Erotica

  • Jens Jørgen Thorsen – Stille dage i Clichy AKA Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseDenmarkEroticaJens Jørgen Thorsen

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    Joey is a struggling writer with no money. His roommate Carl is a womanizer with a taste for young girls. Together, these insatiable dreamers will laugh, love and screw their way through a decadent Paris paved with wanton women, wild orgies and outrageous erotic adventures. Based upon the long-banned novel by Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy is considered to be the most daring film adaptation ever of one of the most controversial authors in history.Read More »

  • Eberhard Kronhausen & Phyllis Kronhausen – Psychomontage (1963)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtEberhard KronhausenEroticaExploitationPhyllis KronhausenUnited Kingdom

    From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
    Sexologists, psychologists, and proponents of sexual freedom, the Kronhausens here attempt to induce erotic response in the audience by carefully chosen visual stimuli and juxtapositions (aimed at both conscious and unconscious). Phallic symbols and open orifices, a tongue licking an orange, an unexpected finger entering the frame: almost any object or act, no matter how innocuous, the Kronhausens show, can be made to appear erotic, and reveals our predisposition towards ‘shaping’ visual evidence for purposes of erotic gratification.Read More »

  • Tim Kincaid – Kansas City Trucking Co. (1976)

    1971-1980EroticaQueer Cinema(s)Tim KincaidUSA

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    Hank (Richard Locke), a trucker, turns out new hire Joe on a long haul to the West Coast. The men masturbate together while on the road and participate in an all-male orgy at a truckers’ bunkhouse in Los Angeles. The film features several trucking related double-entendres such as “wide load”, “heavy load” and “men at work”.Read More »

  • Jean Genet – Un chant d’amour (1950)

    1941-1950EroticaExperimentalFranceJean GenetQueer Cinema(s)

    From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
    Genet’s only film — hounded by the censors, unavailable, secret — is an early and remarkably moving attempt to portray homosexual passions. Already a classic, it succeeds as perhaps no other film to intimate the explosive power of frustrated sex; male prisoners in solitary confinement “embracing” walls, ramming them in erotic despair with erect penis, swaying convulsively to auto-erotic lust, kissing their own bodies and tattoos in sexual frenzy. In a supremely poetic (and visual) metaphor of sexual deprivation, two prisoners in adjoining cells symbolically perform fellatio by alternately blowing or inhaling each other’s cigarette smoke through a straw inserted in a wall opening, while masturbating. Like all of Genet’s early work, the entire film is, in effect, a single onanistic fantasy, filled with desperate frustration and sensuous nostalgia. In the end, and after many failures, some flowers — painfully passed from one barred window to the next — are finally caught by the prisoner in the adjoining cell in a poetic affirmation of love in infinite imprisonment.Read More »

  • Jack Smith – Flaming Creatures (1963)

    1961-1970EroticaExperimentalJack SmithQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Part of the New American Cinema group in New York City during the 60s, Jack Smith’s flamboyant aesthetic can be characterized by a mix of baroque exoticism, gaudy costumes, and detritus salvaged from the city streets. Flaming Creatures is a non-narrative, Dionysian orgy, complete with wild dancing, gender bending, and a climactic earthquake. The carnivalesque madness of the film is reinforced by the chaotic density of its formal composition. Smith’s deliberate spatial disorientation creates a pansexual landscape of tangled body parts; just as the viewer is unable to situate the visual coordinates of the image, the creatures are unaware of which extremity belongs to whom.Read More »

  • Olympe de G. – Une dernière fois (2020)

    2011-2020EroticaFranceOlympe de G.TV

    Salomé is 69-year-old and doesn’t want to grow old in a society that pays little attention to elderly people; thus, she has organized her disappearance. She plans her last evening in detail, as she thinks about the last time she will have sexual intercourse. With the held of Sandra, a filmmaker, Salomé organizes a casting to choose the person with whom she will make love for the last time. But, as she abandons herself to pleasures, she discovers something new: her last time will also be a first time, just like every end is also a new beginning.Read More »

  • Shuji Terayama – Les Fruits de la passion AKA Fruits of Passion (1981)

    1981-1990DramaEroticaFranceShuji Terayama

    Shuji Terayama adapted his 1981 film, The Fruits of Passion, from the eponymous Pauline Reage’s sequel to her well regarded book, The Story of O. However, ‘adapted’ is used very loosely in this instance, as Terayama uses the opportunity to completely reshape the structure of the novel, and use only it’s themes and characters to create a story that is uniquely his. According to the credits, the text of the narration and O’s dialogue itself was taken directly from the short novel, but everything else is pure Terayama.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – Le Journal intime d’une nymphomane AKA Diary of a Nymphomaniac (1973) (HD)

    1971-1980EroticaExploitationFranceJesus Franco

    Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers’ parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a secret diary… With a cast of some of the most stunning Euro actresses of the period, wall-to-wall sex and nudity, pot parties, porno shoots and a psychedelic soundtrack, this is a gem of 1970s exploitation cinema from Jess Franco. Street scenes shot in Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) and Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain).Read More »

  • Walter Hugo Khouri – Amor Estranho Amor AKA Love Strange Love (1982)

    1981-1990BrazilDramaEroticaWalter Hugo Khouri

    Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.Read More »

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