Word: porno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wonder, a washed-up wunderkind silent-film director. Inserts, the film, is also a garish interlude, examining the transformation of an accomplished and talented young movie-maker into a drunken pornographic film director. The story itself involves the efforts of The Boy Wonder to finish shooting a porno flick in the course of a single afternoon, all in the living room of The Boy Wonder's Hollywood Spanish mansion. A "degenerate film with dignity," tacked with an "X" rating, conjures images of Emmanuelle and The Story of O. These films are degenerate in the colloquial sense, wallowing in themes...
Familiar Breed. Travis, the taxi driver, is such a creature, and Robert deNiro has him down pat in a stunning, veracious performance. Director Scorsese has his environment down pat too. The garage that Travis works out of, the cafeteria where he takes his breaks, the porno theaters he haunts, the menacing avenues he cruises are rendered with thoroughly depressing realism...
...soldier husband insisted on having a child against his wife's express wishes. "He tied me down to the bed and everything," she reveals. All of this occurred before Claudine's ascent to stardom in a series of quickies produced by France's newly burgeoning porno industry...
...young thing flees from the Paris home of her shoemaker father at age 15 after her uncle rapes her. Caught by the flics-who also rape her-she is placed in a Catholic home for wayward girls and eventually escapes to take up residence in a Spanish bordello. French Porno Film Maker Jean-François Davy's latest flick, Exhibition, is the real-life story of its star, Claudine Beccarie, 30, who has already appeared in 44 other French Films Bleus. "I have no inhibitions," says Beccarie, a shapely brunette whose preferences include bisexuality and gourmet cooking...
...subtlety to what they think is crude American formula. The radicals used to complain that French life was a dull blend of "Métro, Boulot and Dodo"-subway, work and sleep. Now, says the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchalne, the slogan is "Métro, Boulot, Dodo et Porno...