Comments on: More Grumpy Old Men

By: The Mystery of Sex, Spaced Cowgirl Style | The Art & Business of Making Erotic Films

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:22:14 +0000

[...] being explicit and being cinematic, between erotic heat and emotional weight. (Mike Nichols, “I think sex in a movie is boring… Sex is very powerful as part of a fantasy… But to stare dir… John Cameron Mitchell, “We tried to de-eroticize the sex to see what kind of emotions and ideas [...]

By: david wallum

david wallum — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:23:55 +0000

hi ….

where can i find these movies in melbourne australia

dave

By: TC’s Blog on Comstock Films » Blog Archive » Winterbottom’s Nine Songs

Sun, 07 May 2006 12:42:32 +0000

[...] “It’s terrific that a part-time moviemaker [Nichols] has directed so many films that cogently exploring the language of sex. But it does suggest that the rest of Hollywood isn’t really trying. Seeing “Closer,” teetering from empathy to exasperation with each of its characters as one would with a real lover, a moviegoer has to wonder: Why can’t there be a dozen, a hundred films like this? Where’s the good and bad sex in movies? Why can’t directors locate where we live, how we love and lie to each other, and get closer to it?” [...]

By: TC’s Blog on Comstock Films » Blog Archive » A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:43:23 +0000

[...] Not to worry. Cherry Bomb was first up after the intermission, delivering a caustic scread on the joys of spending half an hour helping someone choose lube and sex toys, only to be treated to a vague insult from her at the cash register. Yes, it’s true. Sometimes it’s hard to get people to take you seriously if you make a living out of sexual pleasure. And sometimes that’s annoying. Sometimes it hurts. The stage was perfectly set for me to read my essay More Grumpy Old Men. [...]

By: TC’s Blog on Comstock Films » Blog Archive » New York Pervert’s Saloon

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:54:21 +0000

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By: Tony Comstock

Tony Comstock — Tue, 17 May 2005 17:53:00 +0000

I will have to make an effort to see these films!

I’m not entirely sure it’s possible to go a whole movie without some darkness. A film with nothing but sexual bliss may very well be as boring as sex=death and despair. This quandry plays a big role in our choice to use a documentary, slice of life approach. Still it would be nice to at least see someone try and fail with the “pure joy” approach, rather than the tired old chestnut of loneliness and sorrow.

-T.C.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 May 2005 03:45:00 +0000

I’d recommend the Thai film BLISSFULLY YOURS as an example of explicit yet relatively sex-positive art film. It includes a real hand job (although it cuts away before the money shot) and plenty of simulated sex. There’s little plot - most of it follows a Burmese man and a young Thai woman on a picnic in the country . If the man wasn’t suffering from a nasty skin condition, I’d call it a fairly convincing depiction of a moment of happiness. The director’s latest film, a bizarre gay love story called TROPICAL MALADY, opens in the U.S. next month.