CINEMA EROTICO
Flaming Creatures
Most of the film's characters are sexually ambiguous, including transvestite, intersex, and drag performers. Flaming Creatures is largely non-narrative, and its action is often interrupted by cutaways to close-ups of body parts.
The film opens with a credits sequence set to the soundtrack of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and the announcement that "Ali Baba comes today!". Two creatures laze in a garden and dance. In what Smith called the "smirching sequence", characters apply lipstick while a mock advertisement poses the question, "Is there lipstick that doesn't come off when you suck cocks?" Two creatures chase each other, and one throws the other to the ground. Several creatures gather around her in a rape scene, which grows into a large orgy. The earth begins to quake, and the creatures collapse.
A vampire resembling Marilyn Monroe climbs out of a coffin and drains some of the lifeless creatures. This reignites the action, and the creatures rise again to dance with one another.
La maggior parte dei personaggi del film sono sessualmente ambigui, inclusi travestiti, intersessuali e artisti drag. Flaming Creatures è in gran parte non narrativo e la sua azione è spesso interrotta da spaccati e primi piani di parti del corpo.
Il film si apre con una sequenza di titoli di coda ambientata sulla colonna sonora di Ali Baba e i Quaranta Ladroni e l'annuncio che "Ali Baba arriva oggi!". Due creature oziano in un giardino e ballano. In quella che Smith chiamava la "sequenza sorridente", i personaggi applicano il rossetto mentre una finta pubblicità pone la domanda: "C'è un rossetto che non si stacca quando succhi i cazzi?" Due creature si inseguono e una getta l'altra a terra. Diverse creature si riuniscono intorno a lei in una scena di stupro, che si trasforma in una grande orgia. La terra comincia a tremare e le creature collassano.
Un vampiro che assomiglia a Marilyn Monroe esce da una bara e prosciuga alcune delle creature senza vita. Questo riaccende l'azione e le creature si alzano di nuovo per ballare tra loro.
Produced by Jack Smith
Starring Francis Francine/Sheila Bick/Joel Markman/Mario Montez/Judith Malina
Distributed by The Film-Makers' Cooperative
Release date April 29, 1963
Country United States
Budget $300
Her Private Hell
A young Italian woman called Marisa arrives in London to model for a
magazine owned by Neville and Margaret. She is sent to live in an
ultramodern flat belonging to Bernie, the magazine's top photographer –
ostensibly for her safety, but in reality to prevent her from being
poached by rival publications. Though surrounded by luxury, Marisa comes
to realise that her employers control nearly every aspect of her life.
She begins a sexual relationship with Bernie but quickly learns that she
is not the first model he has seduced.
Although Marisa is only willing to pose semi-clothed, Neville wants the magazine to show full nudity.
Matt – a younger, up-and-coming photographer – urges Marisa to leave,
claiming that Neville, Margaret and Bernie see her as nothing more than a
"money-making machine". Later, Matt drives Marisa to the countryside
for an avant-garde photoshoot in which Marisa freely poses nude. Marisa becomes romantically involved with Matt, creating a love triangle with him and Bernie.
Matt's photos end up in Margaret's possession. Later, to Marisa's
torment, they are published in a foreign magazine. Margaret, Matt and
Bernie all deny selling the photos. Matt is disturbed by the leak and
wants to take Marisa away. He confronts Neville, who offers him his own
studio if he drops the matter. Meanwhile, Marisa is determined to leave
with Bernie, but has a change of heart when Matt denounces Margaret and
Bernie to their faces, telling them that "integrity and self-respect are
more important than money." Matt and Marisa drive away together. Bernie
comforts a tearful Margaret, assuring her that "there'll be others."
The final scene reveals that Bernie and Margaret are married,
that Margaret condones Bernie's affairs and that no one told Marisa she
was sleeping with Margaret's husband.









