directed by: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato
documentary
| Inside
Deep Throat (USA;
92 min.) directed by: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato documentary |
|
| Michael says: "After scoring with their documentary
THE EYES OF TAMMY
FAYE back in 2000, the writer/director team of Fenton
Bailey and Randy Barbato tackled narrative films with the slightly disastrous
PARTY MONSTER in 2003 (okay, it grabbed a Best Supporting Actor nod for
Seth Green). This year they redeemed themselves with the entertaining examination
of the most notorious porn film in history, DEEP THROAT. INSIDE DEEP THROAT
chronicles the making of the film and the subsequent political and social
maelstrom that followed throughout the 70’s as conservative America
ebbed and flowed with the reigning politics. The documentary shows how
DEEP THROAT affected the careers of director Gerard Daminao, and the two
leads, Linda Lovelace and Harry Reams, as well as following the turbulent
wake the film created in American society.
"Bailey and Barbato do a remarkably good job at reporting the facts
without condemning either side of the debate (although their clever editing
of
interviews with involved parties, from the principals in the film to
the prosecuting attorney does make it clear on which side their sympathies
lay). Leaving the theatre I was again distressed at how conservative
America has become, when a flash of Janet Jackson’s nipple can
have such serious repercussions. 3 ½ cats" |