Stars: Sharon Kane, Eric Edwards, Jerry Butler, Sharon Mitchell, George Payne, Joey Silvera, Joanna Storm, Michelle Maren, Annie Sprinkle, Marc Stevens | Written and Directed by Gerard Damiano
Walter (George Payne) and Marsha (Michelle Maren) are the classic American married couple. Walter has a good job and Marsha is your perfect housewife. The pair believe in monogamy. I say that, but the couple have a sort of sexual awakening. One day, Walter has a bit of fun with a local hooker (Sharon Mitchell) and whilst he’s at it – Marsha finds herself seduced by Joe (Eric Edwards) – their Meter man. As this is going on, their friends Andy (Joey Silvera) and his wife Louise (Sharon Kane) are the complete opposite. The couple are both openly promiscuous and have their own fun when they can. One night – after some drinks in Andy and Louise’s apartment – the two couples decide to sit...
Walter (George Payne) and Marsha (Michelle Maren) are the classic American married couple. Walter has a good job and Marsha is your perfect housewife. The pair believe in monogamy. I say that, but the couple have a sort of sexual awakening. One day, Walter has a bit of fun with a local hooker (Sharon Mitchell) and whilst he’s at it – Marsha finds herself seduced by Joe (Eric Edwards) – their Meter man. As this is going on, their friends Andy (Joey Silvera) and his wife Louise (Sharon Kane) are the complete opposite. The couple are both openly promiscuous and have their own fun when they can. One night – after some drinks in Andy and Louise’s apartment – the two couples decide to sit...
- 9/8/2017
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
HBO’s upcoming original drama series “The Deuce,” created by David Simon and George Pelecanos (“The Wire”), follows the rise of the porn industry in gritty 1970s New York. The show begins its eight-episode run on September 10, and the pilot premiered this Friday night at IFC Center’s inaugural Split Screens TV Festival, with producer and star Maggie Gyllenhaal, director Michelle MacLaren, and Pelecanos in attendance.
“We had no burning desire to do a show about porn,” Pelecanos said during the panel. “It’s been done before. But the characters were too rich to ignore.”
Read More: ‘Wonder Woman’: What Does One Great Female Superhero Mean For the Future of the Genre?
“The Deuce” is inspired by the careers of real brothers: Vincent Martino, who operated a Times Square bar in 1971, and his mob-connected twin Frankie (both played by James Franco). These two served as fronts for the Mafia...
“We had no burning desire to do a show about porn,” Pelecanos said during the panel. “It’s been done before. But the characters were too rich to ignore.”
Read More: ‘Wonder Woman’: What Does One Great Female Superhero Mean For the Future of the Genre?
“The Deuce” is inspired by the careers of real brothers: Vincent Martino, who operated a Times Square bar in 1971, and his mob-connected twin Frankie (both played by James Franco). These two served as fronts for the Mafia...
- 6/3/2017
- by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
- Indiewire
The next episode of the Let Me Be Frank web documentary series has just been released. Episode 4, “Roots of Performance” features reading by performance artist Annie Sprinkle. Annie Sprinkle is a former prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist, was a cast member in several of Frank's performances and workshops, and lists Frank as one of her formal sex teachers. Episode 4 includes the segment, “How Frank & Linda Met Annie Sprinkle”, and features music by Frank Moore, Vinnie Spit Santino, Michael Labash, Sander Roscoe Wolff, Mutant Press, Father of Skins, John the Baker & Slimy Penis Breath and Tha Archivez. Let Me Be Frank is a video series based on the life and art of shaman, performance artist, writer, poet, painter,...
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- 9/24/2016
- Screen Anarchy
I remember the year that Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle showed up at Mountain Justice Summer, an annual training camp for anti-mountaintop removal activists. They were at camp, in part, to lead an eco-sexuality workshop. I was twenty-one, a resident of a direct action community in southern West Virginia, and surly as hell. Eco-sexuality, or what I presumed it was, annoyed me. Sure, I was queer, but I was queer as in “fuck you,” not queer as in “let’s rub ourselves in dirt and marry things.” I did not attend their workshop, or any of their events in Appalachia. But […]...
