
The French adult cinema of the 70s was about carnal excess as well as about hedonism, politics, and libertinage . For a brief moment, especially in the key year 1978, movies like Perversion d'une jeune mariée or Je suis à prendre transcended smut and sleaze into an art form – particularly due to the spellbinding presence of the young Brigitte Lahaie who managed to fill even the lewdest scenes with a kind of radiant innocence. Her only single, Caresse Tendresse , recorded in 1987 for the Clever label, regrettably doesn't [...]

If you have watched Italian movies from the 1970s, you know Edda Dell'Orso, even if you've never heard the name. From Sergio Leone-directed masterpieces to giallo programmers starring Edwige Fenech, Dell'Orso performed her haunting wordless solo vocals over the music of maestro Ennio Morricone, as well as such less-known composers as Piero Piccioni, Luis Bacalov, Bruno Nicolai, and Armando Trovaioli. Her work, mostly uncredited, was one of the key components that made the Italian soundtrack scene as influential and progressive as it was. Al Cinema con Edda Dell'Orso is a superb introduction to her work that touches [...]

This is pretty hilarious and embarrassing, but I'll share it anyway because I have no filter to stop me from divulging every thought I have. I almost choked to death yesterday. Don't be alarmed, don't be frightened; it wasn't like I was eating something savory like a sandwich or a hunk of meat. I was eating fucking popcorn at the movie theater and I almost died. A tiny kernel of popcorn nearly took down the world's preeminent self-absorbed blogger. I'm pretty sure if I had not regained the ability to breathe, and I had actually died, my friends [...]