DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER is the second of our films to be picked up by Amazon.com. Two down, two to go.
Of course positive customer review and keywords are a big help in selling things in Amazon, so if you’ve seen DAMON AND HUNTER and have some kind words to spare, why not head over to Amazon.com and show Damon, and Hunter, and Comstock Films a little love!
Press release speak:
MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY earns an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.This February, MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY, the first erotic documentary from Comstock Films underwent review by the Motion Picture Association of America and was assigned an NC-17 rating for it’s explicit sexuality.
“I’m satisfied with the rating,” says director Tony Comstock, “and participating in the MPAA’s process is going to open up some commercial possibilities that would otherwise be closed if we hadn’t been able to secure the rating.”
In receiving the NC-17 rating, MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY joins just 48 other films the MPAA has assigned the rating to since the rating was first introduced 1984. The list includes some of Hollywood’s most famous, and notorious productions, including LAST TANGO IN PARIS, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, and SHOWGIRLS.
“One of the first question people as me is if the MPAA asked us to make any cuts or other alterations to MARIE AND JACK and the answer is no,” said Comstock. “In fact, when the MPAA rep called me to let me know the film had been reviewed and rated, he said that MARIE AND JACK was “well-made, entertaining film that really delivered the goods.” He also said it was just the sort of film the NC-17 was made for.”
MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY is the multi-award winning first release from Comstock Films. It offers an intimate glimpse into the private sex life of Marie Silva (aka Aria) and her husband Jack Bravo. Since the film’s release in 2003, MARIE AND JACK, along with other Comstock Films titles have continued to break new ground both creatively and commercially, pioneering new approaches to erotic filmmaking, and bring erotic films to venues and audiences outside the traditional markets for sexual explicit entertainment.
Comstock Films produces award-winning, documentary-style erotic films that acknowledge the role of sex in human relationships, depict it graphically, and celebrate its power. Comstock Films titles have enjoyed worldwide recognition as outstanding achievements in cinema, appearing in festivals and taking home prizes in Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany and here in the US.
Comstock Films titles include MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY , named Best Documentary and Best Overall at the 2002 SinCine New York Erotic Film Festival and Best of the Fest at the 2002 Sexual Health and Pleasure Film Festival; XANA AND DAX: WHEN OPPOSITES ATTRACT , named Hottest Straight Sex Scene at the 2006 Emma Awards for feminist porn in Toronto, Canada, and official selection of the 2006 Berlin Porn Film Festival; DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER , name Best Documentary at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival; MATT AND KHYM: BETTER THAN EVER; and the soon to be released ASHLEY AND KISHA: THE RIGHT FIT .
Nope. Sorry. No joy in Mudville tonight.
It was exciting when they annouced the category. It was exciting to hear the presenter say “Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together, Comstock Films.” It was surprising when applause broked out from a few different point around the theater in response. But the winner isn’t “Damon & Hunter.” It’s Gay Sex in the 70s, a film that Peggy and I watched and enjoyed.
Am I dissappointed? Well sure. Who doesn’t like winning? But mostly I’m just tired. My wake-up time is still on East Coast school dad time, which means I’ve had about 8 hour sleep in the last three days. Hopefully tonight my eyes will stay shut until at least 6AM West coast time. Tomorrow I’m going brunch with Matt and Khym. It will be the first time I’ve seen them since we shot just over two years ago!
I’m off to San Francisco this morning to show the Comstock colors at the GayVN Awards, where DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER is nominated in the Best Alternative Release category. (I guess that means I’m alt-porn after all.)
I’m also looking forward to seeing Violet Blue, Blowfish’s own Christophe, Shine Louise Houston, Thomas R. Roche, and last but definitely not least, brunch with that loviest of loving couples, Matt and Khym. That should be almost enough company to keep me from becoming terminally homesick.
There may be rants and rambling from San Francisco, there may not be. Either way, please cross your fingers for DAMON & HUNTER. It would tickle me to see a GayVN statue next to the big acrylic buttplug “Emma” award XANA & DAX got in Toronto last Summer.
Well a few of them. We’re still waiting to hear back from most. Time for everyone to check their spam filter! Meanwhile, here are the winners we have so far:
1st prize (A Complete Comstock Films DVD Library)
Paul, MA
2nd prize (The Comstock Films DVD of your choice)
Cathy, NY
Anthony, PA
Jeff, AZ
We’re sending out second notifications to the rest of the winners and hope we’ll hear back from them by the April 16th deadline. If not, we’ll draw new names for any unclaimed prizes.
The Toronto sex store Good For Her will forever have a warm place in our hearts here at Comstock Films because Good For Her was the very first place that bought our first film, MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY. We sent them a screener, they watched it, and then they placed an order. After nearly a year of hearing other people tell us why MARIE AND JACK was great, but not salable, we were thrilled!
Now we’re thrilled all over again with Good For Her’s fantasitic review of our latest, MATT AND KHYM: BETTER THAN EVER:
This installment from award-winning documentary-style filmmaker Tony Comstock is a revelatory look inside the intensely intimate and incredibly sexual relationship of two young, attractive people.