- 11/16/2015
- by Wren Awry
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
I remember the year that Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle showed up at Mountain Justice Summer, an annual training camp for anti-mountaintop removal activists. They were at camp, in part, to lead an eco-sexuality workshop. I was twenty-one, a resident of a direct action community in southern West Virginia, and surly as hell. Eco-sexuality, or what I presumed it was, annoyed me. Sure, I was queer, but I was queer as in “fuck you,” not queer as in “let’s rub ourselves in dirt and marry things.” I did not attend their workshop, or any of their events in Appalachia. But […]...
- 11/16/2015
- by Wren Awry
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It’s splendidly ironic that the birth of Club 90 — “the world’s first porn star support group” — occurred in 1983 at a baby shower, the ultimate celebration of sex positivity. Porn actress Veronica Hart (who may be familiar to viewers of Six Feet Under and Boogie Nights, and is still with her high school sweetheart today) was due, porn star-turned-sexologist/performance artist Annie Sprinkle volunteered her apartment at 90 Lexington, the women of NYC’s adult industry showed up, and the rest, as they say, is kink history. At the urging of the late Gloria Leonard (a feminist porn star who […]...
- 2/24/2015
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
It’s splendidly ironic that the birth of Club 90 — “the world’s first porn star support group” — occurred in 1983 at a baby shower, the ultimate celebration of sex positivity. Porn actress Veronica Hart (who may be familiar to viewers of Six Feet Under and Boogie Nights, and is still with her high school sweetheart today) was due, porn star-turned-sexologist/performance artist Annie Sprinkle volunteered her apartment at 90 Lexington, the women of NYC’s adult industry showed up, and the rest, as they say, is kink history. At the urging of the late Gloria Leonard (a feminist porn star who […]...
- 2/24/2015
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Joe Sarno may be, in the words of performance artist Annie Sprinkle, "the Ingmar Bergman of porn," but A Life in Dirty Movies doesn't dwell on his accomplishments as a pioneering sexploitation moviemaker. Instead, director Wiktor Ericsson makes Sarno's career (Confessions of a Young American Housewife, The Wall of Flesh, All the Sins of Sodom) of secondary importance to his relationship with wife Peggy Steffans. Ericsson's focus on Sarno's marriage is striking since Sarno himself, then 89 and a month away from death, focused much of his energy on a never-realized return to the softcore pornography he mastered in the 1970s. Sarno's work is generally unexamined here but presented in an uncritically positive light. For example, Sarno objects to hardcore porn...
- 9/17/2014
- Village Voice
DVD Release Date: Nov. 26, 2013
Price: DVD $17.99
Studio: Breaking Glass
Patrick Moote (ctr.) stretches to extreme lengths to compensate for his shortcomings in UnHung Hero.
Described in its press release as “the world’s first “cockumentary,” the 2013 documentary film UnHung Hero follows a young man as he sets off on a quest to learn more about that most vital, fascinating and arguably enigmatic of male appendages.
Said young man is one Patrick Moote, whose marriage proposal is rejected before an arena full of people—and millions of YouTube viewers—along with his ex tells him that his equipment is too small to satisfy her. This sets him off to get to the root of his biggest—and smallest—problem. The film features Moote’s worldwide travels to find answers, his experiments with ‘enlargement methods’ such as pumps, pills and a stretching technique called ‘jelqing,’ and interviews with such notables as porn...
Price: DVD $17.99
Studio: Breaking Glass
Patrick Moote (ctr.) stretches to extreme lengths to compensate for his shortcomings in UnHung Hero.
Described in its press release as “the world’s first “cockumentary,” the 2013 documentary film UnHung Hero follows a young man as he sets off on a quest to learn more about that most vital, fascinating and arguably enigmatic of male appendages.
Said young man is one Patrick Moote, whose marriage proposal is rejected before an arena full of people—and millions of YouTube viewers—along with his ex tells him that his equipment is too small to satisfy her. This sets him off to get to the root of his biggest—and smallest—problem. The film features Moote’s worldwide travels to find answers, his experiments with ‘enlargement methods’ such as pumps, pills and a stretching technique called ‘jelqing,’ and interviews with such notables as porn...
- 10/15/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Peaches no longer lives in Toronto, but that doesn't mean she's not concerned that her beloved city is being run by an alleged crack-smoking mayor.
During a recent visit home for a screening of her quasi-autobiographical transsexual musical "Peaches Does Herself" at the Lgbt Film Festival, she teamed up with electro duo #entertainment to record a send-off for the city's embattled mayor titled "Bored of Rob Ford."
