Inside Deep Throat

Tyrrial

i saw it last night in the IFI, it's a really good documentary.

the movie focuses on the effects of the film on the star, the actor, the director and of course america. some very funny moments as well.
there is more info on the film here

Talliesin

Did the documentary makers come to any conclusion about the varying claims by Linda Lovelace/Linda Boreman. By the time she died even those with agendas one way or another seemed to have given up on ever knowing what had really went on.

Tyrrial

the film makers seemed to try very hard to come accross as a silent observer. in the case of linda, to make it as even as possible, they showed interveiws with the director (who gave his oppinion about her) then they talked to her sister, her high school friend and finally her daughter. these interviews were seperated by breif peices of footage of Linda which would have backed up what the person interveiwed my have said.
in the end they showed an interview with Linda, recorded before her death.
and it's left completely up to the audience as to what they choose to belive.

Stuff

Talliesin wrote:

the varying claims by Linda Lovelace/Linda Boreman..

anyone care to elaborate for the uninitiated?

Tyrrial

when Linda did the movie origonaly and for a good time after it was released she was very much for the industry and defended it when it was she was interveiwed.
then a few years later, she joined forced with a bunch of crazy feminists and she then HATED the industry and claimed that it abused her (which was probably ture). so...
then another good few years past by and she ended up on playboy (at the age of 50) she suddenly had no problem with the industry any more.

the she tragicly died in a road accident

the movie help you come to the conclution that she was very easily led and just beleive what the people around her at the time were saying.

hope that explains it.

ixoy

Saw this one last night - hey kids there's a hardcore porn clip in it! - and thought it reasonably entertaining. Mr. Camp, who insulted everything and everyone, was very funny and the old couple were touching (got a few "awwws" from the cinema audience).

It didn't, as said, draw any conclusions but since the allegations from Lovelace weren't the focus of the movie, it wasn't as interesting as the technique employed in "Capturing the Friedmans". What was interesting was the questions on free speech and censorship - thought Harry Reems was quite eloquent and it is a bit worrying to think how the climate is ripe for the religious right to once more impose their values on a nation.

It's worth a look, although it's already vanishing from the UGC schedules.

Tyrrial

yeah, Reems was great. and the old couple got a load of laughs, i'd probably watch an entire movie about that couple.. they were brilliant.

it's showing in the IFI untill the 21st.. so get going if your interested

simu

It's showing in the Kino in Cork atm.

Funny film even if the liberals v. conservatives and subsequent shenanigans aren't all that mind-blowingly new.

Linda comes accross as a bit easily led - said whatever she was told to by whoever was around her at a given time. Well, she had other gifts!

Also, it was disappointing to see Camille Paglia coming out with such clichéd tripe about porn and women.

Talliesin

simu wrote:

Also, it was disappointing to see Camille Paglia coming out with such clichéd tripe about porn and women.

Or in other words "it was disappointing to see Camille Paglia".