Was ’60s Sexploitation Cinema More Than Just Pornography?
Film history work Lewd Looks argues that sexploitation films provided an underground and important bridge between the end of old Hollywood and the start of something else.
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Russ Meyer, the Auteur of Superfluity
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls shows Russ Meyer editing his films in the manner of a coked-up, horny 17-year-old with ADD and a perverse obsession with Sergei Eisenstein.
If He Were Still With Us, ‘Life Itself’ Would Be Worthy of Roger Ebert’s Praise
Ebert never lived to see the finished product, but it's not a stretch at all to imagine what kind of score Siskel & Ebert would have given it had they the chance: two thumbs up.