Ford has made international headlines — and fodder for Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel — after journalists from Gawker and the Toronto Star reported being shown an iPhone video of him appearing to smoke crack. Rob Ford has responded to the allegations by saying "I don't use crack cocaine nor am I an addict of crack cocaine."
"It couldn't be avoided," Peaches told Huffington Post Canada of how she first heard about Ford's crack video scandal. “It was world news and then I...
During a recent visit home for a screening of her quasi-autobiographical transsexual musical "Peaches Does Herself" at the Lgbt Film Festival, she teamed up with electro duo #entertainment to record a send-off for the city's embattled mayor titled "Bored of Rob Ford."
Ford has made international headlines — and fodder for Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel — after journalists from Gawker and the Toronto Star reported being shown an iPhone video of him appearing to smoke crack. Rob Ford has responded to the allegations by saying "I don't use crack cocaine nor am I an addict of crack cocaine."
"It couldn't be avoided," Peaches told Huffington Post Canada of how she first heard about Ford's crack video scandal. “It was world news and then I...
- 6/24/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
"Golden Goddesses" is author Jill Nelson's tribute to 25 women who played significant roles in the golden age of erotic cinema from the years 1968-1985, years when participation in adult cinema was illegal. Once upon a time, the adult film world was a "film" world, and we'll have an all-star cast here with author Jill Nelson to discuss the life & times of many of these golden goddesses and what it was like to be a movie outlaw. This over 900 page book is an unbelievable look at these women, but also a look at a part of the film industry that was making the rules as they went. Join us for an evening of spirited conversation & behind the scenes stories as we hang out with the "Golden Goddesses". Confirmed guests at this time include, Kay Parker, Serena, Rhonda Jo Petty, Annie Sprinkle,Georgina Spelvin, Nina Hartley, Kitten Natividad, Veronica Hart, Laurie Holmes,...
- 11/28/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The 8th annual Portland Underground Film Festival is back with a vengeance and under new management! Superstar Portland filmmaker Bob Moricz has assumed total control of Puff and promises to keep the fest’s traditional raucous spirit, but covered with a more artful sheen. The shenanigans will once again take place at Puff’s beloved home, the Clinton Street Theater.
Things kick off on June 29 with a live Skype appearance by none other than sex guru Annie Sprinkle as part of the “Ecosex Symposium,” a frank celebration of sex in the natural world. This will be followed with the traditional “Bike Smut” program of short films celebrating the power and the glory of the bicycle.
Then, on June 30, there will be a selection of short films by some of the most notorious names in underground film today, including Carey Burtt, Neil Ira Needleman, Greg Hanson and Jim Haverkamp, plus filmmakers Jenn Keyser,...
Things kick off on June 29 with a live Skype appearance by none other than sex guru Annie Sprinkle as part of the “Ecosex Symposium,” a frank celebration of sex in the natural world. This will be followed with the traditional “Bike Smut” program of short films celebrating the power and the glory of the bicycle.
Then, on June 30, there will be a selection of short films by some of the most notorious names in underground film today, including Carey Burtt, Neil Ira Needleman, Greg Hanson and Jim Haverkamp, plus filmmakers Jenn Keyser,...
- 6/28/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Hello once again. Week two in Marquis de Sade month. Last week we looked at some high class softcore cinema; this week however, we look at something on the other side of the scale. We look at a fantastic piece of filth called Kneel Before Me from 1983 directed by the infamous Phil Prince.
“George Payne marries Annie Sprinkle and he becomes delusional, believing that he is the Marquis de Sade. George has nightmares of leather masks, piercings, orchestrating the degradation and torture of slaves and S&M orgies, and putting Annie in bondage and strangling her to death. In desperation, he seeks counsel from a sadistic doctor (Nico). She hypnotises him and the nightmares become real and uncontrollable. One of director Phil Prince’s best and most personal films”...
“George Payne marries Annie Sprinkle and he becomes delusional, believing that he is the Marquis de Sade. George has nightmares of leather masks, piercings, orchestrating the degradation and torture of slaves and S&M orgies, and putting Annie in bondage and strangling her to death. In desperation, he seeks counsel from a sadistic doctor (Nico). She hypnotises him and the nightmares become real and uncontrollable. One of director Phil Prince’s best and most personal films”...
- 6/13/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Catherine Grant has tweeted a link to the shocking news as reported by El Mostrador: Raúl Ruiz, widely considered the most important filmmaker to have come from Chile, has died in Paris at the age of 70. The funeral will be held on Tuesday morning.
