Inside Deep Throat - who else really wants to see this?

The movie's web site

also i am actually excited that people are talking about the social and political implications of porn in a real and complicated way--like the new leggs mcneil oral history or this movie...

and im worried about the romanticasation, mainstreaming (i mean the story of linda lovelace and the dog in EW, and no one sitting back and talking about her rape.)

anyway yes, this does look interesting. i never saw "eyes of tammy faye." although, mention of linda lovelace's brief turn as an anti-porn crusader is curiously absent from that interview.

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I think he's coming around to his characters.

QUESTION: How did you come to make this Inside Deep Throat?

RANDY BARBATO: Fortunately we were chosen. By Brian Grazer.

FENTON BAILEY: We had made a film called The Eyes Of Tammy Faye that did okay at Sundance, and there we met one of the nicest people in the business, Kim Roth.

RANDY BARBATO: In fact, she's so nice you wonder what she's doing in the business.

FENTON BAILEY: So we had heard that Brian Grazer was planning on making a biopic about Linda Lovelace. And Angelina Jolie, tearing a page out of Madonna's book, was campaigning to play the part. So we did our own Joliefication and suggested we should direct the film.

RANDY BARBATO: Except that we thought Mariah Carey should play Linda Lovelace.

FENTON BAILEY: And Kim was gracious enough to indulge us with a meet-and-greet.

RANDY BARBATO: And then nothing happened.

FENTON BAILEY: As you would expect it to.

RANDY BARBATO: But then Linda Lovelace died. And I think Brian felt that when Linda died, doing a film about her life was problematic because there isn't a very satisfying cinematic arc to her story.

FENTON BAILEY: So he had the idea to make a documentary instead of a feature. And then he had a beauty contest of highly-noted documentarians, and fortunately we seemed to win that particular pageant.

Behnd the Green Door is rubbish. And can someone please explain the ending? It just... ends.

As for this...there were porn films that were actually good, interesing, critically engaged works, and i miss that (ie pink narcissus, beyond the green door, deep throat)...I haven't seen Pink Narcissus, but Green Door is only marginally interesting as anything but smut (Marilyn Chambers was cute), and Deep Throat is just wretched. Closer to the mark might be the original Devil in Miss Jones and/or The Opening of Misty Beethoven -- neither of which really qualifies as a good movie, but both of which have some interesting elements that set them apart from, you know, Anal Virgins vol. 17.

With a few edits Behind the Green Door would be Channel 5 material - but it's dull as dishwater.

The Opening of Misty Beethoven is rubbish. I hold out for The Devil in Miss Jones to actually be as good as Roger Ebert makes out but the others I've seen from the so-called Golden Age are just bad bad bad.

It's sad that porn has been delegated (?) to the internet and that there's no money being *pumped* into big projects.

Anthony, I have an interesting article on homosexual pornography. If you like, I can scan and send it to you. One article is about Brandon Lee (the porn actor) and another... shit, I can't remember. :-)

I want to see a documentary about how men are treated in porn.

A little more than "cursory", I guess. There's footage of her testifying to the Meese commision, on Donahue, and w/Gloria Steinham. But they just sort of outline her story and move on.

The extras on this DVD are pretty WTF. There's a deleted scene of the "Deep Throat" director sitting in his backyard, watching a woman dance with fire. No dialogue or anything.