>Who needs another box of stale chocolates anyway? This Valentines’ Day, send along a beribboned Sissies Gone Wild greeting and really stand apart from the crowd.
Or, maybe Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding is more to your liking? We’ve got them as well. All that and more, now available for your perusing in the CineKink trailer gallery!
>Just out from director Candida Royalle is Under the Covers, following a plucky, young journalist as she investigates the sex industry and – wouldn’t you know it! – gets more than she bargained for. (Or “more than for which she bargained,” more likely? A mere mention of journalism and we start getting all grammatical.)
Reknowned as a pioneer in producing erotica intended primarily for women and couples, Candida was last seen around CineKink as part of “The State of Smut: NYC” panel, educating up-and-comers on the sexiest bits of any indie filmmaking scene … finance and distribution.
As for other CineKink alumni gracing the hot new project, the trailer features a glimpse of our perennial favorite, actress Sativa Verte (Alice in Footland, CineKink ’04, Audience Choice Award/Honorable Mention).
And a cameo appearance by director Michele Capozzi (Pornology New York, CineKink ’05, Audience Choice Award/Best Documentary), himself putting in an unusually soleful performance.
>Don’t you know it! For months we’ve been ogling the posters for Black Snake Moan, with an interior monologue that was saying something like “hey, this movie looks like it might be really hot… especially in that I really shouldn’t think this is hot kinda way.”
Then, reported Sundance sightings of stocking cap swag bearing the inscription “It’s hard out here for a nymph.” (Hat tip – !! – ScreenGrab) Alright, a not-so-coy reference to director Craig Brewer’s previous film, Hustle & Flow. We’ll give it cute enough.
But poking around the updated (and very loud, be careful) Black Snake Moan website, our growing trepidation seemed justified when we came across the “Are You a Nymph?” quiz, with such questions as:
Have you had more sexual partners than birthdays?
Do you own more than one sex toy?
Do you have more than three porn stars on your MySpace friends page?
Maybe we’re miffed because we only scored as a Moderate Nymph. (Seriously!) But the resulting diagnosis – “You ain’t right yet. Sex continues to effect your everyday life. Slow down. You can’t continue to rub up against anyone you find attractive” – left us feeling a little icky. Particularly considering the youthful male demographic the movie is obviously being pitched to, we’re not so keen to have such hot buttons as female sexual shame and worth being pushed by some mid-level Paramount marketing flunkie. (Unless, perhaps, he/she is wearing a nicely tailored suit and we’re kneeling expectantly in front of him/her.)
And, unless Samuel Jackson really has Christina Ricci chained up for the sole purpose of getting her to eat a steak dinner and put a bit of meat back on her emaciated frame, the movie’s trailer has left us a wee bit squicked as well:
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>Fresh from our final, sell-out screenings at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, we’re finally back from San Francisco with some great memories, a few new friends, several extra pounds – and a nice batch of blurbs for the collection:
“More like Wild Kingdom than Girls Gone Wild, the CineKink 2007 series …neutrally observes sexual transgression: the forms it takes, the relief it offers, and the privacy it (often jubilantly) breaches.”
– Sara Schieron, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“CineKink’s entries are often injected with a refreshing dose of camp and playfulness…Equal parts raunchy and sexy, the festival succeeds because it never loses sight of sex’s potential for absurdity and transcendence.”
– Nirmala Nataraj, SF Weekly
“Seeing all those body parts at the AVN expo is analogous to the separation between sex and sensuality evident in AVN’s typical lineup of winners. We’re only going to find sexual authenticity and really hot porn when we reconnect those parts to actual people, like those behind the indie efforts found at CineKink.”
– Violet Blue, SF Gate
(And there’s more. Speaking of yours truly, CineKinkster ourselves, Violet Blue also deems us a “…superlative blog.” We’re totally blushing!)
Thanks for the kind words. And thanks to YBCA, film/video curator Joel Shepard and all of you who came out for the SF screenings, for such a fabulous welcome.
>Now that the Dems have sorta climbed kinda back on top in the national power exchange – and in advance of our pending trip to the left coast for CineKink SF – we thought it high time we check in with Speaker of the House!!! Nancy Pelosi, for a brief overview of customary San Francisco values:
Oh, crap. What was that again?!? Palisades? Um, Palermo?
Hope to see you there!
>Seems like we just got home, but it’s almost time to pack our bags again and head for that city by the bay, where the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts welcomes us (back!) for another round of CineKink: San Francisco.
Cutting across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, film and video offerings in this kink-friendly, traveling showcase range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildy spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.
Thursday, January 18th – Saturday, January 20th
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street (@ Third)
San Francisco
The locals seem to have a voracious appetite for our kinky bits and we’ve enjoyed several sell-outs in the past, so get your tickets now.
(And if you happen to be looking for something worthy to do the weekend before, be sure to check out YCBA’s presentation of Jean Genet – Kenneth Anger… featuring all-new 35mm prints!)
>For everyone looking to score that perfect last minute gift, check out the latest offering of video goodness – far better than frankincense and/or myrrh, though possibly not gold – from our good pals Kirby Ferguson and the fantabulous Wet Spots…
Fist Me This Christmas !!
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No, not that Fox, silly! While we were off gallavanting in Vegas with the International Film Festival Summit, we somehow lost sight of the fact that Fox Before The Code, a wonderful, three-week series of films from the era right before the infamous Hayes Production Code went into effect, was simultaneously unspooling at NYC’s Film Forum.
In a lengthy discussion on The Reeler, the theatre’s director of reperatory programming, Bruce Goldstein, notes how the package of films came together and puts them into their larger historical context. “When I first saw a pre-Code film, I was just stunned,” Goldstein said. “I never believed that films could be that racy in 1931.”
But, while we may have missed Call Her Savage – pictured above and apparently containing not only the proffered whip, but a romp with a Great Dane and the silver screen’s first bona fide gay bar – there’s still time to catch such likely gems as Painted Woman, She Learned About Sailors and 3 On a Honeymoon! The series runs until December 21st.
>Sure, it might be some seriously freaky roleplay, but we’re certainly not the first to speculate on Ann Coulter’s seemingly dominatrix-y demeanor. (See also Google re: Ann + Coulter + dominatrix.) But Ann’s nattering on and on reached a new level of sadistic tedium when she appeared on FOX News recently, as part of an “alarming new report,” Ivy Gone Wild, commenting on a wee bit of to-do in the news over Columbia University’s BDSM Club, Conversio Virium.
As writer/activist/sadomasochist Susan Wright observes:
I expected outrage from her, but all Ann does is giggle inanely and jab at “losers” who have to join a sex club to get sex. Her most priceless quote: “This has been well documented. Christians have more sex, better sex, more sexual satisfaction…you want a sex club, become an evangelical.”
Oh, really? Is that the Religious Right’s new rallying cry? Join us and get lots of sex? Seems to me the first thing the Evangelical Sex Club should do is stop telling everyone else that the way we want to have sex is wrong. Then let the orgy begin!
Um, Ann. Like we said? Anytime!