Just a few weeks ago, the New York Times' Ao Scott profiled Ruiz, director of more than "100 films in several languages and also, in his spare time, a theater director and film theorist of some renown in Europe and beyond. He has taught at Harvard, adapted the last volume of Proust into a feature film, transformed several of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tales into a dark, surrealist comedy starring Marcello Mastroianni and made the life of the Viennese painter Gustav Klimt into a fractured biopic starring John Malkovich. His forays into North America have included the twisty psychological thriller Shattered Image, starring William Baldwin and Anne Parillaud,...
Just a few weeks ago, the New York Times' Ao Scott profiled Ruiz, director of more than "100 films in several languages and also, in his spare time, a theater director and film theorist of some renown in Europe and beyond. He has taught at Harvard, adapted the last volume of Proust into a feature film, transformed several of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tales into a dark, surrealist comedy starring Marcello Mastroianni and made the life of the Viennese painter Gustav Klimt into a fractured biopic starring John Malkovich. His forays into North America have included the twisty psychological thriller Shattered Image, starring William Baldwin and Anne Parillaud,...
- 8/19/2011
- MUBI
Jan. 25
7:00 p.m.
Microscope Gallery
4 Charles Place
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Hosted by: Microscope Gallery
The creator and leading figure of the Cinema of Transgression movement, Nick Zedd, will appear in person to present his most controversial films, from 1984′s collaboration with Richard Kern, Thrust in Me, to several of his multiple-projector films.
Back in the early ’80s, Zedd captured the zeitgeist of a style of filmmaking that was emerging in NYC’s Lower East Side. He thus created the Cinema of Transgression, a loose connection of low-budget independent filmmakers who were making work that rebelled against traditional social norms. Some of these filmmakers included Richard Kern, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz. You can read Zedd’s Transgression manifesto here.
Films screening at this particular event include Thrust in Me, a 1984 Super 8 collaboration with Richard Kern in which Zedd plays two characters, basically himself and a woman with whom he sexually molests.
7:00 p.m.
Microscope Gallery
4 Charles Place
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Hosted by: Microscope Gallery
The creator and leading figure of the Cinema of Transgression movement, Nick Zedd, will appear in person to present his most controversial films, from 1984′s collaboration with Richard Kern, Thrust in Me, to several of his multiple-projector films.
Back in the early ’80s, Zedd captured the zeitgeist of a style of filmmaking that was emerging in NYC’s Lower East Side. He thus created the Cinema of Transgression, a loose connection of low-budget independent filmmakers who were making work that rebelled against traditional social norms. Some of these filmmakers included Richard Kern, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz. You can read Zedd’s Transgression manifesto here.
Films screening at this particular event include Thrust in Me, a 1984 Super 8 collaboration with Richard Kern in which Zedd plays two characters, basically himself and a woman with whom he sexually molests.
- 1/22/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
American Swing (2009) Direction: Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart Screenplay: Keith Reamer Interviewees: Buck Henry, Annie Sprinkle, Melvin van Peebles, Ron Jeremy, Jamie Gillis, Helen Gurley Brown, and others 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 entrepreneur Larry Levenson, free-sex advocate and self-proclaimed "King of Swing," while painting a nostalgic — though hardly all-flattering — portrait of the heyday of Plato’s Retreat, New York City’s foremost sex club-disco of the late 1970s. Earlier in the decade, wholesale meat purveyor Larry Levenson had decided to reinvent himself as a Sexual Liberation Messiah. Even so, it’s debatable whether Levenson actually saw himself as a Man with a Mission, or whether he was just a cunning self-promoter with his eye on the cash flowing into his Upper West Side club in the basement of Manhattan’s Ansonia Hotel.
- 4/3/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
OTTAWA -- Looking to promote rising independent film talent, the Montreal Festival of New Media and New Cinema on Tuesday unveiled a lineup filled with movies by women filmmakers and first- and second-time directors. The festival, which will unspool 208 films from 42 countries, opens Oct. 14 with a screening of Olivier Assayas' Clean, a France/United States/Canada co-production that bowed at Cannes. Closing out the festival Oct. 24 will be Memoires Affectives, from Canadian filmmaker Francis Leclerc. U.S. films booked into the Montreal festival include Niels Mueller's The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Annie Sprinkle and Sheila Malone's Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm, Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, Spike Lee's She Hate Me and Ken Jacobs' Star Spangled to Death.
