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...three-way gay routine that features a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" sung in very close quarters. (It still sounds better than Roseanne's version.) But Mitchell has little interest in being the avatar of '70s porn directors. His structuring of the material is less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, and even the sex scenes have the geometrical elegance and absurdity of classic movie production numbers, making Mitchell a porno Busby Berkeley. When the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings...
...sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City. It could slip comfily into any slot at the Sundance Film Festival, or the art-house screen at your local multiplex, except for one thing: it has lots of explicit, hard-core...
...depicted the moment people die. There was simply more human drama to be found in the spectacle of two folks sporting in bed than of a guy shooting or carving another guy up. And as art-house auteurs were getting pornier, porn directors were getting artier. They brought hard-core to nearly every genre, from science fiction (Flesh Gordon, with FX by Jim Danforth and Dennis Muren) to Bergmanesque melodrama (Devil in Miss Jones). There was even a porno musical, the lavish Alice in Wonderland...
...dour. Nobody I'm aware of had tried a light-hearted X-rated social comedy. All hail, then, to writer-director John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote and starred in the off-Broadway musical hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for pretending the last 30 years didn't make hard-core romance obsolete. Shortbus is so retro, it seems sparkling...
...report acknowledges that the vast majority of Harvard students will pursue professional, not academic, careers, and criticizes the Core for grounding general education in disciplinary approaches to knowledge...