Main stream porn??
I take y’all never saw I am curious Yellow.
What she does with that doorknob…well…you just have to see it.
It took a court battle just to get it shown in the US.
I have seen I Am Curious (Yellow), and I remember nothing about a door knob. I do remember that it was not hard core porn, which is what you are implying.
A couple of days ago, I would’ve been lost. but I just finished the pre-Cambrian section of A Short History Of Nearly Everything, so I feel smart :).
Look, if you can’t throw in reference to the effects of pre-Cambrian fossils on evolutionary theory in discussion of 70s retro-porn and be understoond, what is the point of posting on the SDMB?
How do you know when the porn you’re watching was made in the '70s?
Even the schlongs have muttonchops!
–Lou, fan of mid '90s-to-present adult films
Another film that qualifies as arty porn would be Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was an attempt at porn comedy. Starring Kristine DeBell, who went on a few years later to co-star with Bill Murray in Meatballs.
May I recommend Eric Schlosser’s “Reefer Madness”
The third essay is about the porn industry and includes the particulars of what happened in the '70 and why that movie and a few others (I am Curious, Deep Throat) became a big deal. Very interesting book.
Oh…and I think there’s an ode in Mommy’s Little Girl to Marilyn Chambers that made me want to run out and see it (despite being female and straight).
Well, “Ribald Tales of Canterbury”, vs. Passolini’s “Tales of Canterbury” is another example of the mentioned phenomenon where you’d have multiple iterations of the same idea, with someone doing it as “art, but with tits and dicks” and someone else doing it as “porn, but with a plot”.