Tonight for Sure
On the Sunset Strip, two unlikely men rendezvous: Samuel Hill, an unkempt desert miner, and Benjamin Jabowski, a John Birch Society dandy from the city. Intent on some sort of mayhem, they enter the Herald Club before the burlesque show starts, and they wire something to the electrical box, set to blow at midnight. They sit at the back of the club to get to know each other. As they drink and glance at the stage, Sam tells of a partner driven mad by visions of naked women in the sagebrush; Ben tells a tale of trying to rid his neighborhood of a pin-up studio. As they get drunker and the clock ticks toward midnight, they pull their chairs closer to the women on stage.
Sulla Sunset Strip, due uomini improbabili si incontrano: Samuel Hill, un trasandato minatore del deserto, e Benjamin Jabowski, un dandy della John Birch Society della città. Intenzionati a creare una sorta di caos, entrano nell'Herald Club prima che inizi lo spettacolo burlesque e collegano qualcosa alla scatola elettrica, impostata per suonare a mezzanotte. Si siedono in fondo al locale per conoscersi. Mentre bevono e guardano il palco, Sam racconta di un partner impazzito dalle visioni di donne nude nell'artemisia; Ben racconta la storia di come ha cercato di liberare il suo quartiere da uno studio di pin-up. Mentre si ubriacano e l'orologio segna verso mezzanotte, avvicinano le loro sedie alle donne sul palco.
Written by Francis Coppola/Jerry Schafer
Produced by Francis Coppola
Starring Don Kenney/Karl Schanzer
Cinematography Jack Hill
Edited by Ronald Waller
Music by Carmine Coppola
Production company Searchlight Productions
Distributed by Premier Pictures
Release date October 25, 1962 (Los Angeles)
Country United States
Ukiyo-e Cruel Story
Sayo
has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple
festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous
for the legend of a dead white horse.
Sayo ha appena festeggiato il suo sedicesimo compleanno quando partecipa a una festa nel tempio. Sulla via del ritorno vede un grande ciliegio famoso per la leggenda di un cavallo bianco morto.
Ukiyoe Cruel Story (浮世絵残酷物語, Ukiyoe Zankoku Monogatari) is a 1968 Japanese pink film directed by the "Father of Pink", Tetsuji Takechi, and starring the current "Queen" of Pink, Noriko Tatsumi. Made after Takechi had won an obscenity trial over Black Snow (1965), the film has been called "Takechi's personal message to Eirin." Though still containing significant erotic content, this is one of Takechi's few films to pass the censor relatively un-edited, perhaps because Eirin feared losing another embarrassing public confrontation with the outspoken director. In October 2006 Ukiyo-e Cruel Story was shown as part of a Takechi retrospective, and it was released on DVD in Japan on January 25, 2008.
Ukiyoe Cruel Story (浮世絵残酷物語, Ukiyoe Zankoku Monogatari) è un film pink giapponese del 1968 diretto dal "padre del rosa", Tetsuji Takechi, e interpretato dall'attuale "regina" del rosa, Noriko Tatsumi. Realizzato dopo che Takechi aveva vinto un processo per oscenità su Black Snow (1965), il film è stato chiamato "il messaggio personale di Takechi a Eirin". Sebbene contenga ancora un significativo contenuto erotico, questo è uno dei pochi film di Takechi a superare la censura senza essere stato sottoposto a modifiche, forse perché Eirin temeva di perdere un altro imbarazzante confronto pubblico con lo schietto regista. Nell'ottobre 2006 Ukiyo-e Cruel Story è stato proiettato come parte di una retrospettiva di Takechi ed è stato pubblicato in DVD in Giappone il 25 gennaio 2008.
Written by Dosuke Haguro
Starring Tamawa Karina/Noriko Tatsumi/Ryuji Inazuma
Cinematography Seishiro Fukami
Music by Sukehisa Shiba
Distributed by Daiei/Takechi Productions
Release date September 7, 1968
Country Japan
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