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Rip Torn,
Rip Torn,
Lois Markle,
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Milton Moses Ginsberg,
Milton Moses Ginsberg
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: Not Rated
: Kino
: Drama, Independent, Erotica
: 111 min.
: English
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The considerable talents Rip Torn, Viveca Lindfors and Sally Kirkland are largely squandered in this Manhattan-based film. In this symbolic and erotic drama Manhattan psychiatrist Joe Glazer (Torn) is a psychoanalyst who specializes in female neuroses. Obsessed by his work, he begins filming his sessions, voyeuristically watching the results in his off-hours. He interviews a masochist who can only be sexually aroused with pain (Markle) and is willingly fellated by his sex-starved patient JoAnn (Kirkland). He is also pursued by an uninhibited hippie girl and a transvestite. In his focus to help his patients, Joe fails to realize he is falling into his own world of madness. His sexual encounters are a diversion which prevent him from admitting his own feelings, wants and needs, and his filmmaking activities climax with a record of his own emotional background. Nudity and sexual situations prompted an X rating for this film at the time of the initial release. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
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| Sex, Lies and Videotape - Sixties Style!
by Kenyon
September 20, 2003 - 6:45 PM PDT
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6 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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I don't know exactly who to recommend this to, but I enjoyed it. Enjoyed? Well, 'found it absorbing. But then I'm basically still a teenager trying to figure out how other people (especially the opposite sex) actually live and feel - from behind a safe, two-way mirror. (Or in this case, a three-way?)
I couldn't stop seeing Torn as a young Keitel - which is a good thing, to me. Overall, it reminded me of many Cassavetes' films, which I also "enjoy". There is a lot of sadness mixed in with the heady fun of the exciting, pre-AIDs era. The clothes and language are fun. The sex and nudity struck me as amazingly frank, especially for the time. A couple of slow patches, not surprising in an experimental flick from the time (or any time?) For the record, the film also has a short, interesting scene that includes a transvestite.
I found some of the additional material was worth checking out as well - including a doc. on its recent re-release. A produced-later-in-life doc. complaining about the Hollywood system (for one thing), started out OK - but got too self-indulgent and "posed" for me after a while. I was interested in Ginsberg's "essay" - but it is so damned hard to actually read anything that small on the screen - doesn't everyone KNOW that by now? (I guess I could put it up on my laptop - but I'm not sure I'm THAT motivated.)
Signed, Lazy Voyeur
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