- 9/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmmaker Monika Treut has spent much of her career examining various aspects of sexuality in both fiction and documentary features, and her latest, an examination of people who alter their sexual personas through artificial means, is no departure.
A chatty portrait of different types of transsexuals -- or, as the film dubs them, "cyborgs" -- living and working in the San Francisco area, "Gendernauts" is less illuminating than it is illustrative, but it does offer some interesting perspectives for the uninitiated. And how many times does one get to witness a close-up of a hyena's clitoris? The film won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
The loosely structured feature is hosted by one Sandy Stone, a college professor at the University of Texas who has dubbed herself the "goddess of cyberspace." She introduces a gallery of colorful types, including Susan Styker, a male-to-female transsexual who specializes in gender studies (the film contains a great deal of academic doublespeak); Texas Tomboy, a video artist who has been virtually adopted by her surrogate mom, Tornado, a former Penthouse model; Stafford, who has created Web sites devoted to gender issues and whose answer to the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" is "Yes"; and Max Valerio, whose initial transition from woman to man was documented in Treut's earlier "Female Misbehavior". Also on display is Les Nichols, an "intersexed" woman (or hermaphrodite, for those of you not up on the latest terminology) who has both female and (artificial) male sex organs.
Unquestionably, the film's highlight is the graphic scene in which Nichols attempts sexual relations with performance artist and former porn star Annie Sprinkle, who here demonstrates both true patience and a genial tolerance.
GENDERNAUTS
First Run Features
Director-screenwriter-producer:Monika Treut
Director of photography:Eifi Mikesch
Editor:Eric Shefter
Music:Georg Kajanus
Color/stereo
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A chatty portrait of different types of transsexuals -- or, as the film dubs them, "cyborgs" -- living and working in the San Francisco area, "Gendernauts" is less illuminating than it is illustrative, but it does offer some interesting perspectives for the uninitiated. And how many times does one get to witness a close-up of a hyena's clitoris? The film won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
The loosely structured feature is hosted by one Sandy Stone, a college professor at the University of Texas who has dubbed herself the "goddess of cyberspace." She introduces a gallery of colorful types, including Susan Styker, a male-to-female transsexual who specializes in gender studies (the film contains a great deal of academic doublespeak); Texas Tomboy, a video artist who has been virtually adopted by her surrogate mom, Tornado, a former Penthouse model; Stafford, who has created Web sites devoted to gender issues and whose answer to the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" is "Yes"; and Max Valerio, whose initial transition from woman to man was documented in Treut's earlier "Female Misbehavior". Also on display is Les Nichols, an "intersexed" woman (or hermaphrodite, for those of you not up on the latest terminology) who has both female and (artificial) male sex organs.
Unquestionably, the film's highlight is the graphic scene in which Nichols attempts sexual relations with performance artist and former porn star Annie Sprinkle, who here demonstrates both true patience and a genial tolerance.
GENDERNAUTS
First Run Features
Director-screenwriter-producer:Monika Treut
Director of photography:Eifi Mikesch
Editor:Eric Shefter
Music:Georg Kajanus
Color/stereo
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/15/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- ''My Father Is Coming'' is nothing to get too excited about. It is an off-beat attempt to make an off-beat film, but it tries so hard to get off the beaten path that it goes nowhere.
German filmmaker Monika Treut's questionable homage to New York City, particularly the East Village, is fun in parts, slow in others and ambiguous overall.
Still, its forced hipness and the fact that it's a ''different'' kind of film may appeal to the art-house crowd. The inclusion of porn star Annie Sprinkle and her massive mammaries may lure some unsuspecting lustful viewers, though this is no porn flick.
What it is is an outsider's depiction of the downtown Manhattan scene, and a myopic view of the apparently never-ending sexual revolution. If only there were a real story to go along with this . . .
The film revolves around Vicky (Shelley Kastner), an actress and waitress who seems distressed that her father, Hans Alfred Edel), is coming from Germany to pay her a visit. When he does arrive we can see why.
Hans is a stuffy, prudish, opinionated man who criticizes Vicky's entire existence. For this reason Vicky forces her gay roommate, Ben David Bronstein), to pretend to be her husband. (It's not a very convincing performance.)
