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INSIDE DEEP THROAT...
Inside Deep Throat is not the documentary stuff of your father’s History Channel. It’s not quite Discovery Channel fare, either; though, some scenes on the finer points of procreation and the location of genitalia might lead you to believe otherwise...
...upset by the alleged immorality and/or illegality of the film—made me think otherwise. The precious few minutes devoted to exploring Deep Throat’s proclaimed nemeses—the prosecutors who drove it to the Supreme Court and the Christian activists who saw in Deep Throat the decadence and desensitization of an increasingly secular society—are jammed between long feel-good people studies of pornography’s early heroes...
...documentary, I found myself ruing the death of avant-garde art at the hands of mass-production and censorship, even as I still struggled with the classification of Lovelace, Reems, and Damiano as “artists” of the first rank. Inside Deep Throat, with its attempt to portray the American tragedy of the rise and fall of the self-made man (and woman), overreaches and ultimately misses its mark, but provides a thoroughly entertaining portrait of pornographic pop culture, its peddlers, and its consumers...
...guitarist Amy Milan croons on “Ageless Beauty,” a gorgeous, dreamy number that paints a bittersweet contrast to the heartbreak that wells behind the opener. “You look so good in the shoes of the outcast / I kiss your throat every time we say it won’t last / But then I need you, I need you, I need you / I really need you,” lead vocalist Torquil Campbell sings on “What I’m Trying to Say,” a fast-paced, driving song...