procurer of young Vietnamese and Filipino virgin girls, in an objective fashion, how specific film festivals are, and how documentaries are often just preaching to the converted. You can listen to the podcast by clicking below or downloading it to your computer.