Two years after Hollywood announced dueling Linda Lovelace biopics , the first and possibly only one to materialize , Lovelace , makes its way to the screen on Friday. Julie Miller : You were just in Las Vegas for a premiere of the film. Did you have time to do anything fun while you were there? Amanda Seyfried : No, it was quick.
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In , the year I joined the festival's selection committee, we showed Dusan Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism, which had a hint of hard-core. The following year, the Festival had Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris Brando, butter , As we discoed fearlessly through the 70s we brought in a porno documentary from France Exhibition and a Japanese drama In the Realm of the Senses that had hard-core sex and a pretty explicit castration. The clear implication: these pictures were chosen to be in the Film Festival, so they had to be art. My favorite essay, a real startler, was Brendan Gill's on porno films. Brendan, a New Yorker staff writer for a half-century, and author of the magazine's unofficial history, Here at the New Yorker, was a man of many passions, from theater to architecture to women, and in a sweet seizure of ardor his speech and prose were ever rising to an exclamation point. Pornography was one of those enthusiasms, as he expressed in his Film Comment effusion, called "Blue Notes. At the moment of writing, another fifteen or twenty porn houses are but five minutes away.
It was also a rarity in that it was a New York film that was shot in Florida. This meant the filmmakers had to rely on local contacts to set up the locations in advance. Their faith in the Florida advisers proved to be ill-founded — and the initial locations all fell through as soon as shooting was about to start. Needing to some up with alternative venues quickly, the crew was deployed to find places around the Miami area to use for scenes in the film.
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