Documentary

Pornography’s Superstars (1971) watch uncut

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Pornography’s Superstars adopts the structure of documentary interviews punctuated with gratuitous sex clips (all from earlier films by Walt Davis). While Pornography’s Superstars doesn’t offer much additional info on Davis himself, it nevertheless provides a fascinating and cockeyed look behind the scenes of his bizarre films.

An Essay on Pornography (1973) watch uncut

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A pseudo-documentary about the making of an 8mm porn film in Australia. Director Chris Cary provided a moralising prologue and epilogue to the film, with the rest of the material presenting, and considering, the thoughts and experiences of people involved in making the porn show. Helen Mason plays herself, auditioning for a role in the porn film because she’s unemployed and she hopes that the part may lead to other acting opportunities, like Jane Fonda in Klute.

The History of Pornography watch uncut

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Perhaps the boldest of the early sex documentaries, The History of Pornography is a comprehensive view of graphic depictions of sex in art and literature from ancient times onward.

Pornography in Hollywood (1972) watch uncut

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The story of Pornography in Hollywood right from the people who live it: the owner of a topless/bottomless bar, a homosexual church, the movie-makers, the bookstore owners and patrons, and the actresses, actors and couples.

J.B.1 (1975) watch uncut

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A castle on a island: while television broadcasts ridiculous images of the presidential campaign, three characters – a couple and a visitor – exchange radical views on France, cinema, censorship and the proletarian world revolution.

Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge (1989) watch uncut

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A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He’s on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work.

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (2020) watch uncut

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Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton’s work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials – from Catherine Deneuve to Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling to Isabella Rossellini – finally give their own interpretation of the life and work of this controversial genius. A portrait by the portrayed. Provocative, unconventional, subversive, his depiction of women still sparks the question: were they subjects or objects?

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