Ah, the early 70s, when lava lamps bubbled their oozy psychedelic oils in rec rooms across the nation and porn emerged from the sleazy underworld to the slightly less sleazy mainstream! Following in the wake of counterculture films like Easy Rider and Head that inducted audiences into the colorful swirl of psychedelia, 1972’s Behind the Green Door finds San Francisco...
Top 10: Julia Bembenek
Top to tails, here’s the best of the year for ol’ JB. 1/ Nightcrawler Far and away my favorite of the year. Network if it was directed by DePalma, cutting straight to the creep, no bull. Great LA trawl too – always good to see the donut shop landscape displayed to its full potential. 2/...
Crazy Horse: Consistency in the Nude
Our viewing of Frederick Wiseman’s 2011 documentary about the historic French nude revue at the Crazy Horse de Paris made us curious to see how the show has evolved since it’s debut in the early 1950s. Under the guidance of Alain Bernadin from 1951 until his death in 1994, the Crazy Horse show has been...