Accompanying Vicky on one of her auditions, Hans is outraged to discover it is for a porn film. He changes his tune, however, when the film's star Annie Sprinkle) ingratiates herself by going to the bathroom in front of him. A minute later Hans lands himself a job in a commercial, much to Vicky's envy and chagrin.
The rest of the film is a disjointed series of encounters, sexual and otherwise, with a lesbian, a male transsexual, drag queens, a body piercing guru and some unusual people as well.
It's all supposed to be a mind-opening journey for both father and daughter, but someone definitely loses the map along the way.
Sometimes using non-actors gives a film a natural quality, but in this case all it adds is bad acting. Kastner as Vicky, the would-be actress, is the only one who truly passes the audition. Not that there is much call in this film for any real acting, but Kastner is the only credible element to be found. This is her film debut, and she demonstrates a raw sensuality that holds promise for future performances.
''My Father Is Coming'' is not an unpleasant film, except for the unwatchably gross scene with the pierced Fakir Musafar. There are several lines of dialogue and an occasional visual that make us laugh or at least smile. It's just that much of what appears in this film seems to have been randomly placed for no discernible reason. A film doesn't always have to make sense, but if it goes that route then it should at least be distracting enough so you won't mind.
MY FATHER IS COMING
Tara Releasing/Hyena Films
Director-producer Monika Treut
Writers Monika Treut, Bruce Benderson
Cinematographer Elfi Mikesch
Editor Steve Brown
Music David van Tieghem
Color
In English and German, with subtitles
Cast:
Hans Alfred Edel
Vicky Shelley Kastner
Annie Annie Sprinkle
Joe Michael Massee
Lisa Mary Lou Graulau
Ben David Bronstein
Running time -- 82 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
German filmmaker Monika Treut's questionable homage to New York City, particularly the East Village, is fun in parts, slow in others and ambiguous overall.
Still, its forced hipness and the fact that it's a ''different'' kind of film may appeal to the art-house crowd. The inclusion of porn star Annie Sprinkle and her massive mammaries may lure some unsuspecting lustful viewers, though this is no porn flick.
What it is is an outsider's depiction of the downtown Manhattan scene, and a myopic view of the apparently never-ending sexual revolution. If only there were a real story to go along with this . . .
The film revolves around Vicky (Shelley Kastner), an actress and waitress who seems distressed that her father, Hans Alfred Edel), is coming from Germany to pay her a visit. When he does arrive we can see why.
Hans is a stuffy, prudish, opinionated man who criticizes Vicky's entire existence. For this reason Vicky forces her gay roommate, Ben David Bronstein), to pretend to be her husband. (It's not a very convincing performance.)
Accompanying Vicky on one of her auditions, Hans is outraged to discover it is for a porn film. He changes his tune, however, when the film's star Annie Sprinkle) ingratiates herself by going to the bathroom in front of him. A minute later Hans lands himself a job in a commercial, much to Vicky's envy and chagrin.
The rest of the film is a disjointed series of encounters, sexual and otherwise, with a lesbian, a male transsexual, drag queens, a body piercing guru and some unusual people as well.
It's all supposed to be a mind-opening journey for both father and daughter, but someone definitely loses the map along the way.
Sometimes using non-actors gives a film a natural quality, but in this case all it adds is bad acting. Kastner as Vicky, the would-be actress, is the only one who truly passes the audition. Not that there is much call in this film for any real acting, but Kastner is the only credible element to be found. This is her film debut, and she demonstrates a raw sensuality that holds promise for future performances.
''My Father Is Coming'' is not an unpleasant film, except for the unwatchably gross scene with the pierced Fakir Musafar. There are several lines of dialogue and an occasional visual that make us laugh or at least smile. It's just that much of what appears in this film seems to have been randomly placed for no discernible reason. A film doesn't always have to make sense, but if it goes that route then it should at least be distracting enough so you won't mind.
MY FATHER IS COMING
Tara Releasing/Hyena Films
Director-producer Monika Treut
Writers Monika Treut, Bruce Benderson
Cinematographer Elfi Mikesch
Editor Steve Brown
Music David van Tieghem
Color
In English and German, with subtitles
Cast:
Hans Alfred Edel
Vicky Shelley Kastner
Annie Annie Sprinkle
Joe Michael Massee
Lisa Mary Lou Graulau
Ben David Bronstein
Running time -- 82 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 11/25/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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