Matt & Khym – a loving married couple in their thirties – take us along on their incredible journey revealing the history of their partnership and the secrets of their romantic bliss.
During the interview, as they speak about their enduring attraction, the heat building between them is palpable and they have trouble keeping their hands off each other. The interspersed action shots of them together only add to the delicious tension.
The film ends with a breathtaking sex scene so honest and so fierce that it puts much of what’s on offer in the modern industry to shame.
Think there’s nothing new in the world of porn? Think again. Matt & Khym sets a new standard for documentary sex films.
If you’re up North and want to do your shopping in-country, nothing would make us happier than if bought our films from Good For Her. And if you’re in Toronto, Good For Her offers our titles for rent as well!
Perhaps some of you have already noticed, but now you can buy more than DVDs in the new Comstock Films DVD Shop. Specifically we are offering the full line of Njoy Stainless Steel Sex Toys and Pjur Bodyglide in the 100ml bottle and 10ml sample size.
We’re offering these items quite simply because we think they’re great. As an erotic artist, I’m inspired by the dedication to pleasure and quality show in both Pjur and Njoy products. As a husband and my wife’s lover, I’m grateful that there are companies that take our pleasure seriously, and offer products that are respectful, even celebratory of happiness that being sexual, and being sexually playful brings into our lives together.
Peggy and I make films in the hope that our films will make people feel good about themselves, feel good about sex, and feel good about getting off. Njoy an Pjur will make you feel good too!
I’ve never seen something like this for any other Gooogle search:
Have you?
Watching the sodomy debate on the floor of the Texas legislature in Molly Ivans’ DILDO DIARIES reminded of me of something I wrote back in 1994, shortly after the defeat of Oregon’s Ballot Measure Nine. At the time it was intended as parody:
Dear Friends,
First I’d like to tell you how proud I am of all of us for the work we did in support of Measure Nine. Many of you may be feeling discouraged that the Measure was not passed, but there is much to be proud of. The Measure was carried by a majority of Oregon’s counties, and the over all margin of defeat shows that we are not that far from putting Oregon back on the road to moral sanity. Still, there is much work ahead of us. Opponents of Measure Nine have shown they can muster a great deal of out-of-state support and money from areas such as New York and San Francisco. Our efforts in the future will have to be ready to match that money with the determination that comes from moral righteousness. We must not fall back. Both momentum and God are on our side.
Many who voted against Measure Nine did so because they mistakenly perceived it as an attack on homosexuals, rather than on behavior. We must blame ourselves for this. For in an effort to conform to some standard of decency, we failed to graphically address the acts that a Judeo-Christian society must find objectionable, regardless of the gender of the people involved. With that in mind, I’d like to put forward what I believe should be our next measure placed on the ballot in Oregon.
The Constitution of the State of Oregon shall be amended so as to declare that all sexual acts other than coitus (penile-vaginal sex) between married couples are immoral, unnatural, and perverse and in so doing, bar the use of state funds or facilities to support any persons or organizations that promote, condone, encourage, or participate in said acts. Said perverse acts shall include, but not be limited to:
I. Oral-Genital Contact:
Defined as contact with the mouth or face of one person with genital region of another person, including the abdomen below the navel, thighs, hips, buttocks, penis and vagina.
II. Anal Contact.
Defined as: All contact between the anus of one person with any part of the body of another person, with the exception of contact between a wife’s anus and her husband’s scrotum during coitus in the missionary or woman-superior position.
III. Excessive Manual-Genital Contact. Defined as:
A. All manual-genital contact between persons of the same sex.
B. All manual-genital contact between unmarried persons of different sexes
C. All manual-genital contact between married persons in excess of that which is necessary to facilitate coitus:
1. A wife may manually stimulate her husband’s penis until an erection of sufficient firmness for penetration is achieved.
2. A husband may manually stimulate his wife’s vagina until sufficient lubrication to allow penetration is achieved.
3. A woman who is unable to achieve orgasm though coitus alone may, with a notarized letter from her physician, receive a waiver allowing her husband to manually stimulate her clitoris during coitus.
IV. The use of other body areas, such as the crook of the knee and elbow or the space between a woman’s breasts for stimulation of the penis.
V. Oral contact with the areola and nipple of a man, or with the areola or nipple of a woman except by her own infant (a child under eighteen months of age) while she is lactating.
I believe that this will do much to undermine the argument that our intention is to discriminate against homosexuals while at the same time putting forth a moral agenda consistent with the principles on which this country was founded.
Until further notice Comstock Films will offer free shipping to Alabama on all items in the Comstock Films DVD Shop.
Free shipping on Comstock Films DVDs.
Free shipping on Njoy Stainless Steel Sex Toys.
Free shipping on Pjur Bodyglide.
Alabama customers please use coupon code ALABAMA at check out and your shipping will automatically be deducted from your purchase.
Yours in struggle,
Tony & Peggy
